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Office 365 now includes the all-new Office 2016 apps!
Access files anywhere—online or offline
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Watch how a racing team turns to cloud services for speed and agility on and off the track
Lotus F1 Team is all about efficiency for both its race cars and its internal operations. The organization adopted Microsoft Office 365 productivity tools to improve its communications and collaboration capabilities, even during the critical seconds of a race. Employees and IT staff now spend less time dealing with technology, which leaves them available to focus on how to trim seconds off every lap around the track.
Read customer success stories to learn how Managed Solution helps businesses implement technology productivity solutions.
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Office 365 provides customers with a continuous stream of innovative features that provide significant productivity improvements while keeping information highly secure. We are working on resources and tools to help you leverage Office 365 information security features and controls, so you can manage security in your Office 365 tenant. The Office 365 Service Trust Portal (STP), launched earlier this year, is an example of a feature that provides deep insights into how Office 365 services are operated and independently audited.
Now we are pleased to present the customer security considerations (CSC) workbook that can be used to facilitate a quick review and implementation of the security controls available in Office 365. The CSC workbook is designed to provide you with information on key security and compliance features to consider when adopting, deploying and managing Office 365.
The CSC workbook, which currently is implemented as a Microsoft Excel workbook, is in preview. Your feedback will allow us to improve the CSC workbook for your business needs, and we hope to receive your feedback. Over time, the number of pivots will increase and additional compliance scenarios will be incorporated.
The CSC workbook contains two security-based pivots on the same set of features and information. One pivot is the Office 365 Customer Control Considerations section. Information in this section is organized into five scenarios listing the features that can be used to manage information security risks:
•Data Resiliency—Considerations for protecting and recovering information from potential data corruption.
•Access Control—Things to consider around managing identity and access control using Office 365 and Azure features.
•Data Leakage—Considerations around using encryption and controlling forwarding.
•Security and Compliance Investigations—Considerations for conducting compliance searches and forensics investigations, as well as logging and hold actions in Office 365.
•Incident Response and Recovery—Things to consider around security incident response and recovery.
In addition to these five scenarios, an all-up list of considerations is provided.
The second pivot is the Office 365 Risk Assessment Scenarios section. Information in this section is organized by risks/threats and how you will implement various controls to manage these risks:
•Malicious Customer Administrator
•Former Employee
•Credential Theft
•Malware
•Trusted Device Compromised
•Attacker Foothold
•Microsoft Operator
We hope that the CSC workbook provides you with quick information on how to help secure your Office 365 service with features/configurations that you manage. Based on the usage of this tool and your valuable feedback, we hope to expand the scope of considerations as appropriate and make it even more user friendly in the future.
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Now Through Monday at Midnight: Businesses can receive a 10% discount on Office 365; complete the form below to receive your discount code.
This offer is valid through Monday, November 30, 2015 at 11:59pm for new and existing customers.
Already a Managed Solution customer? Managed Solution Helps Customers Embrace the Cloud Through Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program
The Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program allows Managed Solution to provide direct billing, sell combined offers and services, as well as directly provision, manage and support Microsoft cloud offerings. This means we are able to take over ownership of our clients billing and combine it with our Managed Services agreement. We have been onboarding new customers into this program but are also extending the offer to current customers. By moving to the new platform, customers receive a 10% discount off the MSRP costs of Microsoft Office 365 subscriptions, there is nothing to migrate or move on your end but an approval to move the billing from Microsoft to Managed Solution. The billing would be added to a customers monthly Managed Services bill and the agreement would be month to month versus the year agreement directly with Microsoft.
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The new PowerPoint Designer and Morph features are here! See the evolution of PowerPoint.
Post by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team.
Office 2016 hit the market just two months ago and over the coming weeks we’re rolling out the next wave of monthly innovations for Office 365 subscribers. This month, PowerPoint leads the way with game changing tools that make it simple to build designer grade layouts and transitions. With this month’s feature update, we’re also introducing Office Insider, an ongoing preview program available to Office 365 subscribers.
Taking presentations to the next level
PowerPoint Designer and Morph are new intelligent tools that work for you by automating the creation of slides and presentations, helping everyone get more out of Office. With a cloud-powered recommendation engine and smart animation technology, these new PowerPoint capabilities help anyone create polished slides and captivating motion effects with just a few quick steps.
Introducing PowerPoint Designer
PowerPoint Designer allows anyone to create high quality professional slides within seconds. Just drop an image into your presentation and Designer provides you with several design ideas. Select your favorite and you’re done! This allows you to spend less time figuring out how to produce high quality designs and more time preparing for that key moment—your presentation.
This all works thanks to a powerful combination of automated design and smart image analysis. PowerPoint Designer was built in collaboration with professional graphic designers, who helped develop over 12,000 creative blueprints. Designer applies cloud intelligence to analyze and identify the most compelling portion of your images to determine which blueprints work best with your content. For example, if the visual contains a natural scene, Designer can zoom, crop and frame it. But if the image contains a chart, it focuses in on the relevant region to ensure the important data is highlighted. Designer then selects from the 12,000+ blueprints to provide multiple layout options to help you make the most of your image. The end result is a high quality and customized presentation—in seconds.
This first release of Designer will do amazing things, but it’s going to get even better with time. In the coming months, we will expand Designer to work with additional slide types.
Create cinematic motion with Morph
Morph creates cinematic motion by seamlessly animating between your slides. Morph doesn’t just animate regular text or images, it can animate 3-D shapes or be applied at a word or even character level, including text wrapping. Simply duplicate slides you want morphed together, move the objects based on how you want them to animate and click the Morph button under Transitions. You’ll be amazed with the quality of animations you create with just one click.
Exclusively available to Office 365 subscribers, PowerPoint Designer and Morph are premium authoring and editing features. PowerPoint Designer and Morph are available first in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows desktop and Windows Mobile, but expect to see these same features rolling out to other platforms in the coming months.
Sick of Calibri? You don’t have to stick with Office 365’s standard set of fonts in your documents or messages. It’s a snap to change the font of an individual email message or even the default font for all new email messages you create.
In individual messages, simply highlight the text you wish to change, and select a new font style from the menu.
To change the default font in Outlook 2013/2016:
•From the File tab, select Options.
•Select Mail.
•Click Stationery and Fonts.
•Make your desired changes to new mail messages, replying or forwarding messages, and/or composing and reading plain text messages.
•Click OK until you return to your mailbox.
To change the default font in Outlook on the Web:
•From your gear menu, select Options.
•Click Message format under the Layout menu.
•Make your desired changes in the Message font window.
•Click Save.
