SharePoint Online simplifies admin interface plus adds new controls over user experience

Body: ​ Mark Kashman (@mkashman) is a senior product manager on the SharePoint marketing team. Narrow in on what is important—the task at hand. And when that changes, refocus. The journey to simplify the Office 365 admin experience continues, this time with a focus on simplifying the SharePoint Online admin center. For those admins who don’t specialize in deep SharePoint management, our goal is to allow you to manage the…

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New Office 365 admin tools

Body: ​ Lawrence Chiu is a senior product marketing manager for the admin experience on Office 365. On our journey in simplifying the Office 365 admin experience, we’ve introduced new features over the past few months. These include: streamlining commonly used administrative tasks, proactive DNS records checks and more detailed reports  and continuous enhancements to Message Center so that you can stay up to date with Office 365 service communications. Today, we’re…

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The power of ‘and’

Body: ​ The power of ‘and’ Posted May 30, 2014July 9, 2014 By Scott Guthrie – Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Group, Microsoft   A little over a year ago, we announced the general availability of Azure Infrastructure Services. Since that time, we helped customers realize the power of “and” with Infrastructure Services and Platform Services, Windows and Linux, Oracle, SQL and soon SAP – all in one cloud…

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Microsoft Free ebooks, nearly 300 free, tip-packed ebooks and resource guides

Body: Get ready to drink deep from the fountain of knowledge. As he’s done in years past, Microsoft senior sales excellence manager Eric Ligman has compiled a veritable flood of free Microsoft ebooks and other resources, offering up nearly 300 free guides for your reading pleasure. and other FAQs​ Category: News; Ideas; How to do Published: 7/29/2014 8:52 ]]>

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Microsoft is integrating the cloud into the Microsoft Partner Network

Body:   The announcement was made Monday by Phil Sorgen, Microsoft corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Channel, at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2014 in Washington, D.C. Business partners will now benefit from three new cloud-focused competencies based on performance for Office 365 and Microsoft Azure. This integration is happening to help partners serve better their customers. Microsoft will retire the Cloud Accelerate, Cloud Deployment and Azure Circle programs and provide…

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Microsoft’s unified technology event for enterprises

Body: ​ Over the past few months, it has been awesome to connect with our technical communities, customers, and partners at the SharePoint Conference, Lync Conference, Exchange Conference, Project Conference, and most recently, at TechEd North America. While the world is increasingly digital, there is still no replacement for time together, in person, to talk tech and business, and simply get to know each other better. Hands down, my favorite…

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Microsoft Azure – Cost Estimator Tool Released in Beta

Body: ​ ​             One of the more challenging things for companies considering a full or partial move to the Cloud is producing data on actual costs. Any move to the Cloud has to show cost savings or it’s simply not worth it. If a company decides to migrate for any other reason, they’re doing it wrong. Microsoft has released a new tool into beta that profiles existing…

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Office 365 – 10x increase in Public Folder limits

Body: We have made investments to scale up the limits for Public Folders in Office 365. Today we are raising the folder count limit to 100,000 folders. This is a 10x increase over the prior limit as defined in the Exchange service description limits. This enables migration of larger existing public folder hierarchies and increased use of the feature in Office 365. Customers can immediately take advantage of this new…

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New Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider program helps partners move customers to the cloud

Body: ​ Last year at the Worldwide Partners Conference (WPC), we announced our Office 365 Open program to include a broader range of offerings. The response we received greatly exceeded our expectations, with the number of partners selling Office on Open growing 16 times year over year. At the same time, we also heard feedback that partners want to engage at every part of the customer lifecycle – from sales…

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