October Updates

Office 365 October 2016 Update

Jesse Lawrence Jesse Lawrence
11 October 2016

Office 365 Updates

One of the benefits of Office 365 is the continual updates that they are providing in functionality, be it user experience or administration tools.

SharePoint Online

  • Included in Office 365 Groups
    • A shared Mailbox
    • Calendar
    • OneNote notebook
    • Planner for task management
    • SharePoint team site
  • Team site Homepage updates
    • Site collection storage limit increased to 25TB

Intelligence Updates for Office 365

  • Tap in word
  • Quickstarter
  • MyAnalytics

Outlook on the Web

  • People
  • Featured people with smart lists
  • Contact name and contact capability
  • Click on the contact name and get full details

Outlook on iOS & Android

  • Improvements to calendar app
    • Add locations connected to your maps with search feature
    • Simpler to add appointments
    • Recurring meetings can now be edited

Access Updates

  • Reintroducing dBASE file support
  • Linked Table Manager with export to Excel

Office 365 Groups

  • Introduce people from outside the company
  • Guests receive:
    • Welcome email
    • Access to group files
    • Emails and invites sent to the group
    • Group access via Office on the web
    • Cloud-based file attachments
  • Indicators to remind people that there are guests included

Office 365 Admin

  • A new Office setup wizard
    • Get users up and running in three steps
  • Full support integration
  • Setup progress banners
  • A new “Domains” card
  • Product setup guides

Find out more about Office 365

If you would like more information on Office 365 and to sign up to a free trial, please see the web page here, or contact us directly to see how we can help support you.

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Jesse Lawrence
Jesse Lawrence

Jesse is our marketing manager, keeping an eye on the latest news in the market as well as having worked on the GDPR legislation. 


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