New Document Inspector features for Excel, PowerPoint and Word

Body: ​ Beginning with the November and December 2014 updates for Microsoft Office 2013 and 2010, several enhancements are being added to the Document Inspector, also known as the “Check for Issues” tool in Excel, PowerPoint and Word. The Document Inspector helps you to prepare your documents, presentations, or workbooks for publishing and sharing by checking for items that may contain hidden or private information. In some cases, it will…

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Office Lens gets you networking—scan business cards to OneNote, contacts to Outlook

Body: ​ Did you know that in the U.S. alone, over 10 billion business cards are printed each year and 88 percent of business cards exchanged are thrown out within a week? Here on the OneNote team, we’re always looking for ways to help you be more efficient, and today we’re launching a new feature to help you digitize all those business cards. Scan business cards with Office Lens You’ve…

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Upcoming general availability of Azure RemoteApp

Body: ​ We’ve announced the upcoming general availability of Azure RemoteApp and its related pricing. Azure RemoteApp delivers Windows Server session-based applications from the Azure cloud to provide scale, agility, and global access to your corporate applications. With Azure RemoteApp, you can enable your users to access corporate applications from anywhere and on a variety of devices, scale up or down to meet the dynamic business needs without large capital…

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Video calling between Skype and Lync available now

Body: ​ In 2013, we enabled Lync users to contact people on Skype using instant messaging, presence, and audio calling right from your contact list.  I’m happy to say that we’ve now taken the next step by adding video calling between Lync 2013 and the latest Skype for Windows desktop client, available for download here.  Now Lync users can conduct everyday business and collaboration “face-to-face” with customers, partners and suppliers…

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Organize your holiday with OneNote

Body: ​Holiday shopping can be hectic. There’s so much to do in a narrow window of time that sometimes we can lose sight of the cheer in it all. Let OneNote help you keep everything in its place—so you can stress a little less and enjoy each moment a little more. Holiday gift lists Keep track of everyone you’re buying for with organized wish lists in OneNote. (Even convert handwriting…

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Office 365 – Customer Success Center available in multiple languages

Body: ​Office 365 Customer Success Center (http://success.office.com) is now also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish (Latam & Spain), Portuguese (Brazil & Portugal), Japanese and finally Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)! If you have not already looked at the O365 Customer Success Center; this new website is designed to help customers and partners drive adoption and business value. Targeting the change agents within organizations (Business Champions, or IT Managers) the Office 365 Customer…

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Bringing more search and more intelligence to Sway

Body: ​ From the beginning, Sway has aimed to help people easily create and share fantastic content that looks great on any device. Today, we’re thrilled to start bringing the intelligence of Bing Image Search into Sway Preview. These features allow you to search for content, review any applicable license terms, as well as expand Sway’s intelligent assistance to help you with content searches. It’s now easier than ever for…

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Improved Privacy for Azure AD MFA and Password Reset Phone Numbers

Body: ​ Over the past few months, as more and more of you use the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Self Service Password Reset (SSPR) capabilities of Azure AD Premium, you’ve requested and option to let employees keep the mobile phone numbers they are using for Azure MFA and Self Service Password Reset private so they are not be visible in the Office365 Global Address List. We’ve just turned on our…

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