March 2015 – Nuno Árias Silva Website

Office 365 – Built-in mobile device management now generally available for Office 365 commercial plans

30/03/201505/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: A few months ago at TechEd Europe we announced that built-in mobile device management (MDM) capabilities were coming to Office 365. Today, we are pleased to offer the general availability of MDM capabilities for Office 365. With MDM for Office 365, you can manage access to Office 365 data across a diverse range of phones and tablets, including iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices. And what makes today’s news…

The new Office 365 Compliance Center

29/03/201505/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: The Office 365 Compliance Center contains the key compliance-related features for an Office 365 admin to manage compliance across Office 365, Exchange Online, and SharePoint Online. This new management interface represents our evolving compliance offering, which will eventually span all Office 365 compliance-related features and help you meet your legal, regulatory, and organizational compliance requirements. Consolidating compliance functionality across services into this single area will make compliance features easier to access…

Quick tour of Office 2016 for Mac Preview

25/03/201505/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: On today’s Office Mechanics show, we’ll take a look at the new Office 2016 for Mac Preview, which brings together all the most recent updates for Office on the Mac. Kaberi Chowdhury joins Jeremy Chapman to demonstrate highlights of what’s new with PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook and even the newest member of the Office for Mac family, OneNote. Office 2016 for Mac was announced earlier this month…

Exploring Manhattan with Excel Power Map

24/03/201505/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Today’s post was written by Daniel Witriol, senior program manager on the Excel Power Map team. New York is an iconic city with a rich history of innovation. I have a lot of family in New York and grew up visiting the city. Now that I’m living in Seattle, thousands of miles away, I don’t get to visit very often. However, I thought it might be fun…

From the MVPs: Office 365 Multi-factor Authentication with Microsoft Azure Active Directory

24/03/201504/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: This is the 51st in our series of guest posts by Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs). You can click the “MVPs” tag in the right column of our blog to see all the articles. Since the early 1990s, Microsoft has recognized technology champions around the world with the MVP Award. MVPs freely share their knowledge, real-world experience, and impartial and objective feedback to help people enhance the way…

Office 2013 modern authentication public preview announced

23/03/201505/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Today we are pleased to announce that Office 2013 client modern authentication features have moved from private preview to public preview. This means the program is easier to join and production support is included for participants. Modern authentication brings Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL)-based sign in to Office 2013 Windows clients. Previously, this was only available as a private preview for testing. Now modern authentication is available to…

Office 365 news roundup

22/03/201505/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Microsoft makes some of the world’s most popular productivity tools, but we know from experience that true productivity is sometimes an elusive goal. Would it surprise you to learn that the average knowledge worker today spends “an estimated 28 percent of the workweek managing email and nearly 20 percent looking for internal information or tracking down colleagues who can help with specific tasks?” Those are the facts, according…

Download the new Salesforce App for Outlook

18/03/201504/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Everyday millions of people around the world use Outlook and Salesforce to help run their businesses. In Office 2013, we introduced Apps for Office to let our partners add capabilities to Office to extend it and integrate it with the services our users use every day to help them be even more productive in Office. Today, as part of our ongoing strategic partnership with Salesforce, the new Salesforce App…

Skype for Business is here – And this is only the beginning

18/03/201505/05/2016 Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Enabling people to connect with one another is central to Microsoft’s mission to reinvent productivity and help people make the most of every moment. For us, connecting people means delivering experiences capable of conveying all forms of human expression—verbal, written, visual and emotional. In today’s modern workplace, productivity will increasingly be centered on conversations, whether in writing, in person, via phone or video conference call. People need communications…

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