Office 365 July Update

Microsoft Office 365 Updates for July 2016

One of the benefits of Office 365 is the continual updates that they are providing in functionality, be it user experience or administration tools.

See the video, which covers the following areas:

• Productivity
  • Deferred Channel Client
    • Update available for deferred channel
  • Outlook for Android Wear
    • Android watch update
    • Next meeting and time to next meeting details
    • Outlook calendar colours
    • Number of emails received
    • Change the style of the watch face
• Collaboration
  • Planner Release
    • Structure teamwork easily and get more done
    • Planner is now live
    • Colour coded representation for your plans
    • Board view with all of the team’s work
    • Works across devices and platforms
• Chat with Co-Editors
  • Chat feature is available on online versions of all of the office applications
  • Chat history is not saved
  • Immediate and short term communication

• Security
  • Advanced Security Management
    • Anomaly Detection Policies, such as failed sign in attempts, alert admins to potential breaches of the network
    • Activity Policies enables admins to track specific activities, such as downloading a large amount of data
    • Notify admin and lock user accounts etc.
• Admin
  • Admin App Update
    • Admin App has almost 40 feature updates, including push notifications, mobile device management and partner integration
    • Feature grouping, such as quick actions being displayed together
    • Easier to highlight areas that need attention

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Jesse Lawrence

Jesse is our marketing manager, keeping an eye on the latest news in the market as well as having worked on the GDPR legislation.