Office 2013 modern authentication public preview announced

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…

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Download the new Salesforce App for Outlook

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…

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Administer on the go with the updated Office 365 Admin app

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Administer Office 365 on the go with the updated Office 365 admin app, which now enables you to complete common admin tasks when you are away from your computer. This could be resetting your CEO’s password, adding a new hire or deleting a user who suddenly has left the company. In addition, to help you stay in better touch with us, we added the Message Center—a central location…

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Increasing opportunities for JavaScript developers on the Office 365 platform

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Today, we launched new capabilities to allow JavaScript developers to interact with the Office 365 APIs. The OneDrive for Business and Sites APIs now have cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) support and Mail/Calendar/Contacts are coming soon. As more Office 365 API endpoints come online for services they will also support this including Office Graph, Yammer, Video Portal, Skype and content services. Developers now have the choice to call the Office…

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Increasing opportunities for JavaScript developers on the Office 365 platform

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Today, we launched new capabilities to allow JavaScript developers to interact with the Office 365 APIs. The OneDrive for Business and Sites APIs now have cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) support and Mail/Calendar/Contacts are coming soon. As more Office 365 API endpoints come online for services they will also support this including Office Graph, Yammer, Video Portal, Skype and content services. Developers now have the choice to call the Office…

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Understanding network connectivity to optimize your performance with Office 365Understanding network connectivity to optimize your performance with Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ ​ If you have ever wondered how network connectivity to Office 365 works, today’s Office Mechanics show gives you an insider’s look at datacenter and network coverage in Office 365. Jeremy Chapman is joined by Paul Andrew to demonstrate tools for optimizing network performance by planning capacity when connecting users to Office 365, troubleshooting bandwidth and latency, plus tips for setting up your network for peak performance.  …

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Making Clutter in Office 365 even better

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Clutter is a feature in Office 365 designed to help you focus on the most important messages in your inbox by moving lower priority messages out of your way and into a new Clutter folder. We began rolling out Clutter to Office 365 last November for English-speaking customers worldwide and we’re working on expanding to other languages. Today we are announcing new capabilities for Office 365 administrators to…

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OneNote for Teachers interactive guides now translated for global classrooms

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ ​In case you haven’t visited OneNoteforTeachers.com yet, we encourage you to do so and see how this new site, developed exclusively for educators, is helping new OneNote users become “OneNote Ninjas” without any cost to them or their school—in about an hour. Since launching this training-focused website, we have heard feedback from global educators about the need to have the guides in their own native language. So due…

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Catching a comet with Excel Power Map

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ The recent news that the Rosetta spacecraft made the closest approach ever to the Comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko  (Comet 67P), inspired the Excel Power Map team. Rosetta was launched on March 2, 2004 to reach Comet 67P by following the Comet’s path from the outer edge back to Sun. And although Power Map is widely used to map Earth-bound geographical data, we used the custom map feature to plot the…

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