Learn about Microsoft 365 Services
Microsoft 365 includes many familiar services, helping you and your organization be more productive. Take a look at Microsoft 365 cloud services and see how they differ from the familiar on-premises versions. Here are some features of Exchange Online:
- Mailboxes and online archives
- Calendars
- View and edit Office attachments online
- Shared mailboxes and resources
- Antispam and anti-malware Etc.
SharePoint Online
SharePoint Online is the cloud evolution of Microsoft SharePoint Server in Microsoft 365 Services. It helps you create team or communication-focused sites for efficient collaboration and communication. Internal users with an appropriate Microsoft 365 or SharePoint Online license can use SharePoint Online. They can share files or folders with others inside or outside the organization. Sharing outside the organization can be controlled by site administrators.
With SharePoint Online, users can:
- Build sites, pages, document libraries, and lists.
- Add web parts to customize their pages.
- Share important visuals, news, and updates with a team.
- Search and discover sites, files, people, and news from across their organization.
- Manage their business processes with flows, forms, and lists.
- Sync and store their files in the cloud so anyone can securely work with them.
- Catch up on news on-the-go with the SharePoint mobile app.
Microsoft Teams – keeping your team in sync
Microsoft Teams provides a central hub for collaboration within your organization and allows you to implement a chat-based workspace. Keep your team in sync by sharing documents, insights, and status updates while being able to manage important projects and easily locate people. Teams is also available as a mobile app, which lets you stay up-to-date both in the office and on the go.
With Microsoft Teams, you can:
- Communicate through chat, meetings, and calls. Host audio, video, and web conferences, and chat with anyone inside or outside your organization.
- Collaborate together with integrated Microsoft 365 apps. Teams makes teamwork easy by allowing users to co-author and share files with popular Microsoft 365 apps – from Microsoft Word to Microsoft Power BI.
- Also, Customize your workplace and achieve more. Using Teams, you can integrate apps from Microsoft and third-party partner services to meet your organization’s unique needs.
- Finally, Connect across devices. Teams and Teams devices work better together for intelligent meeting and calling experiences. Find the right devices for your needs and bring your best ideas to life.
Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Now, Microsoft Endpoint Manager is the convergence of Microsoft Intune and Configuration Manager functionality and data—plus new intelligent actions—offering a seamless, end-to-end management solution without the complexity of a migration or disruption to productivity. Microsoft Endpoint Manager provides transformative modern management and security that meets customers where they are and helps them move to the cloud.
In addition to Intune and Configuration Manager, Microsoft Endpoint Manager includes the Device Management Admin Center (DMAC) and Desktop Analytics. Intune helps you manage computers, laptops, tablets, and other mobile devices, including iOS, Android, and macOS devices.
By using Intune, you can:
- Let your organization’s employees use their personal devices to access organizational data (commonly known as “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)”).
- Manage organization-owned phones.
- Control access to Microsoft 365 from unmanaged devices, such as public kiosks and mobile devices.
- Help ensure that devices and apps that do connect to corporate data comply with security policies.
Windows 10 Enterprise
Windows 10 Enterprise is one of the primary components of your Microsoft 365 subscription. Furthermore, Windows 10 meets the needs of large and midsize organizations, providing users and organizations with the tools, services, and support to enhance their personal and organizational productivity. Some of the benefits are –
- Enable teamwork and simplify workflow
- Stay productive on the go
- Also, Get more done with AI enabled tools
- Subsequently, Harness organizational knowledge
- Furthermore, Manage all your endpoints
- Protect your business
Productivity in the cloud – Microsoft 365 Services
Microsoft 365 Apps includes the Microsoft productivity suite of applications, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams for both Windows and Mac devices. Microsoft 365 Apps isn’t a web-based version of Office – instead it’s a full version of Office that your users install and run on their devices. You can use the Office applications that come with Microsoft 365 Apps with the on-premises or online versions of Exchange, SharePoint, or Skype for Business.
Accessibility in Microsoft 365
There are no limits to what people can achieve when technology reflects the diversity of everyone. These products and services are designed for people of all abilities.
Vision
Need a larger screen? A brighter screen? A narrator to read text? Find out about accessibility tools and features for people who are blind, color blind, or have low vision. Here are some Microsoft 365 features that assist vision.
- Firstly, Color filters: Boost contrast or get rid of color entirely—whether you have color blindness, light sensitivity, or a visual preference, with color filters you can customize your screen’s color palette.
