April 2021 updates
Topic: Enhance teamwork
Video: Accelerate results
- Audio and screencaptures updates to show “Share to Teams” from Outlook.
Topic: Connect and Communicate
Video: Work from anywhere
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Audio and mobile screencaptures updates to “Quiet hours”.
Topic: Connect and Communicate
Videos: Connect and Communicate using Teams, Work from anywhere using Teams and A quick overview of Teams
- Updated Teams user interface
Topic: Get organized using OneNote
Video: Get organized
- Updated mobile screencaptures for Office Lens.
March 2021 updates
New topic: Find new digital ways of working (replacing Kick-start your digital workplace)
Video: Find new digital ways of working
- New introduction video introducing Microsoft 365 and the new ways of working across various devices.
Video: Collect and share knowledge
- New story-based tutorial showing how To Do, Whiteboard, Forms and Stream can be used effectively in the modern workplace.
Topic: Enhance teamwork
Videos: Enhance teamwork, Accelerate results and A quick overview of Teams
- Updated Teams user interface
February 2021 updates
Topic: Connect and Communicate
Video: Work from anywhere using Teams
- Updated screen captures and audio to show PowerPoint “Presenter View” in Teams meetings.
- Updated screen captures and audio to show “Live Captions” in Teams meetings.
January 2021 updates
Topic: Enhance Teamwork
Video: Accelerate results using Teams
- Updated screen capture of Teams app name change from “Planner” to “Tasks by Planner and To Do”.
December 2020 updates
Topic: Connect and Communicate & Enhance Teamwork
- Duration in presence status
- Updated pre-join meeting interface
November 2020 updates
Topic: Connect and Communicate
Video: Connect and Communicate using Microsoft Teams
- General Teams interface updates
- Set status to “Appear offline”
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Background effect changes – you can upload your own background image
Topic: Connect and Communicate
Video: Work from anywhere using Microsoft Teams
- General Teams interface updates
October 2020 updates
Topic: Enhance Teamwork
Video: A quick overview of Teams
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Updated Teams interface
Video: Enhance Teamwork using Microsoft Teams
- Updated Teams interface
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New audio to introduce Teams templates
Video: Accelerate results using Teams
- Updated Teams interface
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New audio to align with new user interface updates
Topic: Stay safe in your digital workplace
Video: Stay safe in your digital workplace
- Audio/screencaptures updated to show the combined security end user experience.
- Audio/video updated to promote using the Authenticator app as the favorite choice
September 2020 updates
Topic: Kick-start your digital workplace
Video: Welcome to your digital workplace Microsoft 365
- New title intro
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Updated thumbnail image
Video: Kick-start your digital workplace
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Added audio update for Forms and Lists
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Updated the web interface
Video: Get more out of Office 365
- Updated audio for the web interface
- Updated the web interface
Topic: Stay safe in your digital workplace
Video: A quick overview of Staying Safe in your Digital Workplace
- New title intro
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Updated thumbnail image
August 2020 updates
Topic: Get Organized
Video: Declutter your life using a digital notebook in OneNote
- Updated the Office Lens mobile user interface.
July 2020 updates
Topic: Stay safe in your digital workplace
Video: Stay safe in your digital workplace
- New topic name (previously known as Stay safe using Office 365).
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New guidance for “myaccount.microsoft.com”.
June 2020 updates
Topic: Get organized using OneNote
Video: Get organized
- Updated screen captures and a new video clip better clarifying the difference between OneNote 2016 and OneNote for Windows.
May 2020 updates
New Topic: Connect and Communicate using Microsoft Teams
Video: Connect and Communicate using Microsoft Teams
- Updated meeting interface (raise hand icon) and showing up to 9 people during a video meeting at the same time.
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Added the new pop-out chat function.
Topic: Work Smarter with Documents
Video: Better document collaboration using SharePoint libraries
- Updated the audio and screen captures to show how a SharePoint document library can better live alongside Teams.
- Removed the section showing the SharePoint mobile app.
- This has been updated to show a simple document workflow process using Power Automate to send a notification to a Teams channel.
Topic: Kick-start your Office 365 usage
Video: Kick-start you Office 365 usage
- Updated screen captures to show the updated Office 365 icons.
- Updated audio and mobile screen captures to include a new section featuring the Office mobile app.
Topic: Kick-start your Office 365 usage
Video: Get more out of Office 365
- Updated screen captures to show the updated Office 365 icons.
- Updated audio and mobile screen captures to include a new section featuring the Office mobile app.
