Office 365 Change Management Survival Guide
Staying up-to-date with Office 365 changes can take some effort, to help Microsoft have many related resources that are available but not all of them are easy to find. This "Survival Guide" aims to gather these useful resources related to Office 365 change management.
This page brings together some of the best information about changes and updates to Office 365 all in one place. Whether it is roadmap information, or what is new in Office 365 or Office 365 ProPlus (Office 2016) updates, this and more are part of this survival guide.
*Use these resources to get the best from Office 365 and stay ahead of product changes, which can help improve overall adoption and engagement. *
Office 365 release and update information
- Office 365 Weekly Digest Blog Series
- Planned Service Changes for 2017 – Admin Action Required
- Office 365 Planned Service Changes for 2018
- Office 365 Planned Service Changes for 2020
- Office Blogs
- Office 365 Update Video Series
- Office 365 Update Video Series Companion Blog
- Microsoft Tech Community Weekly Roundup
- Change Alerts
- Enterprise Mobility and Security Blog
- Recent Office 365 service descriptions changes
- Introducing "Major Updates"
Roadmaps, release notes and product feedback
- Office 365 Roadmap
- Microsoft Cloud Platform roadmap
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Roadmap
- Microsoft Flow Release Notes
- What's new in PowerApps
- What's new in the Power BI service
- What's new in the latest Power BI Desktop update
- Release notes for Microsoft Teams
- Release notes for Azure Active Directory
- Participating in product feedback loops, and understanding roadmaps
- Customer Feedback for Office 365
Office 365 ProPlus (Office 2016)
- Overview of the upcoming changes to Office 365 ProPlus update management
- Office 365 system requirements changes for Office client connectivity
- Version and build numbers of update channel releases
- Office 365 client update channel releases
- What's new in Office 365 ProPlus
- What's new for Office Insiders
- Insider release notes for Office 2016 for Windows desktop
- Update history for Office Insider for Windows desktop
- Release notes for Office 2016 for Mac
- Release notes for Insider Fast builds of Office 2016 for Mac
- Office Insider community
- Best Practices for Office 365 ProPlus Deployment
- Office 365 ProPlus Microsoft Tech Community
Known Issues: Fixes and Workarounds
- Outlook for Windows
- Excel for Windows
- Word for Windows
- PowerPoint for Windows
- OneNote for Windows
- Access for Windows
Resources for administrators and implementers
- Stay on top of Office 365 changes
- Office 365 Release Options
- Office 365 Message Center Weekly Digest
- Service Communications API
- Leveraging the Office 365 Service Communications API
- Office 365 Admin Mobile App
- System Center Management Pack for Office 365
- Manage an evergreen service: Office 365 release policies and communication processes
- Microsoft Tech Academy
- Microsoft Service Trust Portal
Modern Service Management for Office 365
Blog series on the Microsoft Tech Community, which reviews the evergreen cloud paradigm and considerations for an agile IT organization with insights and best practices.
- Introducing Modern Service Management for Office 365
- Monitoring and Major Incident Management
- Audit and Bad-Guy-Detection
- Leveraging the Office 365 Service Communications API
- Evolving IT for Cloud Productivity Services
- IT Agility to Realize Full Cloud Value - Evergreen Management
- Service and Normal Incident Management for Office 365
Microsoft Tech Community Blogs
Blogs from the Microsoft Tech Community.
- Office 365 Blog
- Office 365 Analytics Blog
- OneDrive Blog
- Outlook Blog
- Microsoft Teams Blog
- Microsoft Forms Blog
- Microsoft Stream Blog
- Planner Blog
- Yammer Blog
- SharePoint Blog
- Skype for Business Blog
- Tech Community Blog
For a complete list of related blogs, check the dedicated Microsoft Tech Community Blogs section.
Twitter and MVPs
Here is a selection of official Office 365 Twitter accounts covering different aspects of Office 365 and related areas:
- Office 365
- Office 365 Community
- Microsoft Mechanics
- Tech Community
- MS Office News
- Microsoft Office
- Office Insider
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Stream
- Microsoft Teams
- Delve
- Yammer
- Microsoft Exchange
- Skype for Business
- Microsoft Flow
- Microsoft PowerApps
- Power BI
- Office Developer
- Microsoft Ignite
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional's (MVP) are experts who make outstanding contributions to their respective community, with over 500 MVPs in the "Office Servers and Services" category, which includes Office 365. A list of these MVP's is available here and can be refined further using the search feature.
Events
Microsoft regularly holds events which are a useful way of staying up-to-date with Office 365. This can include conferences, Q&As and webinars. Even when attendance is not possible, many of the resources that come out of these events, such as on-demand replays, slide decks and presentations can be particularly useful resources.
To find events, the Office Blogs has a section for event announcements. Also, the Office 365 Weekly Digest Blog Series has a comprehensive upcoming events section, published every week.
Microsoft Tech Community AMA
On the Microsoft Tech Community, they host 'Ask Microsoft Anything' (AMA), which are live online events. This is where customers can connect with members of the respective product engineering team who are on hand to answer questions and listen to feedback. Recent examples have included an Office 365 Groups AMA and a Microsoft Teams AMA. These events are advertised widely on the respective community space and often are mentioned in the Office Blogs alongside new features or products release announcements. A summary document after the AMA is usually made available.