Entries from 2017-01-01 to 1 month
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…
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…
There are an estimated 500-million frontline staff workers around the world in retail stores, hotels, restaurants, manufacturing and other service-related industries. These employees typically don’t have their own office, desk or computer—…
To continue to meet legal, business and regulatory compliance challenges, businesses must be able to keep and protect important information and quickly find what’s relevant. Spending days, if not weeks, manually sifting through millions of…
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 Jill Robinson, instructional technology staff developer for Lynbrook Public Schools. As I walked through the halls of Lynbrook North Middle School early one morning, I noticed half a dozen students sitting in th…
January is all about making resolutions and being an even better version of yourself in the new year. Since so many of us pledge to be more productive, we teamed up with Levo—the network for millennials in the workplace—to sponsor the “Mas…
All organizations, regardless of size and industry, have data that they consider sensitive. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is an important capability for protecting this information from getting into the wrong hands. We are always looking to e…
In episode 112 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk with Andrew Connell about technical training. http://officeblogspodcastswest.blob.core.windows.net/podcasts/EP112_AndrewConnell.mp3 Download the po…
What’s your business’s motivation for implementing cloud collaboration solutions? The ones we hear most frequently are increased productivity, accelerated decision-making and improved sales. But here’s the surprise: According to the 2016 C…