April 2020 updates
New Topic: Connect and Communicate using Microsoft Teams
Video: Connect and Communicate using Microsoft Teams
- In this introduction video, viewers are given a quick overview of the benefits of using Microsoft Teams and shown how to get started using it.
- Understand the benefits of Microsoft Teams
- Know how to effectively use chat
- Feel more confident running online meetings
Video: Work from anywhere using Microsoft Teams
- Effectively use groups chats
- Add contacts to “Favorites” list
- Tag people for status changes
- Use presence and status messages
- Mute chats
- Conduct meetings online
Video: A quick overview of Microsoft Teams
- In this quick overview video, users will get an overview of Microsoft Teams and see how it can be used to connect with users using chat and have effective meetings online. This video can be used as a “teaser” video in newsletters or enterprise social media to spark interest.
March 2020 updates
Topic: Enhance Teamwork
Video: Accelerate results using Teams
- Updated the “New meeting” interface.
Topic: Enhance Teamwork
Video: Enhance Teamwork
- Updated the “New meeting” interface.
February 2020 updates
Topic: Enhance Teamwork
Video: Enhance Teamwork
- Updated the animation showing Teams connectors in the introduction video. Removed the Twitter and Facebook connectors due to Microsoft’s removal of these connectors in Teams.
Topic: Enhance Teamwork
Video: Accelerate results using Teams
- Removed the part about how to connect Twitter with Teams since Microsoft no longer supports the Twitter connector.
Topic: A quick overview of PowerPoint
Video: A quick overview of PowerPoint
- Updated the new Office 365 icons.
Topic: A quick overview of OneNote
Video: A quick overview of OneNote
- Updated the new Office 365 icons.
Topic: Kick-start your Office 365 usage
Video: A quick overview of Office 365
- Updated the new Office 365 icons.
Topic: Enhance Teamwork
Video: Quick overview of Microsoft Teams
- Updated the new Office 365 icons.
January 2020 updates
Topic: Enhance Teamwork
Video: Quick overview of Microsoft Teams
- Updated screen captures and audio to show the December Teams updates with “Conversation” renamed to “Posts” and a more collapsed tab interface.
Topic: Enhance Teamwork
Video: Enhance Teamwork
- Updated screen captures to show the December Teams updates with “Conversation” renamed to “Posts” and a more collapsed tab interface.
- Shortened closing remarks
December 2019 updates
New Topic: Stay safe using Office 365
Video: Stay safe using Office 365
- In this new topic, users will get a better understanding of security threats and get proper guidance on what to do to keep their Office 365 accounts safe.
- Password guidance
- Multi-factor authentication guidance
- Authenticator app walk-through
- Overall security recommendations
Video: A quick overview of Staying safe using Office 365
- In this quick overview video, users are made aware of the importance of keeping their Office 365 accounts safe.
November 2019 updates
Topic: Enhance teamwork
Video: Enhance Teamwork
- Added a section (new animation, screen captures and audio) about the newly introduced “Private” channels in Microsoft Teams, comparing them to invisible rooms with a key so that channel members can “lock the door”.
Video: Accelerate Results
- Updated screen captures (no new audio) to show the updated bar with the ability to post messages to multiple channels.
October 2019 updates
Topic: Tell powerful stories
Video: Tell powerful stories
- Updated Office 365 home page screen captures.
- Updated mobile screen captures.
- Removed adding presentation to Skype for Business meeting.
All topics:
New intros
- All introduction videos have been given a “facelift” with new cool intros.
Topic: Enhance teamwork
Video: Enhance Teamwork
- Added clip about Public/Private teams to better communicate the difference to end-users.
Topic: Work smarter with documents
Video: Work smarter with documents
- Changed from “Autosave” to “Backup” in OneDrive for Business.
September 2019 updates
Topic: Enhance teamwork
Video: Enhance Teamwork
- Entirely new introduction video with an in-depth explanation of how Teams works and removal of Office 365 groups
- Please note – PREMIUM customers have the option to have a separate stand-alone Office 365 Groups video. Contact us to learn more.
Video: Accelerate results using Teams
- Changed audio and screen captures from “Meetings” to “Calendar”
Topic: Connect and Communicate
Video: Connect and communicate
- Changed introduction to clearly communicate that many organizations are now using Teams instead of Skype for Business, but that Skype for Business is still available.
Topic: Take control of your inbox
Video: Quick overview of Outlook
- Updated the screen captures in the Outlook mobile app to show “Teams Meeting” (instead of “Skype Meeting”).
