Entries from 2017-01-01 to 1 month
Email continues to be one of the most popular communication methods for businesses, and that’s not going to change anytime soon. With email taking the lead in business communications, you need to ensure your business is set up for success.…
A free email solution is great when your organization is first starting out. But how do you know when you have grown beyond the capabilities of your free email service and you need a more sophisticated solution? The business email requirem…
Recent updates to the Office 365 admin experience include a new OneDrive for Business admin center, new settings to manage Microsoft Teams and GigJam, and improvements to the new Service health dashboard. In November and December, our effo…
Pitching ideas isn’t nearly as nerve-wracking when you’ve got a powerful presentation to share. We recently spoke about presenting with Jon Hammond, chief strategy officer for Galvanized Media, the company responsible for the New York Time…
Today’s post was written by James McGlennon, executive vice president and CIO at Liberty Mutual Insurance Group. The insurance business is all about protecting the assets that people value most. We continuously seek out the latest tools an…
When teams need to spend time looking for resources, wait for other people to get back to them or try to knit together information from different software or devices, projects end up running late. Team members rush to meet deadlines making…
In January, we continued to further improve the Office 365 administration experience. Improvements include improved setup access and guidance, a new Yammer device usage report and the rollout of the new OneDrive admin center to all custome…
Recent updates to the Office 365 admin experience include a new OneDrive for Business admin center, new settings to manage Microsoft Teams and GigJam, and improvements to the new Service health dashboard. In November and December, our effo…
According to a recent study conducted by Glassdoor, data scientists are the most in-demand job of 2016. But gathering the information is only half of your organization’s challenge—it’s what you do with it that counts. How can you be sure y…
The way people work together is evolving, and unique projects, work styles, functional roles and workforce diversity call for a complete set of collaboration tools. As the appetite for new ways of working together grows, new developments i…
Back in April, we 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 acc…
According to Forbes, investment in cybersecurity is expected to more than double from $75 billion in 2015 to $170 billion by 2020, but how can you be sure your organization is creating the right framework to help safeguard against a securi…
As Satya Nadella discussed in last Thursday’s quarterly earnings call, Microsoft Teams has picked up momentum since its launch last November. In the last month alone, 30,000 organizations across 145 markets and 19 languages have actively u…
In episode 115 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates discuss Microsoft and dev community announcements in January. https://officeblogspodcastswest.blob.core.windows.net/podcasts/EP115_JanUpdates.mp3 Downlo…
We built Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection to provide nearly unparalleled email security with little impact on productivity. Advanced Threat Protection defends your organization from today’s growing and evolving advanced threats with p…
Today’s post was written by Celine Schillinger, head of Quality Innovation and Engagement at Sanofi Pasteur. Improving quality and performance are common business goals, but at Sanofi Pasteur, these goals have exceptional implications. As …
Editor’s note 1/27/2017: This post was updated to call out that your Office 365 admin must explicitly enable users to sync SharePoint Online document libraries with the latest OneDrive sync client. This and other questions are addressed in…
Today’s post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. Happy New Year from Office! We’re kicking off 2017 with updates to OneDrive, the Activity feed within the Office apps, Microsoft StaffHub and more…
Today’s post was written by Cyril Belikoff, senior director of Office Marketing. Originally offered as a one-time onboarding benefit for Office 365 customers, Microsoft FastTrack has rapidly evolved over the past 18 months to become the cu…
Today’s post was written by Tim Richardson, lead program manager for School Data Sync. We are excited to announce that School Data Sync (SDS), our online classroom automation solution, is moving from preview to general availability! Please…
In episode 114 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk to MVP Doug Ware about Azure Functions and using them with SharePoint add-ins. https://officeblogspodcastswest.blob.core.windows.net/podcasts/EP114…
Around the world teamwork is on the rise. Research suggests employees now work on nearly double the number of teams than they did just five years ago. This means more than ever people are reliant on their peers to help get things done. But…
Today’s post was written by Parri Munsell, managing director of Microsoft Office Partner Marketing. Microsoft FastTrack is our customer success service designed to help organizations realize business value faster with Office 365. As we sta…
Forrester—one of the most influential research and advisory firms in the world—recently released their latest report evaluating enterprise collaboration providers, and we’re pleased to share that Microsoft is named a Leader in the report. …
The OneNote team continues to listen to teachers to learn about how we can help them be more productive with our software. Today, we are announcing a set of improvements across OneNote Class Notebook, Learning Tools and Office Lens. All th…
Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of several advanced capabilities in Office 365 that are new for the U.S. Government Community. The U.S. Government Community Cloud complies with federal requirements for cloud services, in…
Today’s workforce is spread across more locations than ever before: 37 percent of workers telecommuted to some degree in 2015. Companies occupy multiple locations, and business partnerships span the globe. In addition to physical separatio…
Today’s post was written by Peter Loforte, general manager for the Office Modern User Assistance team. We are continuing to bring training courses from LinkedIn Learning to our Office Training Center with more than 20 new courses on workin…
In episode 113 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and MVP Mark Rackley about JavaScript development in SharePoint and the SharePoint Framework. https://officeblogspodcastswest.blob.core.windows.net/podcasts/EP113_Rackley…
Today, businesses are collecting more data than ever before. But data without insight is meaningless, and insight without action is pointless. The biggest question organizations face is how to make sense of it all—how to sift through every…
