Today’s post was written by Douglas Wills, professor of Economics at the University of Washington. In the spring term of 2015, I organized the Intermediate Microeconomics course at the University of Washington, Tacoma using Microsoft’s new OneNote Class Notebook. Over 50 students were enrolled for the mathematics-based course. The OneNote Class Notebook created for the class worked exactly as advertised. Each student had a private tab, access to all class material, and the syncing worked flawlessly. Some students used the online version, some the desktop, and virtually all of them accessed the notebook via multiple devices. However, there were three things that made the use of OneNote outstanding and will keep me coming back to it for future classes. OneNote as the classroom whiteboard I’ve used the "inking" feature of Tablet PCs in the classroom since tablets first came out over a decade ago. Using programs such as Windows Journal or PDF Annotator, all my lecture notes are written on the tablet, projected on the classroom screen, and then saved to be distributed to students (typically in PDF). Two of the big advantages of this technique are that I’m always facing the students when lecturing—even when writing—and the students get a perfect record of everything written in class. Thus, a student can stop worrying about writing down every equation or sentence precisely and can focus on the points being made in the lecture. Using OneNote improves on this, especially with the Surface Pro 3, which I now use. By writing directly on a page in OneNote, the lecture notes are automatically synced to every student’s notebook within seconds. This means that immediately upon the end of class, all students (even the ones who did not attend) have the notes in their OneNote Class Notebook without me having to take any additional steps. This allows students to annotate the lectures immediately after class. The second improvement came from using Surface Pro 3’s built-in wireless function, Miracast. By plugging in Microsoft’s Wireless Display Adaptor into the HDMI input, I was no longer "tied" to the screen control console, which was usually off to the side of the room. Now I could move my computer to a more central location, one closer to the students, or even move the computer around the room. Ease of input Anyone who has taught upper-level economics classes, especially ones focusing on public policies, knows that a critical part of a successful class is getting news about current affairs (articles, videos, etc.) up on the course website as quickly as possible. OneNote shines in this regard; one can print virtually anything found on the web directly to a specific tab in the notebook. So you can quickly and efficiently direct content to the entire class, groups or specific students. Of course, the same is true for the students, as they can post articles to the Collaboration Space for all students to read and comment on. Once again, using the Surface Pro enhanced the usability of OneNote. In Economics, one often just wants a table or graph from an article to discuss in class. Capturing only a graph can often be a tedious and time-consuming endeavor—but no longer. Simply by clicking the pen, one can capture any area of the screen and send that information directly to OneNote. In general, it was much easier to change and upload content. I didn’t have to convert everything to PDF format to upload, or when something had to be changed (due to a typo, etc.), it could be changed directly and quickly. This made the course online content far more dynamic, as it was much easier to post new material. As for content from students, in the past they would have to email me the link and then I would post it using the aforementioned steps. Now the students can do it directly. Change in office hours As important as the aforementioned benefits of OneNote are, the most important was how it changed my office hours. In a mathematics-based course, with lots of questions, I would usually have students coming to office hours every week to help them with questions. Then, after working through a question on the board or on paper, the student would usually take a picture of the board or ask to keep the paper. This term I did not have a single student come to office hours, not one! The students quickly learned that a far superior way to have their questions answered was to post it on their private notebook tab and then "tag" it with a question mark. Each time I opened the course notebook, I searched for new tags. When a new tag appeared, I would click the tag, which took me directly to the student’s question. Of course, at that point I would answer the question, usually writing out the answer with the Surface pen. But what made this format truly superior was using the built-in recording function of OneNote. As I wrote out the answer, I would make an audio recording of my explanation of each of the steps. When the student played it back, OneNote highlighted each step as the student listened to the answer. So not only did the students have a permanent copy of my answer, they also had a recording of my explanation. Accommodate any teaching and organization style While these benefits were huge for an upper-level economics course, the value of the benefits will vary depending on the type of class. I think the true power of using OneNote is that it accommodates any teaching style—standard PowerPoint-based lectures, flipping, hybrid or interactive question-and-answer, of the type I use. In addition, it is ideal for writing-based courses or courses with significant group work. The professor has the ability to create a password-protected "group tab" that only group members have access to, in addition to the professor. Now that I’ve used this format for an entire class, I’ve realized another significant benefit. It gives me an easy way to organize all my course material. By creating a duplicate notebook, I can store all the notes, questions, videos, etc. in one place. Then, using that notebook when I teach the course again, I can easily incorporate changes and control how information is released in the new class by simply copying pages to the new course notebook. For those professors reluctant to invest time in new tools, their familiarity with Office makes the implementation of OneNote virtually painless. And now that Microsoft has announced that the OneNote Class Notebook will be integrated with Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Canvas and Blackboard, the faculty member has the best of both worlds. 