The April Office 365 updates includes new apps, integrations, security capabilities and opportunities for developers, along with enhancements to existing services and apps. There’s a new pocket scanner app for iPhone and Android phones and, for business users, there are new apps for automatic data insights, company videos, and personalized search and discovery. Improvements to OneNote, Office Mix and Sway make doing research and creating presentations easier than ever, while improvements to Outlook, Delve, and Power Query help keep you productive at work. Plus Skype for Business is here, the first partners are bringing add-ins to Outlook, and public previews of Data Loss Prevention capabilities in SharePoint, OneDrive for Business and Office 2016 applications are on the way. A new email filtering service, now in private preview, is expected to be available this summer. Leave us a comment to let us know what your favorite new feature is. If you missed last month’s updates, see What’s new March 2015. Office 365 Personal, Office 365 Home and Office 365 University updates Office Lens comes to iPhone and Android—Office Lens, one of the most popular free apps on Windows Phone, is now available on iPhone and Android phones. What makes it so popular? It’s a capture app that turns your phone into a pocket scanner and it works with OneNote. Use it to take pictures of receipts, business cards, menus, whiteboards or sticky notes, then let Office Lens crop, enhance and save to OneNote. Just like that—the images you captured are accessible across your devices. Office Online and Dropbox on the web are now integrated—The latest step in making it easier to work with your Office applications and Dropbox is here. Now, when you’re working in Office Online you can add your Dropbox account to easily browse, open and edit Office files with Office Online. You can also save files created in Office Online directly to Dropbox. The same integration is available from Dropbox in a web browser. You can access Office Online directly from the file you’re viewing, open it, and start editing using Office Online. OneNote updates—Clip it to OneNote is a new feature in Bing Image Search that lets you organize images and links that you’re researching into your personal online notebook. And you now have the option to hide spelling errors in OneNote Online. When you’re brainstorming and don’t need to proof, you can hide those red squiggles that highlight spelling errors, so you can focus on content. As always with OneNote, all your notes are on all your devices. Enhancements to Office Mix­—Office Mix just added two new ways to help you deliver compelling presentations and better engage your audience. With Slide Notes, your notes are displayed at the top of your screen. It’s like having a teleprompter for recording your mix, so you can focus on connecting with your audience, rather than worrying about memorizing your delivery.  And with closed captioning, you can make your mixes easier to see, hear and use. Sway is now collaborative—Sway lets you create polished content in a new and interactive way to share with others. And now you can work on Sways together in real-time, from class projects to business reports to vacation recaps. It’s simple. Share an edit link with anyone you want to work with. They click the link, log in and start editing. You can track who is editing and control access. You can make a copy your Sways now, too, to preserve your original, create a template, or customize a presentation for your audience. Sway updates—The recent improvements to Sway help you create even more engaging presentations. You can now create interactive charts, and you can use the new Focus Points to tell Sway what to focus on in your images, so you can bring what’s important in your images into focus. Plus there’s a new option for formatting your content and it’s easier to embed Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF files from your OneDrive or PC/Mac. Sway for iPhone v1.3 got updates too, including improved sign-in and accessibility. Office 365 for Business updates* Introducing Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection—Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a new email filtering service that provides additional protection against specific types of advanced threats. ATP extends the Exchange Online Protection by providing protection against unknown malware and viruses, time-of-click protection against malicious URLs, and rich reporting and URL trace capabilities. Currently in private preview, ATP is expected to be available this summer as an optional service for Office 365 commercial customers. Skype for Business is here!—The new Skype for Business (formerly Microsoft Lync) rolled out as part of the April monthly update for Office 2013, and Skype for Business Online is rolling out to Office 365 customers worldwide. If you currently use Lync Online in Office 365, the new Skype for Business user experience will appear for you in the coming weeks. If your organization needs more time to prepare for Skype for Business, administrators can switch between Skype for Business and the traditional Lync user interface. New BeyondCore Apps for Office for automatic data insights—Analyze and present data insights in a flash! BeyondCore’s App for Excel helps you discover the right questions to ask of data and how to interpret insights accurately. It automatically evaluates data in Excel workbooks and provides curated graphs and narrative explanations that point out the statistically significant insights. You can export the insights to a PowerPoint presentation or Word document, and then customize these reports using the BeyondCore App for Word and App for PowerPoint. 