More than 100 million people in the United States now own a smartphone* and chances are you and your employees are among them. Growing with the popularity of smartphones and other mobile devices is cloud-based computing, which is a way that computer programs and services are delivered over the Internet to a device. Office 365 enhances the power of cloud and mobile computing by providing access to email and calendars, Office Web Apps , web conferencing and file sharing from nearly any device. The...

Next week, Office 365 will be a sponsor for Inc. Events, GrowCo Conference in New Orleans, LA. On Wednesday, March 7, 1:40 CST, we are excited to participate in a Twitter interview (on the @smallgiantsbuzz ; @office365 channels) with Bo Burlingham, author of Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, during the ‘Networking with Purpose’ session held by the Small Giants Community . We thought it would be a good opportunity to talk with Bo and get his take on how technology...

With a team of contributors located around the world, Wine & Spirits Magazine conducts a lot of business online. When employees started to use email for document management, collaboration became difficult and inefficient. Additionally, there were concerns that the content delivered to the printer might not be the final, edited articles. Seeing the many issues this way of working could create, the company began testing Microsoft Office 365.

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Whether your company has 10,000 employees or one, chances are collaboration is an essential part of doing business. Without the right infrastructure, basic activities like sharing documents and keeping track of task completion can become complex. Part 4 of our series shows how team sites, a feature of SharePoint Online, can help you work more efficiently with people in and outside of your organization. Watch and learn how you can manage documents, contacts and tasks from an internal website that's accessible on a mobile device or through a desktop computer. 

 

 

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Small business owners wear many hats. You're responsible for everything from driving the company's strategic vision to making sure the printer doesn't run out of paper. While you're on your own for many of the problems that come up in business, Office 365 comes with the power of an international community and a simple tool to help address your needs. Since Office 365 first went into beta trials, we've been collecting resources and tips and tricks to make finding answers to your questions easy. You...

Perhaps you've heard about the advantages of Microsoft Office 365, and want to give it a try. Or maybe you've already completed a 30-day trial and are ready to subscribe on an ongoing basis. The question is: Which plan should I subscribe to? To make your choice easy, we've updated our Office 365 website to help you quickly select the right plan for your organization. Now, from a single page, you can compare all the subscription plans side-by-side, including the specific features and prices of each...

To maximize the effectiveness of Team Sites, it's helpful to develop and follow a plan for how you'll build and organize the site. The following questions, taken from Step 2 of Microsoft's four part "Getting Started with SharePoint Online series," will help you get started:

• Question 1: What kinds of sites do you need? Depending on the size of your organization and the volume of content that you plan to have on your Team Site, you may want to create sub-sites under your Team Site to organize content. The image below shows how this might look.
• Question 2: What kind of content will you have on sites? The goal for this content planning is to determine: What kinds of content types you might want to create; what kinds of metadata (site columns) you want to associate with these content types; and what kinds of lists or libraries you need to organize content.
• Question 3: How will your users find and access content? Consider how site users will find and use the content on your sites and it will help you make decisions about how to configure both navigation and search for the Team Site and its subsites.
• Question 4: What do users need to do with content? Incorporate specific questions about content use scenarios into the content planning process and it will help determine how to configure specific sites, lists, or libraries, and what specific features site users may need to use in conjunction with content.

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Audience: Office 365 for enterprises administrators I'm Jon Orton, product manager on the Exchange team here at Microsoft. Welcome to our product insight series on Exchange Online. For our first post, I want to cover two things: an overview of Exchange Online and a look at some of the cool features coming to Exchange Online with Office 365. Quick Overview of Exchange Online You've probably heard of Exchange Server, and with Exchange Online, we've taken the capabilities of Exchange Server and offered...

By Clint Patterson, Director of Communications, Microsoft Office Division More great questions. More answers that we hope are great too. I saw several questions today on Office desktop apps, so the first five really focus on the options there, including some 'splaining around Microsoft Access. The rest cover ground from domains to voice. I also want to point folks to some great resources for Office 365. The Office 365 website is more than pretty pictures (but it has those too). It includes a detailed...

By Clint Patterson, Director of Communications, Microsoft Office Division This morning, Kurt DelBene and Chris Capossela, the president and vice president of the Microsoft Office Division respectively announced Of fice 365, opened the beta, and shared the stories of some of our amazing customers and partners. Because not everyone could be with us at the event in San Francisco, we invited media to ask questions via Twitter, and ask you did! We promised to answer them on our blog, and here they are...