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Microsoft Office 365 is Being Adopted and Used at an Enormous Rate Under the leadership of Satya Nadella, Microsoft has regained the ground it lost to other tech giants in previous years and is set to capture even more attention and market share in the years to come. One of the keys to Microsoft's success has been the steadily rising adoption of its Office 365 subscription service - including the widely used Office 365. Here are 2 recent statistics that give insight into where Office 365 is going: 1 in 5 corporate employees now use an Office 365 cloud service. Office 365 is the most widely used cloud service by user count. Adoption of Office 365 by industry In addition to the special Office 365 licenses extended to education and government organizations, there are many industries finding Office 365 to be the best productivity and cloud solution available. At the moment, the financial services industry has the highest rate of usage. This makes sense...

You may be surprised to learn that there’s more to getting relevant search results than dumping some words into a SharePoint search box and pressing enter. SharePoint search comes with a ton of additional features that allow you to enhance the quality of your search query and garner significantly better search results. The guidance in this post is more advanced than simply using the out-of-the-box search interface. It also doesn’t affect the searchability of a file (that’s a different post), only how to get the most out of the search query itself. This post is about how your search query—the text you put in the search box—can improve the search engine’s output. Keep in mind that the search center isn’t currently available in the Modern SharePoint experience. Now without further ado, let’s talk about some of the most efficient options you have at your disposal. What SharePoint Searches First, it’s important to know what SharePoint even looks at. SharePoint’s se...

If you have an interest in Office 365 usage and are familiar with Microsoft Power BI, you may well have heard of the Microsoft Office 365 Adoption Content Pack. This is a collection of reports, measures, and charts packed into the Power BI solution delivering visual reporting and engagement of product activity across the platform. The solution has had many iterations since its release to preview in 2016.  This great source of platform usage data has now been released for General Availability along with a new name “Microsoft 365 Usage analytics”. Included with the release on a first look are additional metrics, redesigned reports and some completely new reports for Microsoft Teams usage which I’ll outline here. On the first of two new reports, we have a new “Teams usage” report. At first glance, this report does not deliver a great deal of exciting Teams information above and beyond the data we are already able to access from the tenant usage reports via our tenant admin...

Many organisations are thinking about ‘the cloud’ and how it fits into their future strategy.  This might cover the use of collaborative applications such as Microsoft Office 365 or it may encompass the implementation of a cloud platform, such as Microsoft Azure, to deliver line-of-business applications and similar functionality that traditionally exists in an on-premises or co-located data centre. For those that are looking at potentially migrating towards an Azure data centre deployment, there may be questions about what that really means and how you get started. Building an Azure data centre is very much like building a traditional data centre.  You will require an Azure subscription as the basic service and then build your ‘infrastructure’ or solutions on top of this.  Typically, this would include virtual machines to run Windows or Linux applications, will need storage, networking, security, backup, monitoring and other services to make it all work together...

BACKGROUND In this blog post I will be covering all the key features, new additions, deprecations and removal of old features in SharePoint 2019. In short this blog will give you a nice overview of SharePoint 2019, so let’s gets started… SHAREPOINT 2019 SERVER OVERVIEW Considering demand of Microsoft SharePoint on-premises version from different customers, new release of SharePoint 2019 is also targeted to on-premises. Microsoft SharePoint server 2019 is built on the foundational release of Microsoft SharePoint 2016. This new release has been targeted to Brings customers closer to the cloud and the cloud, closer to our customers. Similar to SharePoint 2016, most of the features were cherry picked from Office 365 and implemented in SharePoint 2019. The key point about implementation of SharePoint 2019 is  Converged Code,  it means that the codebase used for SharePoint online feature implementation and SharePoint 2019 On-prim editions are one and same. So, henceforth a...

1. Create and save your documents to the cloud by default. Whether you plan to work on a document with others or simply share it for review, your documents are safer when saved to the cloud. Now, when you   go to save a new   Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file   in the desktop   app   using   Ctrl-S (Windows),   Cmd -S (macOS), or the Save button in Office, a new dialog will default to OneDrive or SharePoint Online and allow you to quickly set the   filename and location.   Once saved to the cloud, you can access the file across your devices. And when you forget to save a new document before exiting, you'll see an updated save experience directing you to the cloud. And because documents are saved to the cloud, you can work with others, like real-time co-authoring, from the get go. Once a document is in the cloud, AutoSave takes over to regularly sync your documents to the cloud. With AutoSave, you don’t have to worry about hitting sa...