Office 365 Admin learning site
Learn how to set up Office 365 for your business with our new Office 365 admin center videos page. You will learn how to add a domain name, add people, set up document storage, download software, and much more in a series of short, easy to follow videos. Check it out today and please leave your feedback! We’ll read it as weadd more videos and categories that help you run a business on Office 365. Office 365 admin center videos http://aka.ms/learn365admin Thanks, Tom Sr. Content Developer Office 365Updates to Azure AD PowerShell module might cause Admins some work
A new version of the Azure AD module for PowerShell is on the way. The prefix for cmdlets changes from Msol to AzureAD, some cmdlets are dropped, some new cmdlets are available, and some parameters change too. All in all, it's going to be fun updating all the scripts that admins have developed to help automate Office 365 operations, not to mention the need to test everything afterwards... More on this in https://www.itunity.com/article/office-365-ems-cmdlets-3472What’s new in Office 365 administration—December update
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 efforts focused on enabling admins to manage new workloads and improving the monitoring and the OneDrive administration experience. New OneDrive for Business admin center rolling out to First Release customers Manage Microsoft Teams from the Office 365 admin center Enable GigJam from the Office 365 admin center New Service health dashboard rolling out to First Release customers Read more on Office Blogs. cc:Anne MichelsOffice 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 severalitems 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 | 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.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 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 | 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 | May 28 - June 3, 2017
Office 365 Weekly Digest | May 28 - June 3, 2017 Afriendly reminder that theAsk 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 contentof 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.VIDEO: Office 365 Admin Updates - 5/22/17
New Adoption content pack allows you to track user adoption of Office 365 services. You can track Licensed versus Active users of the service, apps that are used most for communication and usage trends for collaboration services such as OneDrive and SharePoint. Also, updates to the Office 365 Service health dashboard.
