Office 365 Suite Features
The features listed in this topic are a collection of web-based tools that help you collaborate and communicate securely across many devices and multiple Office 365 services. These features help make new connections within your organization by unifying digital content creation, storage, and management with social tools for discovering and sharing information between users.
To compare features across plans, see Office 365 service comparison.
Office Delve is a new way to search for and discover content across Office 365 based on personalized insights. Delve is the first experience to be powered by Office Graph.
Groups in Office 365 connects users with the colleagues, information and applications they need to get more done together. Groups are open by default to enhance discoverability and sharing, but users can also create private Groups for sensitive content.
Office 365 Video is a secure, company-wide destination where you can upload, share and discover videos across your devices—powered by Microsoft Azure Media Services. Office 365 Video can help keep viewers engaged and informed, to communicate ideas broadly, and for organizations to be in unison.
Office 365
Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based service that is designed to help meet your organization’s needs for robust security, reliability, and user productivity. The topics in this library provide detailed descriptions of the services and features that are available with Office 365.
Microsoft offers the Office 365 Onboarding benefit for eligible services in eligible plans. The Onboarding benefit lets you work remotely with Microsoft specialists to get your Office 365 environment ready for use.
Microsoft Office 365 delivers the power of cloud productivity to businesses of all sizes, helping save time, money, and free up valued resources. Office 365 combines the familiar Microsoft Office desktop suite with cloud-based versions of Microsoft’s next-generation communications and collaboration services—including Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Office Online, and Microsoft Lync Online—to help users be productive from virtually anywhere through the Internet.
Virtualization
Get enterprise-class virtualization for your datacenter and hybrid cloud
Bolster IT efficiency and flexibility with the faster application deployment and maintenance that Microsoft virtualization solutions deliver. Reduce costs by consolidating more workloads on fewer servers and increase agility using the same virtualization platform on-premises and in the cloud.
Virtualization has enabled a new generation of datacenters with more efficiency and availability for your most demanding workloads. Microsoft virtualization solutions go beyond basic virtualization capabilities, such as consolidating server hardware, to create comprehensive platforms for private and hybrid cloud. This means your organization can achieve considerable cost savings and operational efficiencies.
Whether you want to virtualize workloads, build a private cloud, scale your services through a public cloud, or combine all three, Microsoft’s virtualization and management solutions, built on Windows Server and System Center, can help you better manage resources and offer IT as a service. And when you migrate from VMware to Microsoft, you can adapt cloud computing to your business needs.
Migrating to Hyper-V
Did you know that Hyper-V has had four times the growth of VMware’s ESX over the past three years? As such, virtual machine migration is an increasing priority for many customers as more and more are exploring and evaluating the Microsoft platform against their existing VMware installed base. Whether it’s virtual to virtual (from one hypervisor to another) or physical to virtual, migration provides a path for consolidation of workloads and services, and the foundation for cloud.
Available to assist is the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) 3.0, a supported, freely available solution for converting VMware-based virtual machines and virtual disks from VMware hosts to Hyper-V hosts and Windows Azure. MVMC 3.0 also enables physical server conversion to Hyper-V virtual machines to assist your virtualization acceleration.
Share Point
SharePoint 2013 is a collaboration environment that organizations of all sizes can use to increase the efficiency of business processes.
SharePoint 2013 sites provide secure environments that administrators can configure to provide personalized access to documents and other information. Search features enable users to find content efficiently regardless of the physical location of data.
SharePoint Online delivers the powerful features of SharePoint without the associated overhead of managing the infrastructure on your own. Flexible management options ensure that you still retain the control you need to meet the compliance requirements of your organization. You can purchase SharePoint in the cloud as a standalone offering or as part of an Office 365 suite, where you can also get access to Exchange, Lync, the Office clients, and web apps.
Cross device availability
Easily access and interact with your SharePoint newsfeed wherever you go, using the SharePoint mobile apps available across various devices.
The World Moves Fast. Move Faster With Yammer.
Change is the new constant. Yammer is a private social network that helps you and your company stay on top of it all. Yammer collaboration software and business applications allow you to get connected to the right people, share information across teams and organize around projects so you can go further – faster. With Yammer, you’re always connected to coworkers, information and conversations. Tap into your network to find exactly what you need and discover things you didn’t know to quickly make decisions, get work done and keep moving.
Collaborate – From The Bottom Up
Don’t let the org chart get in the way of working better together. Yammer brings together people who share the same goals so that collaboration just happens – even on the go.