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58-708: No on-premises infrastructure is required for clients to use Intune, and management is accomplished using a web-based portal. Distribution is through a subscription system in which a fixed monthly cost is incurred per user. It is also to use Endpoint Manager in co management with Microsoft Configuration Manager. It is included in Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) suite and Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise E5, which were both succeeded by Microsoft 365 in July 2017. Microsoft 365 Business Premium licenses also include Intune and EMS. Microsoft Intune

116-525: A CSV file , or set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services . More advanced setup and features requires the use of PowerShell scripts. Microsoft 365 offers subscription plans aimed at different needs and market segments, providing different sets of features at different price points. Microsoft has also offered Office 365 subscriptions to students of institutions who have licensed Office software for their faculty. There are two separate backends for

174-643: A Microsoft Teams team. SharePoint hosts OneDrive for Business , which allows storage and synchronization of an individual's personal work documents, as well as public/private file sharing of those documents. SharePoint's custom development capabilities provide an additional layer of services that allow rapid prototyping of integrated (typically line-of-business ) web applications. SharePoint provides developers with integration into corporate directories and data sources through standards such as REST / OData / OAuth . Enterprise application developers use SharePoint's security and information management capabilities across

232-560: A software as a service basis, including Exchange, Skype for Business, SharePoint, Microsoft Dictate ( speech recognition ), and Office on the web . Through SharePoint's OneDrive for Business functionality (formerly known as SharePoint MySites and SkyDrive Pro, and distinct from the consumer-oriented OneDrive service ), each user also receives 1 TB of online storage. Certain plans also include unlimited personal cloud storage per user. Microsoft 365 services can be configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from

290-531: A Yammer app for SharePoint and single sign-on) to be introduced in July 2013. On July 8, 2013, Microsoft unveiled Power BI , a suite of business intelligence and self-serve data mining tools for Office 365, to be released later in the year. Power BI is primarily incorporated into Excel, allowing users to use the Power Query tool to create spreadsheets and graphs using public and private data , and also perform geovisualization with Bing Maps data using

348-647: A complete centralized management interface for web and service applications in the SharePoint farm, including Active Directory account management for web and service applications. In the event of the failure of the CA, Windows PowerShell is typically used on the CA server to reconfigure the farm. The structure of the SharePoint platform enables multiple WAs to exist on a single farm. In a shared ( cloud ) hosting environment, owners of these WAs may require their own management console. The SharePoint 'Tenant Administration' (TA)

406-588: A distinct content databases, or may share a content database with other site collections in the same web application. Service applications provide granular pieces of SharePoint functionality to other web and service applications in the farm. Examples of service applications include the User Profile Sync service, and the Search Indexing service. A service application can be turned off, exist on one server, or be load-balanced across many servers in

464-466: A farm. Service Applications are designed to have independent functionality and independent security scopes. SharePoint's architecture enables a 'least-privileges' execution permission model. SharePoint Central Administration (the CA) is a web application that typically exists on a single server in the farm; however, it is also able to be deployed for redundancy to multiple servers. This application provides

522-557: A full day to push out to clients. Microsoft Intune was originally introduced as Windows Intune in April 2010. Microsoft announced plans to extend the service to other platforms and rename it to Microsoft Intune on 8 October 2014. Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 is a product family of productivity software , collaboration and cloud-based services owned by Microsoft . It encompasses online services such as Outlook.com , OneDrive , Microsoft Teams , programs formerly marketed under

580-522: A new Microsoft Office app that integrates Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, replacing the previous, separate apps for each. Microsoft Outlook for mobile is derived from the apps Acompli and Sunrise Calendar , which were acquired by Microsoft and discontinued. Some Microsoft 365 online services are usable without a subscription, but with limitations such as advertising and lower storage limits. Business and enterprise-oriented plans for Microsoft/Office 365 offer access to cloud-hosted server platforms on

638-452: A new license, and do not receive feature updates). In July 2017, Microsoft introduced a second brand of subscription services for the enterprise market known as Microsoft 365, combining Office 365 with Windows 10 Enterprise volume licenses and other cloud-based security and device management products. On April 21, 2020, Office 365 was rebranded as Microsoft 365, to emphasize the service's current inclusion of products and services beyond

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696-651: A public beta in April 2011, and reaching general availability on June 28, 2011, with a launch aimed originally at corporate users. Facing growing competition from Google 's similar service Google Workspace , Microsoft designed the Office 365 platform to "bring together" its existing online services (such as the Business Productivity Online Suite ) into "an always-up-to-date cloud service" incorporating Exchange Server (for e-mail), SharePoint (for internal social networking, collaboration, and

