This must be done before Office 365 2002 arrives with the extension. IT admins can preempt Microsoft's move and block the Chrome add-on from installing by setting a group policy or configuring Office 365 using Intune or Configuration Manager. Users must be logged in to their account - the one that lets them access their personal computer as well as Office 365 - to use these search tools. Edge, which not surprisingly has Bing as its default search, can look up certain internal-to-the-company information - notably documents and other files stored on OneDrive or SharePoint - but also search through Teams chats and the like, from the browser's address bar.

That will put Chrome on an equal level with Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser, which launched a week ago. 'By making Bing the default search engine, users in your organization with Google Chrome will be able to take advantage of Microsoft Search, including being able to access relevant workplace information directly from the browser address bar,' Microsoft said. (Office 365 ProPlus also comes in a stand-alone version that omits the usual subscription plans' services.) It is not part of Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 Business Apps or Microsoft 365 Business - all designed for small businesses - or the consumer-grade plans Office 365 Personal or Office 365 Home.Īlso omitted from the switch: the 'perpetual' license versions of Office, like Office 2019 or Office 2016. ProPlus is included with higher-end Office 365 subscriptions, including Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E5, the corresponding academic and government plans, and the even more sweeping Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 E5 subscriptions. Thus, ProPlus 2002 marks, not a version of the productivity suite from 18 years ago, but the one first issued in February of this year. Also, like Windows 10, ProPlus is tagged with a four-digit label in the yymm format. Microsoft upgrades Office 365 ProPlus, like Windows 10, twice a year: in the late summer (around August) and the late winter or early spring (February or March).

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