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With Project Server 2013 and Project Online, we replaced our server-side scheduling engine with the Project Calculation Service (PCS), bringing the power of the Project Professional scheduling engine to the browser. This new service also powered our new cloud-ready Project API, also known as the Client Side Object Model (CSOM). However, the transition to PCS and CSOM wasn’t quite exhaustive. There are still elements of Project Web App (PWA) and our legacy API, the Project Server Interface (PSI), which rely on the old server-side scheduling engine. Discrepancies between the two engines are a problem for our customers. To resolve these issues, the legacy server-side scheduling engine will be fully removed from Project Server 2016 and Project Online, along with the Project class methods of the PSI. CSOM is the future of PWA extensibility, and we will continue to make improvements to CSOM based on your feedback to ensure parity with legacy PSI scenarios. What’s changing? There will be changes in the following three areas: Project Detail Pages (PDPs) that today rely on the legacy server-side scheduling engine to process and save data will now use PCS exclusively. The Project class of the PSI is being removed. Customizations leveraging methods in this class will need to be updated to instead use Project CSOM methods. As we identify gaps between scheduling PSI and CSOM coverage, we will invest in new CSOM methods to unblock these scenarios. These improvements will roll out online when ready and ship to Project Server 2016 customers through Public Updates. What’s the timing? For on-premises customers, Project Server 2016 will ship with all of these changes implemented. As previously mentioned, CSOM improvements will ship with Project Server Public Updates. Online customers will see some of these changes rolling out within the next month. We will roll these changes out in phases and continue to work on CSOM improvements for the foreseeable future. In Project Server 2013, we will continue to support the current PSIs and will continue fixing any issues related to the legacy server-side scheduling engine that customers encounter. What do I do? If you’ve built customizations leveraging the Project class of the PSI, you’ll need to do some work to replace those methods with their equivalent CSOM methods. If you’re a developer with custom Project solutions, you’ll need to make the necessary changes in the near future to ensure your solutions continue functioning properly. If you find scenarios that are not covered with our current CSOM implementation, please let us know! We are committed to building a rich, fully-featured API that supports our partner ecosystem and our end users. The post A unified scheduling engine and API in Project Online and Project Server 2016 appeared first on Office Blogs.

This month’s Power Query update includes six new or improved features including: Improvements to ODBC Connector Navigator dialog improvements Option to enable Fast Data Load versus Background Data Load Support for Salesforce Custom environments in Recent Sources list Easier parsing of Date or Time values out of a Text column with Date/Time information Unpivot Other Columns entry in column context menu You can continue reading below for more details about each feature. Improvements to ODBC Connector We improved the ODBC Connector by making the SQL statement optional instead of required. Now users can simply provide the Connection String for their ODBC source and navigate the list of tables available from the data source, pick up the ones they want to import, and apply any additional transformations needed in the Query Editor. This greatly simplifies the process for bringing in data from several data sources supported via ODBC. Navigator dialog improvements With this update, we made several improvements to the Navigator dialog: Ability to resize the Navigator pane—We made the list of databases/tables, in the left side of the Navigator dialog, resizable to improve readability. Added the "Preview downloaded on…" message—On the Navigator dialog previews, below the table name, the new "Preview downloaded on…" message has been added to indicate the freshness of the data. In many cases, Power Query leverages the local cache for previews of tables that users have already imported. This might be confusing to users seeing outdated data. The "Preview downloaded on…" message addresses this confusion. The message is displayed for previews older than 24 hours. Note: if you want to retrieve the latest data preview before importing the data, it’s also possible to refresh this data preview from the top-right corner of the dialog. Option to enable Fast Data Load versus Background Data Load We added an option for users to control whether the query should be loaded to the workbook in the background or use the new "Fast Data Load" option to accelerate the query download. The default behavior is "Background Data Load," but now users can instead choose the "Fast Data Load" mode in the Options dialog. When loading a query using the "Fast Data Load" mode, your query will take less time to load, however, Excel may be unresponsive for long periods of time during the upload. Support for Salesforce Custom environments in Recent Sources list Last month we added a new option to the Salesforce connector to specify whether to connect to Production or a Custom environment. This month we are enabling the Salesforce Custom environments to be shown in the Recent Sources list. Easier parsing of Date or Time values out of a Text column We made it much easier to extract a Date or a Time value from a text column that contains a DateTime or DateTimeTimezone value represented as Text. Before this update, you would need to convert your Text column to DateTime or DateTimeTimeZone and then extract the Date or Time component. In this month’s update, we’ve added two new options under the Transform and Add Column tabs, in the Date & Time dropdown menus, to parse these data types out of the currently selected Text columns. Unpivot Other Columns entry in column context menu "Unpivot Columns" is one of the most popular transformations in