754-463: A public web site), and Lync (for communication, VoIP , and conferencing). Plans were initially launched for small business and enterprises; the small business plan offered Exchange e-mail, SharePoint Online, Lync Online, web hosting via SharePoint, and the Web App with the enterprise plan also adding per-user licenses for the Office 2010 Professional Plus software and 24/7 phone support. Following

812-510: A set of access mappings or URLs defined in the SharePoint central management console, which are replicated by SharePoint across every IIS Instance (e.g. Web Application Servers) configured in the farm. A site collection is a hierarchical group of 'SharePoint Sites'. Each web application must have at least one site collection. Site collections share common properties ( detailed here ), common subscriptions to service applications, and can be configured with unique host names. A site collection may have

870-428: A variety of development platforms and scenarios. SharePoint also contains an enterprise "app store" that has different types of external applications which are encapsulated and managed to access to resources such as corporate user data and document data. SharePoint is primarily configured through a web browser. The web-based user interface provides most of the configuration capability of the product. SharePoint Designer

928-668: Is a cloud-based endpoint management solution. It manages user access and simplifies app and device management across your many devices, including mobile devices, desktop computers, and virtual endpoints. As organizations move to support hybrid and remote workforces, they face the challenge of managing devices to access organizational resources. Staff and students must collaborate, work across the board, and access and participate in these resources safely. Managers must protect organizational data, manage end-user access, and support users wherever they work. Intune supports Android , iOS , Linux , macOS , and Windows Operating Systems. Administration

986-421: Is a logical grouping of SharePoint servers that share common resources. A farm typically operates stand-alone, but can also subscribe to functions from another farm, or provide functions to another farm. Each farm has its own central configuration database, which is managed through either a PowerShell interface, or a Central Administration website (which relies partly on PowerShell's infrastructure). Each server in

1044-638: Is a semi-deprecated product that provided 'advanced editing' capabilities for HTML/ASPX pages, but remains the primary method of editing SharePoint workflows. A significant subset of HTML editing features were removed in Designer 2013, and the product is expected to be deprecated in 2016–7. Microsoft SharePoint's Server Features are configured either using PowerShell , or a Web UI called "Central Administration". Configuration of server farm settings (e.g. search crawl, web application services) can be handled through these central tools. While Central Administration

1102-514: Is aimed at mainstream consumers, especially those who want to install Office on multiple computers. A University plan was introduced, targeted at post-secondary students. With these new offerings, Microsoft began to offer prepaid Office 365 subscriptions through retail outlets alongside the normal, perpetually licensed editions of Office 2013 (which are only licensed for use on one computer, and do not receive feature updates). On March 19, 2013, Microsoft detailed its plans to provide integration with

1160-571: Is an optional web application used by web application owners to manage how their web application interacts with the shared resources in the farm. SharePoint evolved from projects codenamed "Office Server" and "Tahoe" during the Office XP development cycle. "Office Server" evolved out of the FrontPage and Office Server Extensions and "Team Pages". It targeted simple, bottom-up collaboration. "Tahoe", built on shared technology with Exchange and

1218-495: Is done via a web browser. The administration console allows Intune to invoke remote tasks such as malware scans. Since version 2.0, installation of software packages in .exe , .msi and .msp format are supported. Installations are encrypted and compressed on Microsoft Azure Storage . Software installation can begin upon login. It can record and administer volume, retail and OEM licenses, and licenses which are administered by third parties. Upgrades to newer versions of

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1276-420: Is included with subscriptions to Microsoft 365 E3, E5, F1, F3, Enterprise Mobility + Security E3 and E5, and Business Premium plans. Der Standard praised the application, saying "the cloud service Intune promises to be a simple PC Management tool via Web console. The interface provides a quick overview of the system of state enterprise." German PC World positively evaluated "usability" saying that it "kept

1334-645: Is limited to farm-wide settings (config DB), it provides access to tools such as the 'SharePoint Health Analyzer', a diagnostic health-checking tool. In addition to PowerShell's farm configuration features, some limited tools are made available for administering or adjusting settings for sites or site collections in content databases. A limited subset of these features are available by SharePoint's SaaS providers, including Microsoft. Customization may appear through: SharePoint Server can be scaled down to operate entirely from one developer machine, or scaled up to be managed across hundreds of machines. A SharePoint farm

