Body: Experience what’s new in Power BI Bring your data to life Insights are hiding in your company’s data — see the impact of bringing them into focus with Power BI. Use it Free This preview is only available to users in the United States. By clicking Use it Free, you agree to the Power BI Preview Terms of Service. Learn more about Power BI for Office 365. Introducing the…
Read MoreOneDrive for Business comes to Mac and iOS devices
Body: Today we’re excited to announce new ways that you can access and manage your OneDrive for Business files from your Mac and iOS devices. In the last few months we’ve rolled out new mobile experiences across Android and Windows Phone, which allow people to connect to both their personal and business OneDrive storage from a single app. We’re excited to announce that today we released an updated…
Read MoreFirst look at the new Power BI Preview
Body: This week Michael Tejedor joins Jeremy Chapman on Office Mechanics to give a first look at the updates to Power BI. The preview announced yesterday adds a number of new Power BI capabilities, including dashboards, new visualizations, support for popular software-as-a-service applications, a native iPad app and live “hybrid” connectivity to on-premises SQL Server Analysis Services tabular models. Michael demonstrates all this and more on the show and…
Read MoreOffice Mix now works with the Moodle open source LMS
Body: Here at Microsoft, we constantly look for ways to empower teachers around the world using technology—both in the classroom and online. Recently our subsidiary, Microsoft Open Technologies Inc. (MS Open Tech) announced a partnership with Remote-Learner to integrate Office 365 and the Moodle learning management system (LMS). Moodle, one of the most popular learning management systems is now integrated with OneNote, OneDrive for Business, the Office 365 Outlook…
Read MoreStill using Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server? Make your move soon!
Body: Back in September 2012, in order to better align security and protection solutions with the workloads and applications they protect, we announced changes to the roadmaps of some of the security solutions offered under the Forefront brand. Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) is a Microsoft security solution that also works with prior versions of Forefront server and Antigen products. Microsoft stopped offering the FPE product in…
Read MoreFrom Inside the Cloud: What commitments does Microsoft make when you subscribe to Office 365?
Body: If you have been following the From Inside the Cloud series, you know we regularly bring you an insider’s view from the people behind the services on how we operate and manage Office 365 for security, privacy and compliance. We thought we’d focus our first edition of the New Year on outlining the commitments Microsoft makes when you subscribe to Office 365 services. Watch this brief video for more details…
Read MoreOffice 365 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager
Body: System Center Management Pack for Office 365 If you use Office 365 and SCOM you use this latest Management Pack to monitor Office 365. The Office 365 Management Pack for Operations Manager is designed for the following versions of System Center Operations Manager: • System Center Operations Manager 2012 • System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 • System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 Office 365 Management Pack…
Read MoreOneNote for teachers—training, lesson plans and new languages for Class Notebook Creator
Body: As developers of OneNote and the OneNote Class Notebook Creator, we realize that creating exciting products is only the first step towards to making a difference in education. The next steps are to actively train educators on how they can use OneNote in ways that are immediately relevant to their daily school lives and give them the content that serves as a basis for further curriculum generation. The…
Read MoreOffice 365 – Introducing Send Email in Access 2013 web apps
Body: One of the top feature requests we’ve heard from customers using Access 2013 web apps hosted inside Office 365 is the need to be able to send emails from their apps. We listened and today we’re proud to announce that a new feature called “Send Email” is available to all of our customers using Office 365 with Access Services. Now you can send emails from your Access 2013 web…
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