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Office 365 Weekly Digest | March 5 - 11, 2017
Office 365 Weekly Digest | March 5 - 11, 2017 It was a light week for Message Center notifications with only two – one for upcoming changes to the Yammer Analytics Dashboard and the other for a new SharePoint Online feature with personalized news on the home page in Office 365. Microsoft Teams will reach General Availability (GA) on Tuesday, March 14th and we’re hosting an online event to mark the occasion. There are other Teams-related event opportunities through early April, as well as an upcoming webinar on successful Office 365 adoption. Microsoft Teams also takes center stage in one of last week’s blog posts, outlining a different approach for release. Additional blog posts from last week cover a new Office 365 profile experience and device-based conditional access policies for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. Several videos and new Office Basics training updates wrap up this week’s post.1.2KViews5likes2CommentsOffice 365 Weekly Digest | March 12 - 18, 2017
Office 365 Weekly Digest | March 12 - 18, 2017 Microsoft Teams took center stage in many ways last week, so it is naturally featured in this week’s digest including the Message Center, Upcoming Events and Blog Roundup sections. Note: Cian Allner's excellent Microsoft Teams Survival Guide is referenced in the Additional Resources section Somewhat buried in the avalanche of Teams-related content, the Exchange Team announced multi-factor authentication for the Hybrid Configuration Wizard and Remote PowerShell in Exchange Online. Rounding out this week’s post are noteworthy items for Exchange Online Protection, Skype for Business and an interesting look at how Microsoft builds its fast and reliable global network.Office 365 Weekly Digest | March 19 - 25, 2017
Office 365 Weekly Digest | March 19 - 25, 2017 There were two major notifications in last week’s Message Center information – one for Microsoft Teams availability to Office 365 Education customers and the other an update on the previous week’s notification regarding the auto creation of a Direct Reports group in Outlook. I have also included a reminder about a change to unused anonymous links in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business scheduled for March 30, 2017. Highlights for upcoming events are more Microsoft Teams experiences kicking off this week at the Microsoft campus in Charlotte, NC and the SharePoint Virtual Summit coming in May. Microsoft Teams continues to be the focus of lots of recent content, from blogs to videos, and the Exchange Team also posted a couple of announcements last week. Rounding out information from last week are a few handy resources and a new Microsoft Virtual Academy course on provisioning Office 365 services.Office 365 Weekly Digest | March 26 - April 1, 2017
Office 365 Weekly Digest | March 26 - April 1, 2017 March is not going out quietly with twelve Message Center notifications last week! New and updated features make up the majority of notifications, but there are a few that admins will want to review and take action, if required. The event momentum from March rolls into April with several Teams focused opportunities, as well as options for Skype for Business, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. “What’s new?” was the theme for blogs last week, with information on updates and enhancements for Office 365, Skype for Business and Office 365 administration. Numerous URL/IP address updates and a couple of Microsoft IT Showcase technical case studies round out this week’s post.Office 365 Weekly Digest | April 2 - 8, 2017
Office 365 Weekly Digest | April 2 - 8, 2017 Updates to Office 365 Groups, Planner and Project Online highlight last week’s Message Center notifications. Also, a reminder that support for Directory Synchronization (DirSync) and Azure AD Sync ends on April 13, 2017. Also on April 13th, an Office 365 Groups – Ask Microsoft Anything session will be held where you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback to the Office 365 Groups product engineering team. Office 365 Groups also kicks off the Blog Roundup and there are several SharePoint Online / OneDrive for Business announcements. Also of note from last week’s blog posts are the release of Threat Intelligence and Advanced Data Governance, updates to Advanced Threat Protection, expanded services for Office 365 Enterprise K1 users as well as the third part in the Modern Service Management blog series. Wrapping up this week’s post are noteworthy items such as the April 2017 edition of the Office 365 Update video series, SharePoint and Skype for Business SME roundtables from Microsoft IT Showcase, Call Analytics in Skype for Business Online and advance notification of upcoming changes to the Azure AD login pages.Office 365 Weekly Digest | April 9 - 15, 2017
Office 365 Weekly Digest | April 9 - 15, 2017 What’s new in Office 365 ProPlus and several new Data Governance features popped up in the Message Center last week, but not to be outdone – Yammer announced the long-awaited edit post feature! I have also included a reminder to customers with SharePoint Online Public Websites that action is required by April 30, 2017. Some new immersion sessions have been added where you can test drive Windows 10, Office 365 and Microsoft Teams. In last week’s blog roundup, SharePoint, Skype for Business and Sway announced new features and Microsoft Forms released new educator-focused features. Noteworthy items such as new Office videos, new Skype for Business features and functionality, and a bandwidth calculator for Microsoft Teams conclude this week’s post.Office 365 Weekly Digest | April 16 - 22, 2017
