New Office 365 Project Portfolio Dashboard apps are live !

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ The Project Portfolio Dashboard apps announced last fall are now available in the Apple and Office app stores! These apps come pre-configured with powerful dashboards allowing business leaders, portfolio managers and project managers to gain insights into areas such as resource utilization, project portfolio performance, costs, active risks/issues and key milestones. Project Portfolio Dashboard web app While the rich, out-of-box reports are designed to be immediately useful for…

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Office 365 news roundup

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Office 365 is not only an outstanding suite of cloud-based productivity tools for end users and a comprehensive solution for businesses and organizations of all sizes, it’s also a great platform for developers. That has never been clearer than it was at the recent Build developer conference in San Francisco, where we announced a slew of new Office opportunities for developers and showed how Microsoft is reimagining Office for…

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Add videos, choose your viewing experience and tell your story in more languages on Sway!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Last month, we came out with the ability to create Sways right from your Microsoft Photos albums and breathe life to your photos through Living Images. Thanks to your continuous feedback, we’ve added several features over the past weeks to make Sways even easier to create and more engaging for viewers. Add video to your Sways Whether it’s for your company newsletter, travel blog or classroom activity, video…

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Outlook on the web makes going on vacations less stressful

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Vacation is a time to relax. However, the weeks leading up to it can often be as stressful as the time off is fun, as you rush to get packed and finish all those important to-dos before you set your “Out of Office” message. We want to take one thing off your to-do list. Outlook on the web now makes it easier to clear your calendar and automatically decline…

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6 security red flags when identifying the perfect cloud storage solution

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: For a long time, the cloud was considered the “wave of the future.” But the future has arrived. A great cloud storage solution not only allows your employees access to files anytime, anywhere—it also makes it simple to sync files, work on the go and share and coauthor documents with ease. But more than 50 percent of organizations find cloud storage to be the riskiest cloud app category. image:…

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Introducing a new home page experience for Office 365 users

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Earlier this month, we began to roll out a new, more intuitive home page experience for Office 365 users. This update brings a fresh new look and feel to the Office 365 welcome page, and a range of new features for both administrators and users. We’re constantly looking for opportunities to improve the way our users get things done. The new Office 365 home page enables more consistent and…

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ExMon now Avalilable to Exchange 2016

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ExMon enables system administrators to view and evaluate individual users’ usage and experience with Microsoft Exchange Server. ​ Use the Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor to gather real-time data to better understand current client usage patterns, and to plan for future work. Administrators can view details on server resource utilization as reported through server-side tracing. This tool works with Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 and 2016. The tool is provided as-is.…

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OneDrive for Business recognized as an EFSS leader and continues momentum with spring updates

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Today’s post was written by Jeff Teper, corporate vice president for OneDrive and SharePoint. OneDrive for Business has made significant progress in the last 6 months, and was recently named a Leader by Forrester Research in “The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise File Sync and Share Platforms, Cloud Solutions, Q1 2016.” You can read the report here. It’s an honor to get industry recognition like this, but we know there’s always…

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Can a shift to the cloud improve your security posture with Office 365?

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ I recently returned from the RSA Conference in San Francisco, where each year the security community meets to discuss the latest security risks and concerns, share best practices and showcase new solutions. As the threat landscape continues to evolve, so do the stakes for staying ahead with security intelligence. IT is under pressure to be able to quickly prevent, detect and remediate to minimize the impact of attacks…

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