Friday 28 August 2015
Optimizing Yammer for teams
Optimizing Yammer for teams: Today we’re unveiling a number of exciting changes to Yammer, including a fresh new look and feel that’s designed for teamwork from the ground up. —Read more about Yammer from Juliet Wei.
Wednesday 26 August 2015
Microsoft Office 2016 release date... 22nd September?
According to the leak of internal documents, it looks like Microsoft are set to release the next version of their Office software suite on September 22nd.
Office 2016 suite for Windows is set to include new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Skype for Business, Visio, Access and Publisher
On-premises versions of the Office servers will be released shortly afterwards.
Tuesday 25 August 2015
Announcing availability of SharePoint Server 2016 - IT Preview and cloud hybrid search
Today we’re excited to announce availability of both SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview and the new cloud hybrid search preview for SharePoint Server 2013 and 2016. As we continue to develop SharePoint Server 2016, we're paying close attention to trends in content management, team collaboration, user experiences across devices, and how the cloud can be blended into existing on-premises scenarios in new and compelling ways.
Announcing availability of SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview and cloud hybrid search:
Announcing availability of SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview and cloud hybrid search:
Sunday 16 August 2015
Friday 14 August 2015
Preview real-time co-authoring on OneDrive
Preview real-time co-authoring on OneDrive: Earlier this year we announced real-time co-authoring support for Word 2016 as part of the Office 2016 Preview. For the last several months, this feature has been available to preview users co-authoring Word documents stored on SharePoint Online. Today, we are pleased to announce that real-time co-authoring is also available as a first-look for Word documents stored on OneDrive as part of the latest Office 2016 Preview release.
Thursday 13 August 2015
Managing Office 365 updates
Managing Office 365 updates: Over the past year, the Office 365 team rolled out over 450 updates, and the pace of change continues unabated. Learn about the improvements we’ve made to help you manage change in Office 365 based on your feedback.
Wednesday 12 August 2015
Announcing the preview of Skype for Business apps for iOS and Android
Announcing the preview of Skype for Business apps for iOS and Android: Today, we’re excited to announce the preview of the new Skype for Business apps for iOS and Android. Here’s a look at what’s new and how you can participate in the preview.
Monday 10 August 2015
Wearable Productivity—new apps for you to wear
Wearable Productivity—new apps for you to wear: Over the past months, we’ve delivered a number of experiences on wearables: OneDrive, OneNote, PowerPoint, Skype, Yammer, as well as some from our newly joined Sunrise and Wunderlist teams. Today we are launching a new round of Wearable Productivity apps, as part of our quest to reinvent productivity on all platforms.
Thursday 6 August 2015
New features coming to Outlook on the web
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. We are rolling out an improved user interface and new features to help you stay on top of your inbox and manage your calendar. Formerly known as the Outlook Web App (or OWA for short), our browser-based Outlook experience will now simply be referred to as “Outlook on the web.”
Wednesday 5 August 2015
What is Microsoft sway?
The following resources will help you to understand and get the most from this brand new storytelling and presentation application
- Watch the Ignite 2015 session on Sway to understand more about Sway for Office 365 business and education customers
- Familiarize yourself with the current Sway FAQ.
- Leverage Sway core pitch materials (General | EDU-specific) in your Office 365 sales pitch
- Deliver Sway demos (Business Scenario | EDU Scenario) to bring Sway to life for your customers
- Understand common Admin FAQ
- Watch the Sway Vision Video to better understand the vision we
started with and how far we’ve come by responding to customer feedback.
- Watch our Sway tutorial videos
Tuesday 4 August 2015
Office Mobile apps for Windows 10 are here!
It’s a big day for Microsoft and we are excited to be part of it!
Today, we’re pleased to announce the availability of the Office Mobile apps on Windows 10—bringing us one step closer to our vision of reinventing productivity.
Customers can immediately download and install the apps from the new Windows Store in 190 countries.
Word—Word Mobile has the features you’d expect for touch-first productivity. All the core formatting commands, styles, fonts and spell check tools are there. You can insert tables, pictures, text boxes, hyperlinks, and add headers and footers—even footnotes and endnotes—all with touch. You can easily share and co-author with other editors and utilize features like track changes and comments as you collaborate. We’ve also introduced some exciting features focused on mobility scenarios. For example, the Read mode is a new way to view documents: Word beautifully reflows your document to adapt to small screens and improve readability by adjusting font sizes and allowing you to zoom on charts and tables with a quick tap. Smart Lookup, powered by Bing, brings additional online resources like images and web references directly into your document to give you deeper insights and new ideas.
Excel—All the power and precision of Excel is now made easy for mobile. Reordering columns, adding formulas, changing chart types, and filtering data are effortless and natural using Excel’s new touch-first gestures. If you prefer to use the onscreen keyboard, you’ll find the familiar controls tuned for touch, so you can even do advanced spreadsheet work comfortably on a small tablet. Excel’s new Recommended Charts feature is ideal for smaller screens and gives you the power to quickly visualize your data with just a few taps. And we’ve added modern templates tuned for mobile scenarios, so you can be up and running quickly.
