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Changes to the Office 365 Groups Tech Community
As we announced last month, to reflect the fact that Office 365 Groups power collaboration across Microsoft...
Update on timing of opt-in Microsoft Search in Bing through Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise*
Today we’re updating Microsoft 365 IT Admins on availability of the Microsoft Search in Bing browser extension for Chrome. Based on customer feedback, this capability will be opt-in and for AD-joined devices only. As...
Re: Deploy Office 365 ProPlus to remote workers
Thanks for your feedback. My team is actually working on a comprehensive guide for install options and which network optimization technologies can be used when. On your ask: You can employ Delivery Optimization for Office in combination with Connected Cache...
Multi-Geo reduced seat minimum and expanded geo coverage
We are excited to announce the availability of Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo in Switzerland, and the reduction of the seat minimum requirement to 250 for Enterprise Agreement customers. These updates will allow more organizations to utilize Microsoft 365 Multi-Geo to...
How to secure your remote workers with Office Cloud Policy Service
With more and more users working from home, organizations are facing new security and privacy challenges. One of them might be, that users are working on unmanaged, maybe personal devices accessing corporate data. Classic technologies like Active Directory Group...
Deploy Office 365 ProPlus to remote workers
This blog post will address the enterprise IT admin’s challenge on how to deploy Office 365 ProPlus to remote workers without saturating the company’s VPN connections. It will show you how to implement a tactical approach which allows an IT admin to stay...
How to quickly optimize Office 365 traffic for remote staff & reduce the load on your infrastructure
Over the past few weeks, Microsoft, and more specifically the Office 365 Network team have seen a large influx of questions from customers around how best to optimize their Office 365 connectivity as they work diligently to plan for a large amount of their userbase...
Configuring Office 365 ProPlus updates for remote workers using VPN
Due to the dynamic situation with COVID-19 many IT pros are being challenged to assess ways to configure Office 365 Client to update directly from Microsoft CDN. Today, the majority of customers I engage with manage updates using Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr),...
Excluding and re-including applications within the Office 365 ProPlus Suite
When installing Office 365 ProPlus using the Office Deployment Tool (ODT), the standard configuration includes the entire suite of applications by default. In some cases, IT Pros need to exclude one or more of the apps or add back previously excluded ones. The article...
Update to the background image of the Office 365 sign-in screens
I’d like to give you an early heads up on a visual design update that is coming to the Office 365 sign-in experience. These are the screens used to sign in to Microsoft's apps and services, including Office 365, Azure and Dynamics. We’re updating...