Overview
of Office 365
Office 365 is Microsoft’s premier
cloud-based productivity suite that delivers software as a service (SaaS) to
users around the world.
Core
Components of Office 365
The core services in Office 365 consist
of cloud based equivalents of three of Microsoft’s premier server products as listed below.
·
Exchange
Online
·
SharePoint
Online
·
Lync
Online
·
Office
365 Pro Plus
·
Windows
Azure Active Directory (AAD)
These applications enable organizations to move their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud or to implement some hybrid options, depending on need.
Microsoft Azure Active
Directory
Microsoft Azure Active Directory
(Microsoft Azure AD), is an online instance of Active Directory that provides
authentication and authorization services for other Microsoft cloud offerings,
including Microsoft Azure and Windows Intune.
Authentication through Microsoft Azure
AD can be on a cloud-only basis, through directory synchronization (with
optional password synchronization), or include full integration with
on-premises directory services through support for Active Directory Federation Services or other SSO
providers.
Exchange Online
Microsoft Exchange Online in Office 365
is the latest release of messaging and collaboration
platform, for composing, reading, and storing email,
calendar, contact, and task information in Microsoft Outlook®, Outlook Web
Access, or Outlook Mobile.
Exchange
Online supports access from most mobile devices, including BlackBerry, iPhone,
Nokia, and Windows Phone.
SharePoint Online
Using Microsoft SharePoint Online, you
can share important documents, insights, and status updates with colleagues.
You can keep teams in sync and manage important projects, find vital documents,
and locate people easily.
Using SharePoint can also helps to
stay up-to-date with company information and news, regardless of whether you
are in or out of the office.
Lync Online
Lync Online provides presence and
instant messaging information, so users can identify whether people are
available and then chat, call, and video conference with each other.
By using
Lync Online, you can also create online meetings with audio, video, and web
conferencing for up to 250 people, including anonymous users from outside the
organization.
To improve productivity, Lync Online
provides integration with users’ calendars in Microsoft Exchange and also
enables the “click to communicate” feature in Outlook, SharePoint, and other
Office applications.
Office 365 ProPlus
Some Office 365 plans include Office 365
Pro Plus, which is a downloadable version of Microsoft’s productivity
suite of applications, including Word® 2013, Excel® 2013, PowerPoint® 2013, Outlook
2013, Access® 2013, Publisher 2013, OneNote 2013, InfoPath®, and the Lync 2013
client.
There are also Web App versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and
OneNote. Office 365 ProPlus supports streaming
deployment, which enables users to click the application installation icon and
start using the application itself while the program installs in the
background.
This deployment method also enables users to run Office 365 Pro Plus
alongside earlier versions of Microsoft Office.
Optional
Components of Office 365
Organizations can also subscribe to
optional components within Office 365 that can enhance their use of this
cloud-based service and provide users with additional facilities to increase productivity.
These optional components include Yammer, Project Online, Project Pro for
Office 365, and Microsoft Office Visio® Pro for Office 365.
For more information about Office 365, visit the Microsoft Store Page.
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