Archives 2020

The current situation in the world has forced schools and faculties to teach online. We would say that the easiest way to keep communication between students and teachers/professors is via the Teams app.

Collaboration and Communication within the Teams app

With Teams, you can easily create teams for classes or groups for educators. The app provides real-time one-on-one conversations and chats with up to 100 people, file collaboration, online classes (live sessions) with recording capabilities, virtual whiteboard, screen sharing, for presentation, etc. Everything you need for a successful online lecture.

Students, teachers, and staff can seamlessly work together, create content, and share resources all from a single, easy-to-learn and simple to use platform.

Enhance Student Creativity

1. Inspire them to brainstorm with their colleagues in the OneNote app; for example, they can work on their essays together.
2. Encourage them to put feedback on other’s homework by commenting on Word Online files.
3. Show them Sway and how they can express themselves.

Have Fun with Video Calls Backgrounds

Need help with Teams setup? Contact us!

Some of the Office 365 plans will change names and become a part of the Microsoft 365 family. The change will happen automatically on April 21, 2020.

New Microsoft 365 offerings for small and medium-sized businesses

In the last few years, Office 365 plans were extended with new apps and services, and more will be added in the upcoming months. That was one of the reasons why Microsoft decided to rename its services.

• Office 365 Business Essentials → Microsoft 365 Business Basic.
• Office 365 Business Premium → Microsoft 365 Business Standard.
• Microsoft 365 Business → Microsoft 365 Business Premium.
• Office 365 Business and Office 365 ProPlus → Microsoft 365 Apps. To distinguish these two, they will have the suffix “for business” and “for enterprise”.

At this time, prices and features will remain the same.

Which Office 365 plans will not change names?

There will be no changes for Office 365 Enterprise portfolio. Here is the list of available plans:

• Office 365 for Enterprise
  • Office 365 E1
  • Office 365 E3
  • Office 365 E5
• Office 365 for Firstline Workers
  • Office 365 F1
• Office 365 for Education
  • Office 365 A1
  • Office 365 A3
  • Office 365 A5

Contact us for more information about Microsoft 365 plans.

Due to the COVID-19 situation, a large number of employees have had to resort to working remotely from home, including 3 PRO. It’s important for all of us to be available to our clients and business partners.

We would like to single out three things that allow us to work smoothly: online Teams meetings, email communication, and document collaboration.

Online Meetings within the Teams client

The Teams app helps us to chat and make calls during work hours. Also, it allows us to stay in touch with our clients, which is critical in our line of work.

We’ve been holding online meetings for a long time, as we work with organizations around the world. Thanks to high-quality audio, video, and screen sharing, the app allows us to keep our interaction at a quality level.

Email Communication

Office 365 gives us the possibility to read and answer emails from any location, so there is practically no difference compared to working from the office. Along with calls, email is one of our main channels of communication.

Document Collaboration

If you store your Excel sheets, Word documents and PowerPoint presentations in OneDrive for Business or SharePoint, you can collaborate on them simultaneously with your colleagues. All co-authors must have permission to access and edit the documents, of course. Sharing is easy: the first method is to copy and send a direct link to them, and another way is to click on the Send button to share access via email.

How can we help?

3 PRO can provide:

• Licenses according to your needs.
• Implementation and configuration of the Office 365 system.
• Education for needed services that are part of the Office 365 plan.

We are here to help. Do not hesitate to contact us for more information.

The Teams app has become the center of today’s team collaboration. It has a ton of features to meet any organization’s business needs. Microsoft listens to their users, and that’s why every month they present new functionalities.

Outlook and Teams integration

From now on, you can share an email conversation with your colleagues by clicking on the “Share to Teams” option inside the Outlook client. This can also include attachments. The opposite is possible as well: sharing a Teams conversation via an Outlook email.

Targeted Communication

Tags help to communicate with a subgroup of people that are part of a team. All you have to do is @mention the tag name in a post. Everyone who is assigned to that specific tag will get a notification.

Pin your apps!

Pin your frequently used apps to the Teams app bar.
Find the wanted app, right-click on it, and select “pin”.

Calling and Meetings: Live captions

Live captions are now generally available for Teams meetings. They transcribe what people are saying in real-time.

It’s an excellent feature for people that have problems with hearing, or for those that are located in loud places, such as airports, etc.

Contact us and start using Teams today!

Microsoft Office apps have been unified into a single one, so you don’t need to have the individual Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps on your mobile device anymore. If you’re subscribed to Office 365 or Microsoft 365, you will also have access to numerous premium features.

One place for all your files and notes.

The app includes templates for creating Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations, and also supports OneDrive cloud storage.

Office App Availability

The app is now generally available worldwide for all Android and iOS phones. At this moment, there is no iPad version, so iPad users still have to use the standalone apps.

Premium Features

To use extra features, you have to own one of these Office 365 subscriptions:

• Office 365 Personal
• Office 365 Home
• Office 365 Business
• Office 365 Business Premium
• Office 365 Enterprise E3 and E4 (Enterprise and Government)
• Office 365 Education E3 and E4
• Office 365 ProPlus

Some of the premium features that are available on both Android and iOS are table cell customization, WordArt, more colors for formating, page orientation, header and footer customization, page and section breaks, columns in page layout, chart elements, etc.

Contact us for more information.