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SharePoint Server 2016 is available today – What’s new for admins in SharePoint Server 2016

14/03/201605/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: SharePoint Server 2016 is available today. If you’ve been evaluating the IT Preview and later releases since August, you’re aware of foundational updates we’ve made to SharePoint Server. For SharePoint admins this means improved provisioning and update management, new compliance tools to protect data and hybrid architectural options to link SharePoint Server 2016 with Exchange Server 2016 and Office 365. With today’s release, we’ve added a number of new…

Office 365 – Integration and updates to Dynamics CRM

11/03/201605/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Last May, we highlighted how Office 365 and Dynamics CRM work together to help boost productivity. Now, with capabilities spanning Office 365 Groups, the Office Graph and inherited Protection Center controls, the integration goes much deeper. This week, Microsoft Mechanics goes hands-on with the latest Dynamics CRM to highlight Office 365 integration for sellers, admins and developers. Eric Boocock from the Dynamics team joins me to demonstrate how CRM…

Business Expanding the reach of Skype for Business meetings and voice services in Office 365

09/03/201605/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Three months ago, we launched Skype for Business Cloud PBX, Meeting Broadcast and PSTN services to provide a complete meetings and voice experience in Office 365. Already, thousands of Office 365 customers are using these services, and many more are trialing them. Today, we’re announcing our first major geographic expansion of these services; new support for hybrid deployments; new, modern meeting room solutions; and improvements to our unified…

New update options for Office 365 ProPlus using System Center Configuration Manager

09/03/201605/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: IT admins can now manage Office 365 client updates—including those for Office 365 ProPlus, Visio Pro for Office 365 and Project Pro for Office 365—directly via the System Center Configuration Manager’s built-in software updates workflow engine. One of the top feature requests we hear from IT admins is to use System Center Configuration Manager to update Office. To accomplish this, we streamlined the ongoing update management for Office…

Office 365 news roundup

08/03/201605/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Mark Twain once said, “We are all alike, on the inside.” Twain was not only a renowned humorist and celebrated author, he was also a keen observer of the human condition. In making that observation, he was acknowledging that whereas people come in many different shapes and sizes and colors, and may have different talents and abilities, they share the same emotional landscape. And they all…

How to work from home and look good doing it

04/03/201604/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In the last decade, the mobile workforce has increased by more than 100 percent—not that surprising when we consider the abundant improvement in technology over that same time period. Telecommuting offers wonderful benefits to companies and workers alike, with an improved work-life balance topping the charts. Not only that, but a 2015 Gallup poll shows that telecommuters are more likely to be more engaged in their jobs, and…

Unite your team with Groups at Office Training Center

03/03/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: New content at Office Training Center. You can learn at this site many content regarding Office 365 features. New Scenario training are now available on the Office Training Center to help you get started: Unite your team with Groups Get caught up with your team Communicate with your team Collaborate with your team Schedule with your team Get a new team member up to speed We have a lot more…

Updates to Office experiences on Windows tablets and iPad Pro

02/03/201605/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: It’s been just over a year since we last went hands-on with Office app experiences running on Windows 10 tablets. This week Ben Walters returns to give a tour of recent updates to Office experiences spanning Sway, Excel, PowerPoint and Word Mobile apps for Windows 10 tablets and what’s new with Office on the iPad Pro. We demonstrate time savers and touch optimizations in Excel, slide design and…

Accessibility in Office 365—progress in 2015 and plans for 2016

24/02/201605/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Last week, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, chief accessibility officer for Microsoft, outlined our company-wide guiding principles and goals to improve accessibility across our products, services and websites. To support this company priority, the Office 365 team has increased its investments in accessibility to a historical high and is committed to delivering inclusive productivity experiences to empower the 1 billion+ people with disabilities on this planet to achieve more. Our goals are…

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