Power Query. However, what many users don’t know is that "Unpivot Other Columns" is even better! "Unpivot Other Columns" helps users ensure their queries automatically pick up new columns added to the original data in the future. This is the most common case for tables where new columns are added for each new period of data (i.e. years, quarters). Users only need to select the columns that are "stable" and select Unpivot Other Columns—from that point on all other columns in the table will be unpivoted. "Unpivot Other Columns" has been available for a while in the Transform tab, under Unpivot Columns, but now we also added it to the column context menu in the preview for easier access and discoverability. That’s all for this month. We’re making lots of incremental improvements to Power Query and we hope that you find it better with every new monthly update. Please continue sending us feedback using our "Send a Smile/Frown" feature, or by voting for what you’d like to see next. —Miguel Llopis, program manager on the Power Query team. Power Query for Excel is available with an Office 365 ProPlus subscription, Office 2010 Professional Plus with Software Assurance, Office 2013 Professional Plus or Excel 2013 Standalone. Power Query for Excel is also available in all other Excel 2013 Desktop SKUs with reduced functionality. Check out the System Requirements section on this page for more details. Download the add-in and learn more about getting started. Learn about all the powerful analytics and visualization features in Excel and take your analysis further by sharing and collaborating on business insights with colleagues using Power BI. Learn more about Power Query See all analytics and visualization features in Excel Get your Office 365 subscription Try Power BI Follow us: Facebook and Twitter The post 6 updates in Power Query for Excel appeared first on Office Blogs.

Last week, the United States Air Force announced it has selected Office 365 to power productivity and collaboration for more than 100,000 active, civilian and reserve personnel. Through deployment of a Department of Defense (DoD) dedicated version of Office 365, Service members will have access to the comprehensive and integrated set of productivity capabilities Office 365 provides, including email, Skype for Business calling and meetings, real-time document co-authoring, and other collaboration tools. The agreement is one of the largest commercial cloud contracts in DoD history, and is expected to help the Air Force significantly reduce costs over the next three years. No organization deserves a more enterprise- and security-ready approach than the Air Force. Read more about its selection of Office 365 over on the Microsoft Government blog. The post U.S. Air Force selects Office 365 appeared first on Office Blogs.

This month we’re upgrading your OneNote mobile experience with improvements to iOS and Android. One app for OneNote iPad and iPhone You might have noticed that our apps had a "for iPad" and "for iPhone" in the title—that’s because they were two separate apps. This month we did a bunch of work behind the scenes to create one universal iOS app that works on both iPad and iPhone. If you are an iPad user today, you will need to get the new OneNote app from the store. When you open your current iPad app, you will see instructions for getting the app. If you are an iPhone user, you don’t need to do anything—we merged the iPad app into the iPhone app so you already have it. With the universal iOS OneNote app, iPad users will have some of the recent updates made to the iPhone app, and we’ll be able to move even faster to update the app with new features. New iPad features Some of the recent updates to iPhone are now available for iPad including: Today Widget—Create new notes, start a list, and access your most recent notes with one tap from the Notification Center. This is a great way to quickly capture something before you forget without having to navigate to the app. Recent Notes—Find your most recently edited notes with the "Recent Notes" view to display the list of recent notes across all the notebooks open on your iPad. Page Previews—If you turn your iPad into landscape mode you will see page previews. This makes it quick to remember what content is on a page. Document/Whiteboard camera—Thanks to your feedback about the document/whiteboard camera not working properly, we were able to fix the bug; it turns out the lens cap was left on when using the Document/Whiteboard camera. You can download OneNote for iOS on the Apple App Store today! OneNote for Android updates We recently updated the OneNote for Android, which introduces one of the top feature asks—the ability to move or copy pages from one section or notebook to another section or notebook. Now, if you took a note in a hurry and it is still in your Quick Notes section, you can move it to the Notebook where it really belongs. Or, if your teacher shared an assignment or notes with you, and you want to copy it to your notes, now you can do that too using OneNote for Android. Let’s see how it works: Moving or copying a page from one section to another is very simple. On the page list, just tap and hold on the page you would like to move or copy. Select the operation you would like to perform from the menu and then select the destination section—you are done. For quick access, you can also add a page directly to your Home screen.   Apart from this, we also made some stability improvements and fixed user reported issues. Android Wear Take note: we have a big update coming for our Android Wear app. You asked for a way to view recent notes and tasks on your watch, so we’ve made it possible to view your big ideas on your small(er) screen. In a few days we’ll have a beta available, and you will be able to get a sneak peek at the functionality ahead of time by joining our Beta Community, or wait a few weeks for it to come to the Play Store. You can download OneNote for Android via Google Play today! Follow OneNote on Google+. Join the Google+ Beta community and be the first one to try out the latest updates. We’d love to hear what you think of these updates, so please let us know in the comments, in-app feedback or by submitting a review. —Ryan McMinn, product manager for the OneNote team. The post OneNote July mobile updates for iOS and Android appeared first on Office Blogs.

