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My Sites support social features that are enabled by default in SharePoint Online. This is great for promoting collaboration but you may need to change social settings for your site collection to meet your organization’s security requirements. You can easily limit social features from the Admin...

Lately, we’ve noticed you’ve been asking lots of questions about checking out, checking in, and versioning of files. Although these features add powerful ways to collaborate with documents in SharePoint libraries, they can take some time and experience to master. So we gathered together a...

The Grid is full of Office 365 experts that are brimming with great information. The Grid User Post blog series will expose some of The Grid's best content to the entire Office 365 Community. Are you interested in contributing to The Grid? Click here to apply. Our latest Grid User Post comes...

by The SharePoint Product Team We are pleased to announce that the SkyDrive Pro sync client is now available for Windows and can be downloaded here . This standalone client allows users of SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online in Office 365 to sync their personal SkyDrive Pro and any SharePoint...

Office 365 gives you two options for creating and editing documents in your team site or Sky Drive Pro libraries: you can edit directly in Word Web App or by opening the document in the full version of Word. Similar options are available for Excel, Power Point, and OneNote. There are advantages to both...

In my previous post , I introduced the Graph API – a new RESTful interface that allows developers to quickly build applications that can access directory data in Azure Active Directory - the core directory for Office 365 customers, and customers of other Microsoft Online Services. If you’re...

Time/Date: Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 @ 10am PT (60 minutes) Description: SharePoint Online has a revamped experience for sharing documents, folders and sites. Users can now share with people outside the company using Guest Links (anonymous) and External Access (authenticated) invitations. And...

Updated 5/23: Thank you for attending this Ignite Webcast. If you missed it, don't worry! You can view the webcast recording here , and you can download the Webcast Presentation at the bottom of this post. Be sure to look out for our next Ignite Webcast sessions here . Ignite...

The more you use Sites in Office 365, the more likely you’ll need to copy or move documents around, either between your desktop computer and a site, or from one site to another. Uploading files gets easier after your sites are upgraded to the new SharePoint Online experience, thanks to new drag...

As we announced on February 27, the new Office 365 service is out of “Preview” and available to try and buy today . We received tons of actionable feedback resulting in new features customers want, improved performance, simple user experiences, more admin controls and the stability they expect...

The Grid is full of Office 365 experts that are brimming with great information. The Grid User Post blog series will expose some of The Grid's best content to the entire Office 365 Community. Are you interested in contributing to The Grid? Click here to apply. Our latest Grid User Post comes...

Thirteen downloadable training courses targeted at SharePoint end users are now available on Office.com. These video-based courses cover both beginning- and intermediate-level tasks and include a quick reference card that you can refer back to whenever you need a refresher. Subjects include how to work...

The Grid is full of Office 365 experts that are brimming with great information. The Grid User Post blog series will expose some of The Grid's best content to the entire Office 365 Community. Are you interested in contributing to The Grid? Send JoshT_MSFT a private message to apply. Our latest...

Got an employee with disabilities? Wondering how you can help them use Office 365? Ask us. We’re passionate about providing the best possible experience for all our customers, including those with disabilities, to help them get the most out of Microsoft products. There are over 58 million...

Back in November 2012, we announced our Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer Tool (MCA) Beta client. We have been very busy working to improve the testing options that are available from the MCA client. Here’s what we’ve built for the 1.0 release. Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer Tool 1.0 ...

Are you looking for more details about Microsoft Office 365 plans? Perhaps you’ve compared Office 365 plans and pricing and narrowed down your options, but you need more specifics. What exactly can you do in one Office 365 plan that you can’t do in another? What’s the best plan for...

The SkyDrive Pro library in all SharePoint Online plans in Office 365 comes with 7 GB of storage. There is not presently an option for purchasing additional storage for the SkyDrive Pro library. The good news, however, is that the storage space in your SkyDrive Pro library is in addition to the storage...

Microsoft is preparing to roll out the new SharePoint Online as a part of Office 365. As a result of this initial phase of the SharePoint Online service update, you may be affected by some of the design changes. Below is a consolidated list of items with pointers to documented fixes and posted workarounds...

Audience: Office 365 for professionals and small businesses Office 365 for enterprises Updated 12/24: Thank you to everyone who attended this great Lync and Learn Session. In case you missed it, you can view the Lync recording here or watch the video below. Look for more Office 365...

When the SharePoint 2013 updates start getting rolled out to your SharePoint Online sites, you will notice some changes and improvements to the external sharing capabilities in SharePoint Online: The experience for managing external sharing (for example, turning it on or off) has been streamlined...

Audience: Office 365 for professionals and small businesses Office 365 for enterprises Updated 12/7: Thank you for attending this Lync and Learn Session. If you missed it, don't worry! You can view the event recording below and here . Lync and Learn is an online...

Written by Jethro Seghers Sometimes pages and documents have to be available for a bigger audience for only a short amount of time. E.g. Documents and pages that are associated with a certain event that is only available for a short amount of time. Since we don't want to browse all through the...

Updated 7/27: Thank you for attending this fantastic Lync and Learn session. If you missed it, you can find the Lync Recording here and below. Lync and Learn is an online session led by Office 365 Product Managers and Community Grid members . Lync and Learn sessions address different...

Written by: Jennifer Mason , SharePoint MVP, Rackspace In our series on SharePoint permissions we have covered some of the basics that can help you understand how to create users, configure groups and add them to SharePoint. In this post we look at the concept of Permissions Inheritance and Limited...

Written by: Laura Rogers , SharePoint MVP, Rackspace In this edition of our SharePoint permissions blog series, we cover several topics that answer common questions that often arise about managing SharePoint permissions. These three videos contain demonstrations and examples of scenarios when managing...