Office 365

Microsoft’s Office 365 suite is the crown jewel of Software-as-a-Service. The productivity suite was launched a decade ago and now has more than 300 million paid commercial seats and today, the company is announcing a price increase for many of the tiers of the service. During the past decade, Microsoft has improved the suite by… Read More

If you're an IT Pro offering support in an Education or Higher Education organization, your world, over the last year and a half, has been turned into 'the upside-down.' Now, I'm not inferring that the information here will necessarily save you from the Demogorgon (did you know they can be as tall as eighteen feet!?),… Read More

Microsoft Teams has grown massively in the last 12 months, growing from 44 million active users in April 2020 to over 145 Million users in April 2021. But the business world doesn’t stop; mergers, acquisitions, divestitures is part of the everyday challenge for the IT Pro. Voice and how we use voice in Microsoft Teams… Read More

In the last two articles in this series, I’ve pointed out some of the flaws in the arguments put forward by backup vendors for why you’ll back up Microsoft 365. There’s actually a good reason for using a backup product that they don’t often suggest, and it is the one that actually matters most on… Read More

This post was Sponsored by Stellar, you can learn more about their EDB Recovery Tool here. Exchange Server is Microsoft's enterprise email, calendaring, contact, scheduling, and collaboration platform. It is an enterprise-class server that is primarily focused on sending, receiving, and storing email messages for all of the users in the organization. The current version… Read More

World events since March 2020 have highlighted one of the key benefits of Office 365 and cloud-based SaaS services in general: they are available any time, any place, on any device.  As the world was forced to work from home, Office 365 apps such as Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and OneDrive could easily be accessed outwith… Read More

When you look at your calendar before having a cup of coffee and all you see are meetings back-to-back for the day, you already know it’s going to be a marathon to make it to 5 P.M. Not only is this physically and mentally exhausting, at least in my experience, but it can also have… Read More

Microsoft has announced that users who receive a high number of messages, they will soon be cracking down on the rate at which you can receive email.

January has come and gone but Office 365 news is still flowing.

Microsoft is rolling out a new feature that will alert you if a phishing link or malware is delivered to a mailbox because of a policy exception.

As we kick off the first workday of 2021, it's time for our monthly round-up of what happened, well, last month. Even though it was a much quieter month, there are still notable updates and posts that you should know about. And as you think about goals for 2021, learning more about Office 365/Microsoft 365… Read More

Microsoft has delayed native notifications in Teams and Fluent icons.

Today, the company is updating that figure and the growth has been substantial. In a blog post penned by Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft 365, he states that the number of active monthly SharePoint cloud users has doubled to 200 million.

It was a busy month for Office 365 updates but these are the items you need to know about.

If there is one app in the Office 365 suite that keeps people coming back to the productivity tools it is not Teams, but Excel. The spreadsheet application is easy to use, highly flexible, and in many companies around the world, worksheets are a structural part of the operational workflow. Last year, when XLOOKUP was… Read More