Office 365—now available in 140 markets

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ In 2010, the idea was simple—bring together the Microsoft productivity suite, including Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online, in an always-up-to-date cloud service and charge a predictable monthly subscription. From that simple idea Office 365 was born. In the past five years, that vision has expanded across the globe—from 40 markets in 2011 to 88 markets in 2012 to 127 markets in 2013. And today that…

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Domain and DNS Management in Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​This links highlights content resources for configuring and troubleshooting domains and DNS records for Office 365. Webcasts and Videos The following help and how-to content is available for this topic: Domains and DNS videos now available for different RegistrarsVideos on how to add a domain to Office 365 are available for each of the most popular domain registrars. Applies to: End users Administrator users Developer users Video: Set up…

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New Lync for Mac adds Media Resiliency, Conversation History and OS X Yosemite support

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ I’m pleased to say that we’ve just released our latest update to Lync for Mac, and it is available for download on Microsoft Support. This release adds new two features; Media Resiliency and Conversation History, as well as  additional support for Apple OS X Yosemite. Media Resiliency No network is perfect, of course, and we all want the best possible experience when hiccups happen. This update adds Media…

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New Outlook for Mac available to Office 365 customers

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Today we are announcing the new Outlook for the Mac, which delivers improved performance and reliability and a fresh look and feel that is unmistakably Microsoft Office. This release offers a more familiar and consistent experience between Outlook on the PC, Outlook on the web and Outlook Web App (OWA) for iPad, iPhone and Android devices. The new Outlook for Mac includes: Better performance and reliability as a…

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Tune and optimize performance of your Office 365 connection

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ We are pleased to announce new resources to help Office 365 customers receive optimal performance when connecting to Office 365. As a software as a service (SaaS) offering, Office 365 has a number of layers between the servers that Microsoft manages and the end user.   Microsoft runs Office 365 in datacenters around the world; these datacenters are connected by a network to over 1,500 Internet Service Providers…

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OneNote gets even better on Mac and iOS

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Fall is here—at least for those of us in the northern hemisphere—and the days are getting shorter. That means you’ll have to finish your work more quickly if you want to get outside and catch a few rays of sunshine before it gets dark. We want to help, so today we’re releasing an update for OneNote on iPhone, iPad and Mac with new features that make it even…

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Office 365—Our latest innovations in security and compliance

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Today, at TechEd Europe, we are pleased to announce the next set of innovations in security, privacy and compliance capabilities of Office 365, including mobile device management capabilities for Office 365, expansion of data loss prevention (DLP) technologies and the availability of per-file encryption in our productivity services. As a global provider of productivity services that includes Office, the most familiar productivity suite in the world, we understand that…

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Expanding data loss prevention (DLP) to SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Windows File Share and Office Clients

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ One of the key tenets of our approach to security with Office 365 is to give you the right set of tools and services to address your organization’s specific security and compliance needs. Data loss prevention (DLP) is a critical part of the security capabilities we’ve built right into Office 365. We first rolled out DLP  in Exchange and Outlook and then expanded into Outlook Web App (OWA),…

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Introducing built-in mobile device management for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ As more and more businesses adopt a bring your own device (BYOD) approach to phones and tablets, keeping corporate data secure on mobile devices is becoming a top challenge. As part of our commitment to making Office 365 the business productivity service suite with the most advanced security and compliance capabilities, we’re excited to announce new mobile device management (MDM) features built in to Office 365 that will…

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