1392-559: Is often used to replace an existing corporate file server , and is typically coupled with an enterprise content management policy. A SharePoint intranet or intranet portal is a way to centralize access to enterprise information and applications. It is a tool that helps an organization manage its internal communications, applications and information more easily. Microsoft claims that this has organizational benefits such as increased employee engagement , centralizing process management , reducing new staff on-boarding costs, and providing

1450-805: Is provided as part of Microsoft 365 , but can also be configured to run as on-premises software . According to Microsoft, as of December 2020 SharePoint had over 200 million users. The most common uses of the SharePoint include: SharePoint allows for storage, retrieval, searching, archiving, tracking, management, and reporting on electronic documents and records. Many of the functions in this product are designed around various legal, information management, and process requirements in organizations. SharePoint also provides search and 'graph' functionality. SharePoint's integration with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft 365 (previously known as Office) allows for collaborative real-time editing , and encrypted/ information rights managed synchronization. This capability

1508-502: Is sold via Microsoft and its cloud services reseller network. On March 30, 2020, Microsoft announced that the consumer plans of Office 365 would be rebranded as "Microsoft 365" (a brand also used by Microsoft for an enterprise subscription bundle of Windows, Office 365, and security services) on April 21, 2020, succeeding existing consumer plans of Office 365. It is a superset of the existing Office 365 products and benefits, positioned towards "life", productivity, and families, including

1566-712: The Microsoft Office suite, 1 TB of additional OneDrive storage and access to OneDrive Personal Vault, and 60 minutes of Skype calls per month. Under the brand, Microsoft will also add access to its collaboration platform Teams (which will also add additional features designed around family use), and a premium tier of Microsoft Family Safety . Microsoft also announced plans to offer trial offers of third-party services for Microsoft 365 subscribers, with companies such as Adobe ( Creative Cloud Photography), Blinkist , CreativeLive, Experian , and Headspace having partnered. Microsoft 365 Personal and Family succeeded

1624-600: The Patriot Act . In Finland , FICORA has warned Office 365 users of phishing incidents and break-ins that have caused losses of millions of euros. In September 2019, NCSC-FI (National Cyber Security Centre of Finland) created a detailed guide on how to protect Microsoft Office 365 against phishing attempts and any data breaches. In July 2019, the German state of Hesse outlawed the use of Office 365 in educational institutions, citing privacy risks. In December 2020,

1682-548: The US Department of Commerce was breached via Office 365. The attackers were able to access staff emails for several months. A July 1, 2021 cybersecurity advisory from British ( NCSC ) and American ( NSA , FBI , CISA ) security agencies warned of a GRU brute-force campaign from mid-2019 to the present (July 2021) that focused a "significant amount" of activity on Microsoft Office 365 cloud services. On November 10, 2023, IT news portal Heise online disclosed in

1740-491: The "Digital Dashboard", targeted top-down portals, search and document management. The searching and indexing capabilities of SharePoint came from the "Tahoe" feature set. The search and indexing features were a combination of the index and crawling features from the Microsoft Site Server family of products and from the query language of Microsoft Index Server. GAC-(Global Assembly Cache) is used to accommodate

1798-400: The "Home Premium" plan to "Home,” and added a new "Personal" plan for single users. In June 2014, the amount of OneDrive storage offered to Office 365 subscribers was increased to 1 terabyte from 20 GB. On October 27, 2014, Microsoft announced "unlimited" OneDrive storage for Office 365 subscribers. However, due to abuse and a general reduction in storage options implemented by Microsoft,

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1856-517: The "Microsoft 365" brand. It continues to reside on the domain name office365.com , whereas personal (non-education/enterprise) accounts are on live.com . However, Microsoft reversed this stance with the release of an Office 2024 preview build in November 2023. Microsoft first announced Office 365 in October 2010, beginning with a private beta with various organizations, leading into

1914-580: The 1 TB cap was reinstated in November 2015. In June 2016, Microsoft made Planner available for general release. It is considered to be a competitor to Trello and to other agile team collaboration cloud services. In April 2017, Microsoft announced that with the ending of mainstream support for Office 2016 on October 13, 2020, access to OneDrive for Business and Office 365-hosted servers for Skype for Business will become unavailable to those who are not using Office 365 ProPlus or Office perpetual in mainstream support. In July 2019, Microsoft announced that

1972-465: The Intune software are also controlled. Information about inventory is recorded automatically. Managed computers can be grouped together when problems occur. Intune notifies support staff as well as notifying an external dealer via e-mail. Since March 2023 Microsoft Intune is available in 3 versions: Intune Plan 1, Intune Plan 2 and Intune Suite. Plan 2 or Suite do not include Plan 1. Microsoft Intune P1