Office 365 Weekly Digest | April 16 - 22, 2017 Lots of new features for Outlook, Office 365 Groups and OneNote Class Notebook are included in last week’s Message Center notifications, as well as an update to the OneDrive and SharePoint Online sharing experience. Also, this is the last reminder for SharePoint Online Public Websites going away – if you need more time to move your public site, you have until April 30th to request a one-time postponement for 12 months. New to the Upcoming Events is a virtual class where you can learn, through extensive hands-on labs, how Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) can help keep the employees in your company productive on their favorite apps and devices and your company’s data protected. Last week’s blog roundup includes the announcement of Microsoft To-Do, details on some of the security and compliance features of Microsoft Teams as well as insight into DNS intrusion detection in Office 365. However, the major news is all focused on the Office 365 ProPlus updates that were announced – Office 365 ProPlus or Office perpetual in mainstream support will be required to connect to Office 365 services starting October 13, 2020. More information and resources are included in this week’s post and I would recommend reviewing them in detail. Wrapping up this week’s post are several items related to Skype for Business, a Microsoft IT Showcase technical study on how MyAnalytics is inspiring change across Microsoft, a summary of recent updates to Microsoft Flow and new features in Yammer and the Security & Compliance Center.Office 365 Weekly Digest | April 23 - 29, 2017
Office 365 Weekly Digest | April 23 - 29, 2017 Several new and updated features for Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Groups, SharePoint Online and Security & Compliance are the focus of last week’s Message Center notifications. A new event listed this week is an Ask Microsoft Anything session with the Outlook Customer Manager team on May 9th at 9:00am Pacific. The Azure Active Directory and FastTrack webinars have new dates set up for May. A recap of what’s new to Office 365 in April kicks off this week’s Blog Roundup, with other posts about Outlook Customer Manager, Guest Management in Office 365 Groups, Accessing On-Premises Applications in Microsoft Teams and several blog posts and videos from the Skype for Business Team. Rounding out this week’s post are noteworthy information including updates to Office 365 URLs and IP addresses, new features in Microsoft Teams, an Office 365 Change Management Survival Guide and much more!Office 365 Weekly Digest | May 28 - June 3, 2017
Office 365 Weekly Digest | May 28 - June 3, 2017 A friendly reminder that the Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) session with the Office 365 Adoption Content Pack in Power BI product team is on Wednesday, June 7, 2017. There seems to be a lot of GDPR-related content of late, and it will also be the focus of the next Modern Workplace episode on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. Blog highlights from last week include general availability of the Office 365 Centralized Deployment service, which allows administrators to deploy Office web add-ins. Microsoft Planner apps for Android and iOS were also announced, in addition to Immersive Reader for Outlook on the web and per-group sharing controls in OneDrive for Business. Updated Office 365 URLs and IP addresses, the Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) Summary Library, a technical deep dive on a specific error for Exchange Online migrations and updates to Power BI, PowerApps and Microsoft Flow fill out the noteworthy items for the week of May 28 – June 3, 2017.Office 365 Weekly Digest | February 26 - March 4, 2017
The Office 365 Weekly Digest is a weekly blog post compiling the previous week's pertinent Office 365 news and info including Message Center notifications, Upcoming Events, Blog Roundup and Noteworthy items such as the regular updates to the Office 365 URLs and IP addresses. The latest post covers February 26 - March 4, 2017. Hope it is helpful to the community! Sincerely, ThomasRe: Am I wrong or the Weekly Digest Message Center message received Today is simply wrong?
Hi jcgonzalezmartin Going forward in my weekly blog posts, I won't be including any specific Message Center notifications for the reasons described in this week's post. Apologies if that came across as there are no updates this week. I do see notifications from last week in my tenant, but I haven't received my weekly Message Center digest email yet to see if they align. Again, apologies for any confusion caused by my post... Sincerely, Thomas3.1KViews2likes1CommentRe: Office 365 Weekly Digest | February 26 - March 4, 2017
My pleasure, Cian! I greatly appreciate the postiive feedback :) Updates to the 2017 Planned Service Changes post are coming this week...I'll post in Change Alerts once the updates are published. Thanks again, Thomas1.9KViews2likes3CommentsRe: Power BI Service Admin Role
Anne mentioned it in last week's blog post about the latest updates to the O365 Admin Center :) New Power BI admin role—The Power BI admin role is a new role in Azure AD, meant for those tasked with administering Power BI for their organization. Office 365 user admins can assign users to be Power BI admins within the Office 365 admin center or via PowerShell script. Once a user is assigned, they’ll be able to access the Power BI Admin portal. There, they will have access to tenant-wide usage metrics and be able to control tenant-wide usage of Power BI features.1.9KViews1like0Comments
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