In May 2016, we unveiled a new vision for the future of SharePoint , and today we’re pleased to announce the rollout of several new enhancements to SharePoint Online team sites in Office 365, including deeper integration with Off…

The new admin center is getting better and better every month. Many of you already use the new admin center as your main management tool, and it’s great to see your feedback on how it is improving your overall Office 365 manageme…

In the August Office 365 update yesterday, Kirk Koenigsbauer announced the pre-release of Visio Online and Visio on iPad to enable cross-platform consumption of Visio diagrams. Today, we take a hands-on look at both, as well as …

Today’s Microsoft Office 365 post was written by Michael Pynch, technology partner at Wipfli. I was drawn to Wipfli for the same reason that our clients are: the chance to work with a large, respected firm that feels small and p…

It doesn’t matter if you’ve been a professional content writer for six months or six years, content burnout can hit you with very little notice. One day, you’ll simply wake up and find it impossible to develop a good sentence or…

Like all other functions around a big company, IT teams create formal career paths for their employees that outline the knowledge, competencies, and skills needed for an employee to climb up the career ladder. But, unfortunately,…

Despite spending the past few years investing heavily in services that they hoped would appeal to millennial customers, banks and credit unions are still struggling to entice this younger segment to spend money on financial serv…

Good intentions are never enough. If they aren't coupled with the wisdom to follow through properly, they can result in a horrible mess. Today’s Anonymous submitter has learned this the hard way: I'm working on this pa…

Procurement teams have made scant progress in their recent efforts to deploy staff in a way that makes the most of their skills, and makes the function more “strategic.” And new data show that the problem persists in many of the…

A tradition is simply a custom that has been passed down from one generation to another. Their longevity can have many reasons, some good and some bad. We can not assume that persistence alone provides moral justification. Instea…

There are two components in any communication: the information shared and the people you are sharing with. Understanding your audience—the people you are sending to—is particularly important in business settings. Today, we are an…

Here on the OneNote team, we’re wrapping up summer and getting ready to head back to school. So, let’s dive right in this month to share updates to inking, OneNote Class and Staff Notebooks, OneNote Web Clipper and more. Think w…

Today’s post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. August has been another busy month with updates for inking, mobile app security, Outlook and more. We’re also announcing an additional …

Corporate finance teams often think that the biggest challenge about running the annual operating budget process is the time it takes. This is understandable given the hundreds of hours that go into it each year, but there is a b…

On their constant quest to enable users to quickly find the best answers to their questions, Google announced last week that starting in January 2017, they will bury mobile websites where the content is blocked by intrusive in…

Facebook can't buy a break with its newsfeeds. Every time it changes the model, somebody complains. But its latest snafu -- turning over the job to an algorithm without expert oversight is not the answer. Posting a fake story…

Old Peter ’s company has a legend. It has been passed down through generations of programmers and staff through an oral tradition. Oh, from time to time, someone would be inspired to record the tale for posterity, but inevitably,…