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Best Practices for Office 365 theme customization

Customizing Office 365 themes allows your business to gain a stronger brand impression and feel among users. Establishing a good connection between the users and the Office 365 interface is essential in making them engage in the experience completely. In our last blog, we provided a good list of essential guidelines to help you make the customization effective. In this blog, we will present you with some of the best practices for Office 365 theme customization.

All Essential Guidelines to Customize the Office 365 Theme

Office 365 comes with a standard, neat theme. However, it is important to customize the default theme for your organization to match it with your brand identity. Microsoft 365 admin center allows you to make some great changes to the theme, by which the top navigation will appear in a way you desire for everyone in your organization. Here are all the essential guidelines to customize the Office 365 theme for your organization.

The New Sharing and Files Experience in Microsoft 365

Businesses from all trades can rely on Microsoft 365 to manage their files consistently and securely. Among its fantastic list of apps, Microsoft 365 offers outstanding files experience that is intelligent and efficient. Doesn’t matter whether it is in SharePoint, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Office apps or in Yammer, you can have an unmatched experience. Backed with AI, industry-leading security and compliance are other highlights of Microsoft 365. The newest update to the sharing and file experiences in Microsoft 365 is about to enhance the usability even more.

User Experience in A Multi-Geo Environment Explained

There is an important requirement to plan Office 365 Multi-Geo for those companies that are preparing their Office 365 tenant to be expanded to additional geographies. This is done according to the company’s presence in order to meet the data residency requirements. Before moving forward with the Multi-Geo plan, it is essential to consider how the end user experience in the Multi-Geo environment will be like. Let’s check what they’ll see in a OneDrive Multi-Geo configuration.

 

 

Microsoft 365 Usage Analytics and Intranet Portal Software

Offices 365 is a set of fantastic services that enrich your organization’s communication and collaboration abilities. Many organizations are already using Microsoft 365 capabilities for their intranet portal software and collaboration needs. You can utilize the Microsoft 365 Usage Analytics within Power BI to get valuable insights on how your organization is adopting various Office 365 services. Want to know what are the information and actions you can perform using this feature? Here it is:

Transform Outlook in to a Project Management Tool Using One Note Part 1

One Note is one of those Microsoft products that seems to be one dimensional when you first start using it, but it isn’t until you make use of the product that its real value starts shining through.

What are the best project management tools that integrate with outlook?

As a task and project management tool, Microsoft OneNote is one of the best tools out there and one of the best ways to integrate with other office apps is with Outlook for a project management tool. I know you're thinking, Outlook already has a simple to use task manager? While this is true, the simplicity of it is both it's redeeming quality and downfall. 

You are easily able to manage tasks and align them based on the project they're associated with and write notes to go along with the functions, but the user is minimal on the features within these notes. For example, if you need to add spreadsheets, documents, meeting notes associated with these tasks and need them easily accessible you're going to be left hanging high and dry, thankfully OneNote can step in and do this for you.

Adding OneNote to Outlook
To do this from within Outlook, just click on File and then Options. Along the left navigation menu, click on the Add-Ins link.'

Tips to Safeguard Your SharePoint Online and OneDrive Data in Cloud

Data privacy is an important aspect when it comes to keeping data safe. When you put data into an Office 365 environment, you still retain all the rights and remains the sole owner of the data. There are enough privacy controls that let you define who in your organization can access the data as required. In short, you have full control over your data in SharePoint Online and One Drive. Here we will give more details about how you can safeguard your SharePoint Online and OneDrive data in the cloud. Multi-factor authentication is the most efficient and effective way to assure the best security for data/accounts. You will get more information about it here!

Two-Step Verification: Make your Microsoft Account & Intranet Portal Secure

You need a Microsoft Account to access multiple devices and services provided by Microsoft. Skype, Outlook, Xbox Live, and OneDrive are few of those services that ask for a Microsoft Account login to get started. The advantage is that the account let you use your documents, files, contacts and other settings in any device. Maintaining the account with the best security is important for safe and reliable usage of these excellent services and features. Also if you have set up an Intranet Portal for your business, then it is most important that you enable two step verification to protect all your data.

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