Windows 10: Office 365 Groups update at Ignite 2016

Brink · Oct 11, 2016

It was an exciting time for Office 365 Groups at Ignite 2016 in Atlanta last month. We had some great sessions, which are now available online to all of you that could not attend. These sessions cover top of mind questions you asked us to discuss, ranging from our collaboration product strategy, use cases, administration and governance, extensibility and key innovations on our product roadmap.

Office 365 Groups is a group membership service that provides a single identity for teams in Office 365 and equips them with a set of group collaboration assets such as a calendar, a OneNote notebook, a Plan to manage tasks and conversations powered by Outlook or Yammer.

Our key Ignite session, Discover Office 365 Groups—overview, administration and roadmap, presented a comprehensive overview and update on Office 365 Groups. We first discussed how group collaboration in the enterprise has evolved to be multi-faceted and how Office 365 addresses the unique needs and workstyle of different groups.

We presented three common use cases, (a project group, an organization group and an interest group) observed from the millions of users using Groups in different Office 365 applications every month to get work done. We highlighted recent innovations such as the ability to add external team members, a modern SharePoint team site for every group and the new Outlook Groups iPad app to name a few. We then discussed and demoed key administration updates to help you manage and govern groups; features presented included data classification and usage guidelines, dynamic membership, audit log and usage reports and the ability to upgrade a distribution group (DL) with one click via the Exchange admin center.

Attendees asked if we support hybrid scenario with on-premises mailbox and multiple domains and the answer is YES to both. Read “Configure Office 365 Groups with on-premises Exchange hybrid” and “Multi-domain support for Office 365 Groups” to get started.

Last but not least, we showed how Yammer is integrating with Office 365 Groups and recapped key investments across experiences and administration going forward. One popular item we announced is our upcoming work on group preservation and deletion policies. Please see our FastTrack Roadmap for a full list of innovations.

In addition to the above overview session, watch the following session—targeted at administrators—for an in-depth look at key governance investments available today and in the future:

In addition to the above two sessions mentioned, a dozen others related to Office 365 Groups are listed below:

Overview and use cases

Help your users collaborate better with Office 365 Groups

Learn about Office 365 Groups and how to use them

Use Office 365 Groups at schools and universities

Learn what to use when: Office 365 Groups, SharePoint Team Sites, Yammer and OneDrive for Business

Communicate on your terms with Outlook, Yammer and Skype

Administration and governance

Explore the ultimate field guide to Microsoft Office 365 Groups

Collaborate outside the firewall with Office 365 Groups

Migrate DL to Microsoft Office 365 Groups

Ask us anything about Microsoft Office 365 Groups

Partner teams: SharePoint, Planner and Yammer

Work smarter with Yammer and Office 365 Groups

Meet Planner—the new Microsoft Office 365 work management application

Discover what’s new and what’s coming to the SharePoint Mobile and Intelligent Intranet

Connect your business-critical applications to Outlook and Groups

Thank you all that came to Ignite 2016, attended our sessions and dropped by our booth. We have already announced that Ignite 2017 is going to be in Orlando; in fact, you can already pre-register. See you next year, and until then, please continue to engage with us via our technical community.

—Christophe Fiessinger, @cfiessinger, senior program manager for the Office 365 Groups team
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Anahita [MSFT] · Oct 11, 2016

Windows screen is flickering or flashing after logging in

Hi everyone,

You might see a flickering screen if you're running Office 365, or Office 2016 build 16.0.7668.2066, which was released to a small group of customers between 1/25 and 1/30.

As of 1/31, Office 365 or Office 2016 build 16.0.7668.2074 is available and contains a fix. To resolve this issue, please update Office to the newest version. Since the screen is flashing, you will need to do this using a command line. Please see this article
for step by step instructions:
Windows screen is flickering or flashing after logging in.

Thank you,

Anahita

Andre Da Costa · Oct 11, 2016

How to ugrade office 2007

Upgrading or having Office 2007 installed is not particularly critical. As long as your Office documents are intact, performing a new installation will preserve your files.

You will need to purchase license for Office 2016 or Office 365.

Office 2016 is known as the perpetual license, which is like Office 2007, you buy it once and it doesn't get feature updates, but its one time purchase.

Office 365 is the evergreen version of Office 2016 which gets features and improvements as soon as they become available. A major difference between Office 365 and 2016, 365 is only available as a subscription. Which means you have pay a monthly fee for
it.

See:

Choose Microsoft Office Products

Office 2016 for Home, Students and Professionals - Microsoft Store

or

Buy Microsoft Office 365 Home & Personal subscriptions

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