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Office 365 Blog

Welcome to the Office 365 Blog! Learn best practices, news, and trends directly from the Office 365 team.

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New functionality to make it easier to customize, manage, and secure Office 365 ProPlus

Yana Terukhova on 11-12-2019 02:58 PM
At Microsoft, we’re committed to protecting your data and helping your organization stay current and secure in today’s f...
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Your OneNote

OneNotePM on 11-04-2019 06:12 AM
Learn how we're listening to you to make your OneNote your way!  
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Microsoft Whiteboard now available for the web and integrated in Teams

Itai Almog on 11-04-2019 06:00 AM
Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Whiteboard for the web and integration with Teams meetings,...
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User Activity based Expiration Policy for Office 365 groups is now generally available!

Salil_Kakkar on 10-28-2019 03:48 AM
We are happy to announce the general availability of User Activity based Expiration Policy for Office 365 groups. This m...
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Microsoft Ignite 2019 Guide to Office 365 ProPlus Deployment

Yana Terukhova on 10-22-2019 01:40 PM
If you’re an Office IT Admin, get ready to learn the latest and greatest about Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus deployment a...
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Microsoft Whiteboard Announces Preview of New Templates

Itai Almog on 09-25-2019 08:00 AM
We launched Whiteboard to provide a way for people to brainstorm ideas, plan projects, solve problems, train colleagues,...
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Office 365 ProPlus Deployment and Proxy Server Guidance

Dave Guenthner on 09-11-2019 10:00 AM
Let's talk about how to optimize Office 365 ProPlus deployments behind a network proxy.
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Building dynamic, lean & universal packages for Office 365 ProPlus

Martin Nothnagel on 09-05-2019 12:19 PM
This blog post will walk your through a concept of building dynamic, lean & universal packages for Office 365 ProPlus, g...
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New feature: Make changes to Office deployments without changing the version

Martin Nothnagel on 08-21-2019 11:12 PM
New feature in the Office Deployment Tool (ODT): Pin the version of Office 365 ProPlus when you add Language Packs, Visi...
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Dynamically convert MSI versions of Project and Visio to Click-to-Run

MattPhilipenko on 08-12-2019 06:38 AM
With the latest release of the Office Deployment Tool (ODT) we have implemented a new feature based on customer feedback...
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How to manage Office 365 ProPlus Channels for IT Pros

Dave Guenthner on 08-08-2019 11:03 AM
Let's talk about Microsoft 365 Apps channel management.
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Understanding Office 365 ProPlus Updates for IT Pros (CDN vs SCCM)

Dave Guenthner on 08-08-2019 10:30 AM
Talking about Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise update process (CDN vs Configuration Manager)
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Office 365 Home and Personal Licensing and Activation Improvements

Shubham Gupta (LICENSING) on 08-05-2019 12:18 PM
Since launching Office 365 to consumers, we have heard feedback from customers about the challenges in installing and us...
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Office 365 Client Licensing and Activation Improvements

Shubham Gupta (LICENSING) on 07-22-2019 10:30 AM
Over the years, we’ve heard feedback from customers and IT Admins about the difficulty in managing Office activation for...
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Recommended Documents in Office apps and Version History in Office for the web

The_Office_Apps_Team on 06-27-2019 09:00 AM
We are committed to ensuring that the collaboration experience in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is great for you.
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Nail your next presentation with Presenter Coach in PowerPoint for the web

Richard Tso on 06-18-2019 09:19 AM
Public speaking can be stressful. From boardrooms to classrooms, stepping on stage can cause our blood pressure to rise,...
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How to create custom templates that work well with Designer in PowerPoint

Richard Tso on 06-18-2019 08:05 AM
Today we announced that Designer now works with a company or organization's branded templates! Now AI recommendations on...
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Microsoft wants your ideas on end user adoption & engagement with Microsoft 365 & Office 365

Dhruv_Jain on 06-12-2019 12:51 PM
Microsoft is looking for IT professionals like you to provide feedback on end user adoption and engagement for Microsoft...
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Save your Office deployment configurations to the cloud

