Office 365 ProPlus Update History

This is just a quick post if you ever need to know the update history for Microsoft Office 365.
This listings include information about dates, what was updates on each update channel, etc

Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus Update History

M365 Series - Windows Autopilot White Glove – What is it?

The world of Windows deployment is radically changing in the last couple of years with Windows 10.

With the introduction of Windows as a Service, Windows Autopilot and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, the need to create a golden image and deploying it massively is no more the “only good scenario” available for enterprises.

Specifically the Windows Autopilot was a very nice way to give the user a machine where he only needed to login with it’s corporate device and the machine get all the corporate configurations.

But…in a lot of scenarios this was a poor experience for the end user that needed to wait a lot of time before he really could use the machine, specially in a poor network environment.

Thinking on this issue, Microsoft developed Windows Autopilot White Glove.
This basically allows IT Administrator to do all the initial work of pre-provisioning all “non-user specific” data. For example, corporate wide software.

After this pre-provisioning, when the user receives the machine, the Autopilot process just resumes the process for the “user-specific” configuration.

Take a look at Windows Autopilot White Glove in action:

M365 Series – Understanding Microsoft 365

Everyday more and more IT Professionals are getting in touch with something called Microsoft 365. And no, this is not Office 365, or better said, it’s not ONLY Office 365. It’s really more than that.

In fact…it’s a lot more than that!

Microsoft 365 it’s a large number of software solutions, almost all relying in the cloud, that allows users and IT Professionals to take advantage of the always connected world, making users get more productive everywhere but also allowing IT Administrators to manage users and devices…everywhere.

That’s one of the major benefits of Microsoft 365.

In this first post, I would like to share a Microsoft video that introduces some of the features available and the big picture of Microsoft 365. It’s a video about Windows and Office modern deployment but shows a lot of Microsoft 365 experience:

Microsoft 365 (M365) Documentation and Resources

After years of basically using the same tools, architectures and methods, Microsoft decide that the technology, and its flagship products (Windows and Office) were mature enough in a way that allows the change to a different approach to enterprise management.

There’s also the new world paradigm about security and the all-connected things that represents a new challenge to every IT admin.

This is why Microsoft 365 (M365) was created.
A complete end-to-end solution that and a new world of learning for the IT departments.
A new way to manage things, a set of new skills to learn, a new approach that when well implemented can be a dream for every IT department.

This is not an easy journey, for sure, and I’m also taking the first steps on it but from my perspective, I see a lot of things that will finally allow me to get a real in depth knowledge about my infrastructure.

Because the path to M365 can be an hard one, here’s a lot of resources made available by Microsoft in one single place:
Microsoft 365 Enterprise documentation and resources

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