

“The instruction they provided was easy to follow and worked perfectly. “Just want to give a shout out to your OIT support staff for a great job of making it extremely easy to upgrade our MS Office software through self-service,” a senior VA executive recently wrote OIT Executive in Charge Camilo Sandoval.

A high intensity effort requiring careful execution to avoid disrupting the services VA employees provide to Veterans, the Office 365 ProPlus team is already getting feedback from satisfied customers. Over the course of the past 18 months, OIT has deployed upgrades to Office 365 ProPlus for more than 400,000 devices servicing employees and contractors around the country. An upcoming migration of email inboxes to the cloud-based Exchange Online will further enhance VA employee productivity, increasing mailbox storage space to 100 gigabytes while adding significant email attachment capacity. OIT’s roll-out of Office 365 ProPlus in 20 has successfully brought VA employees the latest versions of Microsoft productivity applications like Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Access, as well as Skype for Business. Office 365 – VA Upgrades to the Latest Business Applications Accelerating VA IT Modernization through DevOps.
