Organize your Office 365 with the new app launcher

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ American founding father Benjamin Franklin famously said, “A place for everything and everything in its place.” In order to yield your greatest results, organization and access to each tool you need to accomplish your goals is paramount. Getting organized. Some people are naturally great at this, some people drag their feet and kick their heels. But there is no doubt that organization can yield results—at home, at work…

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Garage Series for Office 365: PowerShell basics and the space race

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ On this week’s show Jeremy Chapman is joined by scripting guy, Greg Stemp, to introduce PowerShell for managing Office 365. Jeremy and Greg explain when PowerShell makes sense compared to the user interface and describe the basics of how PowerShell works. Then Jeremy puts PowerShell to the test at NASA in Houston by attempting to add 150 users into Office 365 within the 8 minutes it took the…

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Simpler, better instant messaging options in Lync 2013

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ You asked, we listened.  Today, we released an update to the Lync 2013 Windows client, which gives users the option to eliminate the images of senders and receivers in IM conversations without disabling them in the contact list.  We also grouped all of the IM options in the Options dialog to make them easier to find and made a number of other improvements to our media stack to…

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Office 365 URLs and IP addresses – How to don’t have problems

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ If your organization restricts computers on your network from connecting to the Internet, you should allow outbound connections, also known as whitelisting, to ensure your computers can successfully use Office 365 Using URL whitelisting is the recommended approach due to the modern web architecture of Office 365. While IP whitelisting will work, there are a number of downsides to this approach, including: Web clients such as the Office 365 admin portal…

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Garage Series for Office 365: Delivering custom Office experiences with Azure RemoteApp

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ On today’s show, Jeremy is joined by Klaas Langhout from the Azure team to discuss the pros and cons of delivering Office desktop experiences via RemoteApp. They balance the user experiences of native apps versus remote desktop architectures. Then Klaas demonstrates how quickly an Azure RemoteApp environment running Office can be set up.    In our last two shows we covered how eligible students can get Office for…

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Introducing a new way to share files with Outlook Web App

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ We’re thrilled to announce two new ways to share files with Outlook Web App (OWA) and OneDrive for Business that make it much simpler to share and collaborate: When you send an email in OWA, you can easily insert a link to a file on your OneDrive for Business cloud drive instead of attaching the file itself. When you send an attachment from your computer or device you can now automatically upload the file to your OneDrive for Business cloud drive and share the file as…

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Introducing OneNote class notebooks—a flexible digital framework for teaching and learning

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ “OneNote is so much more than a piece of software, it is a framework for teaching and learning.” —Rob Baker, director of technology, Cincinnati Country Day School We’ve been tremendously proud over the years to see OneNote helping teachers revolutionize learning in their classrooms. Across the country and around the world, we’ve seen many classrooms innovating with OneNote to power 21st century digital learning experiences by: Empowering students…

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One-Time Passcode for Office 365 Message Encryption

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Back in February, we launched Office 365 Message Encryption, the all-new encryption service that allows you to send encrypted mail to anyone. We’ve come a long way since that announcement. We’ve upgraded all of our Exchange Hosted Encryption (EHE) customers to Office 365 Message Encryption. And we’ve seen great service adoption, with more than a million encrypted messages sent using Office 365 Message Encryption ready! While we’ve been…

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