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149 TopicsThe quick way for users to understand O365: The Periodic Table of Office 365
I consider myself a SharePoint geek, but I play more and more in the larger Office 365 (O365) sphere these days. In doing so, I’ve noticed that O365 as a concept is difficult to explain… both to IT folks and the everyday workers who are expected to use it. So I put together a new infographic that (hopefully) provides a quick intro to O365, its apps, and how they're all related. Good for both the IT crowd and lines of business. Check out my https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/everyday-intro-office-365-matt-wade below. [http://periodictableofoffice365.azureedge.net/#/office365/en]Solved17KViews21likes13CommentsLogo and Brand Guidelines
Here are a few resources to help you find and use the right images in Office 365. Office 365 Microsoft Office Pressroom Image Gallery Logos and Image Gallery, Office Microsoft Logo Guidelines (Legal Resources) Microsoft News Center (PR Guidelines and Resources) FastTrack Templates and Resource Center downloads. Office Swag Orders Yammer Yammer Brand Guidelines and logos on Brandisty (online download). Yammer Logos (zip file) Yammer Brand Identity Guidelines Yammer Swag Reorders Yammer Colors Pantone: 300 CMYK: C100,M50,Y0,K0 RGB: RO, G114, B198 Hex: #0072C6Solved161KViews20likes10CommentsMulti-Geo in Exchange Online and OneDrive
Multi-Geo enables a single Office 365 tenant to span across multiple Office 365 data center geographies and gives you the flexibility to store your data in chosen geographies to meet regional, industry-specific, or organizational data residency requirements.101KViews14likes37CommentsCase Study #1: Adoption as a Marketing Campaign
Company Size: ~750 Employees Industry: Manufacturing The Approach This organization took a unique approach to end-user adoption and deployed new products like a marketing campaign—starting with end users’ needs. The IT organization first went to end users to identify their needs and issues. From there, they determined how Office 365 could solve those issues as well as worked to gain buy-in with executives. This needs-based approach was central to how they developed end user training. After Office 365 was deployed, the IT department went on a series of “roadshows,” meeting with individual teams to address how O365 solved their specific issues. Additionally, the company brought in external training to help drive end user adoption even further. While the company philosophy was to keep things in-house as much as possible to grow people internally, they chose to use partners for specific tasks not easily learned by watching videos or taking classes. However, adoption efforts didn’t end after the roadshows and initial trainings. The company hired a full-time training person, who was also tasked with managing SharePoint. This individual provided ongoing trainings to drive end user adoption further. The Takeaway Employing a marketing perspective encourages technology implementers to involve end users early in the process, identify ways to configure products fit user needs, and prepare the users to receive the new technology. Rather than just providing a convincing argument like a sales pitch, the marketing approach brings the end user along, identifying ways in which unique business processes will be impacted. As one IT pro in the company identified, the challenge is learning about the individual business processes in departments and teams so that deployments and trainings can be tailored for a critical mass of end users. What marketing tactics have you implemented or seen used during deployment? What are the biggest challenges with this approach?Solved8KViews11likes6CommentsOnboard to Azure Arc with Security in Mind
Azure Arc allows you to manage on-premises resources like servers from Azure. This is a powerful feature that can help streamline the management process of hybrid environments, but it also further blurs the security boundary between your on-premises landscape and Azure. In this article we discuss some tipes for ensuring that the onboarding to Azure Arc is done with security in mind.10KViews11likes13Comments