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“How many users does Office 365 support? Because it uses cloud technology, Office 365 is highly scalable, so it can support everything from a one-person business to companies with tens of thousands of users. For example, Office 365 Enterprise plans fit organisations ranging in size from a single employee to 50,000 plus users.”

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“In the same way as if you park your car in a multi-storey car park, it still belongs to you, so with you data in a Microsoft data centre. It’s still very much you who owns the data; Microsoft is simply looking after it – the custodian – a parking attendant and security guard combined, if you like.

So while you still own your data – and control it – and can take with you if you decide to leave the service – Microsoft is the custodian.If you check out the Microsoft Trust Centre, you’ll see they take the security and compliance aspects of your data very seriously.

• They encrypt your data while it’s at rest so it’s protected on their servers.
• They encrypt your data in transit between you and Microsoft with transport layer security TLS (or SSL), which is a set of cryptographic protocols designed to provide communications security over a computer network.
• And to avoid any tampering of data they manage threats, monitor security and maintain your file and data integrity”

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“In a nutshell: yes, unless you have a really old version of Office.

Office 365 works best with the latest version of Office, Office 2013, Office 2010, Office 2016 for Mac, and Office 2011 for Mac. If you have an earlier edition of Office, you will need to update to a newer version of Office in order to use Office 365; or you can subscribe to one of the many Office 365 plans that include the latest version of Office. In addition to getting the latest version of Office as part of your subscription, you will also get automatic updates, so your Office will always be up to date.”

With Microsoft you can build a plan to suit your small to mid-sized business by using a variety of Microsoft technologies. This 15 minute webinar will explores how Microsoft technologies can help your business successfully connect with customers.

You will learn how investing in the right technology can help drive your business and provide long-term cost savings; how to use data to make consumer driven decisions, better target your customers and stay connected.

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“Hardly a day goes by that we aren’t asked this question: Where is my data located?

With UK-bought Office 365 licences, your data resides at Microsoft’s data centre in Dublin and is replicated in Amsterdam – those are the two Northern European data centres for Office 365.”

If you’ve just moved to Office 365 or are thinking about it, our professional services project co-ordinator Chris Lambert and Office 365 specialist, Ben Smart shed some light on key security concerns in this webinar:

Let’s kick off at a very basic level. Firstly what actually is Office 365? This is a common question from organisations that may or may not already have some of their business in the cloud. Perhaps their backup and disaster recovery solutions are at least part cloud-based – but now they’re seriously looking at increasing the productivity levels – the efficiency – of their teams as people become less office-based and more mobile.

Office 365 is a subscription plan that lets you access all your business tools and keep your business moving – from wherever you and your staff happen to be – at any time, from any place and on any device. 365 days a year – well, 366 on a Leap Year, of course. Office 365 includes access to all the Office applications you know and love – Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and email Exchange (which are always up-to-date). It also has some impressive productivity boosting solutions like:

• SharePoint – which incorporates your company intranet and content and document management store
• Yammer – for a social network that promotes collaboration across your company and teams
• Skype for Business – which includes presence, instant messaging and smart web conferencing; and the
• Enterprise Mobility Suite – which keeps your mobile workforce productive and your business protected – with high-level control over user access, devices and your data

It’s hosted in the cloud, so you pay a monthly subscription.

In a nutshell, it’s a rather vague term coined by the IT industry to describe web-based computing services that are hosted outside of your organisation. So, instead of you running your own server on your business premises, you have a third party IT company host it off-premises, on their servers.

With Office 365, for example, Microsoft owns the servers and manages data storage, computation and software.

You may not know it but many services you use every day are a part of the cloud— web-based email, mobile banking – your online photo storage. And because it’s located in the cloud, you can access it from virtually anywhere with an Internet connection.

Watch this two-minute video to find out how a multi-site landscaping business and others are working more productively with Office 365.

You’ll see how you can:

• Take your business with you
• Enjoy a seamless experience across multiple devices
• Work and collaborate together better, easily
• Save 30 – 50 hours per week