As a digital storytelling app, Sway makes it easy for students, teachers, professionals and consumers to bring all sorts of narratives to life in a new and interactive way. This blog series highlights the great examples of Sways made across different categories by all sorts of people to make their ideas shine. In the last Sway Use Case blog, we got a taste of many delicious and visually delightful Sways that chefs, foodies, and culinary adventurers have created, all centered around food. In today’s post, we’ll get down to business and dive into some of the many ways that small businesses and professionals alike are using Sway for professional storytelling, collaboration and sharing ideas in new ways internally and with their customers. Check out the highlights below! Swaying potential clients with an event venue brochure Jonathan Price (London, @JonnoPrice) is the sales and marketing manager at Maudsley Learning (@MaudsleyLearn). He used Sway to create a fluid and engaging promotional brochure to share the offerings and specifications for the ORTUS learning and events center in London. Complete with images, venue highlights and even a promotional offer, this new format helps sway prospective clients in an easy-to-share way. Check out Jonathan’s brochure Sway: Recapping a project and sharing a portfolio piece with Sway Empired (Australia, @EmpiredLtd) is an IT services provider that delivers business technology solutions across Australia. Sway helped Empired showcase a cloud-based intranet solution it built for the Telethon Kids Institute in Western Australia. Bringing together material including infographics, screenshots, and headshots, Empired’s Sway is an interactive and structured way to promote the solution and the Empired team in a format that is engaging and easy to share internally and with clients. Check out Empired’s project recap Sway: Swaying the market with thought leadership JP Bedell (New York, @Jamesbedell) is a sales rep and blogger for the lighting solutions provider SDA Lighting. It’s important for any company to promote itself by demonstrating thought leadership and expertise in its field. JP uses Sway to showcase lighting principles for the office of the future in this combination blog and industry white paper. Bringing together images, text, videos, and tweets, this Sway provides JP and SDA an interactive and dynamic format for easily sharing professional perspectives in a compelling way with prospective clients and the market. Check out JP’s illuminating Sway: Using Sway to make real estate listings stand out Susan Taylor (South Carolina, @susanttaylor) works in real estate in South Carolina. In an industry where visual presentation can make all the difference in piquing the interest of a buyer and driving a sale, Susan has been using Sway to make real estate listings stand out in a polished, interactive way that is easy to share across a wide variety of channels. Susan combines descriptions, pictures, videos and more in her Sways to bring properties to life and create a digital landscape for the homes she sells. Come take a tour of one of Susan’s real estate listing Sways: Promoting specialty services with Sway Cupcakes Actually (Virginia, @cupcakesnobs) proudly sells delicious-looking custom cupcakes baked onsite in its two Virginia shop locations. The recipe to success in the food service industry is complex and self-promotion is key. Cupcakes Actually has been using Sway to easily and broadly share a showcase of its beautifully-designed and expertly crafted cupcake lineup in a format whose visual polish and professional formatting reflects the quality of the cupcakes they bake. Try not to salivate over this particular Sway by Cupcakes Actually, which promotes their wedding portfolio: Well, we’re sold! These are just a handful of the many Sways we’re seeing from small businesses who are using Sway’s new interactive and easily shareable format to promote their services, showcase their expertise, recap their work, and attract more customers. Thanks to all of you who have been creating Sways to help drive your businesses forward. Feel free to continue sharing with us on Twitter at @Sway! —Sway team, @Sway   Get Sway     | Follow Sway     The post Sway Use Case series #3: Small business Sways appeared first on Office Blogs.

