Body: The Office 365 Trust Center has always been the place where we provide open and transparent information about how we run Office 365 and our commitment to our customers’ data privacy, security and compliance requirements. Microsoft is excited to launch a significant update to the Office 365 Trust Center, providing even greater information and insight for their customers. A key aspect of the Trust Center update is our…
Read MoreIntroducing new forecasting capabilities in Power View for Office 365
Body: At the PASS Business Analytics conference Microsoft has announced the availability of new forecasting capabilities for Power View in Office 365. In Power View, you can now apply predictive forecasting, and hindcasting, when visualizing and exploring your data. Forecasting in Power View utilizes built-in predictive forecasting models using exponential smoothing to automatically detect seasonality in the data to provide forecast results from a series of data. Explore forecast…
Read MoreTechEd 2014: What’s new in Exchange and Office 365
Body: Microsoft TechEd 2014 is in full swing and this is the first general session that I’m attending. It will cover what’s new in Exchange, both in Office 365 and on-prem. As usual during conference this is live blogging, directly from content presented in the session. So editing is minimal, and please excuse any grammar issues. Email Challenges Too much stuff in my inbox Important emails get buried People…
Read MoreAzure services announcements and pricing updates at TechEd North America
Body: At TechEd North America 2014, Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure ExpressRoute, Virtual Networking enhancements, compute-intensive A8 & A9 VirtualMachines, IP Reservation, Import/Export Service, Managed Cache Service, Traffic Manager support for external endpoints, and several other features. In addition, we announced the public preview of RemoteApp, API Management, Redis Cache, Files, BizTalk Hybrid Connections, and Internal Loadbalancing. Support plans from the providers of top Linux distributions…
Read MoreMicrosoft reveals new enterprise services and products at TechEd 2014
Body: TechEd North America 2014 As promised, Microsoft launched its TechEd North America 2014 conference in Houston, Texas today with a keynote address led by Brad Anderson, the company’s Corporate Vice President for its cloud and enterprise businesses. Anderson also wrote a blog post that reveals some of what he discussed during the keynote address. Anderson told the attendees at TechEd this morning that Microsoft is working on a “mobile-first”…
Read MoreEnterprise-grade cloud services: a high bar required for security, compliance, and privacy
Body: IT Pros today are focusing more than ever on how to give employees access to information, provide collaboration tools for inside and outside the company, and to do it all across a multitude of devices. While end-user expectations and demand for the latest tools is high, IT has to balance this pressure to meet users’ needs with meeting corporate policies, industry regulations, and government laws. Historically, security and compliance technologies…
Read MoreMeet Office Mix
Body: Today we are announcing the customer preview of Office Mix – a simple way to turn your PowerPoint slides into interactive online lessons and presentations. We’ve heard from teachers that it can be difficult and expensive to make online lessons. Creating online lessons takes multiple pieces of expensive software, some of which are expensive or require serious technical skills, like complex video editing and timelines. All just to get a…
Read MoreOffice 365 news round-Up
Body: “Nothing succeeds like success.” That was the opinion of Alexandre Dumas, best-selling author of such classic tales as “The Three Musketeers” and “The Count of Monte Cristo,” whose work has been translated into more than 100 languages. We couldn’t agree more. The reason Office 365 has become such a successful product is because it succeeds in helping our customers harness the power of the cloud, increase productivity and…
Read MoreThe Garage Series for Office 365: Enhancing online file sharing and storage with OneDrive for Business
Body: On today’s show, Jeremy is joined by lead OneDrive engineer, Michael Connolly, to explain the recent changes and announcements around OneDrive for Business. They talk about the trends and events leading up to the standalone offer, hybrid support for SharePoint on premises and everything leading up to Monday’s announcement of 1 terabyte storage per user. If you wanted proof that the Microsoft Cloud and Office…
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