Azure Remote App What is it ?

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​RemoteApp is a program that allows your organization’s applications to run in the Azure cloud, where they can be easily scaled or updated, and your users can access them anywhere using their internet-connected device. Similar to remote desktop services, Azure RemoteApp combines the best of both worlds, allowing users to harness Windows applications on any of their devices, including iOS or Android tablets and smartphones. Run Windows applications anywhere…

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Azure AD Premium is now available for purchase in the Office365 portal!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: You can now purchase Azure AD Premium through the Office 365 commerce catalog. You can now easily add Azure AD Premium services such as self-service password reset and group management, as well as premium reports and application access management capabilities to your directory. Click here for more information! Category: Office 365; How to do; News Published: 12/13/2014 10:21 ]]>

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First look at Insights for Office in Word Online—bringing the knowledge of the web to your document

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Earlier we announced Insights for Office in Word Online, a brand new feature that brings information you want into your document, in a seamlessly integrated experience that lets you explore as you are working. In this post, we give you a more detailed description of Insights for Office and how it can help enhance the understanding of the content that you are working with in Word Online. In…

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Power View interactive visualizations and PivotTables can now be embedded in blogs and websites

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Embedding Excel spreadsheet tables and charts in a webpage or blog is a popular and well-known feature, which has allowed companies and individuals to share data and visualizations to public audiences in effective ways. But telling a story with data has become so much more than basic tables and charts. Some of you have been using Power View to create dynamic and interactive visualizations or shared PivotTable analysis…

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New Android for Lync features—Anonymous Join, Passive Authentication and Contact Management

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ The holiday season is here and the Skype for Business team is bringing Android users some great presents. In this new release, we include Anonymous Join, Certificate & Passive Authentication, Contact Management, and some significant performance enhancements and bug fixes. We believe that enabling users to function fully on a mobile platform is a fundamental part of a mobile-first world, so we’re excited to introduce these new features…

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Wrapping up the year with a boat load of Azure AD news!

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ It’s been quite a year here for us on the Azure AD team. We now have over 4 million organizations using Azure AD and as of yesterday, we’ve just completed our 1 TRILLIONTH authentication. And with the general availability (GA) of Azure AD Premium and its inclusion in the Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) in May, we have seen amazing customer traction for the new capabilities that we continue…

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The Microsoft Hybrid Cloud – Best Practices Guidance

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: A hybrid cloud enables an organization to optimize IT resources by keeping critical data on-premises, while providing limitless scale, compute, storage, and networking for the countless day-to-day needs of your operation and your workforce. ​This course introduces best practices for planning, building, deployment, and operation of a Microsoft hybrid cloud for IT Pros. Here is a Virtual Academy to learn more. http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/the-microsoft-hybrid-cloud-best-practices-guidance?prid=ca_ITProMVP_ALL​ Category: How to do; News; Servers Published: 12/11/2014 17:20 ]]>

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Lync for Windows Phone update—more settings for voice calls

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ An exciting update for the Lync for Windows Phone is now available, part of our ongoing, frequent releases for mobile clients. This time we’re reorganizing the settings dedicated to voice calls, making it super easy to know and control which network will be used for phone calls. Before, you had only two options for voice calls, configured with the “Require Wi-Fi for VoIP” setting. Now that we’ve refined…

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Microsoft Virtual Academy course—Office 365 identity management

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ The Office 365 Team has developed a new course focused on identity management, featured within Microsoft Virtual Academy.  The course titled, Office 365 identity management, includes seven 45-90 minute modules. Watch these modules to learn about user and identity management concepts, examine the available options, and explore how to configure and manage user identities. In identity management, it is important to provide users with a seamless user authentication…

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