In this week’s episode of the The CharDaveShow, Cloud Direct’s Dave Wigley (engineering director) explains how many installations a licensed Office 365 user gets.
Hint: it’s even more flexible than you think!
Jim Naroski, Microsoft’s solutions curriculum manager, shares the latest updates and resources for Office 365.
November’s Office 365 updates include:
- Power BI Export to PowerPoint
- Tap in Word
- App launcher enhancements
- Sway QuickStarter
- Yammer auditing and reporting
- Security and compliance
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Office 365 specialist Gregg Thompson, discusses business continuity and disaster recovery at Microsoft’s Future Decoded at London, ExCel.
Business continuity and disaster recovery are critical for all regulated businesses. But it can be a real challenge to find a solution that is flexible, simple and secure enough to work for your business.
Will Rowley, Cloud Direct professional services manager and Chris Mulgrew, Microsoft engagement specialist, touch on these challenges and how to overcome them with Microsoft Azure, in this webinar recording.
Cloud Direct’s Tom Brunning, customer account manager, and Gregg Thompson our Cloud Solutions & Office 365 Specialist, will cover:
- The business case for moving to cloud-based Office 365
- Step-by-step advice on best practice for successful cloud migration
- What to avoid when planning your cloud migration
SUMMARY TRANSCRIPT:
“Here’s an interesting one. Do I need internet access to use Office 365. The answer isn’t as obvious as you might think. So while you do need internet access to install and activate all Office 3 365 plans and to manage your subscription account, to access Office 365 cloud (productivity) services including email, conferencing, IT management and other services
Many Office 365 plans also include the desktop version of Office, for example Office 365 Business Premium and Office 365 Enterprise E3. One of the benefits of having the desktop version of Office applications is that you can work offline. And therefore you can have the confidence that the next time you connect to the Internet all your work will automatically sync, so you never have to worry about your documents being up to date. Your desktop version is also automatically kept up-to-date and upgraded when you connect to the Internet, so you always have the latest tools to help you work.”
SUMMARY TRANSCRIPT:
“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.”
SUMMARY TRANSCRIPT:
“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”
SUMMARY TRANSCRIPT:
“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.”