6 updates for Power Query for Excel—A Power Query for Excel update is now available and is packed with lots of new features, including: a new Navigator dialog that gives you search capabilities and more, the ability to create new queries from the Query Editor, a new Launch Editor button on the Power Query ribbon tab, additional filter options for Date/Time columns in Query Editor, support for specifying a port number when connecting to a database, and performance improvements. Download the updated Power Query today. Office 365 now supports larger email messages—up to 150 MB—The maximum message size has increased to 150 MB. The default maximum message size is still 25 MB, but Office 365 administrators can now set the maximum message size to the size that’s right for their organization, from 1 MB up to 150 MB. And you can customize the maximum message size for any and all your mailboxes however you see fit. You can make the changes in the Exchange Admin Center or use Remote PowerShell. Enhanced non-delivery reports (NDRs) in Office 365—Over the next months, NDRs generated by Office 365 will be enhanced to make it easier for ordinary users to understand and fix message delivery problems. The NDRs will explain the problem and why it’s happening in everyday language, with clear instructions on how to fix it.  An additional section of the NDR for admins and tech support provides an in-depth explanation of the problem and solution, often with technical details and links to more information. Outlook updates for iOS and Android—Improvements continue to roll out. Outlook’s People section is now a complete address book—an alphabetical list of contacts from all your email accounts. To find people who are not in your contact list, you can now use Directory search, both in People or when you’re composing an email. Scheduling is easier with the new three-day calendar view, and searching your email is faster now that your search term is highlighted in the message list. More features, like mobile device management, are on the way. Outlook for Android comes out of preview— Since the preview was released in January, Outlook for Android has been updated 17 times to meet the high bar the team set for this app—that is an update a week! A big part of that work focused on improving performance and stability, along with work on localization and accessibility. The team also focused on delivering features to add value, match the iOS version, and respond to your feedback. They’ll continue this pace of updates to make the app better each week in response to your feedback. New Office Delve People experiences in Office 365—New enhancements to Office 365 leverage Delve for easier people-based discovery and greater self-expression. The enhanced personal profile helps you find, connect and collaborate with the right people. Blog, the new section added to your profile, makes it easy to express yourself in your organization—just click start writing. Delve mobile apps for Android and iPhone are available now, too, so connecting, discovering and sharing information is easy, even on the go. Office 365 Video begins worldwide rollout and "gets mobile"—Office 365 Video provides organizations with a secure, company-wide destination for posting, sharing and discovering video content. It’s now rolling out to all eligible Office 365 business customers worldwide. The new Office 365 Video for iPhone app gives you the power of video on the go, more responsive portal pages deliver a great user web experience across devices, and with the new HTML-5 player you can play videos no matter which device you’re using. Enhanced transparency and control for Office 365 customers—Three new capabilities significantly enhance customers’ visibility into actions taken on their content and control over access to their content in Office 365: the ability to employ user-interaction logs as security and compliance signals that provide monitoring, analysis and data visualization; a Customer Lockbox to explicitly control access to your content in the very rare instances when a Microsoft engineer logs in to the Office 365 service; and advanced encryption of email. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in SharePoint Online/OneDrive and Office 2016 applications—The public preview of DLP for SharePoint Online/OneDrive for Business is on its way for eligible Office 365 tenants later this quarter. With the new capabilities, you can easily create policies to remediate violations and empower your users with policy tips and notification emails—just like you do today with DLP in Exchange. Later this quarter, DLP capabilities will also be available in the public preview of Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint. With these capabilities, users can be notified in real time about content they’re working on, right within the Office applications. Office 365 developer updates New ways to build with the Office platform, reach more people—Developers can extend Office apps using add-ins to expose their custom capabilities to users and connect to Office 365 through open APIs. New capabilities to develop new integrated experiences that enhance productivity for Office users include: Office Graph API, Excel for iPad support, add-ins for Outlook.com, unified APIs for enterprise and consumer, simpler API endpoint access, Skype Developer Platform, and more. First partners bring add-ins to Outlook.com—Uber, Boomerang and PayPal are bringing add-ins to our 400 million active Outlook.com users this summer, leveraging the new unified consumer and commercial Outlook APIs. The Outlook APIs create an open platform for developers to easily build add-ins for Outlook.com and Office 365 users that simplify everyday tasks, helping them get more done without switching between applications. More third-party partner announcements are on the way. Please note that some of the updates may take time to show up in your Office 365 account, because they’re being rolled out to customers worldwide. —Andy O’Donald @andyodonald ——————————————————————————- *Not all updates apply to every Office 365 plan; please check the individual post for specifics. The post What’s new: April 2015 appeared first on Office Blogs.

