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With the holidays fast approaching, it’s time for a special early treat to brighten up your winter days – CompanyNet’s regular roundup of changes and new features coming up in Office 365, SharePoint and Kira.

This month we have a super selection of updates, many coming out of Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference. That means we won’t necessarily have the full details of some of these new features yet, but hopefully we won’t have to wait too long to see them in action. They include a complete rewrite of Yammer, the mysterious Project Cortex, and the much-awaited ‘Sheet View’ in Excel.

Prefer a video? Watch this month’s full update here, or read on to discover this month’s new features in full:

1. Sheet view in Excel
2. Microsoft unveils Project Cortex
3. Exciting new features for Microsoft Teams announced at Ignite
4. Coming soon to Yammer
5. SharePoint updates announced at Ignite
6. List-linked web parts in SharePoint and Kira
7. UI Flows with Robotic Process Automation

Thanks to our team Maria Botha-Lopez, Carl Bennett, Stuart McLaughlin and James Mackerness for their contributions to this round-up. You can also sign up to receive these updates as an email each month.

If you would like to find out more about these changes, or would be interested in help getting more out of Office 365, get in touch with CompanyNet.

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Migration shouldn’t cause you a migraine. Here’s how you can avoid the biggest pitfalls when moving data from your on-premise servers into the cloud.

Microsoft has continued to grow its migration and cloud management capabilities by acquiring two rather similarly-named platforms, Movere and Mover, in recent months. The acquisition suggests that the migration and management of cloud data is still a really strong area of focus for Microsoft.

At CompanyNet we have been helping customers migrate their data to the cloud for years, so we have a good idea of what works, and – more importantly – what doesn’t.

Motivation for migration

Organisations migrate their data for a variety of reasons. You’ll often see “digital transformation” or “cloud first” used as a banner objective, but these don’t tell you much on their own.

There might be a number of underlying motivations for migration. For example, you might have a need to reduce spending on infrastructure. Data centres and servers are expensive to operate, and replacing physical infrastructure with cloud services one way to drive down costs.

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It’s a new month and that means it’s time for CompanyNet’s regular roundup of changes and new features coming up in Office 365, SharePoint and Kira.

This month we have some insight into best practices for migrating your data; some great new transcription features which will make your workplace more accessible; changes that will help integrate Yammer closer with Office 365, and a couple of much-needed updates to SharePoint Online.

Prefer a video? Watch this month’s full update here, or read on to discover this month’s new features in full:

1. Microsoft mergers put spotlight on migration
2. Video transcription extended to more apps
3. Changes to how Yammer works
4. Introducing the SharePoint start page
5. Change your SharePoint site URLs

Thanks to our Solution Designer, James Mackerness, and our Solution Architect, Stuart McLaughlin, for their contributions to this round-up.

If you would like to find out more about these changes, or would be interested in help getting more out of Office 365, get in touch with CompanyNet.

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Welcome to CompanyNet’s monthly roundup of changes and new features coming up in Office 365, SharePoint and Kira.

This month, news about Microsoft throwing a lifeline to organisations that still haven’t moved off Windows 7, and some really useful new and improved features. We see the long-awaited integration of sensitivity labelling into Office apps, plus some new functionality in Microsoft Teams, and reports about sharing coming to SharePoint and OneDrive.

Prefer a video? Watch this month’s full update here, or read on to discover this month’s new features in full:

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1. Microsoft throws (expensive) life line to organisations still running Windows 7
2. Sensitivity labels built into Office apps
3. Pinned channels in Microsoft Teams
4. Copy teams in Teams – and ‘teamify’ Office 365 Groups
5. Sharing Reports for SharePoint Online

Thanks to our Solution Designer, Maria Botha-Lopez, for her contributions to this round-up.

If you would like to find out more about these changes, or would be interested in help getting more out of Office 365, get in touch with CompanyNet.

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This is our monthly roundup of changes and new features coming up in Office 365, SharePoint and Kira.

This month we’ve got some news about Microsoft’s investment in data security and data governance paying off, new ways to manage your channels in Teams, plus some great new components coming to SharePoint and Kira that will make your intranet sites look better than ever.

Prefer a video? Watch this month’s full update here, or read on to discover this month’s new features in full:

1. Microsoft focuses in on data security
2. Moderate your channels in Microsoft Teams
3. Exciting new web parts available in SharePoint and Kira
4. Page footers on Communication Sites
5. Enhancements for page editing and layouts in SharePoint
6. Private channels in Microsoft Teams

Thanks to our Solution Designer, James Mackerness, for his contributions to this round-up.

If you would like to find out more about these changes, or would be interested in help getting more out of Office 365, get in touch with CompanyNet.

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