Jennifer Reed

If your organization has implemented Microsoft 365 as a productivity suite, be prepared to discover the bells and whistles of a cloud solution that has been adopted by millions of users across the globe.Even if you’re already a superuser of the bundled Office applications like Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, you’ll find there are still a lot of features and functionalities within these tools you’ve never heard of before.

What is Microsoft 365 Business? It’s Microsoft’s answer to business productivity. Baby boomers (1946–1964), Gen X (1965–1979), Gen Y (Millennials, 1980–1994), and now Gen Z (Centennials, 1995–2012) are the four cultural generations now converging in the workplace. If you think simply having a cookie-cutter approach for driving productivity in the workplace is all that’s needed, think again.

When you run a business, you have data and you collect data. Data can be in the form of proprietary information, employee data, customer data, or data from your vendors and partners. In today's digital age, data is the new currency. That’s why you need to take the time to implement some basic security for Office 365.

To deploy Windows 10 by using Windows AutoPilot, Azure Active Directory first must know that the company owns the device. This means that the device will need to be registered in Microsoft 365 Admin Center with the device’s hardware ID. After the device is registered, it is ready for Windows AutoPilot deployment.

The term information protection, or IP, is generally used to encompass industry standards and best practices for protecting information from unauthorized access. In the Microsoft ecosystem, Azure Information Protection, is a cloud service that allows organizations to classify data with labels to control access.

Generally, people don't object to providing multifactor authentication when using ATM machines to withdraw cash. Train end users that their identities are just as valuable as the cash in their bank accounts and, as a result, the same security precautions should be followed.Microsoft processes billions of authentications monthly and the cloud intelligence they gather from such a scale allows them to detect and block tens of millions of attacks every day.

Microsoft 365 Business is like the gift that keeps on giving. For $20 per user per month, your employees can have an enterprise-class email system, a robust online storage and collaboration solution, a boundary-less chat and telephony system, and the desktop version of Office applications such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.

Your Microsoft 365 Business subscription includes access to not only the desktop application of the Microsoft Office suite but also its mobile versions. Office mobile apps are rated highly across the different mobile platforms. Every day, millions of information workers around the globe, myself included, are actively using these apps to do work without being tethered to an office desk.