Body: The Office 365 Team has developed a new course focused on performance management, featured within Microsoft Virtual Academy. The course titled, Office 365 performance management, includes eleven 45-90 minute modules covering topics like testing, troubleshooting, firewall configuration and best practices. Course instructors are experts in the topic and include Paul Andrew, senior technical product manager; Joshua Maher, senior content developer; Alice Appleton, business planner; Zach Rosenfield, principal PM lead; Ed…
Read MoreSanta’s Elves use OneNote to create giant wish list for Santa
Body: Chances are, if you’ve ever dropped a letter to Santa in a mailbox—whether it was stamped or not, or addressed with “North Pole” or not—it ended up at a post office in one small town in southern Indiana. Why Indiana? It’s because that town is called, for reasons too complex to relay logically here, “Santa Claus” and the U.S. Postal Service, cleverly and with no better alternative, began…
Read MoreClip Art now powered by Bing Images
Body: Starting today, customers searching for Online Pictures in Office desktop products worldwide will view and download royalty-free images curated through Bing Images. The Office.com Clip Art and image library has closed shop. Usage of Office’s image library has been declining year-to-year as customers rely more on search engines. Bing Image Search has higher quality images that are more up-to-date. For example, searching for “cellphone” gives more variety and…
Read MorePower Query November 2014 update—Connect to Analysis Services, Salesforce and more!
Body: We are happy to announce the availability of the November 2014 update for Power Query—packed with lots of new features that we hope you will enjoy and thank us for them (since we are in the Thanksgiving week). Before talking about new features in this update, we would like to invite you to complete a survey. It will take you only a few minutes and it will help…
Read MoreOffice 365 – Block spam this holiday season with the new enhanced bulk mail experience in EOP
Body: From time to time, you might have received the same, annoying newsletters or coupons over and over again. The rate of such spam increases significantly specially during the holiday season. Recently, we promised to evolve the Exchange Online Protection (EOP) to protect against tomorrow’s threat, and continuing on our promise, we are pleased to introduce the enhanced bulk email experience in EOP. With this new capability, we are introducing…
Read MoreIntroducing a new feature in Access 2013 web apps—Download in Excel
Body: It’s just the nature of shipping software in a services world with Office 365—when we hear your feedback, we can respond with new features that fill your needs. In the case of Access 2013 web apps, one of the most frequent feature requests we heard from customers was the need for an easier way to view their web app data in Excel. Currently, the process for viewing your…
Read MoreOffice Mobile for Android Smartphones update available with OneDrive sharing and Dropbox support
Body: Fresh updates are available now for the Office Mobile app for Android phones, making it easier to access, edit and share online Office files from your Android phone. New Sharing links to OneDrive files right from Office Mobile on your Android phone With this release, we are adding the ability to generate and share links to documents in your OneDrive and OneDrive for Business right within the app.…
Read MoreNext on Modern Workplace—How millennials are changing business
Body: Millennials will soon make up more than 50 percent of the workforce, and they demand agile productivity tools to support their flexible, collaborative work style. Does your business have what it takes to attract and empower top millennial talent? Register now to watch Modern Workplace live on December 2nd and hear directly from three leaders of the next generation about the impact that millennials are having on business…
Read MoreOffice 365 – Secure and sync with Information Rights Management on OneDrive for Business
Body: Millions of documents are stored today on OneDrive for Business that help people collaborate and get work done easily. But there are times when documents are sensitive and need an extra layer of protection. Office 365 provides Information Rights Management (IRM) capabilities, which helps you secure your information by encrypting it and applying an intelligent policy so that only specified internal and/or external people can “act” on your information.…
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