Microsoft has announced that it is offering 6 months of free licensing for certain cloud applications to help organizations respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. Licenses available with this offer include Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Dynamics 365 Remote Assist, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Apps portals, and Power Virtual Agents. This announcement follows a previous offer for six months of free Microsoft Teams licensing for organizations who have not already implemented Office 365.

On March 2nd, Microsoft announced they would be providing 6 free months of Microsoft Teams licensing in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. If your organization has implemented or is considering a work from home policy, Microsoft Teams can give your users an organized way to communicate and stay productive while out of the office.

Regardless of where staff work, they need to communicate and collaborate to complete tasks and projects. You may worry that the distance will cause interruption in business processes. Office 365 provides organizations a way to strengthen their team communication and collaboration while also giving employees flexibility during these uncertain times.

Companies making an evaluation for a new Microsoft partner can often be confused about a prospective partner’s qualifications or what they may offer. For many partners, they may be certified in one area or another by Microsoft. They may also have a tier of qualification on each of their certifications.

Does it seem like your Microsoft Office apps are updating all the time, or are updates only available every few months? Read this blog to learn about Office update channels, how they differ, and why you may want to choose each specific one.

Take control of your Office files and documents by establishing a permanent opening location. Whether you prefer the desktop or web, the choice is now yours. Learn how its done and how to make the option available to your users.

Microsoft Search is a new, unified search experience that works across Windows 10, Office 365 apps, and the Bing search engine. Announced in September 2018, it reached General Availability in May 2019 for all users of Office and Microsoft 365.

Take advantage of the social media platform made for business by using it to capture and nurture high quality leads with the Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement integration for LinkedIn.

With two apps that seem to serve the same purpose, it’s hard for organizations to determine what they should do. Get a full explanation of how Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business are coexisting today, Microsoft’s plans for the future, and how you can use the apps together.

Business Central from Microsoft gives users more power in their ERP solution than ever before. Through integrations and connections to the other systems they already use, Business Central lets users accomplish more in one program than they normally would in 5. See how you can incorporate the products you use to make Business Central work best for you.

Microsoft Outlook and Dynamics 365 work together to make your business the best it can be, but there seems to be some confusion on how the connection works. Learn all about the Dynamics 365 for Outlook App and Client here.

In a recent update to Office 365, Microsoft has included an autosave feature that is turned on by default. While this feature can be useful, there may be a time when you want to make changes to a file without saving yet. Here’s how to turn it off.

OneDrive from Microsoft allows both business and personal users to save their files in the cloud and access them anytime, from anywhere. In this blog we will discuss the issue of OneDrive only opening documents in the online version of their app. While this action may seem like an error to users, it’s actually the default behavior of OneDrive to open files in the online version. The good news is that changing this behavior is rather easy and takes only a few quick clicks.

Chat programs are often built to be simplistic and serve a single purpose – to increase collaboration through instant communication among team members. Microsoft Teams takes that purpose and expands on it with exciting new features built specifically for project teams or departments within a business. This isn’t just chat, this isn’t email, it’s a combination of the two meant to improve organization and collaboration of teams. The video below is a nice introduction of Microsoft Teams for those who haven’t seen it in action before.

If you’ve recently implemented SharePoint Online as part of Office 365, you may be feeling a bit baffled as to why every time you try to open a document from SharePoint, it opens in Word or Excel Online, rather than directly on your desktop. This is actually the default behavior for SharePoint documents.

I recently worked on a case for a client who was finding that it would regularly take Dynamics GP up to two full minutes to process her invoices for printing. Here's what I found out.

OneDrive and SharePoint are document storage and management services which provide a secure place to house and interact with your documents. Although both accomplish very similar things, they are useful under different circumstances. OneDrive provides a safe space for personal documents wile SharePoint helps manage organizational documents.

Phishing is on the rise again and now more than ever it's critical to defend yourself against intrusions that can compromise your business. Just this year the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center was targeted by ransomware injected into their system through a phishing attack. In the end, they ended up shelling out a whopping $17,000 to re-appropriate all of their client’s medical documents.

Sales professionals love to use Office programs like Outlook, Word, and Excel in their sales processes. It makes sense then that their CRM system should work well with these programs, right? With the recent release of Office 2016, the integration between Office 365 and Dynamics CRM is better than ever. Here are some of the best ways Office 365 and Dynamics CRM work together.

It’s no secret that an increasing number of employers are beginning to allow their staff to work remotely, whether that be from home, from a coffee shop, or from an ever-growing number of co-working spaces. In the United States alone, 37% of workers telecommute at least two days per week and 80% of corporations plan to increase their use of flexible workers in the coming years.