Enforcing Office 365 identity in Yammer now available

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ A year ago, we announced that you could use your Office 365 credentials to sign in to Yammer. Today we’re excited to share with you a new feature that supports enforcing Office 365 identity in Yammer. By enforcing Office 365 identity in Yammer and configuring federated identity in Office 365, admins can achieve single sign-on (SSO) capabilities for all services in Office 365, which includes Yammer. This further…

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Introducing the Microsoft Graph

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​   As a company, we are focused on reimagining the way the world should work. In an age of information abundance, we understand that people are seeking integrated experiences that help them break out of knowledge silos, “work like a network” and connect information from multiple touchpoints in meaningful ways. Office extensibility has always been about ubiquitous connectivity, enabling new experiences on mobile devices, and empowering developers to create powerful and…

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Office 365 innovations in enterprise security and compliance

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: The role of IT has never been more critical, nor more challenging. IT is tasked with enabling workers to be productive on any device from any location while securing devices and data amidst a landscape of increasingly targeted and sophisticated threats to enterprise security. Over the last year, we’ve introduced several new security and compliance capabilities to Office 365, including Advanced Threat Protection, Customer Lockbox and Advanced eDiscovery, which…

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Office 365 news roundup

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Providing our customers with world-class productivity tools sometimes requires both innovation and acquisition, a combination of all the features and capabilities our best minds can develop and those we choose to add through the strategic purchase of technology that others have created. Microsoft recently announced two new business deals that demonstrate the value of using thoughtfully acquired technology to help build, improve or enhance superior products. The first…

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30 feature updates to “Get & Transform” in Excel 2016 and Power Query add-in

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ This week we’re pleased to announce a new set of features for “Get & Transform” in Excel 2016 and the Power Query add-in for Excel 2013/2010. This update is packed with lots of new features that have been requested by many customers. We expect that you will find this update extremely useful. How can I get this update? For Excel 2016: Install the latest Click-to-Run update for Excel…

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30 feature updates to “Get & Transform” in Excel 2016 and Power Query add-in

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ This week we’re pleased to announce a new set of features for “Get & Transform” in Excel 2016 and the Power Query add-in for Excel 2013/2010. This update is packed with lots of new features that have been requested by many customers. We expect that you will find this update extremely useful. How can I get this update? For Excel 2016: Install the latest Click-to-Run update for Excel…

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Attachments in Outlook 2016 – Ready for collaboration

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Tired of digging around for the file you want to attach when you were just working on it earlier? Tired of later trying to sift through emails to find links shared with you? With the release of Outlook 2016 for Windows, attachments just got a whole lot better. You can now skip the hassles associated with finding and sharing files, regardless of whether you were working on them on your computer, phone or tablet.…

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What’s new: October 2015

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ ​ The Office 2016 launch in September was followed by a steady stream of improvements in October. The Skype for Business iOS app is here, and the preview of the new Skype for Business voice and meeting capabilities is now more widely available. FastTrack evolved from an onboarding service to a customer success service to help you realize business value faster with the Microsoft Cloud. Compliance updates include…

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Office 365 admin updates – From portal enhancements to PowerShell

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ ​If you are an Office 365 administrator, there are a number of new tools, reports and resources coming to help save you time when managing Office 365. On today’s Microsoft Mechanics, Lawrence Chiu joins me to take a tour and review Office 365 updates for admins. We take a look at the latest tool updates, including the new simplified portal design, an early look at upcoming reporting capabilities,…

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