Microsoft has announced that it will offer its Microsoft Office 365 service to more than 200,000 Catholic schools all over the world, providing over 4.5 million subscriptions. This great initiative comes as a result of the partnership between the...

"Putting the world's greatest brands at the heart of the world's greatest sporting events" is the slogan of iLUKA Marketing Limited, a company that specialises in consultancy services to help develop and deliver coordinated strategic activations for...

Presence information is an essential component of the Office 365 Lync offering. When using any Instant Messenger (IM), there are built-in status options that a user can set to broadcast whether they are available for an IM or telephone conversation....

Mobile phone support for Lync 2010 in Office 365 was addressed on 11 December 2011 when Microsoft released the first version, completely transforming communication in the mobile phone space. In this article, we take a quick look at the core features...

Exchange ActiveSync is a protocol optimised to work with the mobile phone provider's high-latency and low bandwidth networks and enables the mobile phone user to access their Exchange e-mail, calendar, contacts, and tasks even when the mobile phone...

At the launch of Office 365, many felt that its mobile phone support was limited both in functionality (Exchange 2010 only) and the devices supported. Indeed, compatibility extended only to: Windows Phone 7.5 and earlier; Exchange...

The import and export of defence and military related technologies is a sensitive issue that is subject to a variety of stringent regulations. Countries are so sensitive in this area due to the potential impact on national security, that the...

In November 2007, a mandate known as the Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) initiative was issued to help reduce cyber security attacks on US government agencies. The objective of the mandate was to optimise and better secure the agencies Internet...

As service level agreements (SLA) go, the Microsoft consolidated SLA is actually quite easy to read. The SLA is only six pages long and applies to commercial, public sector, third-party, common, academic, government and charity. The interesting...

In previous articles, we've mentioned how Microsoft Office 365 Web Apps are not as feature-rich as their local counterparts, for example, the Office 365 Word Web App doesn't have multi-user change tracking, mail merge, WordArt, Table of Contents and...

One benefit for businesses using Office 365 is the ease in which their systems can be updated with the latest patches. This benefit can translate into substantial time and revenue savings depending on the number of File, SharePoint, Lync and...

It's a key question every business needs to ask, regardless of who its potential cloud service provider is - especially businesses that are more risk-averse. If this question was posed to Microsoft or any knowledgeable Office 365 vendor, the most...

Headquartered in Milton Keynes and catering to over 250,000 students with centres in 13 regions around the United Kingdom and in most European countries, The Open University (OU) is considered to be Europe's largest university by student...

As the on-going cloud wars between Office 365 and Google Docs continues, Microsoft recently scored another win over Google, with electronics manufacturer, Note. Based near Stockholm, Note is one of the largest contract manufacturers of electronics...

Office 365's Word Web App has two important views - Editing View (default) and Reading View. Many users of the on-premises versions of Office 2010 are used to using the keyboard to format their document, as well as the mouse. This article summarises...

Microsoft's Office 365 is now officially compliant with the US Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), an important step for the cloud productivity service should it want to bid for government tenders. A FISMA approval (or authority to...

Creating and editing large presentations in PowerPoint can be confusing, but PowerPoint 2010 has a new feature, which helps to organise your slides. Sections can now be added to a presentation in much the same way they can be in a Word document....

Information Rights Management (IRM) provides the world of Office 365 with far more control over the degree of document access and security allowed. For example, one workaround used by users to extract data from a confidential, view only document, is...

In our article on the Complex Password Conundrum, we examined the importance of complex passwords in Office 365 and why these passwords should have a minimum length of twelve characters as opposed to the default eight. Below are four tips taught by...

The Office Web Apps use the same Ribbon method introduced in Office 2007 to display their functionality. Unlike Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2010, the Web Apps have reduced functionality and are sometimes known as Office Light. In some...

It is interesting to note, that after three decades, penetration testing specialists, using social engineering techniques, still find the the easy to guess password to be the major weakness of corporate on-premise systems. Easy to guess meaning...

The Office Web Apps use the same Ribbon method introduced in Office 2007 to display their functionality. Unlike Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2010, the Web Apps have reduced functionality and are sometimes known as Office Light. In some...