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Skype for Business: Learning the Basics Video

Microsoft has posted a new training course called Skype for Business: Learning the Basics which will teach users the key Skype for Business activities needed to get started with the solution quickly and easily. These instructor-led sessions is now available on-demand here . This session will give users everything they will need to get started using …

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Deployment scripts for Office 2016

Post from the MS Office Blogs on Office 2016 deployment: Last month, we started a community project to help IT pros with Office client deployments using PowerShell to streamline the process. For more details, see Office Deployment Scripts for IT Pros. A month later, it’s time to check in on some of the new developments …

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The new Office is here

It’s here! Today is the worldwide release of Office 2016 for Windows. This marks a milestone in delivering new value for Office 365 subscribers with a focus on collaboration, apps that work for you, a perfect pairing with Windows 10, and security features businesses will love. It also marks a new model for delivery, where …

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From the Office Blogs: New features coming to Outlook on the web

Today, we are happy to announce exciting updates coming to the web version of Outlook in Office 365. As part of our ongoing work to deliver the richest email and calendar experiences on the web, we are rolling out an improved user interface (UI) and new features that help you be more efficient, stay on …

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Microsoft Released Office for Android Phones

You can download the Word for Android, Excel for Android and PowerPoint for Android apps from the Google Play* store beginning today. We hope you enjoy using them as much as we enjoyed making them. —Kirk Koenigsbauer Source: Office Blog

Microsoft updates Word, Excel & PowerPoint for IOS, now supports iCloud

Microsoft updates Word, Excel & PowerPoint for IOS, now supports iCloud New since 1.6: • iCloud support: open, edit, and save your work to iCloud and other online storage services (requires iOS 8). • Bug Fixes. Word https://itunes.apple.com/app/id586447913 PowerPoint https://itunes.apple.com/app/id586449534 Excel https://itunes.apple.com/app/id586683407

Microsoft Announces the Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview

Today at Convergence Microsoft revealed the availability of the public preview of Office 2016 some of the new stuff: Data Loss Protection (DLP)—Over the last few years we’ve added DLP to Exchange, Outlook, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint. Now we’re bringing these same classification and policy features to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. With these new …

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Outlook for iOS and Android

Microsoft released the Outlook App to Android and iOS: Outlook is a free email app that helps you get more done from anywhere with one unified view of your email, calendar, contacts, and attachments. Outlook automatically surfaces your most important messages – across all your email accounts. Swipe to quickly delete, archive, or schedule messages …

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Microsoft to launch new standalone OneDrive for Business subscription plan on April 1st

Microsoft is set to roll out a new standalone OneDrive for Business subscription plan, which comes with Office Online, as well as enhancements to SharePoint 2013 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) that enable on-premises SharePoint users to configure OneDrive for Business with just a few clicks. OneDrive for Business was formerly known as SkyDrive Pro. Microsoft has …

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Check the service health of your Office 365 service on the go

  As we discussed in a recent blog post,  Cloud services you can trust, “Transparency requires consistent communication.”  We’re working to improve the transparency of the Office 365 service by continuously improving our communication with customers on changes that impact the Office 365 environment. Recently we deployed the improved Message Center, which delivers messages targeted …

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