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The new Office.com gets first major update

29/12/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Back in April, Microsoft has started rolling out a new Office 365 home page experience that provided a redesigned environment for commercial, education and home users to collaborate and work across every device. The update also delivered improved access to recent files and folders and introduced a new platform for faster delivery of innovative features. These updates will greatly increase the ease of navigating the apps throughout the suite and…

Azure Active Directory Connect pass-through authentication in public preview

21/12/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Microsoft has released in preview pass-through authentication, provided by Azure Active Directory. Pass-through authentication enables users to sign in to cloud resources by validating their password against their on-premises local Active Directory. To learn more about this service, please visit the What is Azure AD Pass-through Authentication documentation webpage. +

Default Mailbox size increasing for Office 365 E3/E5 to 100Gb

14/12/201616/12/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Microsoft are going to Rolling Out a double capacity to Office 365 Mailboxes! It’s doubling the capacity. The default mailbox size for Exchange Online E3 and E5 users is increasing from 50GB to 100GB. If a mailbox has been assigned a non-default quota (for any of the 3 quota values) then no change is made. Tenants will be able to increase quotas up to 100GB. You can see the change…

Microsoft MyAnalytics – What has changed ?

12/12/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Microsoft has changed the name of Delve Analytics to MyAnalytics. This change is related to the end users that have many questions about who see this information. To clarify this feature that now called MyAnalytcs is only seen by the person who see the information not anyone else on the organization and only shows the documents that are shared to that person. Neither the Tenant Admin have access to that…

New to Office 365 in November New collaboration capabilities and more

29/11/201629/11/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

This month Microsoft has announced, several updates to the Office apps to help you easily and effectively collaborate with others. This includes real-time co-authoring in PowerPoint, the ability to upload attachments to the cloud directly from Outlook and other collaboration capabilities. Expanding real-time co-authoring to PowerPoint When we launched Office 2016 last year, we said we would expand real-time co-authoring to more of our native apps beyond Word on Windows…

Create connected SharePoint Online team sites in seconds

08/11/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Great news from SharePoint ! Now you can create a great experience in seconds ! Starting today, people will be able to create SharePoint team sites connected to Office 365 Groups from the SharePoint home in Office 365—and it’s fast. Admins control how these new capabilities appear for their users. And it is more intuitive to adjust the site as business needs require. Now, no matter where users create…

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is Live !

01/11/201601/11/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Today is the launch of Microsoft Dynamics 365 ! This comes with a number of changes: “Effective November 1st, 2016 users will access their previous CRM Online instances via the Dynamics 365 home page at home.dynamics.com . The tile that was previously labeled “CRM” in the Office app launcher will appear as Dynamics 365 and point to this new page. Also, any bookmarked links to a CRM Online instance…

Understanding file sharing and collaboration options

27/10/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Microsoft IT has deployed team collaboration tools to suit the varied needs of employees, while enabling us to manage data, enforce business policies, and manage document lifecycle. We challenge employees to change old habits and try to help them understand the cloud solutions available to them, including Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint Online for saving and sharing files, and Outlook 2016 and Yammer for communicating. Our goal is to help people…

New content set for Microsoft Office 365 to Enterprise Administrators

26/10/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Microsoft has created a new way to find information that you need including end-to-end solutions and hybrid configurations. This new way of enterprise navigation experience will let you educate and discover the best information bases on the architecture you need. You have a central place to Plan for Office 365 Set up Office 365 services Deploy Office clients Security & Compliance Manage services Hybrid environments Health and support Additionally,…

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