News — Office 365

Through new features in Microsoft Teams, teachers can assign tasks, papers, and projects to students in the cloud and keep track of progress and grades from virtually anywhere. *Office 365 for Education available from My Choice Software. Microsoft Teams has found great success with educators in the US and abroad by tailoring the collaborative experience with classes by bringing assignments and discussions between students and teachers into the cloud. Just like in the workplace, teachers have been able to assign tasks, papers, and projects to students in the cloud as well as keep track of progress and grades from virtually...

Have you had security breaches, deleted files, and suspicious actions within your network? The Office 365 audit log can help you find the source. Security and technical issues are an IT administrator’s biggest concerns, particularly when these problems keep repeating without a permanent solution. Office 365 software suites seek to address these setbacks with its Office 365 audit log feature that is able to record a wide range of activities from all employees to not only get a sense of day-to-day operations, but also find the root causes of issues such as deleted files, multiple failed login attempts, unauthorized access to...

Office 365 makes compensating for differences in software and hardware in the same office is a thing of the past. Office 365 was created as a means of bringing different users and their devices together to create a much more collaborative environment where people could participate in any project from any machine. They say there are two types of people in the world: PC users and Mac users (unless you count Linux). Up until now, transferring documents from one operating system to another could be dicey at best, given that while there were versions of Office for both PCs and...

Office 365 offers top-level security and cloud storage options data protection. Keeping data secure from external (and sometimes internal) threats is of the utmost importance to any business looking to grow, and Office 365 offers its users multiple layers of security regarding keeping information in the right hands as well as a large capacity storage solution. Office 365 security protocols break down into three tiers: Identity, Infrastructure, and Apps & Data. Protected Identities To manage users and their authentication steps for safe access, Office 365 employs Azure Active Directory (Active AD) to provide organizational leaders with more control over who can...

Signing up to be an Office Insider gives you early access to new updates and features Microsoft rolls out for Office 365 users. One of the great perks of being an Office 365 subscriber is the constant flow of updates and new features that become available. However, there is an even deeper level of exclusivity with new Office updates in the touted Office Insider program. Office Insiders are early access to beta versions of new features and can provide valuable feedback to Microsoft to make adjustments before the actual launch of the update.    Office Insider is available for all...