Chris Hopkins on 06-05-2019 10:51 AM
Take a look at the latest release for https://config.office.com/ which allows you to save your deployment configurations...
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Office 365 helps you get back to work, now with improved brand customization

Noga Ronen on 05-30-2019 12:31 PM
Office provides the best way to get started and back to work, and improves brand representation of company and school br...
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Go Dark Mode and more on OneNote

Jee Soo Han on 05-29-2019 09:00 AM
This month, we’re excited to bring you some highly anticipated features in OneNote: Dark Mode, Send to OneNote from Outl...
8,118

Announcing a new Whiteboard for your Surface Hub

Itai Almog on 05-23-2019 07:55 AM
We are excited to announce that the most up-to-date version of Microsoft Whiteboard will roll out to the original Surfac...
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Do more with OneNote for Android

Jee Soo Han on 05-22-2019 09:00 AM
Updates on OneNote for Android you may have missed
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Microsoft wants your ideas on end user adoption & engagement with Microsoft 365 & Office 365

Dhruv_Jain on 05-20-2019 09:00 AM
We are looking for Microsoft 365/Office 365 Admins to participate in an online focus group regarding end user adoption a...
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Edit your content faster with OneNote

Jee Soo Han on 04-30-2019 09:00 AM
In April, we want to be short and sweet for our OneNote for Windows 10 users: you can now edit content more efficiently ...
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Your Feedback in Action: New Insertable Icons in Office

Richard Tso on 04-24-2019 11:00 AM
We’re here today with another example of how the feedback you provide directly impacts the development of Office!
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The new cloud-based policy management service for Office 365 ProPlus has been released!

Chris Hopkins on 04-23-2019 04:27 PM
The Office cloud policy service allows administrators to define policies for Office 365 ProPlus and assign these policie...
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Announcing 3D Content Guidelines for Office 365

Richard Tso on 04-11-2019 10:14 PM
Since 3D was first introduced in Office, we’ve heard resounding feedback from the community that better guidance was nee...
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5 steps to get you collaborating more effectively in Office 365 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

The_Office_Apps_Team on 03-28-2019 12:00 PM
With last month’s Twins Challenge, we shared a few time-saving tips a few ways to get you started collaborating in your ...

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Shubham_Goyal
in Microsoft Whiteboard is now available for more devices on 04-16-2021
@nhskev I apologize for the delay in reverting back. You can send us your feedback at wbandrep@microsoft.com @jesusiniesta We are actively working on providing support for all Microsoft Accounts users & will update our "preview" Android app once the same is done. We appreciate your continued patienc...
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MartinD_CZ
in Multi-Geo reduced seat minimum and expanded geo coverage on 04-14-2021
Hi @John_Mighell , recently, there has been one year anniversary of your statement: "we working with our commerce teams to enable that functionality [Multi-Geo availability through CSP]".Could you please anwer the questions:1. When should Multi-Geo be avalilable through CSP? .....If Microsoft does n...
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ukazim
in Configuring Office 365 ProPlus updates for remote workers using VPN on 04-08-2021
@Esteban Patrigeon We are currently in process of deploying the on prem DPs. We are getting new servers provisioned to do this. What we had tested in our lower environments was so, we simply didnt select any option for fallback to neighbour or default boundary group. We also didnt select the option ...
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Esteban Patrigeon
in Configuring Office 365 ProPlus updates for remote workers using VPN on 04-08-2021
Thanks @ukazim for correcting me. you right. we cannot store M365apps update on the cloud DP. (I deleted the post that contain the wrong advise)Open question:"The BG would be setup to prefer cloud distribution points. When the clients do not find the content on the CMG they will move on looking for ...
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ukazim
in Configuring Office 365 ProPlus updates for remote workers using VPN on 04-07-2021
@Esteban Patrigeon This is incorrect. O365 Updates are not supported over CMG\Cloud Distribution points as per the limitations listed here and from our own internal testing as well: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/plan-design/hierarchy/use-a-cloud-based-distribution-point#limitat...
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