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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.

The way how people work has changed over the past few years. You probably know the ubiquitous phrase we’ve been hearing about for years – digital transformation. That is what today’s business is all about. The available technology and solutions help us to become more productive.

Microsoft 365 was designed to create a better and more efficient work environment; recently, the tool called Productivity Score was announced. Productivity Score gives insights into how an organization works and shows actions that need to be taken to improve productivity. It’s focused on two areas: technology and employee experience.

The employee experience shows how people collaborate and communicate, how they work from anywhere, and what their meeting culture is like. On the other hand, the technology experience encompasses device optimization and network operation.

Productivity Score Private Preview

Only a private preview version is currently available. For employee experience, you must have an Office 365 commercial plan or a Microsoft 365 subscription, and for technology experience you must have at least 50 Intune or co-managed Windows 10 devices. If you want to try it, feel free to contact us today!

The Internet has become a pillar of everyday life. Most of the computer-based jobs require work within the web browser. That was the main reason why Microsoft wanted to create the best browser for its users. The stable release of the Edge browser is available from today, and there are several reasons why you should get it!

New features

Edge is bringing new features focused on business users. You don’t need to use a Google account; it supports sync services directly through both Microsoft personal and work accounts.

It also has tracking prevention turned on by default, which protects user privacy, and helps mitigate malware. Edge gives you more control over your data, and it will not send any information to Google, which is mandatory if you use the Google Chrome browser.

The new Edge browser offers the best performance with more privacy and more value for your business.

For web content management, there is a feature called Collections which helps you to organize your research and allows you to export that content to Word or Excel.

Another new feature allows users to customize a new tab page layout and design, and to choose the type of news they want.

New visual identity

It is not crucially important information, but it’s good to know that instead of a well-known blue “e” logo, the new browser has a new visual identity that looks like a wave.

Start using Edge today!

It’s supported on Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, and macOS, in more than 90 languages.

You can download it directly from the Microsoft Edge site, or you can wait for the automatic release for your device via Windows Update.

For Android and iOS users, the app is available directly on the appropriate platform store.

3 PRO wholeheartedly recommends the new Edge browser because it integrates closely with the existing Microsoft infrastructure/ecosystem, and does not depend on 3rd party services, such as Google’s. All Microsoft services are natively built-in; for example, logging in with a Microsoft or Work account, Policy and Conditional Access support for Corporate users, integration with other enterprise services such as Advanced Threat Protection, etc.

As an added benefit, the new Edge browser can also utilize almost the entire base of pre-existing Google Chrome extensions!

3 PRO can help with the transition to the new Microsoft Edge.