Social Media Connections: Let's Network!
I love the Microsoft Tech Community and find it to be an incredible source of information, discussion, feedback, and comradery. I also use LinkedIn and Twitter to keep in touch with my professional network. Do you? Share your usernames in the comments and let's connect! I'll start 🙂 Twitter: Brian_Levenson LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianlevenson
Infographic: how to stay up to date with changes in Office 365
I've got a https://www.avepoint.com/blog/office-365/staying-up-to-date-with-office-365-list-resources out with a listing of resources you should follow to stay up to date with the never-ending changes, updates, deprecations, etc. in Office 365. The full blog post also has a spreadsheet that lists out every official Microsoft blog, roadmap, community forum, feedback mechanism, and twitter account to follow, split out by Office 365 app [scroll all the way down]. Feedback welcome! Here's a preview below.New White Paper - Office 365 empowers Microsoft employees and enables Microsoft IT
As Microsoft has moved users, teams, and documents to the cloud with Office 365, the company's IT department has been transforming from server and systems management to organization empowerment. Formerly MSIT and now called Core Services Engineering (CSE), the teams are focused on delivering technology based services that enhance the company's ability to achieve our mission: to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Software-as-a-service solutions like Office 365 delivered from the cloud are always up to date and constantly improving. Rather than spend time racking and stacking servers, deploying patches, and planning costly upgrade projects, CSE resources are freed to develop solutions to business problems and enable a productive and collaborative - yet secure and protected - workforce. To learn more about MSIT's transformation aided by Office 365, check out the new white paper: http://aka.ms/MSITservers2servicesPeriodic Table of Office 365 is now dynamic and web-based
The Periodic Table of Office 365 is now web-based, clickable with app descriptions, available in seven languages, and embeddable. That's right, you can have a live version right in your intranet or website -- just like what you see below! Check it out and make sure to give us feedback. (Just remember, it's in BETA.) Never heard of it? This graphic is a popular resource for explaining WHAT Office 365 is to IT, users, management, you name it. You can't talk about something if you can't define it, right? [http://icsh.pt/DynamicTable | https://periodictableofoffice365.azureedge.net]Improving Personal Productivity
In December of last year, ChristianBuckley presented a webinar called Improving Your Personal Productivity. While new features and updates continue to be rolled out by Microsoft, Christian’s presentation focused on the incremental changes that individuals can make to improve their own productivity, using the tools they already have access to. You can listen to the whole webinar here (and embedded below) - here are a few highlights from the webinar: Documenting Conversations – Have conversations within all Office Web applications. Chat with your co-workers as you edit in real time. If IMs aren’t enough, quickly turn your conversation into a group call or video chat. Here’s how. Ignore Reply-All – Clean up your inbox! Keep unwanted conversations out of your Inbox with the Ignore Conversation Boards in Office Delve - Make discovering content easier. Create boards, pin documents and share with other users. Rather than saving to your personal space, make documents you discover visible to people you think would find them relevant. Also, check out the product spotlight on Delve here. Sway – Office Sway helps you create and share interactive reports, stories and presentations. Create unique presentations quickly with Sway’s built-in design engine that helps you apply new designs or fully customize your layout. For more information, check out Getting Started with Sway. What office features do you use to improve your day-to-day productivity?
Announcing the October Office International Sway Contest
From October 12th to October 26th the Office International team are running a contest in search of the top language issues on localized versions of Sway. We are giving away a $100 Amazon voucher to the top three contributors in three categories: Highest creation of new, original posts Best new, original post New, original post with largest international impact To enter, you need to be a member of the Office International community, use a localized (non-English) version of Sway and share your feedback on how Sway is landing in your market. For full details of the competition, eligibility and the rules, please refer to the contest post here.Access Panel and App Launcher
I have a few related questions in this area that I would appreciate input on: We just noticed that additional tiles have appeared in our User's Access Panels (https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com/r#/applications). These include the office apps (Excel, Word, Powerpoint), OneDrive, Sway, Yammer, Video, PowerApps, Planner, Newsfeed, Dynamics 365, Delve, and Flow. I know that I should be able to manage some of these appearing by disabling them in the Admin portal but is there also a way to manage the others? I can't necessarily disable office apps within 365, I need for the Microsoft graph but I dont want it on the Access Panel. Any ideas? Can I disable Yammer globally within my office 365 tenant? I have seen scripts where I can do it on a per user basis but that means that I would have to run that script daily. Any other options? Why does Dynamics 365 show up in my tenant when I have zero licenses for it?
