Announcing Azure ExpressRoute connectivity to Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ We’re pleased to announce that starting later this year, Office 365 customers will be able to use Azure ExpressRoute to establish a private, managed connection to Office 365. This is something our customers have been asking for since ExpressRoute launched last year. Currently, ExpressRoute provides customers with dedicated network connectivity through a private connection from their network to Microsoft Azure, and we’re excited to extend the same option…

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Power BI Preview now available worldwide

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ ​ This morning at Microsoft’s Convergence Conference, we announced new products and services that will enable organizations to create a data culture in all parts of their organizations. Adopting a data culture starts with making information easily accessible to all – our Power BI offering is helping to accelerate that adoption by changing the way people access, use, manage and share data. First unveiled in January, the new…

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Get ready for Skype for Business

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Today at Convergence, our CEO Satya Nadella encouraged companies to embrace the open exchange of information using intelligent, collaborative tools that enable people and organizations to achieve more. Delivering technology that helps people connect—to discuss, share and collaborate—is central to Microsoft’s mission to reinvent productivity. We announced last November that the next version of Microsoft Lync would become Skype for Business. I am thrilled to announce that the technical…

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Office Delve – Discover exactly what you need, when you need it

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In his keynote today at the Convergence conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella showed Office Delve as a prime example of how Microsoft is reimagining productivity to help people work in new and more connected ways. Delve is an experience within Office 365 that surfaces relevant content and insights tailored to each person. It is powered by the Office Graph, an intelligent fabric that applies machine learning to map the…

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Announcing the Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​   I’m pleased to announce the IT Pro and Developer Preview of Office 2016 for the Windows desktop. We’ve been in private preview with Office 2016 for several months. Now we’re ready to expand the program to our commercial Office 365 customers, an important milestone that gives IT pros and developers an opportunity to start testing the upcoming release. To be clear, this early build doesn’t yet contain…

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Administer on the go with the updated Office 365 Admin app

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Administer Office 365 on the go with the updated Office 365 admin app, which now enables you to complete common admin tasks when you are away from your computer. This could be resetting your CEO’s password, adding a new hire or deleting a user who suddenly has left the company. In addition, to help you stay in better touch with us, we added the Message Center—a central location…

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Easier navigation and playback with Office Mix

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Normally in our Office Mix posts, we explain one or more of the features for authoring new mixes. Today, want to share some cool things about the playback experience that you might not have noticed. Slide Sorter view One of the benefits of Office Mix is that mixes, unlike normal web videos, are partitioned by slides, not by time. For example, have you ever watched a web video,…

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Increasing opportunities for JavaScript developers on the Office 365 platform

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Today, we launched new capabilities to allow JavaScript developers to interact with the Office 365 APIs. The OneDrive for Business and Sites APIs now have cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) support and Mail/Calendar/Contacts are coming soon. As more Office 365 API endpoints come online for services they will also support this including Office Graph, Yammer, Video Portal, Skype and content services. Developers now have the choice to call the Office…

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