The game of marketing has changed. Are you playing by the new rules? Today’s landscape of digital and social tools, sophisticated analytics, and internet-savvy consumers has resulted in a new frontier for marketers. Marketing has now entered the age of the empowered and informed buyer where the customer is at the center of every marketing decision. How can chief marketing officers (CMO’s) adapt to this new era of customer-centered and digitally-driven marketing? On the June episode of Modern Workplace, we heard from two top CMO’s about how the role of the chief marketing officer is changing in business today and how you can deliver the types of breakthrough experiences today’s sophisticated customers both expect and demand: Chris Capossela—CMO of Microsoft, discussed some of the digital engagement strategies his team is using to win business and build deep, lasting customer relationships. Amy Bohutinsky—CMO of Zillow Group, a leading online real-estate marketplace, shared some of the tips, best practices, and lessons-learned she’s acquired through growing Zillow’s marketing from the ground up. We also took a tour of Microsoft’s Social Command Center to learn how they’re using social listening to drive better customer relationships, stronger brand awareness, and increased sales. Watch the June episode of Modern Workplace webcast on-demand at www.modernworkplace.com Join us monthly on Modern Workplace for ideas about new ways to work. Each online episode includes interviews with business innovators who tell their story, provide actionable advice and answer questions from our live, online audience. Tune in to learn about the smart technology solutions that businesses are using to connect, drive innovation and grow their businesses. Register today for the new season of Modern Workplace that begins September 1st. Registered guests are invited to join us for live chat with studio guests and Microsoft product managers, both during and after the show, and will also receive exclusive access to whitepapers, eBooks, and more. For more information, visit www.modernworkplace.com. The post Next on Modern Workplace—the strategic CMO appeared first on Office Blogs.

The new Office Add-in and Office 365 API platforms give you integrated Office experiences with your favorite apps and the apps you use to run your organization. On this week’s show we explore Office extensibility updates and take a tour of solutions from Salesforce, SAP, Uber, Do and Smartsheet across Office applications, Office Online in the browser and even Office for iPad. On past shows, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about what the Office platform can do for developers and some of the things that can light up for Office users. We’ve done everything from explaining what the model is, using Office Add-ins (formerly apps for Office) to navigate our way through Prague and even provide tips for developers when moving to the new model. This show is a bit different. We spend most of the time demonstrating what a few popular software as a service (SaaS) applications are doing with Office Add-ins and the extensibility platform. Office Add-ins and Office 365 APIs are the two primary means to extend Office experiences and connect your apps to Office 365 services. Imagine being able to see your sales data directly integrated with your email experience in Outlook, analyzing ERP data directly in Excel without an export or copy/paste, booking transportation right from your calendar with a single swipe gesture, or having your go-to app integrate with your business calendar, address list and Office 365 file storage - all of this is possible and we demonstrate all this and more on the show. If you want to learn more, watch the show and check out the Office Dev Center if you are interested in building out these experiences. See you next week! —Jeremy Chapman The post Salesforce, SAP, Uber, Do and Smartsheet add-ins and extensibility solutions for Office 365 appeared first on Office Blogs.

