Taxonomy Refinement Panel Web Part and faceted navigation now available in SharePoint Online for intranet scenarios

Body: ​ Over the last months we’ve taken many steps towards enabling search-driven publishing for intranet sites in SharePoint Online. We enabled the Content Search Web Part (CSWP), the cross-site publishing feature, and a new group cache that improves the performance of the CSWP. Now we’ve enabled two features that previously were available only in SharePoint Server 2013—the Taxonomy Refinement Panel Web Part (TRPWP) and faceted navigation. Introducing the Taxonomy…

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OneNote updates Windows Store app to support printing, inserting files and PDFs and ink highlighter

Body: ​ Today the team is proud to announce updates to the OneNote Windows Store app, including printing, file insertion, and highlighting. These updates significantly improve the OneNote experience for students and help ease the transition to the upcoming school year. Print your notes We’ve heard from many customers—students in particular—that they need to print their notes from time to time. In fact, printing is the single biggest feature request.…

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Meet the new Office Dev Center

Body: ​ We are excited to announce that the Office Dev Center has gone through a major redesign and content overhaul, as we create a home for the Microsoft Office 365 developer audience. This site not only speaks to developers, but also to the technical and business decision makers by highlighting the opportunity and the getting started experience for building on Office 365. We also want to make sure that…

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Garage Series Under the Hood: Continually Safeguarding your Data in the Office 365 Service

Body: ​ In this special edition of Garage Series Live Under the Hood, Jeremy Chapman goes deep on the operational side of information protection with lead engineer Matt Swann – from Office 365′s blue team – responsible for detecting and analyzing anomalies in the service. They discuss how the service is architected for security across physical, network, access and data vectors then Matt demonstrates how the cloud is used to…

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10 reasons to trust Microsoft in the Cloud

Body:   Top 10 reasons businesses can trust Microsoft in the cloud   1-Transparency We share our commitments and information on privacy topics on the Microsoft Trust Centers. Microsoft Office 365 Trust Center Microsoft Azure Trust Center Dynamics CRM Online Trust Center Windows Intune Trust Center   2-Data privacy and security Microsoft incorporates world-class privacy and security features in our enterprise cloud services. Microsoft cloud privacy overview   3-Continuous compliance…

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Spam email and Office 365 environment – connection and content filtering in EOP

Body: ​ In the last related blog post we gave some introduction about Exchange Online Protection (EOP), what needs to be done when EOP is not working as desired and spam email troubleshooting process and classification. In this blog we will be moving further and discussing some more advanced option to stop spam emails. 1. IP Block list The “IP block list” option enables us to block email messages that…

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Spam email and Office 365 environment – connection and content filtering in EOP

Body: ​ In the last related blog post we gave some introduction about Exchange Online Protection (EOP), what needs to be done when EOP is not working as desired and spam email troubleshooting process and classification. In this blog we will be moving further and discussing some more advanced option to stop spam emails. 1. IP Block list The “IP block list” option enables us to block email messages that…

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SharePoint Online simplifies storage management

Body: ​ The journey to simplify the admin experience in Office 365 continues. Previously, we increased all OneDrive for Business users’ storage allotment to 1 TB. Along with this adjustment, we removed the OneDrive for Business quota management tab from the SharePoint Online admin center. Today we are introducing a new storage model based on usage, making it easier to manage availability of storage across your SharePoint Online team sites.…

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Office 365 news round-up

Body: ​ Microsoft launched Office on August 1, 1989, and for 25 years Microsoft Office has been helping people get things done in their personal and professional lives. We’re proud of that. The world has changed a lot during the past quarter century, and so has Office. Today, you can experience the power and convenience of Office on your desktop computer, portable laptop computers, or mobile devices such as the…

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