Keeping your knowledge up-to-date regarding Microsoft products is essential nowadays. Programs like Word or Excel are constantly changing and if you don't pay attention you won't understand a thing! Fortunately, we are always there for you and Microsoft itself does its best too.
Very good tools to use are the Microsoft training courses that come with the Office 365 programs. We have collected all these trainings on our new training page. But what exactly are these trainings and why should you take them?
What programs?
On our new training page, you can find trainings for Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Planner, To-Do, OneNote and Forms. These are the programs you want to master in order to work as efficiently as possible. From the hard core like Word and Excel to a digital notepad like OneNote or a huge plan in Planner. Of course, these are not all Microsoft apps that there are training courses for, but these are (we think) the most important ones. Look here for all the online training courses Microsoft offers.
What kind of trainings are these?
All nice and well such trainings of course, but we hear you thinking: "What can I learn in these trainings?". Let's take the Excel training as an example. The basics such as creating tables and charts will probably not be too complex, but instructions on these can be found in the training courses anyway. Advanced functions such as pivot tables, however, are often still somewhat difficult to understand. In the Excel training there is a chapter that describes how to do this. And what is also very handy: you can download templates in which you can test the knowledge you have gained in the training!
At each workout you will find the "quick start" button, through this button you can start your workout in no time! If you do not necessarily need to know all the advanced functions, this page discusses the essential functions of the programs. For example, briefly how to create a notepad in OneNote or how to create a Word document.
Keeping knowledge up-to-date is a must
As we have said several times, keeping your knowledge up-to-date is essential in today's ever-changing IT. Word from 2007 is almost a completely different program from Word from Office 365. So it's useful not only for yourself to do this, but also for your colleagues. And if they are precisely the ones who are a bit behind in their knowledge, encourage them to check out the trainings! So if you think yourself or an acquaintance needs a little update to his/her knowledge, check out our training page with links leading directly to Microsoft's training courses!
And of course, we can always be reached if the Microsoft training courses need a little more explanation. Give us a call at 010-2121806 or email us at helpdesk@limenetworks.nl. Customers can ask all their questions to our friendly and knowledgeable help desk. Not a client yet? Drop us a line and we can get acquainted without any obligation!
Frequently asked questions about OneDrive and Teams
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Azure is the umbrella name for Microsoft's cloud platform. Microsoft's Office 365 services use Microsoft's data centres and cloud. So they work together.
Sure. Office 365 has many techniques that provide security for accessing, modifying or sharing data. Steering and controlling these processes are also part of the ecosystem for regulatory compliance. Want to know more about this or see how it works? Feel free to call us for an appointment.
Through engagement and responsibility. By empowering you to work with engagement and responsibility, barriers to working together are reduced or eliminated. By including people in the planning, changes and what is possible, you give energy instead of change. We help you with the process and involving people/employees in modern collaboration. This way you let technology work for you and not against you. This shifts you from 'having to work together' to 'being able to work together efficiently'.
Having a single hub/application allows you to communicate, work with data and applications as a team. Adding communication to your data makes for true collaboration - wherever you are in the world and at any time. No barriers. All you need is a working internet connection.
Yes! Invite people to read files or even participate in creating the content. You can also invite external parties in Teams and/or Channels to become part of your productivity. You can determine what they can do in your environment (read, create, take control). As a company, you can influence whether or not you want this. In the Office 365 Compliance overview you can see which data is available to whom.
You can be an excellent team player by working in Outlook, Word, Excel and all your business applications. You don't bother anyone and you're productive. However, if you want to collaborate and work more efficiently with colleagues and/or externals, then working in Microsoft Teams is fine, convenient and enjoyable. You can even do that online without working on your own PC or device. Nothing has to.
Microsoft Teams is an application that is part of Office 365. You can use it to communicate (chat, audio, video), access your business (team) data and connect to other Office 365 applications. You can also connect to all kinds of external (cloud) applications, such as Trello, Asana, CRM, etc: Trello, Asana, CRM, PowerBI, Jira, and so on. Microsoft Teams is a hub for your daily work, communication and collaboration with others.
This is a cloud service provided by Microsoft. You can make use of various services and products depending on your subscription. The most well-known are:
- Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.) on your pc, Mobile/Tablet or online
- Exchange mailbox online from 50-100GB
- 1TB of storage for company data (per company) via SharePoint
- OneDrive for Business with 1TB storage per person for private use and pc backup
- Microsoft Teams for collaboration (chat, audio/video conferencing) and as a hub for data, applications and communication between various Office 365 components and external (cloud) software/services.
- Various online Apps for better collaboration and productivity: Planner, OneNote, To-Do, Stream, Sway and many more
- Microsoft Power Platform. Power Automate: automate tasks across all Office 365 components without programming skills
- PowerApps: build your own applications online to extend and customise Office 365 or to develop complete applications or connections to existing applications
Microsoft Teams is an application that is part of Office 365. You can use it to communicate (chat, audio, video), access your business (team) data and connect to other Office 365 applications. In addition, you can connect to all kinds of external (cloud) applications such as, for example: Trello, Asana, CRM, PowerBI, Jira, etc. Microsoft Teams is thus a gathering place for your daily work, communication and collaboration with others.
Backup is an old-fashioned limited way of securing your data. You can do much better. Let your cloud service fulfil this role. Think version control (see for yourself what happens to documents and/or data), retention (go back in time and secure data as it once was) or retaining transaction-based data about how you work.
If you work in the cloud, then that is the basis for your data. With Office 365, for example, your data is safe in the cloud at Microsoft. Think of Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform. Think also of SharePoint (don't worry... it's only used as storage... you don't have to work with it) and OneDrive to make your data available everywhere.
No. It's not about cloud or servers, it's about an idea of working. We do know from experience that working in the cloud is much easier. In fact, maintaining a server park with all the peripheral issues (uptime, security, backups, continuity, availability etc) is much more expensive. By using Office 365 and other Office 365 applications, for example, you can quickly make a fresh start.
Yes. With "secure by design," working safely is paramount at Lime Networks. We ensure that your data is secure (including in the cloud) and that the path to your data is also secure. You don't have to worry about the availability and integrity of your data. With retention and versioning of data, you can make mistakes without impacting the organization.
Microsoft has announced it will discontinue "Skype for Business" in July 2021. Also, Microsoft Teams has taken over all the functionality (especially the business version). Microsoft Teams performs many more tasks for modern collaboration with each other and with data. Read more about it here.
