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Data residency in the AI era: New capabilities to manage your data

Paul Lorimer — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:00:00 +0000

We’re excited to announce the expansion of Microsoft’s data residency capabilities by adding content of interactions with Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 to our portfolio of data residency commitments and offerings. We are expanding our product terms and Microsoft 365 data residency offerings to contractually guarantee that we will store the content of your interactions with Copilot for Microsoft 365 in the same country or region in which you store your existing Microsoft 365 content.

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Office 365 Secret cloud now available for US national security missions

Paul Lorimer — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Office 365 Government Secret cloud, which includes our first release of Office 365 Government capabilities including Exchange, Outlook, and Microsoft 365 Apps.

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Microsoft 365 expands data residency commitments and capabilities

Paul Lorimer — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Commercial and public sector organizations continue to look for new ways to advance their goals, improve efficiencies, and create positive employee experiences. The rise of the digital workforce and the current economic environment compels organizations to utilize public cloud applications to benefit from efficiency and cost reduction.

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Microsoft retires Basic Authentication in Exchange Online

Seth Patton — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:00:00 +0000

As more sophisticated cyber criminals take aim at hybrid and remote workers, Microsoft is working to raise awareness among Exchange Online customers that one of the most important security steps they can take is to move away from outdated, less secure protocols, like Basic Authentication. As previously announced, we are turning off Basic Authentication in Exchange Online for all tenants starting October 1, 2022.

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Microsoft Office 365 and Dynamics 365 now available from new German datacenter regions

Paul Lorimer — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:00:55 +0000

Microsoft Office 365 and Dynamics 365 are now available for organizations and enterprises from our new cloud datacenters in Germany.

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Making IT simpler with a modern workplace

The Microsoft 365 Marketing Team — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:59:55 +0000

New capabilities in Microsoft 365 allow IT to simplify the modern workplace, which means delighting and empowering users, while enabling IT to protect and secure the corporate assets.

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Office 365 receives FedRAMP Authority to Operate (ATO) from HHS OIG

The Microsoft 365 Marketing Team — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:00:42 +0000

We are pleased to announce that Microsoft Office 365 has been granted FedRAMP Authority to Operate (ATO) by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG). Office 365 is a multi-tenant cloud that includes government specific instances of services such as Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online. Government-specific instances of Office 365 services are designated for use solely by U.S federal, tribal, state and local government customers, and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs).

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Cloud services you can trust: Office 365 availability

Rajesh Jha — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 04:00:00 +0000

"Your complete office in the cloud" is how we think of Microsoft Office 365. While it gives us enormous pride that one billion people use Office, we deeply appreciate the responsibility we have to meet and exceed our customers' expectations every day. We recognize that productivity apps are mission critical; using them is how work gets done. It is imperative for us to ensure our service is trustworthy and reliable while we continue to add new capabilities to Office 365. Our measure for this is service availability.

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