Outlook

Office 365 Groups occupy a special place in Microsoft’s collaboration strategy. The link-up between Yammer and Groups was the headline news for some, but a lot of other facts were revealed at the Ignite conference, mostly around operational improvements to help tenants manage groups better. Here’s some of what occurred.

Yammer and Office 365 take two very different approaches to collaboration, but both exist inside Office 365. Although slow in coming, Microsoft has finally given details about how Yammer and Office 365 Groups will connect to each other. AAD is the glue and SharePoint, notebooks, plans, and calendars are the common functionality available to both types of groups.

Maximize your email workflow by adding OneNote. Save emails, reply to long emails without missing a single point. OneNote plus Outlook is the perfect pair.

Microsoft’s Outlook Groups app for Android, Windows and iOS mobile devices gives users access to Office 365 Groups.

In this easy how-to article, Russell Smith shows us how to create an Office 365 group in Outlook.com.

Office 365 allows you to connect to your work email as easily as you’ve been connecting to your personal Hotmail account. We go over several approaches to moving your contacts or address book into Office 365.