Earlier this year, Microsoft unveiled Surface Hub, a new large-screen collaboration device that harnesses the power of Windows 10, Skype for Business, Office, OneNote and Windows universal apps to deliver a new kind of productivity experience for groups. Today, the Surface Hub team announced more details on how Surface Hub will come to market, including pricing and market availability. A core part of advancing our vision of communication-powered productivity with Skype for Business is building a rich portfolio of meetings devices that make meetings richer, more productive and engaging for businesses of all sizes. We believe every conference room and meeting space, small or large, should enable natural interactions between people in different locations, across voice, video, graphic and written communication. Surface Hub does that and so much more. With Skype for Business, Office and OneNote integrated directly into the operating system, Surface Hub delivers a new set of digital tools to help teams create and brainstorm in a way that’s both natural and efficient. We couldn’t be more excited about this milestone for Surface Hub. Head on over to the Surface Hub blog to learn more about today’s news, and stay tuned to the Office blog over the coming months for more on the future of Skype Room Systems. The post Get ready for Surface Hub to transform your meetings appeared first on Office Blogs.

We are pleased to announce new access and security controls for Outlook for iOS and Android. With today’s update, Outlook now uses Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL)-based authentication for Exchange Online mailboxes in Office 365, replacing the previously used basic authentication method. This new authentication method enables IT administrators to configure new access scenarios for sign in to Office 365 and to better control and manage Outlook on mobile devices in their organization. Quick introduction to ADAL-based authentication The ADAL-based authentication stack enables Outlook to engage in browser-based authentication with Office 365. Used by Office apps on both desktop and mobile, users sign in directly to Office 365’s identity provider (Azure Active Directory) to authenticate, rather than providing credentials to Outlook. The below screenshot shows the new sign in experience for users when connecting to an Office 365 Exchange Online mailbox from Outlook. The new ADAL sign in page for Office 365. This new sign in method enables new benefits for IT including OAuth for Office 365 and support for multi-factor authentication. OAuth for Office 365 ADAL-based sign in enables OAuth for Office 365 accounts, providing Outlook with a secure mechanism to access email without requiring access to the user’s credentials. At sign in, the user authenticates directly with Office 365 and receives an access token in return, which grants Outlook access to your mailbox. Outlook already uses OAuth for Outlook.com, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and Gmail. As Exchange Server on-premises does not support OAuth, we continue to use basic authentication for these users. You can read more about how we secure user credentials for Exchange on the Office 365 Network here. Support for Office 365 multi-factor authentication Outlook now supports multi-factor authentication for Office 365. Multi-factor authentication helps secure the user sign-in for cloud services beyond just a single password. When enabled, users are required to acknowledge a phone call, text message, or app notification on their smartphones after correctly entering their passwords. They can sign in only after this second authentication factor has been satisfied. Admins can learn more about turning on multi-factor authentication for Office 365 on TechNet. A straightforward sign in experience for users With this update, users now have an "Office 365" login tile for connecting to an Office 365 mailbox from Outlook. As many users are used to selecting the "Exchange" tile for accessing their Office 365 email, we built intelligence into the sign in process to prevent users from getting stuck. If an Office 365 user selects Exchange out of habit, or by accident, Outlook will guide the user to login via the new ADAL sign in method. Of course, we also have millions of users already signed in to Office 365 using basic authentication. Over the next week, all Office 365 users will receive a prompt to re-login, which will trigger the new ADAL sign in page. This will automatically convert their account from basic authentication to OAuth. If you’ve applied multi-factor authentication policies, these will immediately take effect. All Office 365 users will receive this prompt in Outlook, which automatically moves their account from basic authentication to ADAL-based authentication. More to come The ADAL-based authentication stack also lays the foundation for our upcoming support of built-in mobile device management (MDM) for Office 365, as well as the MDM and mobile application management (MAM) capabilities of Intune and the Enterprise Mobility Suite. As we announced and demonstrated (starting at 2:00 hour mark) at our recent Ignite Conference, Outlook will soon be supporting these controls for protecting mailbox data and managing mobile devices in your organization. Stay tuned to the Office blog for more details. Have a feature request? Share your ideas with us on our new user voice site at UserVoice.com. For any support requests or to report a bug, please contact us right from Outlook by navigating to Settings > Help > Contact Support. The post New access and security controls for Outlook for iOS and Android appeared first on Office Blogs.