August 2019 updates
Topic: Enhance teamwork
Video: Accelerate results using Teams
- Updated script and screen captures to include:
- New emotions (Like, Heart, Laugh, Surprised, Sad, Angry)
- Recording of meetings
- Blur background
July 2019 updates
Topics: Multiple topics
- Updated all the “Quick overview videos” with new graphics and 3D intro
June 2019 updates
Topic: Kick-start your Office 365 usage
Video: Welcome to the modern workplace with Office 365
- New intro with the new Office 365 icons (in 3D animation)
- Replaced Skype for Business on mobile with Teams
- Updated mobile screen captures (using iPhone X)
Topic: Work smarter with documents
Video: A quick overview of SharePoint libraries
- New intro with the new Office 365 icons (in 3D animation)
- New screen captures of SharePoint document libraries
- Updated image to the story-based tutorial at the end
Topic: Get organized
Please note that we will continue to include OneNote 2016 in our Get organized topic even though Microsoft has removed it from the Office 365 Pro Plus installation package. OneNote 2016 is available as a free download from onenote.com/downloads.
Video: A quick overview of OneNote
- New intro with the new Office 365 icons (in 3D animation)
- New screen captures of the OneNote Windows app
- Updated OneNote mobile icon
May 2019 updates
All Topics:
We have updated all our “Quick overview videos” and our story-based tutorial video thumbnail images to display the new icons.
Topic: Kick-start your Office 365 usage
Video: Get more out of Office 365
- Removed reference to Skype for Business
- Updated mobile screen captures (using iPhone X)
- New computer screen captures with the new icons on the Office 365 home page
Topic: Work smarter with documents
Video: Work smarter with documents
Changed video thumbnail image.
Video: Better collaboration with SharePoint document libraries
- Updated mobile SharePoint app screen captures (using iPhone X)
- New computer screen captures
- New sharing links in SharePoint
- Added functionality of being able to @-mention in document review comments
Video: Quick overview of OneDrive for Business
- Updated with new icon video animation intro
April 2019 updates
We are very pleased to announce this month’s video updates where we are featuring the new icon sets and updated Office desktop applications and mobile apps.
Topic: Kick-start your Office 365 usage
Video: Kick-start your Office 365 usage
Major change: Updated all icons, screen captures to reflect the new icon sets. Removed Skype for Business from the intro video.
New features covered in this video include:
- “Tell Me” has been renamed to “Search”
- Updates to all mobile apps
- New screen captures with the new icons on the Office 365 home page
March 2019 updates
Please note that starting on April, all updates will include the new Office 365 icon sets – both online and in Windows 10. We will gradually be releasing updates of all topics.
Topic: Take control of your inbox
Video: Take control of your inbox
Minor change: Updated screen captures and audio for Outlook mobile app (3.14.0)
Video: Effectively manage your email
Minor change: Updated screen captures and audio for Outlook mobile app (3.14.0) and changed video thumbnail to reflect the updated interface of Outlook mobile app.
Video: Quick overview of Outlook
Minor change: Updated screen captures for Outlook mobile app (3.14.0).
February 2019 updates
Topic: Work smarter with documents
Video: Work smarter with documents
Minor change: Image thumbnail changed when referring to the story-based tutorial.
Video: Work on the go with OneDrive for Business
New video: New screen captures, mobile captures and live video footage.
New features covered in this video include:
- Camera upload in OneDrive mobile app
- Scan of paper-based documents using OneDrive mobile app
- Accessing recent/recommended OneDrive documents from the Office 365 start page
Video: Quick overview of OneDrive for Business
New video: New screen captures, mobile captures and live video footage.
January 2019 updates
Topic: Kick-start your Office 365 usage
Video: Kick-start your Office 365 usage
Removed Skype for Business logo from the intro.
Added more pauses to accommodate for captions
Video: Get more out of Office 365
Updated animations.
Added more pauses to accommodate for captions.
New screen captures:
– Office 365 start page screen captures showing “Recommended” documents.
– “My Account” showing how to manage installs.
– Word Home page “Recent, Pinned, Shared with me”.
Topic: Work smarter with documents
Video: Work smarter with documents
Updated script with new guidance on how to add Desktop, Documents and Pictures folders to OneDrive for Business via AutoSave.
New animations showing “Files on demand” option in OneDrive for Business.
New screen captures:
– Setting up OneDrive for Business
– Showing differences with “Files on demand”
– Setting up AutoSave for Desktop, Documents and Pictures.
Topic: Enhance teamwork
Video: Enhance teamwork
Added more pauses to accommodate for captions.
Added animations.
Video: Accelerate results using Teams
Added more pauses to accommodate for captions.
Video: Quick overview of Teams
Added more pauses to accommodate for captions.