Communications market update: customer response and analysts’ assessments

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Every day I come across stories of how organizations use Lync to connect people. I recently discovered how one hospital, Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, is using Lync to enhance the patient experience by connecting them to their families when they’re apart. This is a great example of the experiences and moments that Microsoft technology enables, and it also illustrates how we are delivering on our…

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Connecting AD and Azure AD: Only 4 clicks with Azure AD Connect

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ AAD Connect is a single wizard that performs all of the steps you would otherwise have to do manually for connecting Active Directory and local directories to Azure Active Directory: Downloads and installs pre-requisites like the .NET Framework, Azure Active Directory Powershell Module and Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant Downloads, installs and configures Dirsync (and in the future, AAD Sync), and enables it in your Azure tenant Configures…

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Office for iPad: now with Presenter View, Pivot Table interaction, Send as PDF, and more top-requested features

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Four months ago we released Office for iPad—the world’s best productivity experience reimagined for a mobile-first, cloud-first world. Since then millions of you have had the chance to use Office for iPad and provide feedback, and we’ve been hard at work delivering updates for the things you’ve asked for the most. Today we’re sharing the next wave of updates to Office for iPad. We’ve done a ton of…

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A tribute to 25 years of Office users

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Twenty-five years ago today, Microsoft launched Office, and ever since, Office has been helping people get things done in their work and personal lives. Of course the world is a very different place today than it was 25 years ago, and so is the way people work, but what is constant is how Office has evolved to help people work in new ways, to be more productive and…

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Office 365 – What’s new: July 2014

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:   July has been a busy month for mobile apps and admins. OneNote continues to receive updates to its Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad, and Android versions. Office for iPad was enhanced with many top customer requested features. Admins can now have 10x the number of Public Folders and new communication tools to stay informed about their Office 365 service.  Power BI, Power Map, and Power Query all also…

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Office 365 news round-up

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ OneNote is one of the great apps you get with your Office 365 subscription. OneNote lets you capture your ideas, write, sketch or type your thoughts, and easily organize everything in one place. You can even clip links and web pages, insert photos and videos, embed tables and attach files. During the past two weeks, we made OneNote even better, adding four major updates to OneNote for Mac,…

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

Nuno Árias Silva

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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