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July has been a busy month for mobile apps and admins. OneNote continues to receive updates to its Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad, and Android versions. Office for iPad was enhanced with many top customer requested features. Admins can now have 10x the number of Public Folders and new communication tools to stay informed about their Office 365 service. Power BI, Power Map, and Power Query all also were updated this month. Leave us a comment to let us know what your favorite new feature is. If you missed last month’s updates, see What’s New: June.
Office 365 Personal, Office 365 Home, and Office 365 University updates:
Clip the web with me@onenote.com – Send a link to me@onenote.com and get a screenshot of the site added to your notebook.
Mod and OneNote sync notes on paper to the cloud – Now you can sync your hand written notes that you take in Mod with OneNote.
Let’s get cooking! Collecting recipes in OneNote just got better – When you use the OneNote web clipper or email clipper (me@onenote.com) to clip a recipe, we’ll simplify the page down to just the steps, ingredients, and key pieces of information you need most, giving your recipes a simpler, cleaner format in OneNote.
OneNote available for Kindle Fire and Fire phone – OneNote is available at the Amazon Appstore for Android, delivering on our promise to bring OneNote to every device that matters to you.
OneNote for Mac and iOS get dressed for business and school – This update added four major features across Mac os X, iPhone, and iPad. Updates include: Access your work or school notebooks on your Mac stored on OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online on Office 365. The ability to open and insert files, including PDF files, into your notebook pages. The ability to view your password protected sections. Lastly, improved organization, capturing content, and sharing of notes.
Office for iPad: now with Presenter View, Pivot Table interaction, Export to PDF, and more top-requested features – This major update adds lots of customer-requested features to Office for iPad, read on for the full list.
Office 365 for business updates*:
Document collaboration made easy – Now from Outlook Web App you can open and edit email attachments using Office Online. A new side-by-side view keeps the email thread on the right of the email so you can also craft a response to the conversation, make edits to the document, and send your edited version, all without leaving Outlook Web App.
10x increase in Public Folder limits – We are raising the folder count limit to 100,000 folders. This is a 10x increase over the prior limit as defined in the Exchange service description limits. This enables migration of larger existing public folder hierarchies and increased use of the feature in Office 365.
OneNote for Mac and iOS get dressed for business and school – This update added four major features across Mac os X, iPhone, and iPad. Updates include: Access your work or school notebooks on your Mac stored on OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online on Office 365. The ability to open and insert files, including PDF files, into your notebook pages. The ability to view your password protected sections. Lastly, improved organization, capturing content, and sharing of notes.
New Office 365 admin tools – We’re providing Office 365 admins with more ways to stay informed with Office 365 service communications. You can now receive Office 365 service communications in Microsoft System Center by importing the newly available Office 365 Management Pack. And you can integrate Office 365 service communications into your monitoring systems and tools by interfacing with the Office 365 Service Communications API.
Office for iPad: now with Presenter View, Pivot Table interaction, Export to PDF, and more top-requested features – This major update adds lots of customer-requested features to Office for iPad, read on for the full list.
Important update available for Exchange Server 2013 hybrid deployments – An important update is now available to resolve issues customers are currently experiencing when using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) to create a new or manage an existing hybrid deployment with Microsoft Exchange Server 2013.
Power Map July update – We’re adding a new feature called “Automatic Refresh.” This feature makes the Repeat Tour feature we added back in May even better. During tour playback, Automatic Refresh will pull in the latest updates to your data every 10 minutes. When used together, Repeat Tour and Automatic Refresh let you use Power Map to monitor events in near real time.
New in Power BI: Cloud modeling for Q and A – The new cloud modeling enables you to define new terms and resolve any ambiguity for your questions.
Six new updates in Power Query – Here is a summary of the new features included in this release: more flexible Load Options for your queries, Query Groups, improved Error Debugging Experience, additional Query Editor transformations, replace Errors within a column, UX for defining Math operations based on a single column, options dialog: Restore Defaults & Tips for Cache Management, and update notifications: 3 notifications per update (max.), once per day at most.
Office 365 developer updates
Office 365 Development Patterns and Practices launched – The Office 365 Development Patterns & Practices team shipped the new open source repository today to GitHub.com/OfficeDev.
Please note that some of the updates may take time to show up in your Office 365 account, because they’re being rolled out to customers worldwide.
Source: http://blogs.office.com/2014/08/01/whats-new-july-2014/
