Garage Series: Office 365 identity just got easier – learn about the options and see the new tools

Body: ​ Want to know the most efficient way to get your users and co-workers into the cloud? This week Jeremy Chapman is joined by Paul Andrew to explain identity options and demonstrate a few tools to make it easier to synchronize your directory services with Office 365 and Azure Active Directory.   A few weeks back we used PowerShell and a CSV file to try and get 150 users…

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AAD Sync – Password Syncronization with Office 365

Body: It’s available to Implement password synchronization with AAD Sync with Office 365. Password synchronization is a feature of the Azure Active Directory Synchronization Service (Azure AD Sync) that synchronizes user passwords from your on-premises Active Directory to Azure Active Directory (“Azure AD”). This feature enables your users to log into their Azure Active Directory services (such as Office 365, InTune, CRM Online, etc.) using the same password as they…

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Office and Dropbox to work together on phones, tablets and web

Body: ​ Today we announced a partnership with Dropbox to provide more choice in how you work together and collaborate. You can do more with your Office documents when they are stored online. You can easily share your documents with others, and you can access those files from anywhere, on all your devices. If you use OneDrive and Office together, you already know how easy it is to work online…

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Office 365—now available in 140 markets

Body: ​ In 2010, the idea was simple—bring together the Microsoft productivity suite, including Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online, in an always-up-to-date cloud service and charge a predictable monthly subscription. From that simple idea Office 365 was born. In the past five years, that vision has expanded across the globe—from 40 markets in 2011 to 88 markets in 2012 to 127 markets in 2013. And today that…

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New Lync for Mac adds Media Resiliency, Conversation History and OS X Yosemite support

Body: ​ I’m pleased to say that we’ve just released our latest update to Lync for Mac, and it is available for download on Microsoft Support. This release adds new two features; Media Resiliency and Conversation History, as well as  additional support for Apple OS X Yosemite. Media Resiliency No network is perfect, of course, and we all want the best possible experience when hiccups happen. This update adds Media…

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New Outlook for Mac available to Office 365 customers

Body: ​ Today we are announcing the new Outlook for the Mac, which delivers improved performance and reliability and a fresh look and feel that is unmistakably Microsoft Office. This release offers a more familiar and consistent experience between Outlook on the PC, Outlook on the web and Outlook Web App (OWA) for iPad, iPhone and Android devices. The new Outlook for Mac includes: Better performance and reliability as a…

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Tune and optimize performance of your Office 365 connection

Body: ​ We are pleased to announce new resources to help Office 365 customers receive optimal performance when connecting to Office 365. As a software as a service (SaaS) offering, Office 365 has a number of layers between the servers that Microsoft manages and the end user.   Microsoft runs Office 365 in datacenters around the world; these datacenters are connected by a network to over 1,500 Internet Service Providers…

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OneNote gets even better on Mac and iOS

Body: ​ Fall is here—at least for those of us in the northern hemisphere—and the days are getting shorter. That means you’ll have to finish your work more quickly if you want to get outside and catch a few rays of sunshine before it gets dark. We want to help, so today we’re releasing an update for OneNote on iPhone, iPad and Mac with new features that make it even…

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Office 365—Our latest innovations in security and compliance

Body: Today, at TechEd Europe, we are pleased to announce the next set of innovations in security, privacy and compliance capabilities of Office 365, including mobile device management capabilities for Office 365, expansion of data loss prevention (DLP) technologies and the availability of per-file encryption in our productivity services. As a global provider of productivity services that includes Office, the most familiar productivity suite in the world, we understand that…

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