- Secondly, Tell Me: Quickly access commands in several Microsoft 365 Apps without navigating the command ribbon. You can use Tell Me to assist with formatting, discover the difficult-to-find capabilities and even get scoped help in Microsoft 365 Apps using everyday language.
- Thirdly, Microsoft Soundscape: Use innovative audio-based technology to enable people with blindness or low vision to build a richer awareness of their surroundings, thus becoming more confident navigating new environments.
Hearing
For those who are hard of hearing, have hearing loss, or have deafness, our specialized features can provide solutions including closed captioning, mono sound, and live call transcription. Here are some Microsoft 365 features that assist hearing.
- Firstly, Translator: Display autogenerated subtitles on a presentation in any of 60+ supported languages with the Presentation Translator add-in for PowerPoint on PCs. Plus, let each audience member follow along with captions displayed in their chosen language on any device with Microsoft Translator.
- Subsequently, Autogenerate captions in Microsoft Stream: Share videos securely across your organization in an accessible format with Microsoft Stream. Select a simple option, and you’ll get captions and searchable transcripts in English and Spanish autogenerated while uploading videos.
- Also, Mono audio: If you have partial hearing loss or deafness in one ear, Windows 10 helps you to hear more from your computer. Just turn on mono audio, and your left and right speakers will play the same sounds.
Neurodiversity
Innovative tools such as dictation and Windows Hello sign-in can make the digital world more accessible for those who live with dyslexia, seizures, autism, or other cognitive differences.
- Firstly, Focus assist: Block alerts and notifications so you can get things done without distractions. Don’t worry, if there are some people you don’t want to ignore, you can add them to a special list. And when you finish focusing, you’ll get a summary of what you missed.
- Subsequently, Reading view: Use Reading view to clear distracting content from web pages, so you can stay focused on what you want to read. And with Learning Tools in Microsoft Edge you can have documents read aloud to you.
Learning
Our applications for people living with learning disabilities can help increase focus, concentration, and understanding—and include tools to improve reading and writing skills.
- Firstly, Immersive Reader: Read more effectively with Learning Tools that read text out loud, break words into syllables, and identify parts of speech. Sustain attention with a focus mode and adjustable spacing between lines, letters, and words. Available for OneNote, Word, and Outlook on various devices.
- Also, Editor in Word: With Editor, see any misspellings, grammatical mistakes, and writing style issues as you type in Word and Outlook for PCs. Get suggestions for phonetic misspellings, see synonyms alongside suggestions, and have suggestions read out loud to avoid common word choice errors.
- Lastly, Text suggestions: Get help constructing sentences with text suggestions. Word suggestions appear, and can be inserted, as you type. It’s a great feature for English language learners — and anyone who would like a little help with their writing
Mobility
Our suite of products helps people living with arthritis, quadriplegia, spinal cord injuries, and other mobility issues to navigate the digital world in non-traditional ways.
- Firstly, Dictate in Microsoft 365 Apps: Convert your speech to text with Dictate in Microsoft 365 Apps such as Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook for PCs. You can also get the Dictate add-in for Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint for PCs, which supports dictation in 20+ languages and real-time translation to 60+ languages.
- Also, Keyboard shortcuts: Microsoft 365 Apps is designed to work seamlessly with keyboards. Shortcuts are documented per application to help you get started. Additionally, Tell Me lets you quickly access commands in several Microsoft 365 Apps by typing what you want to do using everyday language.
- Subsequently, Eye control: If physical disabilities make it difficult to use a keyboard, Windows 10 offers built-in support for eye control—an effective way to use your PC with just your eyes, (eye tracking hardware sold separately).
Mental health
Learn more about assistive technologies for people living with issues such as bipolar disorder, anxiety, PTSD, depression, or ADHD. these products also can help with distraction, reading, and concentration.
- Firstly, Minimize visual distraction: Windows makes it easy to minimize distractions by reducing animations and turning off background images and transparency. You can also clean up taskbar clutter and simplify the start menu.
- Secondly, Focus assist: Block alerts and notifications, so you can get things done without distractions. Don’t worry, if there are some people you don’t want to ignore, you can add them to a special list. And when you finish focusing, you’ll get a summary of what you missed.
- Thirdly, To-dos: OneNote and Outlook work together to help you stay organized. As you take notes and plan projects in OneNote, you can manage deadlines and remember the things on your to-do list by creating Outlook tasks. Then you can view and track those tasks in Outlook and even get reminders.
Reference Documentation – Introduction to Microsoft 365 core services and features