Wednesday 29 April 2020

Office 365 Home and Personal Licensing and Activation Improvements

Since launching Office 365 to consumers, we have heard feedback from customers about the challenges in installing and using their office subscription across multiple devices. The first step in addressing this issue happened in October 2018, increasing a single user’s device limits to five (meaning they can concurrently use five devices) for Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal. Our next step in simplifying use across multiple devices will streamline the activation of a user’s device.(office.com/setup)

Beginning in May, we rolled out the following changes to customers on PCs, followed by Mac devices in July.

For customers, here’s what stays the same:

  • Sign in to activate Office: Users will continue to sign in to activate Office on their devices. When single sign-on is enabled, Office detects the user’s credentials and activates Office automatically.
  • Sign-in limits: Users will be able to install Office 365 on all their devices and be signed in to five at the same time. This includes any combination of PCs, Macs, tablets, or phones.

It's important to stay signed in while you use Office on your device. This is what keeps your Office installation activated and ready to use.  

Here are the changes that you may notice:

  • No more prompts to deactivate: Users can install Office on a new device without being prompted to deactivate Office on another device.
  • Automatic sign-out: When a user reaches the sign-in limit (five devices), instead of being prompted to deactivate, the user will be automatically signed out of Office on the device where Office has been least recently used. The next time the user starts Office on that device, the user will be prompted to sign in to activate Office.
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Monday 27 April 2020

Microsoft 365 helps you and your family connect, work, and learn from home

Since we announced Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions a few weeks ago, I’ve been uplifted by the unique and creative ways people have been using Office and other Microsoft tools to work, learn, and connect from home. From giving piano lessons over Skype to virtual family workouts at home to teachers using Microsoft Teams to read stories to their students, it’s moving to see us all adapting and maintaining connections with those who matter most in this time.(office.com/setup)
  1. Connect with loved ones and friends over SkypeThis continues to be critical in this time. Maintaining our relationships looks different for all of us. It could be wishing your friend a virtual happy birthday, setting up a weekend trivia night with family, or having a video happy hour with your neighbors. With the Meet Now feature in Skype, it’s easy to connect over video (for free) with up to 50 people in just a few clicks.
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  1. Become a better writer—Our desire and need to communicate during this time has not diminished, it has simply shifted. Quick cafĂ© catch-ups are now social media discussions, and chats with coworkers are IMs. This is where Microsoft Editor can be a huge help. Now available as a browser extension in Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, Editor offers writing assistance whether you are relaying a story on Facebook, writing an email to your child’s teacher, or posting on Twitter. Across the web, Microsoft Editor is your virtual assistant to help you write more clearly and concisely.
  2. Discover resources for your family, job, and schooling—There are thousands of free and premium templates available for you to use across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, many of which are very relevant today. With kids learning from home, we’re proud to offer a variety of Home Learning templates like alphabet flash cards, a reading log in Word, or multiplication tables in Excel. When you’re looking for ways to connect with your kids and family at home, we have Family Activity templates including an animal doodle coloring book in PowerPoint and Sudoku puzzle solvers in Excel. For those working from home, or on the hunt for their next job, we offer wide range of Presentation templates as well as Resume and Cover Letter templates.
  3. Multi-task with ease—The Play My Emails feature in Outlook can be a lifesaver for those with a lot going on. Taking the dog on another walk? Fixing an afternoon snack for the kids? Have your emails read aloud to you so you can multitask effectively. And in this home/work/life blend we are all experiencing, it’s as important as ever to stay on top of your schedule. Outlook allows you to share calendars (so you can coordinate schedules with family members) and add calendars (so you can plan around important events).
  4. Keep a handle on your to-dos—For most, our homes are now a hub for much more than what they used to be. They’ve become our workspace, classroom, cafeteria, gym, and living area. Our realities and locations may have shifted, but that doesn’t mean we can’t remain organized. With Microsoft To-Do, you can create the grocery list and share it with your spouse so they can order it. You can make a task list for the kids to check-off before time on their Xbox. You can share workout routines with friends. Whatever you need to accomplish, we’ve got you covered.
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  1. Craft standout presentations—PowerPoint has always been a wonderful tool to help you get your ideas across. Now, as we share more information and ideas with each other digitally, a strong presentation can make all the difference. Using intelligent technology, PowerPoint Designer offers beautiful layouts, rich animations, cinematic motion, 3D models, and modern icons to bring your presentation to life with a few clicks. Your subscription unlocks access to over 8,000 beautiful images and 175 looping videos, plus 300 fonts and 2,800 icons to create high-impact and visually appealing documents.
  2. Become a top-notch presenter—While we might not be standing in conference rooms or on stage for the time being, many of us are still presenting to live audiences on a daily basis. It could be a formal performance on a live stream to many, or simply talking through a document on a video call with your colleagues. Either way, verbal communication is a vital skill—as well as something many folks wish they were better at. Presenter Coach uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help your speaking. It aids with pacing, filler words, and speaking suggestions. Now, you’ll also get real-time feedback as the AI analyzes monotone speech and speech refinement—giving you tips on variation, grammar and phrasing.
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  1. Share special moments and keep up connections—Do you have some cute photos of the Easter Egg hunt that took place around the living room? The grandparents would love to see them. Maybe you had a birthday celebration and want your friends to see the incredible cake your boyfriend baked? With 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage for Microsoft 365 subscribers, you can store these photos and any other files, as well as share them with others, with the knowledge they are always secured and backed-up.
  2. Get peace of mind when tech issues arise—Our homes have grown into bigger tech hubs with family members working and learning from home. With your Microsoft 365 subscription we’ve got your back with ongoing technical support for Windows 10 and all included Microsoft 365 apps readily available through chat or phone.
  3. Learn, meditate, manage, create and control—With a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription comes access to incredible partner apps and services through free, limited-time offers. Find mindfulness with Headspace, create with Adobe, and learn new skills with CreativeLive. You also get access to TeamSnap, Bark, Experian, and Blinkis
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Thursday 16 April 2020

