Introducing guest access for Office 365 Groups
Sometimes you need to work closely with customers, partners, suppliers or consultants outside of your organization, and you need collaboration tools to make this possible. Today, we are pleased to announce the new guest access feature for Office 365 Groups—the group membership service that provides a single ...The new guest access feature gives you the ability to include people outside of your company in an Office 365 group. We are rolling out guest access functionality in phases. Starting today, group owners can add guests to a group in Outlook on the web. Once added, guests receive a welcome email, are granted access to group files in SharePoint Online...begin receiving email messages and calendar invites sent to the group, and can send messages to the group. They also have automatic access to cloud-based file attachments. Guests have the option to leave the group at any time and visual indicators remind all members of guest participation in the group across all Outlook experiences...Grouping emails by conversations
Have you ever had to find an email that was part of a long thread--an email with lots of replies about the same topic? For example, your boss might have asked for the results of last month's important meeting, and you know Sherry sent an email outlining them, but then you remember that Todd followed hers with more information. If you group...your emails into conversations, you can find the emails you want more quickly. Show emails as conversations Most people organize their emails in a running list arranged by the date they were received. Grouping your emails into conversations helps you locate all the emails related to that conversation... On the View tab, in the Conversations group, click Show as Conversations...Introducing Groups in Outlook for Mac, iOS and Android
More than 10 million people rely on Groups in Outlook every month to work together and get things done. Groups is proving useful to our customers. And for that, we couldn’t be more...thankful. Groups in Outlook offers huge improvements over traditional distribution lists, with a shared space for group conversations, calendars, files and notebooks, the convenience of self-service membership and much more. Today, we’re pleased to announce Groups is now rolling out to Outlook for Mac, iOS and Android. Groups is already available...in Outlook for Windows and on the web—so now you can access your group conversations and content no matter which platform you use. With these updates, you can: View your group list. Read and reply to group conversations. Add group events to your personal calendar. View unread messages sent to the group...Professional learning community groups in Office 365 Education
A professional learning community, or PLC, is a group of educators who meet regularly to share expertise and work collaboratively to improve teaching skills and the academic performance of students. Teachers around the world have started using Office 365 Groups to make collaboration within a PLC a lot simpler and more streamlined. PLC groups...are typically formed around interest areas (e.g., 9th grade math), grade levels (e.g., 10th grade teachers) or across subjects (e.g., science teachers). Here are some barriers to engagement with PLCs today that Office 365 Groups is addressing: Teachers can be isolated, time is severely limited and collaboration...Today, we are excited to announce the PLC Groups Preview—tailored to meet the needs of teachers and overcome the above mentioned barriers to engagement today. The new Office 365 PLC groups include one place to collaborate effectively in a community of practice. Each <em class=...Time grouping enhancements in Excel 2016
...-down buttons. Automatic time grouping Automatic time grouping, a new feature in Excel 2016, helps use time-related fields in a PivotTable by auto-detecting and grouping them on your behalf. The automatic grouping creates new Date/Time columns and automatically populates the PivotTable in one action. This allows users to quickly start...analyzing their data across different levels of time with drill-down capabilities. PivotTable grouping is used frequently by customers in many business scenarios. Implementing grouping for Data Model PivotTables allows for grouping to be used in conjunction with the power of the xVelocity engine and is a key feature for making Data Model PivotTables...a replacement for native ones in the future. When used in a data model PivotTable, Time grouping adds relevant Date/Time columns such as Date (Year), Date (Quarter) and Date (Month) to the grouped table in the model; these columns could then be reused with other user endpoints of the data model, such as PowerView and Power BI...Want a way to send email to a group?
...or highway litter patrol (or whatever) with my group of friends?" You fire up your email to start arranging things but wish you could avoid having to type each individual name (or email address) on the To: line. There's an easy way to avoid that mind-numbing task--create a Contact Group...It lets you compile email addresses into one list, give it a name, say "Escape Reality" for this group, and then type in the name whenever you want to send a message to a group. Create a Contact Group In Outlook, click Contacts, and then click...Contact Group. Type a name your group. To add your friends, click Add Members and then choose where--from your Outlook...Yammer Adds a Flurry of New and Enhanced Features
Enhanced Profiles We've redesigned profiles! They're clean and uncluttered. Now you'll be able to see coworkers' essential details at a glance, along with links to the groups they've joined and the files, images, and links they've posted...added profile photos for groups, so you'll be able distinguish them visually. Every group message now includes the group's photo along with the poster's photo. We've refreshed group profiles, too. Group admins will find it even easier to manage their groups...Without changing the experience for existing users, we've made some changes to help new users find the content that matters most to them. New users will no longer see all public messages by default, but will instead be offered suggestions on who to follow and which groups to join. These suggestions will be based on Yammer invitations, reporting...
New agent capabilities in Microsoft Copilot unlock business value
...in meetings by managing the agenda and taking notes anyone in the meeting can coauthor. Group collaborator: Copilot helps everyone get more out of chats, surfacing the most important information, tracking actions items, and addressing...Moving to the cloud with confidence—Deutsche Börse Group chooses Office 365
...countries looking to modernize their business operations with a move to the cloud: Deutsche Börse Group (DBG) is taking a thought leadership approach to digital transformation by moving to Office 365 to digitally transform the way they work. Based in Frankfurt, DBG is a leading stock exchange in Germany and one of the largest exchange organizations...of security of Deutsche Börse Group: “Microsoft satisfied DBG’s concerns about how it controls access to data and change management of automated processes, and did so through a deep examination of the features, such as Customer Lockbox and the capabilities of Office 365. We were also impressed...
Mondelēz International engages and inspires global workforce with Yammer
...it as our primary enterprise social platform for our entire organization. The Yammer mobile app is the most seamless mobile experience we’ve ever delivered to our workforce, making the relaunch incredibly easy to drive adoption for our workforce. Today, there are nearly 20,000 individuals, more than 170,000 posts, and nearly 1,500 groups active among...a range of communities, from functions like Corporate & Legal Affairs and HR to subject matter groups, social groups, and business strategy groups. Over seven months, we have seen a nearly 70 percent increase in active users and 13 percent increase in new groups. Deploying a vibrant social platform is even more important as we build virtual...