Although we originally created Office Mix to help educators deliver interactive lessons, we’ve been amazed at what people are doing with it every day. Inspired by you, we tried something new and it turns out that Office Mix is just as good at flipping conferences as it is at flipping classrooms! Office Mix provides an innovative player that delivers a personalized experience. It groups content into scenes that are organized as PowerPoint slides, which lets viewers skip directly to the content that most interests them. Viewers can also use the slide sorter view to see all the slides together and jump directly to the content they want to watch next. Technically, Office Mix achieves this by combining the PowerPoint web app with high-fidelity adaptive bitrate video delivered by Azure Media Services. Thus, mixes are experienced as PowerPoint slides—complete with animations, transitions and hyperlinks. Viewers can easily share mixes via Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn. Office Mix in action Let’s look at Harry Shum’s The Next Era of Computing: Seeing the Future Before It Happens session at the recent Ignite conference to see how Office Mix performs differently than traditional video. The viewer starts with a picture-in-picture experience that presents both the PowerPoint slide and a video of the stage. On slide 14, you hear Shum outline how Microsoft Research thinks about, "Playing the Long Game." At other times in the presentation, the video the presenter is the focal point, so the Office Mix experience shifts to a full-screen view of the stage. (See slide 36 for an example.) Analytics helps strengthen presentations Perhaps the best part of the solution is that Office Mix provides analytics to authors. For instance, if there is a high drop-off rate, presenters might consider compressing their content in future presentations. If users tend to watch one slide multiple times, that could mean the content was particularly engaging. In an education context, Office Mix analytics provides a basis for personalizing instruction. If you are interested in seeing more from Office Mix, check out Keynote 1 and Keynote 2 from the recent Build conference. To create your own mix, download the free add-in to PowerPoint. Thanks for reading! Until next time, Happy Mixing! The post Office Mix amps the slideshow experience with the personality of videos appeared first on Office Blogs.

As the updates and enhancements delivered last month show, Office 365 is continually being improved to help you get more done at home, school and work. Check out the new capabilities in OneNote and Outlook.com or the new and updated apps for phones, and get a look at what’s next with the Office 2016 Public Preview and the Office for Android phone Preview. For business users there are new change management, Data Loss Protection (DLP) and data analysis capabilities, plus integrations, connectors and a new email archive migration service. The simplified and enhanced OneNote Class and Staff notebooks will help educators get a jump on the new school year. And for developers there’s a host of updates—from documentation and code samples to on-demand webcasts. Leave us a comment to let us know what your favorite new feature is. If you missed last month’s updates, see What’s new: April 2015. Office 365 Personal, Office 365 Home, and Office 365 University updates Office 2016 Public Preview now available—Get an early look at the next release of Office on Windows desktop (Fall 2015), and help shape and improve the future of Office. Read the blog post to find out what’s new for documents, collaboration, data analysis, and security. To see if the program’s right for you, visit the Office 2016 Preview site. OneNote updates—Now you can search handwritten notes in OneNote notebooks saved to OneDrive—in 25 languages—just like you search typed text and text within images. And with OneNote for the Apple Watch, you can access your content on the go. Quickly check your to-do list, or capture ideas or to-do’s by just tapping and dictating. OneNote for Mac updates—One of the top-requested features is here! You can now record meetings, conference calls, classes, interviews, brainstorm sessions, or personal journals, with any notes you type while recording synced to the audio. Plus, you can now view equations added from OneNote for Windows and recover sections or pages of notes you deleted accidentally. OneNote welcomes three new partners—cloudHQ integrates your cloud apps for easy collaboration—like automatically syncing your OneNote notebook with a folder in Dropbox—and helps keep everything safely backed up. Equil connects the physical surfaces of notepads and whiteboards to digital notebooks like OneNote. And with the new OneNote plug-in for WordPress, you can quickly transform your notes into meaningful blog posts. New ways to get more done in Outlook.com—A refined inbox, new ways to collaborate, an upgraded calendar, and more are rolling out in Preview now and will be available to a broader audience through an opt-in program soon. These are the first of many innovations. Share feedback, recommend features, and vote for the ideas you like in the newly launched open forum Outlook UserVoice. Office for Android phone Preview now available—Get an early look at how the Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps make documents, spreadsheets and presentations look their best on your Android phone, and help shape and improve the app experience on Android phones. To participate in the Preview program, join the Microsoft Office for Android community. Office Lens Android available in Google Play Store for free—This popular app that turns your phone into a pocket scanner is now available for Android as well as iPhone and Windows phones. The app recognizes the corners of a document, whiteboard, electronic screen, or any rectangular media and automatically crops, straightens, enhances and cleans up the image, then enables you to save it to OneNote or OneDrive. Updates to the OneDrive Android and Windows Phone apps—OneDrive now supports Android Wear. With the OneDrive watch face, each time you activate your watch, you see a photo from the last 30 days. With Cortana search integration, finding files in your personal OneDrive with Windows Phone is now simpler. Just say what you’re searching for—for example, "OneDrive search for Hawaii sunset photos" or a specific word or phrase in an Office document or PDF—and Cortana will find it for you. Office 365 for Business updates* New ways to manage change and stay informed—Recent Office 365 updates help you plan, prepare and communicate to your organization, simplifying change management. First Release now gives you more controls for managing change and, in response to your requests, more updates and new features are rolling out through First Release. And to help you stay better informed, the Office 365 Message Center and the Office 365 for business roadmap have been improved. Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online now integrated—Save time, sell more with the new integration of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online with Office 365. The new CRM app for Outlook integrates your email and contacts. Easily share information with OneNote and use Excel Online to do a quick analysis—right from Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. These plus integrations with PowerPoint, SharePoint, Skype, Word, and Yammer will boost your productivity. Easier email archive migration—Moving email archive data to the cloud is now easier with the new Office 365 Import Service, which provides two options for speeding up the process of importing PST files into Exchange Online mailboxes. Find out how you access the import service, who’s eligible, and more about the public preview, which will last through August. Clutter updates—Clutter, which moves less important emails out of your inbox and keeps you focused on what’s important, will be on by default in Office 365 starting in June. There are also new administrative controls to help you manage Clutter in your organization, and the way Clutter interacts with users has been improved, with new alerts and weekly summary notifications. New DLP capabilities for sync in OneDrive for Business—New administration features allow your IT to manage the sync function in OneDrive for Business to limit potential data leakage. This new DLP capability helps ensure that your users are able to sync files only to managed or domain-joined PCs. Find out how easy it is to set up and manage. Easier to save and share files to OneDrive for Business from Outlook Web App—Outlook Web App now lets you save attachments you received in email directly to your OneDrive for Business folder. Plus, Outlook Web App now automatically notifies you if the file you’re trying to send is over your organization’s message size limit and gives you a one-click option to upload the file to OneDrive for Business. Updates to OneNote Class Notebooks and OneNote Staff Notebooks—Get ready for the next school year! The OneNote Class Notebook is now automatically available to all teachers and faculty with Office 365 Education—no more complicated permissions and setup scenarios. The OneNote Staff Notebook is easier to use too. It’s rolling out to all new and existing Office 365 Education E1 and E3 customers and is also going global. Both notebooks also got new features plus new APIs and LTI support for automation and learning management system (LMS) integration. Updates to Power Query—Check out the 11 new or improved features in Power Query, including support for all Excel 2013 desktop SKUs, OData V4 support and support for custom ADFS Authentication Services. Power Query got a performance boost too—loading medium and large datasets into your Excel Workbook is now faster. Power Map for Excel updates—A new core feature, Custom Regions, was added to Power Map.  