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Microsoft has officially launched Office LTSC 2024, the latest version of Office for the Long-Term Servicing Channel. This release offers commercial and government customers a perpetual license, allowing them to use Office applications without the need for a subscription. Microsoft Office 2024 LTSC entered public preview for commercial customers on Windows and macOS in April…

Microsoft is set to disable ActiveX controls by default in its upcoming Office 2024 suite that will launch in October. This new security measure will affect popular Office desktop apps such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio. Microsoft introduced ActiveX in 1996, allowing developers to embed interactive controls in web pages and applications. In…

It’s a good idea to understand whether any external people have access to documents in your Office 365 tenant. There’s no option on the Office 365 or SharePoint Online consoles to tell you what access external users enjoy to SharePoint sites, so we must use some PowerShell to interrogate SharePoint and see what that reveals.

Office 365 Information Barriers allow organizations to erect logical firewalls between different user communities to ensure that regulatory and legal requirements are met. Teams and Exchange Online support Information Barrier policies, which replace Address Book Policies. Some work is necessary to get Information Barriers set up. We cover that work in this article and prepare the ground for deploying the policies to Teams.

Learn about the new version of Microsoft Office 2024 on the Long Term Service Channel (LTSC). We’ll dive into new features, pricing, expected availability, and the main reasons you should choose this perpetual version vs the hyped Microsoft 365 subscription model. Stay up to date and make informed decisions with this guide. What is Office…

Microsoft is reminding customers that Office 2016 and Office 2019 apps and productivity servers will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. After this date, the company will no longer provide security patches, bug fixes, and technical support to both consumers and organizations. Microsoft announced the end of mainstream support for Office 2016 and…

Microsoft has announced that Office 2024 is now available as a commercial preview for Windows and macOS users. The next release of Office for the Long-Term Servicing Channel will receive 5 years of support on both Windows 11 and Windows 10 operating systems. The Office Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) caters to businesses and government customers…

It’s results time again and Microsoft released earnings for Q4 FY17 on July 20. As always, there are nuggets to be minded. The billions of revenues generated by Azure and Office 365 are the highlights for me, even if Microsoft did not update the number of Office 365 users.

Microsoft is rolling out a new Files view for Office 365 Groups to First Release tenants. The new view includes files circulated as attachments to messages sent to the group and files shared from OneDrive for Business and other SharePoint document libraries.

Microsoft says that Office 365 will support internationalized email addresses (EAI) in Q1 2018. Support is limited to inbound and outbound email and you will not be able to assign email addresses with non-Latin characters to Office 365 accounts until all the heavy lifting is done to make sure that nothing breaks, including in hybrid organizations.

When thinking about your migration to Office 365, these are some of the common pitfalls I have encountered while helping customers move to the cloud.