2030-482: The Microsoft 365 subscription. They are installed using a "click-to-run" system which allows users to begin using the applications almost instantaneously, while files are downloaded in the background . Updates to the software are installed automatically, covering both security and feature updates. These applications were one of the core components of the initial Office 365 service. If the user's subscription lapses,

2088-760: The Microsoft Office brand, in favor of branding all products under the Microsoft 365 name. This change took effect on Office.com in November 2022, followed by the Office mobile apps in January 2023. The Microsoft Office brand will still be used for legacy products, including subscription products still carrying the "Office 365" name since the previous Microsoft 365 rebranding, and the "on-premises"/perpetually licensed Microsoft Office 2021 . The Microsoft 365 desktop applications (formerly marketed as Microsoft Office ) are primarily used on personal computers running Microsoft Windows , and are distributed as part of

2146-470: The Office 2013 desktop applications, and the service as a whole for being suitable in small business environments, while still offering "powerful" options for use in larger companies (such as data loss protection and the ability to integrate with a local Active Directory instance). However, the service was severely criticized for how it handled its 2013 update for existing users, and its lack of integration with services such as Skype and Viva Engage . In

2204-436: The Office 365 Personal and Home subscriptions, with no change in pricing. Office 365 for small- and medium-sized businesses was also renamed Microsoft 365, with Office 365 Business and ProPlus becoming "Microsoft 365 Apps for business" and "Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise", Office 365 Business Essentials becoming "Microsoft 365 Business Basic", and Office 365 Business Premium becoming "Microsoft 365 Business Standard" (with

2262-709: The Office 365 platform was now compliant with the ISO/IEC 27001 security standards, the European Union 's Data Protection Directive (through the signing of model clauses ), and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act for health care environments in the United States. At the same time, Microsoft also unveiled a new "Trust Center" portal, containing further information on its privacy policies and security practices for

2320-574: The Power Map tool (previously available as a beta plug-in known as GeoFlow). Users will also be able to access and publish reports, and perform natural language queries on data. As a limited-time offer for certain markets (but notably excluding the US), Microsoft also offered a free one-year Xbox Live Gold subscription with any purchase of an Office 365 Home Premium or University subscription, until September 28, 2013. From April 15, 2014, Microsoft renamed

2378-634: The applications enter a read-only mode where editing functionality is disabled. Full functionality is restored once a new subscription is purchased and activated. Although there are still "on-premises" or "perpetual" releases of Office released on a three-year cycle, these versions do not receive new features or access to new cloud-based services as they are released on Microsoft 365. All of these applications, excluding Access and Publisher , are also available on macOS . Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are available as mobile and web app , usable for free with limitations, although they do not contain all of

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2436-437: The article "Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook", that "if you try out the new Outlook, you risk transferring your IMAP and SMTP credentials of mail accounts and all your emails to Microsoft servers." TechRadar gave the 2013 update of Office 365 a 4.5 out of 5, praising its administration interfaces for being accessible to users with any level of expertise, the seamless integration of OneDrive Pro into

2494-413: The core Microsoft Office software family (including cloud-based productivity tools and artificial intelligence features). Most products that were called Office 365 were renamed as Microsoft 365 on the same day. In October 2022, Microsoft announced that it would discontinue the "Microsoft Office" brand by January 2023, with most of its products and online productivity services being marketed primarily under

2552-503: The enterprise social networking platform Yammer (which they had acquired in 2012) for Office 365, such as the ability to use a single sign-on between the two services, shared feeds and document aggregation, and the ability to entirely replace the SharePoint news feed and social functionality with Yammer. The ability to provide a link to a Yammer network from an Office 365 portal was introduced in June 2013, with heavier integration (such as

2610-483: The existing Microsoft 365 Business product becoming "Microsoft 365 Business Premium"). The Office 365 brand remains in use for its enterprise, education, healthcare, and governmental plans. Microsoft stated that "over the last several years, our cloud productivity offering has grown well beyond what people traditionally think of as 'Office'", citing examples such as Forms , Planner , Stream , and Teams. On October 13, 2022, Microsoft announced that it would be phasing out

2668-463: The farm is able to directly interface with the central configuration database. Servers use this to configure services (e.g. IIS , windows features, database connections) to match the requirements of the farm, and to report server health issues, resource allocation issues, etc... Web applications (WAs) are top-level containers for content in a SharePoint farm. A web application is associated primarily with IIS configuration. A web application consists of