PowerPoint—Customers will appreciate the richness of PowerPoint Mobile’s presentation capabilities coupled with a touch-first design. You can easily make gorgeous slides with new touch gestures for inserting and editing pictures, tables, shapes and SmartArt. All the transition and animation effects that you’re familiar with on the desktop are built right in. And when you’re ready to present, cut the cables and engage with the audience more personally by presenting wirelessly. The Presenter View gives you full control over what your audience sees on the big screen and shows you (and only you!) your speaker notes on your tablet. And new ink, laser pointer and highlighting features let you emphasize key concepts as you present.
OneNote—Never forget again with OneNote. Capture, organize and share your ideas with notebooks that you can access on any device. Type, write or draw and find your notes (even handwritten) with lightning fast search. Bring them to life with tags, tables and pictures, and share your notebooks to work with others at the same time. OneNote automatically saves your work and synchronizes changes made by everyone working in the notebook. OneNote is pre-installed on Windows 10, so simply go to the Start menu and tap the OneNote tile to get started.
Today, we’re pleased to announce the availability of the Office Mobile apps on Windows 10—bringing us one step closer to our vision of reinventing productivity.
Customers can immediately download and install the apps from the new Windows Store in 190 countries.
Word—Word Mobile has the features you’d expect for touch-first productivity. All the core formatting commands, styles, fonts and spell check tools are there. You can insert tables, pictures, text boxes, hyperlinks, and add headers and footers—even footnotes and endnotes—all with touch. You can easily share and co-author with other editors and utilize features like track changes and comments as you collaborate. We’ve also introduced some exciting features focused on mobility scenarios. For example, the Read mode is a new way to view documents: Word beautifully reflows your document to adapt to small screens and improve readability by adjusting font sizes and allowing you to zoom on charts and tables with a quick tap. Smart Lookup, powered by Bing, brings additional online resources like images and web references directly into your document to give you deeper insights and new ideas.
Excel—All the power and precision of Excel is now made easy for mobile. Reordering columns, adding formulas, changing chart types, and filtering data are effortless and natural using Excel’s new touch-first gestures. If you prefer to use the onscreen keyboard, you’ll find the familiar controls tuned for touch, so you can even do advanced spreadsheet work comfortably on a small tablet. Excel’s new Recommended Charts feature is ideal for smaller screens and gives you the power to quickly visualize your data with just a few taps. And we’ve added modern templates tuned for mobile scenarios, so you can be up and running quickly.
PowerPoint—Customers will appreciate the richness of PowerPoint Mobile’s presentation capabilities coupled with a touch-first design. You can easily make gorgeous slides with new touch gestures for inserting and editing pictures, tables, shapes and SmartArt. All the transition and animation effects that you’re familiar with on the desktop are built right in. And when you’re ready to present, cut the cables and engage with the audience more personally by presenting wirelessly. The Presenter View gives you full control over what your audience sees on the big screen and shows you (and only you!) your speaker notes on your tablet. And new ink, laser pointer and highlighting features let you emphasize key concepts as you present.
OneNote—Never forget again with OneNote. Capture, organize and share your ideas with notebooks that you can access on any device. Type, write or draw and find your notes (even handwritten) with lightning fast search. Bring them to life with tags, tables and pictures, and share your notebooks to work with others at the same time. OneNote automatically saves your work and synchronizes changes made by everyone working in the notebook. OneNote is pre-installed on Windows 10, so simply go to the Start menu and tap the OneNote tile to get started.
Monday 3 August 2015
Azure Cost Calculator / Estimator
Azure Cost Estimator
This is a tool which will monitor an on premise host and recommend what the size of Azure VM, storage and bandwidth cost would be. Very useful for getting an estimate to move a workload into Azure.
Andriod users - How to Protect yourself from Stagefright Exploit
If you have an Android device running versions Froyo 2.2 to Lollipop 5.1.1 then your device is at risk from the Stagefright exploit.
All the attacker needs is your phone number, and it works by them sending an MMS with a video payload.
Most Android messaging apps are set by default to auto-download MMS content, so unless you disable this feature in each messaging app (WhatsApp, Messenger, Google Hangouts, Messaging, etc), there is nothing that will prevent your device being infected.
Go through each app that has the potential to receive MMS Video content and disable the Auto-Download features of each.
Failing to do this will allow attackers to run remote code and ultimatley take over your phone, the data stored within and hardware features such as camear and Microphone!
If you use your mobile for work (email, etc), this could also put network account credentials at risk.
Even after disabling auto-download in these apps, you are still at risk, but you will need to tell your device to download the file, so be extra cautious at what you allow to download.
Microsoft Azure - Seeding Data
Import Seeding
Due to restrictive bandwidth available, you can seed data into Azure datacenters to initialise the services. £50 a device, which can be consumed via Azure credits via distribution.
How to: Guide
RemoteApp with Microsoft Azure - Information, Free Demo and Pricing
Rather than creating a new Azure VM, customers can now upload their own LOB applications into RemoteApp and allow users to access this directly.
The advantage of using RemoteApp is that it provides a capped price that also includes RDS CAL usage and bandwidth. It does however require a minimum of 20 users.
Initial testing looks extremely promising.
Azure RemoteApp
Free demo
Pricing
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