Office 365—monthly Dev Digest for May

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Welcome to the third edition of Dev Digest, designed to help you—the Office 365 developer—keep-up-to date with what’s new in Office 365 development. We have a huge amount of news to share with you this month based on all the announcements that were made at Build 2015 in San Francisco. For me, the most exciting announcements were the: Support for Office add-ins in Excel for iPad (and very soon…

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Amazing business productivity through Office 365—Dynamics CRM integration

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: “Amaze your customers!” is how Bob Stutz opened his recent blog announcing the general availability of the spring 2015 release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. I share Bob’s enthusiasm since many people—especially those involved in sales—will be amazed at how they can save time and sell more through seamless integration of Dynamics CRM Online with Office 365. For the Office team, reinventing productivity is our mantra and we’re excited…

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Sway has started rolling out to Office 365, added more languages, and more!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: It’s been an exciting month for Sway and our journey with Sway Preview! At the Ignite conference, we announced that Sway would roll out to Office 365 business and education customers and add support for more languages. Today we’re excited to announce the start of these rollouts, as well as other changes that expand the type of content you can add and the ways you can visualize the multimedia…

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New ways to get more done in Outlook.com

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: We are pleased to announce an update to Outlook.com that lets you make the most of the moments that matter to you—featuring a refined inbox, new ways to collaborate, an upgraded calendar and much more. This update is rolling out today, in Preview, to a small group of customers and is the first of many innovations coming as we upgrade Outlook.com to a new Office 365-based infrastructure.  These new…

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Early look at Office 2016 Public Preview for Windows—on the desktop and phone

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: On today’s Office Mechanics show, we’ll take a look at the new Office 2016 Public Preview on Windows 10—both on the desktop and on a phone. Ben Walters joins Jeremy Chapman again to the give an app-by-app tour of Office 2016 Public Preview on a Surface Pro 3 and a Lumia phone.   The Office 2016 Public Preview has been available since May 4th and today we are giving…

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OneNote gets ready for summer technology planning with updates for everyone

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: “OneNote has truly changed and evolved my classroom…adapting to the students’ needs on a quicker and more individualized basis.” — Michael Williams, Teacher and technology champion at Weston Ranch High School, Manteca USD (Watch his Office Mix to learn more.)   Today we are announcing a number of top requested features for OneNote Class Notebooks, OneNote Staff Notebooks, and OneNote across platforms coming soon to Office 365 customers. We…

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PowerBI News

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Recent Releases SQL Server 2016 On-Prem BI Investments BI Roadmap shared at IGNITE Plug-n-play Azure DW +Power BI Mobile BI with Datazen is now FREE Real-time Stream Analytics with Power BI Power BI Preview available worldwide   Latest and Greatest Content Download presentations and papers on SQL Server, Analytics and Power BI. http://www.jenunderwood.com/resources/downloads/​   Training Dashboard in a Day Hands-On Training Events On-Demand  Power BI for BI​ Professionals PowerPoint  Power…

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Recapping Yammer highlights and key takeaways from Ignite

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: With the whirlwind of Microsoft’s first-ever Ignite conference behind us, I’d like to take this opportunity to recap some of the Yammer highlights and key takeaways from the event. Our inaugural conference was successful on a massive scale, attended by 24,000 people including IT pros, developers, business leaders and influencers. Thousands of you packed into Yammer’s 20+ sessions to learn more about our new focus on team collaboration and…

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OneDrive for Business introduces new data loss prevention capabilities for sync

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​The ability to take OneDrive for Business files offline, apply changes and then sync those changes back is fundamental to helping people manage their files effectively across devices. Many organizations want to ensure their users are only able to sync files to managed- or domain-joined PC’s thereby limiting data leakage possibilities on unmanaged home and personal computers. Today we’re excited to announce that we’re releasing this capability for OneDrive…

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