Custom Regions lets you map data to the regions that matter to you, even if they’re not the traditional zip code, county, state or country regions. You can use custom regions for scenarios with sales districts, school districts, congressional districts, land lot development, crop rotation, more. You can now customize the formatting of your Power Map legends too. Coming soon—analyze Office 365 data with Equivio Zoom—eDiscovery capabilities powered by Equivio Zoom are coming to Office 365, starting with a preview in June. Equivio Zoom helps you analyze unstructured data within Office 365, perform more efficient document review, and make decisions to reduce data for eDiscovery, so you can meet legal and compliance challenges and reduce eDiscovery costs. New way to create connectors to set up email flow in Office 365—The connector experience in Office 365 was completely overhauled. Now there’s no guesswork—you can know up front whether you need to create connectors for your email scenario. Enhancements to the connector setup wizard make setting up your email flow easier, and you can now validate that a connector works before you start using it. First network partners to offer ExpressRoute for Office 365—Network partners that provide connectivity between Office 365 services and your on-premises network are a key part of delivering ExpressRoute for Office 365. The launch partners that will offer ExpressRoute for Office 365 first this summer are AT&T, BT and Equinix. More ExpressRoute network providers will add Office 365 to their service offerings soon. Sway rollout to Office 365 business and education First Release customers—Sway is rolling out to Office 365 business and education customers in First Release. Sway makes it simple to create and share polished, professionally designed, interactive content. The features that have been added for business and education users include simultaneous coauthoring, creating interactive charts and embedding Office documents (like Excel charts and graphs). Sway rollout to all business and education customers, plus more updates—Sway for Office 365 has started rolling out to all business and education customers. Sway now supports six more languages for business and home users. And now that you can now insert Wikipedia snippets about people, places and other terms, add personal and community images from Flickr, and add new structure to your Sway with the Grid Card, you can create even more amazing Sways. Office 365 developer updates Monthly Dev Digest for May—Check out this round-up of what’s new in dev. Find out about the latest updates for Office 365 developers and the new and updated documentation, code samples and patterns and practices samples, plus podcasts, blog posts and Office Store news. This month’s digest also includes a list of the top 10 Build and Ignite sessions you can watch on-demand. Please note that some of the updates may take time to show up in your Office 365 account, because they’re being rolled out to customers worldwide. —Andy O’Donald @andyodonald ——————————————————————————- *Not all updates apply to every Office 365 plan; please check the individual post for specifics. The post What’s new: May 2015 appeared first on Office Blogs.

Today’s post was written by Shobhit Sahay, technical product manager for the Office 365 team. Rights Management Service (RMS) is one of the encryption mechanisms that helps you protect your Intellectual property in Office 365. One of the new RMS capabilities we announced earlier with was departmental templates, a feature that allows organizations to define different policies that will be deployed to different departments (or roles) for their use in documents and emails. We are excited to share that this capability is now natively supported in Office 2013. Departmental templates make use of an additional parameter for each template, called the "scope," where you can designate groups that receive this template. This is especially handy when an organization wants to define a policy for specific departments so that only users within that department see that template. Users can consume content protected with this template based on the rights defined in the template. Office 2013 has been refreshed with the latest updates to support this new feature, so no further action is needed for these clients to properly display departmental templates. You can also enable the feature in Office 2010 by deploying the templates via a script or task that supports these templates—details can be found in the RMS blog. Support for departmental templates in Office Online and OneDrive for Business will be coming at a later point. In the meantime, you can learn more about departmental templates here. The post Rights Management Service departmental templates comes to Office 2013 appeared first on Office Blogs.

Sway is all about making it quick and easy for you to create and share an interactive and multimedia-rich canvas that brings your ideas to life and looks great on any screen. This blog series highlights great examples of Sways made by different types of people, across a variety of different scenarios. In the last Sway Use Case blog, we celebrated the amazing ways that educators have been using Sway. Today’s blog is all about food (you guessed it!). Warm food, cold food, local food, exotic food—we’ll dive deep into the visually delicious and artfully designed Sways that chefs, foodies, and culinary adventurers have created… all while salivating just a bit. Check out the highlights below! And maybe go get a snack… Using Sway to share an interactive and visual recipe Dan St. Hilaire (Vermont, @dansth) uses Sway to share recipes for delicious-looking food in a creative new way. Dan’s Sways provide fluid, interactive, visual step-by-step instructions on how to create mouth-watering meals. And it’s easy for friends, family and followers like us to use any device in the kitchen to follow Dan’s guidance in replicating these delicious dishes. Check out Dan’s delicious Sway on how to cook (spicy) Thai Pork Curry: