Body: Over the past few years, you’ve provided feedback on how we could improve the experience for creating connectors to set up mail flow in Office 365. We heard you loud and clear… Out with old, in with the new. We completely overhauled the connector experience in Office 365 to provide you with better guidance, a simplified user interface and an easier way to check that everything works as expected.…
Read MoreOffice 365—monthly Dev Digest for May
Body: Welcome to the third edition of Dev Digest, designed to help you—the Office 365 developer—keep-up-to date with what’s new in Office 365 development. We have a huge amount of news to share with you this month based on all the announcements that were made at Build 2015 in San Francisco. For me, the most exciting announcements were the: Support for Office add-ins in Excel for iPad (and very soon…
Read MoreAmazing business productivity through Office 365—Dynamics CRM integration
Body: “Amaze your customers!” is how Bob Stutz opened his recent blog announcing the general availability of the spring 2015 release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. I share Bob’s enthusiasm since many people—especially those involved in sales—will be amazed at how they can save time and sell more through seamless integration of Dynamics CRM Online with Office 365. For the Office team, reinventing productivity is our mantra and we’re excited…
Read MoreSway has started rolling out to Office 365, added more languages, and more!
Body: It’s been an exciting month for Sway and our journey with Sway Preview! At the Ignite conference, we announced that Sway would roll out to Office 365 business and education customers and add support for more languages. Today we’re excited to announce the start of these rollouts, as well as other changes that expand the type of content you can add and the ways you can visualize the multimedia…
Read MoreNew ways to get more done in Outlook.com
Body: We are pleased to announce an update to Outlook.com that lets you make the most of the moments that matter to you—featuring a refined inbox, new ways to collaborate, an upgraded calendar and much more. This update is rolling out today, in Preview, to a small group of customers and is the first of many innovations coming as we upgrade Outlook.com to a new Office 365-based infrastructure. These new…
Read MoreEarly look at Office 2016 Public Preview for Windows—on the desktop and phone
Body: On today’s Office Mechanics show, we’ll take a look at the new Office 2016 Public Preview on Windows 10—both on the desktop and on a phone. Ben Walters joins Jeremy Chapman again to the give an app-by-app tour of Office 2016 Public Preview on a Surface Pro 3 and a Lumia phone. The Office 2016 Public Preview has been available since May 4th and today we are giving…
Read MoreOneNote gets ready for summer technology planning with updates for everyone
Body: “OneNote has truly changed and evolved my classroom…adapting to the students’ needs on a quicker and more individualized basis.” — Michael Williams, Teacher and technology champion at Weston Ranch High School, Manteca USD (Watch his Office Mix to learn more.) Today we are announcing a number of top requested features for OneNote Class Notebooks, OneNote Staff Notebooks, and OneNote across platforms coming soon to Office 365 customers. We…
Read MorePowerBI News
Body: Recent Releases SQL Server 2016 On-Prem BI Investments BI Roadmap shared at IGNITE Plug-n-play Azure DW +Power BI Mobile BI with Datazen is now FREE Real-time Stream Analytics with Power BI Power BI Preview available worldwide Latest and Greatest Content Download presentations and papers on SQL Server, Analytics and Power BI. http://www.jenunderwood.com/resources/downloads/ Training Dashboard in a Day Hands-On Training Events On-Demand Power BI for BI Professionals PowerPoint Power…
Read MoreRecapping Yammer highlights and key takeaways from Ignite
Body: With the whirlwind of Microsoft’s first-ever Ignite conference behind us, I’d like to take this opportunity to recap some of the Yammer highlights and key takeaways from the event. Our inaugural conference was successful on a massive scale, attended by 24,000 people including IT pros, developers, business leaders and influencers. Thousands of you packed into Yammer’s 20+ sessions to learn more about our new focus on team collaboration and…
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