Interlink Cloud Blog

In your hectic need-it-now, always-connected, running-to-meetings business life, trying to keep up with all the content, communications, and interactions you face daily can be overwhelming. Shifting between the multiple applications, email inboxes, and social media sites that you need to access to do your job can dramatically stifle your productivity and efficiency.

Microsoft has helped to streamline this information overload with Teams, the collaboration solution that consolidates your applications and communications in one place. Teams provides a clean, easy-to-use interface that provides easy access to the tools and sites you need to use all day long. It is being viewed as an integration point to the functionality in Office 365.

Do you know what you already own?

Many organizations deploy Office 365, but only use Exchange. There are so many other applications within Office 365 like Teams, Groups, Sway, Stream, and Delve that have been designed to help your users be productive.

In this exclusive on-demand webinar designed for both new and existing Office 365 clients, Microsoft and Interlink Cloud Advisors showcase the features and resources within Office 365 – beyond Exchange. Plus, you'll see demos of many of the Office 365 applications, view dependencies of a deployment, and more.

During the on-demand webinar, you'll see demos of the following O365 applications:

• Teams – better collaboration tools 
• Delve – Unleash the power of proactive search
• Groups – A new level of collaboration
• Planner – A better way to complete projects & tasks
• Admin Enhancements
• Plus more!

If you think Office 365 was good before, you're really going to love it now.

View the webinar & slides and start getting the most out of your Office 365 subscription.

PRESENTERS:

Matt Scherocman President | Interlink Cloud Advisors

Mike Wilson VP & Managing Consultant | Interlink Cloud Advisors

Firstline Workers – a workforce comprised of over 2 billion employees including retail sales associates, hospitality staff, medical workers and teams on the manufacturing floor - are often the first and only representation of your brand with your customers. To help transform and empower this workforce, Microsoft Office 365 offers two specific licensing plans that were designed to foster culture, collaboration, and teamwork through technology enablement at a much lower cost per user.

The first plan is the Office 365 F1 licensing plan (a replacement to the K1 Kiosk plan). It was created for deskless workers – users who are often working away from a desk or using a shared PC and don’t need desktop versions of Office. The other plan is the E1 plan.

There are big changes coming for organizations that conduct business in, or store and collect data tied to citizens of the European Union (EU). From data protection and breach reporting to governance documentation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) calls for businesses in any location that hold data on Europeans to be more efficient and accountable with their IT operations – or face significant penalties.

With May 25^th, 2018 as the proposed GDPR enforcement date, you have just a few months to comply with the new (and slightly confusing) GDPR laws. Though that may seem far away, the date will come quick, as will the scrutiny into your data practices.

But the path to compliance doesn’t need to be difficult. At Interlink, through our cloud and on-premises solutions, we’ve identified a path forward. 

In our blog Introducing Groups in Office 365, we discussed how Office 365 Groups facilitates the storage of information so it’s accessible across different applications but remains secure and easily to manage. Office 365 Groups helps teams collaborate in their desired application, including: Outlook, SharePoint, Skype for Business, Planner, Yammer, OneNote, and Microsoft Teams.

But, it’s not just your administrative staff that will benefit from the use of Office 365 Groups. Your IT staff will also thank you for making end user access and management much easier to setup and administer. With a much less complex and time-consuming process, Office 365 Groups makes assigning permissions easy by automatically assigning users access to the tools they require. Groups can also make it easier to manage both security groups and distribution groups at the same time.