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With Skype for Business Cloud PBX (Private Branch Exchange), users can globally manage calls right within Office 365 and eliminate separate PBX systems for information workers. This provides users with access everywhere, so they can make, receive and transfer calls from mobiles, tablets and PCs from nearly anywhere with Internet access. It also provides consolidated management, so the Office 365 administration portal is the central location to manage users for communications, email and content.

2016 is already here and we have some new and exciting features in EOP. Right now, these features are in preview and you should be seeing them in production soon. Stay tuned, as I will announce the public availability for each and every one of them.

Is your organization trying to get a handle on how to evolve your networking infrastructure for a cloud-based world? Just what are the new paradigms and skill sets you need to master to ensure current and future optimal access to your workloads running in Azure?

A typical month for the Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online Protection team might be considered atypical for most. In our fight against spam and malware, we process over 200 billion emails each month and block 10 million spam messages every minute. That’s the norm for our malicious threat protection efforts—but we don’t stop there. As email attackers around the globe are getting smarter and more sophisticated, we’re making big investments in our Exchange Online Protection and Advanced Threat Protection services to proactively identify and block the most dangerous email threats.

Microsoft IT experienced network-related challenges as it moved its application portfolio to the public cloud. To address these challenges, it took a series of steps to improve network performance and reliability, which included analyzing network traffic flow changes, redesigning the corporate network edge to the Internet, and adding ExpressRoute connections for Microsoft Azure.

The Outlook and Skype teams share a passion for helping connect you to the people that matter most in your life. That’s why we’re working together to build integrated experiences that make it easier to communicate and manage your calendar from your mobile device.

First TechNet documentation updates for 2016.

Last March I published a blog post with data on how organizations were choosing to connect their on-premises identities (in Windows Server Active Directory) to their cloud identities (in Azure Active Directory). This popular post (over 20k people have viewed it) generated a lot of positive feedback. Recently I've received many requests for a similar blog with updated numbers now that Azure AD Connect has been GA for six months.

If you’re running a business, you need to be in contact and contactable 24/7. That’s never been easier. But this expectation of always-on, instant connectivity makes outages even more disastrous. You need to have the right email hosting solution, and that means choosing between hosted email and webmail.

We have reached the time of the year, where we reflect on things, and based on the results make the respective decisions.