Office 365 news round-up

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ 2014 has been a big year for innovation on Office 365, with Office Mix, Delve and Sway showing just a few of the ways we’ve added more value to the Office family. We’ve added functionality across other platforms, getting great reviews for the Office for iPad and Office for iPhone apps and moving toward general availability of Office for Android tablets in early 2015. With the work we’ve done, we could…

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Sharing the world’s wishes through OneNote

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Every year children from the age of two to ninety-two put pen, pencil or crayon to paper and write their holiday wish list. Earlier this month, we let you in on a little secret—that our nation’s letters to Santa go to a small post office in the tiny town of Santa Claus, Indiana. More than 13,000 of these wish lists find their way to Santa Claus (the town)…

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Information about upcoming changes to the SharePoint Online Public Website

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​Starting in January 2015, Microsoft is making changes to the SharePoint Online Public Website feature. Customers who currently use this feature will continue to have access to the feature for a minimum of two years following the changeover date. New customers who subscribe to Office 365 after the changeover date won’t have access to this feature. Moving forward, Office 365 customers will have access to third-party offerings that will…

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Garage Series: Bringing Data Loss Prevention to SharePoint and first look at new Office 365 Message Encryption Viewers for iOS and Android

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ On this week’s show we invite back Asaf Kashi, a lead engineer on the information protection team. We introduce the information protection updates coming to Office 365 and demonstrate the upcoming Data Loss Prevention capabilities in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business, the upcoming Office 365 compliance center, one-time passcodes for viewing encrypted email and the just-released Office 365 Message Encryption Viewers for iOS and Android.    Last time we invited…

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Azure AD Connect: One simple, fast, lightweight tool to connect Active Directory and Azure Active Directory

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Alex_SimonsMS ​ Back in August I posted a blog announcing the beta release of Azure AD Connect. Since then we have received a lot of feedback and made improvements in AAD Connect and AAD Sync, including multi forest support and password write back.   The biggest thing we’ve learned from you, our customers and partners, is that rather than a bunch of different tools (DirSync, AAD Connect, AAD Sync, ADFS,…

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Azure AD whitepapers – Active Directory from on-premises to the cloud

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Identity management, provisioning, role management, and authentication are key services both on-premises and through the (hybrid) cloud. Unsurprisingly, identity becomes a service where identity “bridges” in the cloud talk to on-premises directories or the directories themselves move and/or are located in the cloud. Download them here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36391 ​ Category: How to do Published: 12/17/2014 13:13 ]]>

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Yammer Enterprise now offered in Office 365 Enterprise K1 (Kiosk) plan

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In an effort to bring enterprise social networking to deskless workers, we’re excited to announce Yammer Enterprise is now included in the Office 365 kiosk plan. Many people in organizations spanning industries as diverse as healthcare, education, retail and hospitality, work on shared computers or other devices. Starting at $4 per user per month, the Office 365 K1 plan gives these employees access to the tools they need to…

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Sway Preview expands and delivers more feature improvements

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Sway Preview is all about working with you, our customers, to help continue improving the product and shape Sway’s future together. We’ve been making progress, including the addition of Bing Image Search and Suggested searches earlier this month. Today we have more exciting news to share! Expanding Sway Preview: no waiting It’s been only 10 weeks since we kicked off Sway Preview, and we’ve already had over one…

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