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Microsoft Office 365™ Email Migration. Run your business from the cloud with all the benefits of Microsoft Office 365™. From license assignment and mailbox migrations to training, our end-to-end suite of technical support and advisory services enable us to manage all aspects of your transition to Microsoft Office 365™ from start to finish. Office 365 Germany adheres to the cloud security and compliance standards of Office 365. Office 365 offers a comprehensive set of certifications, independently assessed by accredited auditors as part of Service Organization Controls (SOC), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and audits. The certifications include ISO 27001.

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If I go into the Microsoft 365 suite and select either a new excel workbook or a word document there is written across the top - New workbooks saved to onedrive. I can't see any option to change it. I also don't understand why when I click on the excel/word icon it makes me sign into my Microsoft account. Exclaimer Cloud - Signatures for Office 365 is an email signature management solution that lets you centrally manage Office 365 (now Microsoft 365) signatures for all users and devices, via an easy-to-use web portal. Full, dynamic and professional email signatures across any device or mail client, including mobiles, Macs, and Outlook on the web.

This article provides instructions for connecting Microsoft Cloud App Security to your existing Office 365 account using the app connector API. This connection gives you visibility into and control over Office 365 use. For information about how Cloud App Security protects Office 365, see Protect Office 365.

Cloud App Security supports the legacy Office 365 Dedicated Platform as well as the latest offerings of Office 365 services (commonly referred as the vNext release family of Office 365). Cloud App Security doesn't support the Legacy Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS).

Note

In some cases, a vNext service release differs slightly at the administrative and management levels from the standard Office 365 offering.

Cloud App Security supports the following Office 365 apps:

  • Dynamics 365 CRM
  • Exchange (only appears after activities from Exchange are detected in the portal, and requires you to turn on auditing)
  • Office
  • OneDrive
  • Power Automate
  • Power BI (only appears after activities from Power BI are detected in the portal, and requires you to turn on auditing)
  • SharePoint
  • Skype for Business
  • Teams (only appears after activities from Teams are detected in the portal)
  • Yammer

Note

Cloud App Security integrates directly with Office 365's audit logs and receives all audited events from all supported services, such as PowerApps, Forms, Sway, and Stream.

How to connect Office 365 to Cloud App Security

Note

  • You must have at least one assigned Office 365 license to connect Office 365 to Cloud App Security.
  • To enable monitoring of Office 365 activities in Cloud App Security, you are required to enable auditing in the Office Security and Compliance Center.
  • Exchange administrator audit logging, which is enabled by default in Office 365, logs an event in the Office 365 audit log when an administrator (or a user who has been assigned administrative privileges) makes a change in your Exchange Online organization. Changes made using the Exchange admin center or by running a cmdlet in Windows PowerShell are logged in the Exchange admin audit log. For more detailed information about admin audit logging in Exchange, see Administrator audit logging.
  • Exchange Mailbox audit logging must be turned on for each user mailbox before user activity in Exchange Online is logged, see Exchange Mailbox activities.
  • If Office apps are enabled, groups that are part of Office 365 are also imported to Cloud App Security from the specific Office apps, for example, if SharePoint is enabled, Office 365 groups are imported as SharePoint groups as well.
  • You must enable auditing in PowerBI to get the logs from there. Once auditing is enabled, Cloud App Security starts getting the logs (with a delay of 24-72 hours).
  • You must enable auditing in Dynamics 365 to get the logs from there. Once auditing is enabled, Cloud App Security starts getting the logs (with a delay of 24-72 hours).
  • If your Azure Active Directory is set to automatically sync with the users in your Active Directory on-premises environment the settings in the on-premises environment override the Azure AD settings and use of the Suspend user governance action is reverted.
  • For Azure AD sign-in activities, Cloud App Security only surfaces interactive sign-in activities and sign-in activities from legacy protocols such as ActiveSync. Noninteractive sign-in activities may be viewed in the Azure AD audit log.
  • Multi-geo deployments are only supported for OneDrive
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  1. In the Connected apps page, click the plus button and select Office 365.

  2. In the Office 365 pop-up, click Connect Office 365.

  3. In the Office 365 components page, select the options you require, and then click Connect.

    Note

    • For best protection, we recommend selecting all Office 365 components.
    • The Office 365 files component, requires the Office 365 activities component and Cloud App Security file monitoring (Settings > Files > Enable file monitoring).

