Get more done with Tell Me

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ At the beginning of this year, we launched a brand-new feature in Word Online, Tell Me. Tell Me is now also available in Excel Online and PowerPoint Online. We figured that this update to Office Online might be a good time to tell you more about what motivated us to build this feature and how you can use it to be even more productive.   Tell Me is…

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Synchronizing your directory with Office 365 is easy

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ If you’re just getting started with Office 365, you’re probably considering how to extend the user directory that you use for accessing internal resources for connecting to cloud resources. The simplest way to achieve this is with the Windows Azure Active Directory Sync Tool (DirSync). This tool runs on a Windows Server machine on your network and synchronizes users to the cloud. DirSync has a wizard-driven install and…

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Choosing a sign-in model for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: We get a lot of questions about which of the three identity models to choose with Office 365. Which of these models you choose will impact where you manage your user accounts for Office 365 and how those user sign-in passwords are verified. In this post I’ll describe each of the models, explain how to move between them, and provide guidance on how to choose the right one for…

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The Garage Series for Office 365: Updates to Office 365 ProPlus for admins and first look at upcoming shared computer support

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ This week Jeremy is joined again by Curtis Sawin to demonstrate the latest admin features in Office 365 ProPlus and Click-to-Run. If you’ve wanted to install the entire Office suite without InfoPath or Access apps, its now possible and they’ll walk you through the new admin processes to do so. They also go under the hood to show how the Click-to-Run software update process works and even give…

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From inside the cloud

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: The Office 365 Trust Center has always been the place where we provide open and transparent information about how we run Office 365 and our commitment to our customers’ data privacy, security and compliance requirements. Microsoft is excited to launch a significant update to the Office 365 Trust Center, providing even greater information and insight for their customers.   A key aspect of the Trust Center update is our…

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Introducing new forecasting capabilities in Power View for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ At the PASS Business Analytics conference Microsoft has announced the availability of new forecasting capabilities for Power View in Office 365. In Power View, you can now apply predictive forecasting, and hindcasting, when visualizing and exploring your data. Forecasting in Power View utilizes built-in predictive forecasting models using exponential smoothing to automatically detect seasonality in the data to provide forecast results from a series of data. Explore forecast…

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TechEd 2014: What’s new in Exchange and Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:   Microsoft TechEd 2014 is in full swing and this is the first general session that I’m attending. It will cover what’s new in Exchange, both in Office 365 and on-prem. As usual during conference this is live blogging, directly from content presented in the session. So editing is minimal, and please excuse any grammar issues. Email Challenges Too much stuff in my inbox Important emails get buried People…

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Azure services announcements and pricing updates at TechEd North America

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ At TechEd North America 2014, Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure ExpressRoute, Virtual Networking enhancements, compute-intensive A8 & A9 VirtualMachines, IP Reservation, Import/Export Service, Managed Cache Service, Traffic Manager support for external endpoints, and several other features. In addition, we announced the public preview of RemoteApp, API Management, Redis Cache, Files, BizTalk Hybrid Connections, and Internal Loadbalancing. Support plans from the providers of top Linux distributions…

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New research shows rise in “deceptive downloads”

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​   According to the latest cybersecurity report from Microsoft, “deceptive downloads” were the top threat for 95 percent of the 110 countries surveyed. What are deceptive downloads? Deceptive downloads are legitimate downloadable programs (usually free) such as software, games, or music that cybercriminals bundle with malicious items. For example, you might receive a file in email or through social networking, but when you try to open it you…

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