For IT professionals: Privacy and security in Microsoft Teams

Over the previous week, there has been a great deal expounded on video conferencing, protection, and security. As an IT proficient, you might be getting a great deal of inquiries. We need to help. Protection and security are constantly top of brain for IT, however never more so than right now, when the end clients you support are working remotely. As of late, weoffice.com/setup)
shared prescribed procedures for empowering remote work and security. Today, we'd prefer to plot our way to deal with protection and security in Microsoft Teams. Here is our promise to you.(

We give protection and security controls to video gatherings in Teams 

Meeting alternatives: With meeting choices, you can choose who from outside of your association can join your gatherings straightforwardly, and who should trust that somebody will give them access. PSTN guests will join by means of anteroom. Meeting coordinators can likewise evacuate members during the gathering.

Jobs in a gathering: A gathering coordinator can characterize jobs in a Teams meeting that assign "moderators" and "participants," and control which meeting members are permitted to introduce content in the gathering.

Participant assent for recording: All accounts of gatherings are joined by a notification to participants that a chronicle is occurring. The notification likewise connections to the protection notice for online members, and the gathering coordinator controls which participants can record.

Gatherings recording access: Meeting recording access is constrained to those individuals who are on the call, or welcome to the gathering, except if the gathering coordinator approves others to get to the chronicle. Chronicles are transferred to Microsoft Stream and might be shared and downloaded by consents empowered by account chairmen.

Channel balance and controls: Channel proprietors can direct a channel discussion and control who is, and isn't, permitted to share content in channel discussions. This guarantees just proper substance is seen by others.

Correspondence consistence: Communication consistence empowers associations to cultivate a culture of incorporation and wellbeing by distinguishing and forestalling negative practices like tormenting and badgering.

We defend your security by plan 

At the point when you use Teams, you are entrusting us with one of your most important resources—your information and individual data. Our way to deal with protection is grounded in our responsibility to giving you straightforwardness over the assortment, use, and dissemination of your information. A long way from an untimely idea, protection is profoundly imbued in our organization theory and how we assemble items. Here are a couple of our key security responsibilities to you.

-We never utilize your information to serve you promotions.

-We don't follow member consideration or performing multiple tasks in Teams gatherings.

-Your information is erased after the end or lapse of your membership.

-We take solid measures to guarantee access to your information is limited and cautiously characterize prerequisites for reacting to government demands for information.

-You can get to your own client information whenever and in any capacity whatsoever.

-We offer customary straightforwardness writes about the Transparency Hub, specifying how we host reacted to third-gathering demands for information.

-We have found a way to guarantee that there are no secondary passages and no immediate or free government access to your information.

We secure your personality and record data 

Multifaceted confirmation (MFA): Multi-factor validation expects clients to give extra types of check to demonstrate their character, shielding their records from assaults that exploit powerless or taken passwords.

Restrictive Access: Conditional Access permits you to set hazard put together strategies for get to based with respect to client setting, gadget wellbeing, area, and the sky is the limit from there.

Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Microsoft Endpoint Manager permits you to oversee gadgets and applications and implement Conditional Access on any gadget.

Secure visitor get to: Secure visitor get to permits clients to team up with people outside their association while as yet controlling their entrance to hierarchical information.

Outer access: External access gives a verified association with another association, empowering cooperation between associations.

We secure your information and defend against cybersecurity dangers 

Encryption: Teams information is scrambled in travel and very still. Microsoft utilizes industry standard advances, for example, TLS and SRTP to encode all information in travel between clients' gadgets and Microsoft datacenters, and between Microsoft datacenters. This incorporates messages, records, gatherings, and other substance. Venture information is additionally scrambled very still in Microsoft datacenters, in a way that permits associations to unscramble content if necessary, to meet their security and consistence commitments, for example, eDiscovery.

Information Loss Prevention: Data Loss Prevention keeps delicate data from unintentionally being imparted to other people.

Affectability marks: Sensitivity names permit you to manage who can get to a group by controlling the security and visitor settings of the group.

Propelled Threat Protection: Advanced Threat Protection shields clients from malignant programming covered up in records, incorporating documents put away in OneDrive or SharePoint.

Cloud App Security: Cloud App Security furnishes you with devices to recognize and relieve suspicious or malevolent movement, including the huge scope erasure of groups or expansion of unapproved clients.

We meet in excess of 90 administrative and industry gauges 

Consistence and administrative measures: To consent to worldwide, national, territorial, and industry-explicit guidelines, Teams underpins in excess of 90 administrative benchmarks and laws, including HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP, SOC, and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) for the security of understudies and kids.

Data obstructions: Information hindrances permit you to control correspondence among clients and gatherings in Teams to secure business data in instances of irreconcilable situation or approach.

eDiscovery, legitimate hold, review log, and substance search: eDiscovery and related highlights permit you to effortlessly recognize, hold, and oversee data that might be applicable in lawful cases.

Maintenance approaches: Retention arrangements permit you to oversee content in the association by erasing or protecting data to meet hierarchical strategies, industry guidelines, and legitimate prerequisites.

We perceive that security, consistence, and protection have never been progressively significant. From schools and colleges taking learning on the web to big business associations moving to remote work on Teams, we're focused on proceeding to learn and improve every day as we endeavor to assist you with keeping your association profitable and secure. Our way to deal with these significant issues is intended to give you the control and reasonability you have to have genuine feelings of serenity right now and past. If it's not too much trouble visit the Microsoft Trust Center to find out additional.

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Saturday 11 April 2020

Manage and deploy Microsoft 365 Apps from partners in the Microsoft 365 admin center

Since introducing Microsoft 365 Apps at Microsoft Ignite 2019, we’ve made investments to further enhance the value and the experience for IT admins. Now, rather than searching for apps in multiple places and deploying them separately from different platform, you can discover, purchase, acquire, deploy, and manage Microsoft 365 Apps from a single location in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Today, we're starting to roll out this feature to small and medium business customers. Initial rollout will include Microsoft 365 Apps from Microsoft partners, which includes web apps and add-ins that integrate with Microsoft Graph and productivity apps, workflows, and data across devices.

When this feature is rolled out to your tenant, you will automatically see the experience in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Discover/Search Microsoft 365 Apps

You can discover Microsoft 365 Apps by signing into the Microsoft 365 admin center, and under Settings, going to Integrated apps. All Microsoft 365 Apps provided by partners that have been deployed in your organization are displayed, including information about existing solutions and the option to deploy more apps.

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You can search for more apps via the Settings -> Integrated apps -> Get apps option in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This opens Microsoft AppSource in a popup window. You can then search by the publisher or app name.

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Acquire/purchase Microsoft 365 Apps

After searching Microsoft AppSource, you can either acquire or purchase more apps. If your organization already has a license for the app, you can acquire it by choosing Deploy now. Otherwise, you can buy a license directly.

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When you choose Buy it, you go to a Purchase page where you can enter payment information.

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Deploy Microsoft 365 Apps to multiple workloads

After selecting the app, you can then return to Settings -> Integrated apps, where you can:
  • Deploy Microsoft 365 Apps or choose which app to deploy.
  • Deploy to the entire organization or choose specific users or groups to deploy to.
  • Test the app by deploying it to your own tenant.
We recommend that you deploy Microsoft 365 Apps, including both web apps and add-ins, to maximize the value to your organization.

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Manage Microsoft 365 Apps

When new add-ins are made available for Microsoft 365 Apps that are deployed, you will see More apps available in the UI and you can choose to deploy the new add-in.

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