From inside the cloud

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: The Office 365 Trust Center has always been the place where we provide open and transparent information about how we run Office 365 and our commitment to our customers’ data privacy, security and compliance requirements. Microsoft is excited to launch a significant update to the Office 365 Trust Center, providing even greater information and insight for their customers.   A key aspect of the Trust Center update is our…

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Introducing new forecasting capabilities in Power View for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ At the PASS Business Analytics conference Microsoft has announced the availability of new forecasting capabilities for Power View in Office 365. In Power View, you can now apply predictive forecasting, and hindcasting, when visualizing and exploring your data. Forecasting in Power View utilizes built-in predictive forecasting models using exponential smoothing to automatically detect seasonality in the data to provide forecast results from a series of data. Explore forecast…

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TechEd 2014: What’s new in Exchange and Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body:   Microsoft TechEd 2014 is in full swing and this is the first general session that I’m attending. It will cover what’s new in Exchange, both in Office 365 and on-prem. As usual during conference this is live blogging, directly from content presented in the session. So editing is minimal, and please excuse any grammar issues. Email Challenges Too much stuff in my inbox Important emails get buried People…

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Azure services announcements and pricing updates at TechEd North America

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ At TechEd North America 2014, Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure ExpressRoute, Virtual Networking enhancements, compute-intensive A8 & A9 VirtualMachines, IP Reservation, Import/Export Service, Managed Cache Service, Traffic Manager support for external endpoints, and several other features. In addition, we announced the public preview of RemoteApp, API Management, Redis Cache, Files, BizTalk Hybrid Connections, and Internal Loadbalancing. Support plans from the providers of top Linux distributions…

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New research shows rise in “deceptive downloads”

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​   According to the latest cybersecurity report from Microsoft, “deceptive downloads” were the top threat for 95 percent of the 110 countries surveyed. What are deceptive downloads? Deceptive downloads are legitimate downloadable programs (usually free) such as software, games, or music that cybercriminals bundle with malicious items. For example, you might receive a file in email or through social networking, but when you try to open it you…

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Microsoft reveals new enterprise services and products at TechEd 2014

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ TechEd North America 2014   As promised, Microsoft launched its TechEd North America 2014 conference in Houston, Texas today with a keynote address led by Brad Anderson, the company’s Corporate Vice President for its cloud and enterprise businesses. Anderson also wrote a blog post that reveals some of what he discussed during the keynote address.   Anderson told the attendees at TechEd this morning that Microsoft is working on a “mobile-first”…

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Enterprise-grade cloud services: a high bar required for security, compliance, and privacy

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ IT Pros today are focusing more than ever on how to give employees access to information, provide collaboration tools for inside and outside the company, and to do it all across a multitude of devices. While end-user expectations and demand for the latest tools is high, IT has to balance this pressure to meet users’ needs with meeting corporate policies, industry regulations, and government laws. Historically, security and compliance technologies…

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Outlook Connectivity with MAPI over HTTP

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Among the many new features delivered in Exchange 2013 SP1 is a new method of connectivity to Outlook we refer to as MAPI over HTTP (or MAPI/HTTP for short). We’ve seen a lot of interest about this new connection method and today we’ll give you a full explanation of what it is, what it provides, where it will take us in the future, and finally some tips of…

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Outlook Connectivity with MAPI over HTTP

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Among the many new features delivered in Exchange 2013 SP1 is a new method of connectivity to Outlook we refer to as MAPI over HTTP (or MAPI/HTTP for short). We’ve seen a lot of interest about this new connection method and today we’ll give you a full explanation of what it is, what it provides, where it will take us in the future, and finally some tips of…

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