2726-497: The fourth quarter of fiscal year 2017, Office 365 revenue had exceeded that of conventional license sales of Microsoft Office software for the first time. SharePoint SharePoint is a collection of enterprise content management and knowledge management tools developed by Microsoft . Launched in 2001, it was initially bundled with Windows Server as Windows SharePoint Server, then renamed to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and then finally renamed to SharePoint. It

2784-443: The functionality as the desktop versions. The mobile apps were originally limited to Office 365 subscribers, but basic editing and document creation has since been made free for personal use. An active Microsoft 365 subscription is still required to unlock certain advanced editing features, use the apps on devices with screens larger than 10.1 inches, or to use the apps for commercial purposes. In February 2020, Microsoft introduced

2842-573: The hosted Skype for Business Online service would be discontinued on July 31, 2021, with users being redirected to the Microsoft Teams collaboration platform as its replacement. Since September 2019, Skype for Business Online is no longer offered to new subscribers. In October 2017, the existing Outlook.com Premium service was discontinued and folded exclusively into Office 365, with all Personal and Family subscribers subsequently being upgraded to 50 GB of storage. The "Microsoft 365" brand

2900-438: The interface simple." Business Computing World criticized the program, saying "Although Windows Intune worked well in our tests and did everything expected of it, we didn't find it all that easy to get to grips with", blaming the unintuitive "deceptively simple" management interface. ITespresso rated it "good", but noted connection issues with the remote assistance feature and that changes to firewall settings could take upwards of

2958-411: The means to capture and share tacit knowledge (e.g. via tools such as wikis , media libraries, etc.). SharePoint contains team collaboration groupware capabilities, including: document management , project scheduling (integrated with Outlook and Project ), and other information tracking. This capability is centred around the concept of a "Team Site". Team sites can be independent, or linked to

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3016-528: The name Microsoft Office (including applications such as Word , Excel , PowerPoint , and Outlook on Microsoft Windows , macOS , mobile devices , and on the web ), enterprise products and services associated with these products such as Exchange Server , SharePoint , and Viva Engage . Microsoft 365 also covers subscription plans encompassing these products, including those that include subscription-based licenses to desktop and mobile software, and hosted email and intranet services. The branding Office 365

3074-514: The official launch of the service, Business Productivity Online Suite customers were given 12 months to migrate from BPOS to the Office 365 platform. With the release of Office 2013 , an updated version of the Office 365 platform was launched on February 27, 2013, expanding Office 365 to include new plans aimed at different types of businesses, along with new plans aimed at general consumers, including benefits tailored towards Microsoft consumer services such as OneDrive (whose integration with Office

3132-532: The products: Aimed at mainstream consumers, both plans offer access to Microsoft Office applications ( Word , Excel , PowerPoint , Outlook , Publisher , and Access ) for home/non-commercial use on one computer ( Windows , macOS , and mobile devices), with access to additional online-based services and premium creative content, 1 TB of OneDrive storage with Advanced Security, 60 minutes of Skype international calls per month (subject to area), and partner offers. In December 2011, Microsoft announced that

3190-582: The service. In May 2012, Microsoft announced that Office 365 was now compliant with the Federal Information Security Management Act : compliance with the act would now allow Office 365 to be used by U.S. government agencies. In spite of claiming to comply with European data protection standards, and in spite of existing Safe Harbor agreements, Microsoft has admitted that it will not refrain from handing over data stored on its European servers to US authorities under

3248-443: Was a major feature of the 2013 suite). The server components were updated to their respective 2013 versions, and Microsoft expanded the Office 365 service with new plans, such as Small Business Premium, Midsize Premium, and Pro Plus. A new Office 365 Home Premium plan aimed at home users offers access to the Office 2013 suite for up to five computers, along with expanded OneDrive storage and 60 minutes of Skype calls monthly. The plan

3306-508: Was first introduced at Microsoft Inspire in July 2017 as an enterprise subscription product, succeeding the "Secure Productive Enterprise" services released in 2016, and combining Windows 10 Enterprise with Office 365 Business Premium, and the Enterprise Mobility + Security suite including Advanced Threat Analytics, Azure Active Directory , Azure Information Protection, Cloud App Security and Microsoft Intune . Microsoft 365

3364-635: Was introduced in 2010 to refer to a subscription-based software as a service platform for the corporate market, including hosted services such as Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync Server , and Office on the web. Some plans also included licenses for the Microsoft Office 2010 software. Upon the release of Office 2013 , Microsoft began to promote the service as the primary distribution model for the Microsoft Office suite, adding consumer-focused plans integrating with services such as OneDrive and Skype , and emphasizing ongoing feature updates (as opposed to non-subscription licenses , where new versions require purchase of

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