March 15th's episode of Good Morning America had a segment sponsored by Microsoft called "Boosting Your Business". In the segment, they talk to businesses with remote employees and show how Microsoft Teams can help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwcPFHSiYe4 Teams is Microsoft's Slack competitor and included with all Office 365 business plans. … [Read more...]
Microsoft announcements at Ignite 2016
The first day of Microsoft's Ignite conference in Atlanta included a number of announcements in regards to Windows Server 2016, System Center 2016, Office 365, Windows 10, and other Microsoft products. The conference continues throughout the week, so there may be more to come but this compiles most of the announcements in one place. You can watch the recorded events or review … [Read more...]
Office 365 will stop providing Office for Mac 2011 this month
Microsoft has announced that it will no longer make the Office for Mac 2011 installer available through Office 365 after September 22nd. If you would like to get a copy of the installer before that date, you can head to the My Software page of the Office 365 Portal. Office for Mac 2011 has been succeeded by Office 2016 for Mac. It is vastly superior, in my opinion, and … [Read more...]
Office 365 embraces APIs with Connectors
Microsoft announced a new feature for Office 365 called Connectors. It looks like a great way to hook into APIs of other services such as GitHub, Trello, Twitter, MailChimp, Wunderlist, SalesForce, and others. Interestingly, the feature is part of the Groups feature in Office 365. This allows you to pull Twitter feeds or other content from these third party services into … [Read more...]