New Training Options
- Train Yourself – Office 365 small business – training
- Train Your People – Office 365 Training Center
- Advanced Admin Training – Office 365 admin and IT pro courses
What exactly do these new training options provide?
Train Yourself
The first option takes you to a new Window in your browser at this address. and brings up this training:
Notice that there are 8 different options:
- Roadmap – brings up a PDF about the courses in this training.
- Getting Started – Link to 2 videos and an article on Office 365
- Setup – Brings up a page with links to 5 videos about basic Office 365 services
- Mobile – Links to 3 videos on mobiles phones and office 365, as well as the mobile admin app
- Communicate – 5 more videos that concentrate on meetings with and without Skype and how to share w/ others
- Store and Share – shortcut to 4 videos on storage in your Office 365 tenant and how your company can use it
- Manage – Quick overview in 6 videos about the main Admin Center for Office 365
- Support – 3 videos on your options for supporting or getting support for your Office 365 tenant
Train Your People
Next the link provides a shortcut to training for the end users, or consumers of Office 365 content. The link to this training will provide a shortcut, for the end-user, to basic training videos on the wide array of services they need like the office suite, One Drive, SharePoint, Teams and more.
- Outlook – Link to over 50+ lessons on how to use Outlook with Office 365
- OneDrive – Links to over 20 lessons on how to use OneDrive for personal or business use
- Word – Videos and articles on how to use Word
- Excel – 40+ links to videos on how to use Excel
- PowerPoint – Another 40 videos, this time on how to use PowerPoint
- OneNote – Link to a set of almost 20 videos on OneNote
- SharePoint – A set of short videos on SharePoint usage in Office 365
- Teams – 9 videos and several tips on how to use Teams
- Access – Over 20 lessons on how to use Access
- Visio – Link to 30+ videos to lessons on how to use Visio
Just like the first set of admin videos, these videos are a good starting point for an end-user needing to learn how to use office. They are not comprehensive, nor a full training set, but neither are they intended to be. If more comprehensive training is needed after these videos are used, then in may be worthwhile to either get some paid training or provide the training yourself.
Advanced Admin Training
The advanced admin training here is provided by LinkedIn (which is subsidiary of Microsoft) and is thus in a good position to provide good training on Microsoft Services. Clicking on the link for Advanced Admin training brings us to this landing page:
This page provides these training options for the admin looking for advanced training or deeper dives into the Admin interface for Office 365:
- Microsoft Cloud: Explore Cloud Services – Link to 20 videos on topics dealing with Microsoft cloud services
- Office 365: Deployment – 8 brief lessons on Office 365 basics
- Office 365: Administration – Quick link to 19 videos on Office 365
- Office 365: Manage Identities Using Azure AD Connect –
- Microsoft Cloud Services: Administer Office 365 and Intune –
- Office 365: Troubleshoot Availability and Usage –
- Office 365 for Administrators: Supporting Users Part 1 –
** Note ** There is additional training at LinkedIn
While these topics are more advanced than the first set of videos, they are simply are a way to introduced into administrative topics for Office 365.
Conclusion
While the information provided is not comprehensive, and I don’t think Microsoft means it to be, the links themselves and the positioning of the links on an Office 365 tenant provide a great way to get an admin’s attention. The material appears to be a quick way to educate a brand new admin as to the features in a tenant. I would recommend that if you are the administrator (Global Admin) and brand new to Office 365. These videos are relatively short in length, ranging from 1 to 5 min in length. After that you should deep dive into Microsoft’s own documentation as well as pick up a few books on Office 365 by experienced writers and Microsoft MVP’s. If you are not a brand new admin, then skip these videos and go straight to Microsoft docs or books on Office 365.