  4. After Office 365 is displayed as successfully connected, click Close.

Note

After connecting Office 365, you will see data from a week back including any third-party applications connected to Office 365 that are pulling APIs. For third-party apps that weren't pulling APIs prior to connection, you see events from the moment you connect Office 365 because Cloud App Security turns on any APIs that had been off by default.

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If you have any problems connecting the app, see Troubleshooting App Connectors.

Next steps

If you run into any problems, we're here to help. To get assistance or support for your product issue, please open a support ticket.

This is a question that comes up all the time—Is Microsoft Office 365 considered a cloud solution or Software As A Service?

I guess it all comes down to interpretation. Cloud technologies are all the rage these days. Businesses now have many options when it comes to their computing environment. They can elect to go 100% and put all of their technical resources in a cloud environment, either shared or dedicated. Or, they can store protected data on a private cloud while retaining the ability to use resources from the public cloud. We call this a “hybrid cloud” in our techy circles. Or, they can elect use shared resources like Microsoft Office 365.

So, is Microsoft Office 365 a cloud solution or a Software as a Service solution? Maybe it’s a bit of both.

Many companies are making the move to Office 365. More are now benefitting from its benefits. Microsoft Office 365 provides any-sized organization the ability to use email, work on projects, share information with coworkers in the office, or with partners outside the organization. It’s now mainstream and used by businesses of all types.

However, sometimes there’s a bit confusion about where Office 365 fits in. Is it the same thing as the Cloud, or is it something else?

To understand where Microsoft Office 365 stands, it’s important to know the difference between the Cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS). The Cloud is part of the larger titled Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing is an information technology (IT) paradigm that provides users access to shared pools of system resources and higher-level services that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management. Cloud Computing involves the sharing of resources, similar to Microsoft Office 365. For this reason, many think Office 365 is the same thing as the Cloud.

Microsoft Office 365 does allow you to access files and information in an easy-to-use, shared pool. It makes emailing and working with others easy, much like the Cloud. However, the Cloud is more than just sharing files and information. Cloud technologies can be confusing. But to keep it simple, when using the Cloud, businesses shift their onsite technologies to the Internet (either private or shared).

The Cloud frees businesses from the maintaining of servers, telephone equipment, and other IT solutions. With the Cloud, computing resources are housed online so they can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection. With a private cloud, resources can only be used by your authorized users.

In contrast, SaaS is a licensing and delivery model where the software is provided on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS is typically accessed by users via a web browser. When looking at Office 365, this seems like a much better fit as far as categorization goes. In other words, SaaS is an application that’s not housed on premise.

Microsoft Office 365 is a subscription-based service that’s accessed through the Internet on a web browser. It’s not stored on your computer—You must launch it through a web browser each time you use it. SaaS applications can be run in the Cloud, but this doesn’t make them a Cloud.

The confusion surrounding Microsoft Office 365 stems from the fact that it’s accessed via a web-based system -similar to the way cloud computing allows you to share and work on various projects regardless of your physical location. It’s important to remember that it’s not stored on your computer. You can access Office 365 from wherever you are, on any computing device, as long as you have a subscription and an internet connection. It’s the same with any SaaS solution.

There’s a huge difference between cloud computing and SaaS. The Cloud’s focus revolves around virtual computers/servers, data storage capacity, communications, messaging, networks, and development environments. This isn’t the case with SaaS. SaaS is an application. SaaS is better suited for our purposes, than is the Cloud is.

When comparing the two systems, look at services they offer and how they can benefit your business. This will help you understand how Office 365 can work for your business purposes. The Cloud is better suited to large enterprises, that are involved in software development or other complicated computing processes. SaaS is for those who depend on software applications, which include all of us. Office 365 is simple to use, as exemplified by its widespread use ranging from company executives to college students. For these reasons, it would be considered a Software as a Service.

Does this mean that you can only use one or the other?—That you must decide between the Cloud or various SaaS applications such as Microsoft Office 365? No, it does not. The great thing about Microsoft Office 365 is that, because it’s more like an application, it can be run on both cloud servers and physical servers.

Microsoft Office 365 is a versatile tool that offers a multitude of functions that will make your work life much easier. To understand Microsoft Office 365 just remember, it’s a web- based system that allows you to access pools of files and information, not a server focused on data storage and capacity.