Which is better for collaboration – Yammer or Microsoft Teams?
Fundamentally, both Yammer and Teams (and email) are about communication – but they support different types of conversations and aim for different audiences. The choice...
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Outlook went down for four hours Wednesday. What happened?
At mid-morning Wednesday in the U.S., Outlook stopped working. Dead in its tracks. Both the Click-to-Run version of Office (er, Microsoft) 365 and the installed...
How to filter Outlook emails on all your devices
I’m inundated with emails, so I use mail rules to maintain some semblance of order, coupled with a zero-inbox strategy. For example, automated reports are...
There’s new and updated planning resources for modern intranets in Microsoft 365
Did you know that Microsoft has a rich collection of best-practice guidance and advice for intranet planning? Just this week, it released a new “intelligent...
How to work across time zones in Outlook
I work in San Francisco with people based in or near Boston, Sydney, Paris, London, Bangalore, Auckland, Amsterdam, and — oh yeah — San Francisco....
PowerPoint 2016 and 2019 cheat sheet
Need to create and share a presentation? If so, you probably turn to the most popular presentation application in the world, PowerPoint, one of the...
7 tips to help create and manage multilingual SharePoint communication sites
Microsoft 365 now supports the ability to create intranet sites in multiple languages. You can create pages and news in a user’s preferred language, and...
Microsoft ousts Office 365, crowns Microsoft 365 new monarch
Microsoft’s killing off Office 365. That product nameplate, synonymous with productivity as well as by-subscription software, is on the way out, supplanted by a newer...
How to have Teams meetings with people outside your organization
Many organizations rely on Microsoft Teams to conduct voice and video calls, since it is part of the commonly deployed Office 365 and Microsoft 365...
Microsoft monkeys with Office 365, Microsoft 365 release channels
Microsoft last week announced sweeping name and default-setting changes for how it updates and upgrades the core of Office 365, the locally installed applications such...