The Office cloud policy service (OCPS) is a cloud-based service that enables you to apply policy settings for Office...
Implementation Articles

Building dynamic, lean & universal packages for Office 365 ProPlus
As an admin, you might have been tasked with the deployment of Office 365 ProPlus to your organization. But such a...
New Yammer groups usage report and updated Office 365 groups report
We continue to update the usage reports in the Office 365 admin center to provide you with a complete picture of how your organization is using Office 365. You'll start noticing the following enhancements over the coming weeks: New Yammer groups activity report...
Service and Normal Incident Management for Office 365
The time has come for us to discuss the Service Desk and Normal Incident Management. I am very excited about this post because it will complete the baseline, core content for the series. As a reminder, there are four questions that I get most often about...
What Happens to My Data in Office 365?
With Microsoft, you are the owner of your customer data. We use your customer data only to provide the services we have agreed upon, and for purposes that are compatible with providing those services. We do not share your data with our advertiser-supported services,...
What Happens to My Data in Office 365?
With Microsoft, you are the owner of your customer data. We use your customer data only to provide the services we have agreed upon, and for purposes that are compatible with providing those services. We do not share your data with our advertiser-supported services,...
Updated usage reports for SharePoint
We continue to update the usage reports in the Office 365 admin center to provide you with a complete picture of how your organization is using Office 365. You'll notice the following enhancements today. The existing SharePoint activity report will be enhanced...
IT Agility to Realize Full Cloud Value – Evergreen Management
We're back with another edition of the Modern Service Management for Office 365 blog series! In this article, we review the evergreen cloud paradigm and considerations for an agile IT organization. These insights and best practices are brought to you by Carroll Moon,...
Deploy custom business applications with ease with the Office 365 Centralized Deployment service
We are delighted today to announce the general availability of the Centralized Deployment service! Centralized Deployment enables you as the Office 365 admin, to deploy Office web add-ins to individual users, groups or the organization from the Office 365 Admin Center...
Monitoring: Audit and Bad-Guy-Detection
Welcome to the latest edition of the Modern Service Management for Office 365 blog series! In this article, we review monitoring tools and techniques to manage information security using audit data. These insights and best practices are brought to you by Carroll Moon,...
Office 365 Monitoring: Leveraging the Office 365 Service Communications API
We're back with another edition of the Modern Service Management for Office 365 blog series! In this article, we review monitoring with a focus on communications from Microsoft related to incident and change management. These insights and best practices are brought to...