The past couple of years forced people to work from home and collaborate online. During this period, Microsoft productivity experts observed two things in their workforce; remote employees work more efficiently, and most miss each other. That small coffee talk, fun banters, and hallway moments – all were replaced with a digital screen. Simply, they […]
Is the Microsoft Tool You’re Using Appropriate for the Job? The introduction of Microsoft Lists — is basically a major update to the SharePoint lists experience presented as a separate app. There have been various upgrades to the two major task apps, Microsoft Planner and Microsoft To-Do. This raises several considerations about which tool to […]
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, most office workers had to work remotely from home. The rise in the proportion of work from home led to the significance of hybrid workplaces and their roles in the workplace landscape. What is a hybrid workplace? It is a flexible workplace model meant to support a distributed staff consisting […]
Welcome to our annual Office 365 Features Roadmap for 2022! 2021 was an exciting year for Office 365. Many new features were added to help remote workers globally do business more efficiently. Two new tools were added as well; Microsoft Viva and Microsoft Lists to Teams. 2022 may have new tools as well, but below […]
If you’re new to Microsoft Office or want to update, you’ll have to choose between two options: Office 2019 and Office apps from Microsoft 365. Since both options come with pros and cons, this makes the selection a little more complicated. Although both options provide access to the same range of apps, the distinction is […]
Major Updates US and EU Yammer External Collaboration Yammer will now fully allow external collaboration of members who are both in the US and EU. Previously, EU and US external collaborators we siloed. This change will allow for greater collaboration of users across the two continents. We aren’t fans of Yammer, relative to Teams, but […]
Major Updates Microsoft Teams Music Detection Microsoft Teams will now detect background music and give the user the option to suppress background music. If you are purposely playing background music, you can enable high fidelity music mode. To learn how to enable high fidelity music mode, click here. Related Content is No Longer Visible in […]
As of April 2021, 145 million people use Microsoft Teams every day. That’s almost double the number of users within one year! The shift from in-office to work-from-home models promoted thousands of companies across various industries to adopt video conferencing platforms like Microsoft Teams to stay connected while working remotely. Now, it’s the norm. With […]
Viva is Microsoft’s employee experience platform. The platform enables remote working by integrating communication, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights. Businesses can experience Viva through Microsoft Teams and Outlook. But Outlook provides limited elements. Features of Microsoft Viva Microsoft Viva has four main features: Learning, Insights, Topics, and Connections. Viva Learning Microsoft Viva Learning provides both […]
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