Office 365 — Monthly Dev Digest for April

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Welcome to the second edition of Dev Digest, designed to help you—the Office 365 developer—keep-up-to date with what’s new in Office 365 development. It was great to hear that the first monthly digest was useful to you. Everyone here in Redmond is getting pumped to show you what we’ve been doing around the Office 365 developer platform at //Build and Ignite in a few weeks. We look forward to…

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Office 365 Video begins worldwide rollout and gets mobile

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: If a picture is worth a thousand words, video then makes a James Joyce novel look tiny. Video is a popular medium for effective, engaging internal communications—and its importance is growing. Office 365 Video, too, is growing, providing organizations with a secure, company-wide destination for posting, sharing and discovering video content. And the video experience—embedded within Office 365—meets IT requirements and wins the hearts and minds of users. Today,…

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Evolving Yammer for a new era of teamwork

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:    ​Yesterday we laid out our vision for modern collaboration in Office 365, which recognizes that collaboration is central to productivity and teams today are dynamic, extending far beyond the four walls of an organization. To get work done, teams need an easy way to self-organize, stay connected on the go, tap into the network of stakeholders inside and outside your company—and do all this while juggling multiple projects.…

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Office 365 – Now supports larger email messages up to 150 MB

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: For the last few years the largest email message you could send or receive in Office 365 was 25 MB. While 25 MB is more than enough for the majority of email, you might bump up against that limit when trying to send large slide decks, spreadsheets or videos. Outlook Web App (OWA) in Office 365 offers an easy way to “attach” a document as a link to where…

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6 updates for Power Query for Excel

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: A Power Query for Excel update is now available for you and is packed with lots of new features including: New Navigator dialog Ability to create new queries from the Query Editor New Launch Editor button on Power Query ribbon tab Additional operators for date filtering in Query Editor Database connections—added support for Port number Additional Performance improvements     You can continue reading below for more details about…

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New Office Delve People Experiences in Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: “Through others we become ourselves.” —Lev S. Vygotsky A company’s most important assets are its people—YOU. The knowledge and experience of you and your colleagues collectively brings great value to your company. And as you communicate and work out loud together within Office 365, the value of your work can be surfaced and discovered by others in Delve. Today, we are announcing enhancements to Office 365 that leverage Delve…

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Deliver compelling presentations using Office Mix Slide Notes and closed captioning

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: We’re always looking for ways to improve how you can use Office Mix to deliver a compelling presentation and better engage your audience. We’ve done just that with two vital additions to Office Mix, Slide Notes and Closed Captioning. Be prepared with Slide Notes One of the most important aspects of delivering an effective presentation is being adequately prepared and knowledgeable enough to adapt on-the-fly. You may remember a…

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Skype for Business is here!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ A few weeks ago, we announced the technical preview of the Skype for Business client, and today, we’re thrilled to announce that the new Skype for Business client is now rolling out as part of the April monthly update for Office 2013! In addition, Skype for Business Online is now rolling out to Office 365 customers worldwide, and we expect the roll out to be complete by the end…

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Office 365 – What’s new: March 2015

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:    ​The March Office 365 updates cover an impressive range: previews, significant improvements, new capabilities and connectors, and a new app. You can now preview Office 2016 for Mac, send information in Gmail messages straight to OneNote, preview your notes in OneNote for iPhone, capture web content more easily with OneNote Clipper 2.0, and more. For Office 365 business users, three new previews are available: Office 2016 IT Pro…

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