Swaying friends and family with your food adventures Matt LeMay (New York, @mattlemay) shows us how Sway can be used to combine travel, food and blogging in a dynamic and interactive way. Matt decided to recap his three favorite meals from his last trip to Paris, using a combination of an interactive map (complete with trip highlight pins), images and personalized descriptions of his dining experiences. Check out Matt’s three great meals in Paris: Engaging customers with a dynamic presentation and menu Howard Lo (Singapore, @tanukiraw) has a raw bar and cocktail restaurant that serves a delicious array of food and drink. Sway helps Howard engage his customers in new ways. To celebrate Tanuki Raw’s new lunch menu, Howard put together what he called "an easy eye-catching presentation" and interactive menu using Sway. His creation brings the restaurant’s new Donburi ("rice bowl dish") selections to life, including descriptions of how they’re made and a video showing a runny egg yolk being broken at the beginning of a meal: Swaying in wine country Ben Carter (Tennessee, @benitowine) reminds us that our palates can savor not only delicious food, but beverages of all sorts as well—in Ben’s case, wine. Ben used Sway to transport his wine lover followers back to Lodi, California, where he toured in 2014. His creation was actually one of the earliest Sways made, and he pulled together multimedia and serves as a trip recap, wine blog and tasting notes all in one. Check out Ben’s spirited Sway: Spreading a sweet tooth with Sway Steve Siebert (@stevesloc) helps put a sweet finishing touch on today’s blog by bringing us Sway for dessert. Similar to Dan’s recipe Sway in Thai Pork Curry, Steve brings a tasty-looking recipe for gluten-free Monster Cookies to life using Sway’s web-based canvas. He shows us with rich visuals how large a role the raw wet and dry ingredients play, then wraps it all up with the baking instructions. Take a peek into the oven at these Monster Cookies: This is just a glimpse at some of the many great Sways we’re seeing daily from culinary connoisseurs. Many thanks to all of you who have spent time creating Sways and engaging your friends and other foodies with your interactive content. Feel free to continue sharing with us on Twitter at @Sway. We can’t wait to see what you eat… er… create next!   —Sway team, @Sway Get Sway     | Follow Sway     The post Sway Use Case series #2: Food Sways appeared first on Office Blogs.

In this episode, Jeremy Thake and Richard DiZerega talk to Eric Shupps, in the second part of a call, to discuss the community work and user group that he helps run in Texas. http://officeblogspodcastswest.blob.core.windows.net/podcasts/EP49.mp3 Download the podcast. Weekly updates Microsoft acquires Wunderlist Office 365 Add-in rename cheat sheet Office 365 Developer Flipboard magazine Office 365 Developer slack channel Getting started with SharePoint Hosted Apps Objective C and Swift iOS code sample Get handle on your Site closure and Policies Refactor Office add-ins Sesssion values are lost in SharePoint Provider Hosted Add-ins PnP June community call PnP Usage Survey for May Nintex Wins WPC "Office and SharePoint Application Development" award Show notes Dallas Fort Worth User Group Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network. The podcast RSS has been submitted to all the stores and marketplaces but takes time, please add directly with the RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast. About Eric Shupps Eric Shupps is the founder and president of BinaryWave, a leading provider of administration and productivity solutions for Microsoft SharePoint. Eric has worked with SharePoint Products and Technologies since 2001 as a consultant, administrator, architect, developer and trainer. He is an advisory committee member of the Dallas/Ft. Worth SharePoint Community group and a participating member of user groups throughout the United Kingdom. Eric has authored numerous articles on SharePoint, speaks at user group meetings and conferences around the world, and publishes a popular SharePoint blog at www.sharepointcowboy.com. About the hosts Jeremy is a technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development. Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc., a large ISV, as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft. You can find Jeremy blogging at www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake.   Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and frequent speaker are worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at www.richdizz.com, and can be found on twitter at @richdizz. Richard is based, born and raised in Dallas, Texas, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. In his spare time, Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician, and lightning fast runner.   Useful links Office 365 Developer Center Blog Twitter Facebook StackOverflow http://aka.ms/AskSharePointDev http://aka.ms/AskOfficeDev http://aka.ms/AskOffice365Dev Yammer Office 365 Technical Network O365 Dev Podcast O365 Dev Apps Model O365 Dev Tools O365 Dev APIs O365 Dev Migration to App Model O365 Dev Links UserVoice The post Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 049 with Eric Shupps on building a dev community appeared first on Office Blogs.