Office 365

Microsoft Offers Guidance On Deploying Office 365 Proplus

... according to this Microsoft Tech Net article description. The Telemetry Dashboard article, though, explains that a registry edit is required to enable the telemetry agent for older Office versions, so Microsoft hasn't exactly provided a ready-built discovery tool for organizations that are considering migrations to Office 365 Pro Plus. Planning and Deployment. The planning phase of the guide has a focus on setting up user groups. The idea is to follow Microsoft's "channel membership" approach to getting Office 365 Pro Plus updates. This scheme is associated with three Office Pro Plus software releases, which are called "channels." There's a "current channel" monthly release, a "deferred channel" release every four months and an early test version called "first release for deferred channel." Here's how organizations should segregate Office 365 Pro Plus users, per the guide. 1% get Current Channel. 10% get First Release for Deferred Channel. 89% get Deferred Channel. If an organization gets its Office 365 Pro Plus updates via Microsoft's Office content delivery network, then the update delivery will follow ...

Your Clients Need Backup And Recovery For Office 365 Data

... Share Point and Exchange for businesses. Just like any on-premise IT asset, businesses need to protect the data in their cloud-based applications. However, users assume that if the data is in a cloud application, you don’t need to back it up. But that’s not always so. In the case of Office 365, Microsoft provides some built-in protection as part of the hosted service. Its service level agreement (SLA) with its customers guarantees 99.9 percent uptime. But that doesn’t mean businesses shouldn’t have a data backup and recovery plan for all of their Office 365 files. Even though the built-in protection is undeniably valuable – and necessary – it doesn’t prevent users from making mistakes. And that’s where you as the MSP come into this picture. For customers with Office 365 implementations, you need to provide a data backup and recovery solution that specifically handles Excel, Word, Power Point, email and any other files associated with Microsoft’s online productivity ...

Microsoft Office 365 To Include Bitcoin Currency Support

... new technologies have emerged to ‘doxing’ them. Doxing may be carried out for various reasons, including aiding law enforcement, business analysis and criminal justice processes. The decentralization of money offered by virtual currencies like bitcoin however has its theoretical roots in the Austrian school of economics, especially with Friedrich von Hayek. In his book Denationalisation of Money, he advocates a complete free market in the production, distribution and management of money to end the monopoly of central banks. Search for. About Us. LBO is the pioneer and leader in online business and economics news in Sri Lanka, LBO brings you a more comprehensive online news experience, integrating a host of interactive tools to keep you better informed. LBO Brands. Subscribe Now. Want to ...

Microsoft Previews New Office 365 Management Capabilities With December Update

... he indicated, adding "Good luck, you will need it" with regard figuring out Microsoft's collaboration and social networking product positionings. Gig Jam is yet another Microsoft collaboration tool that lets users pull together applications and files on a card-like "canvas" and then share access with others. It's still at the preview stage since its 2015 Worldwide Partner Conference debut. IT pros can enable the Gig Jam preview and manage it from the Office 365 Admin Center as of the December Office 365 update. Gig Jam is turned off by default for Office 365 subscribers right now. Lastly, the December Office 365 update is adding new service health dashboard preview capabilities for users of the Office 365 Admin Center. The service health dashboard provides a "summary view" of the Office 365 service for organizations, as well as "incidents" and "advisories" of note for IT pros, according to Michels. With the December ...

4 Reasons To Kick Off The New Year With An Office 365 Subscription

... of free calling every month. It may not cover all your calling costs, but it’s a good start. 3. Extra users. If you spring for Office 365 Home you get the right to install Office on five PCs, five tablets, and five phones. On top of all that, you can share your subscription rights with up to four other people—that’s five users total. That means that if you have five people in your home they can each use Microsoft Office with the 1 TB of One Drive storage and the 60 minutes of Skype credits. Are you kidding me? That’s an amazing value for homes with multiple Office users. 4. The complete mobile experience. Without an Office 365 subscription the Office mobile apps are hobbled, especially on tablets. You can get a lot of the standard functionality such as basic editing and viewing of documents. To go beyond that, however, you need a subscription. For example, without an Office 365 subscription you can’t track and review changes in Word or enter Presenter View in Power Point. If you want to give Office 365 a try, Microsoft offers a free trial for one month. As with all free trials you have to be sure to cancel on time if you ...

Echoworx Launches Full Integration Of Oneworld Encryption For Office 365 Users

... functionality that enables users to select different encryption methods - empowering consumers to be in control of their security preferences. "One World Encryption for Office 365 Outlook on the web leverages Microsoft's framework to create a user-friendly solution that gives consumers the flexibility and security they need to confidently email in a browser-based environment," Ginsberg said. "This new solution empowers users to choose their encryption preferences no matter their device and in every environment to accommodate today's mobile workforce.". Along with advanced user encryption preferences and flexibility across devices, One World for Office 365 Outlook on the web provides dynamic branding features that are easily and quickly setup using a web-based console. This provides a customizable experience for admins, users and recipients. One World Encryption with Office 365 Outlook on the web integration is now available. For more information, visit __link__. About Echoworx. Echoworx brings simplicity and flexibility to encryption. One World, our flagship solution, is the first smart messaging encryption platform that makes secure messaging ...

Microsoft Issues Best Practices Guide For Office 365 Proplus Deployments

... of Microsoft Office in that software feature updates for Office 365 Pro Plus are automatically streamed down to individual desktops via Microsoft's "click-to-run" update technology, so the software is frequently updated in a service-like manner. In contrast, software feature updates to Office Professional Plus 2016, Microsoft's productivity suite offering for volume licensing subscribers, typically get installed by IT pros via. MSI files. Even though Microsoft handles the feature updates for users of Office 365 Pro Plus subscriptions, IT pros are still tasked with assessing their infrastructures and planning for the initial migration to using the service. Additionally, they are tasked with deploying Office 365 Pro Plus in their computing environments and managing it after it's been deployed. On the assessment side, the guide explained that organizations likely can ...

Powering Your Business With Microsoft Office 365

... to head office. Share Point. Share Point allows organisations to manage information by allowing users to store information such as calendars, contacts, discussions, lists, surveys and announcements. Custom lists can be created for special data storage requirements and to assist with custom workflows. Share Point can also be used to share files both internally and externally. Share Point also allows teams to collaborate with Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and One Note. For example, a team member from the accounts department may be working on a financial statement and would like the input of the financial controller — they have the ability to share the document and both users can edit the document in real time. Microsoft Office 365 allows organisations to integrate (hybrid) existing On-Premise infrastructure with Microsoft Exchange, Skype for Business and Share Point. Integration synchronises and manages user accounts for both environments. A hybrid environment can also help IT administrators to migrate users or information to Office 365, or continue to have some ...