In this episode, Jeremy Thake and Richard DiZerega talk to a panel of SharePoint MVPs at SPTechCon Dev Days including Marc Anderson, Andrew Connell, Scot Hillier, Paul Schaeflein and Eric Shupps. http://officeblogspodcastswest.blob.core.windows.net/podcasts/EP54_sptechconpanel.mp3 Download the podcast. Weekly updates Worldwide Partner Conference 2015 Gigjam: unleashing the human process Training updates Office 365 APIs for Mail Office 365 APIs for Calendar File Handler HOL Groups API HOL Unified API HOL Video API HOL PnP guidance added dev.office.com pages Office 2016 for Mac is generally available Announcing new activity logging and reporting capabilities for Office 365 Debugging websites with Visual Studio code SharePoint apps add-ins minify Adding Custom Tiles to the Office 365 App Launcher Inconvenient Internet Explorer security zones and Azure AD web applications Header/Footer with Breadcrumb and Global Ribbon SPO Office 365 Dev 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 Marc Anderson Marc is the co-Founder and president of Sympraxis Consulting LLC, located in the Boston suburb of Newton, MA, USA.  Sympraxis focuses on enabling collaboration throughout the enterprise using the SharePoint application platform. Marc has over 30 years of experience in technology professional services and software development. Over a wide-ranging career in consulting as well as line manager positions, Marc has proven himself as a problem solver and leader who can solve difficult technology problems for organizations across a wide variety of industries and organization sizes. Check out his blog at sympmarc.com and follow him on @sympmarc. About Scot Hillier Scot Hillier is an independent consultant and Microsoft SharePoint MVP focused on creating solutions for Information Workers with SharePoint, Office and related .NET technologies. A frequent speaker at TechEd and SharePoint Connections, he is also the author many books on Microsoft technologies, including five for SharePoint 2010. Scot splits his time between consulting on SharePoint projects and training for Critical Path Training. Scot is a former U. S. Navy submarine officer and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. Scot can be reached at scot@shillier.com. About Andrew Connell Andrew is an entrepreneur and developer with an emphasis in Microsoft SharePoint and content management systems (CMS). In April of 2005 he was recognized by Microsoft for his community contributions by being awarded Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Content Management Server and has received the award annually for SharePoint Server every year since. Most of his work these days involves working with the Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365 and web development technologies. Read more at about  Andrew Connell  and follow him on @andrewconnell. About Paul Schaeflein Paul Schaeflein has worked with Microsoft’s SharePoint technologies since it was called the Digital Dashboard. This work encompasses substantial custom development, implementations and training. Also, Paul was granted the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his community work - primarily presentations at national conferences, regional events and user groups. Check out Paul’s blog www.schaeflein.net/blog and follow him on @paulschaeflein. 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 054 panel discussion on SharePoint development appeared first on Office Blogs.

Transforming the way your organization works isn’t easy. Employees, like consumers, have habits…patterns…favorites…none of which they’re willing to trade for the latest cloud productivity trends. Yet, the important conversations that help you to set your business apart don’t just happen in the office. You need to be where your employees are so you can listen to and learn from their changing needs. Companies report 76 percent* more visibility into other departments and office locations by using Yammer. In addition, companies have seen a 37 percent** improvement in project collaboration by leveraging familiar productivity tools like PowerPoint, Excel and Word in a real-time, co-editing cloud environment. And finally, 93 percent*** of business leaders agree that internal social tools stimulate innovation, leading to business and innovation growth. Microsoft Partners help you realize your own success with Office 365. As service providers and as Microsoft customers themselves, they’re sharing their success stories here at Office Blogs. We’ve shared a few below. Read about how you can take your cloud productivity transformation to the next level and get your head in the cloud with Office 365. SharePoint and Office 365 for Enterprise Social Communications Are You Connected or Connecting? Realizing Measurable Value with Your Yammer Network   * Yammer, 2013 ** Inside Communication, 2012 *** Red River, 2013 The post Re-introducing the Office 365 Partner blog series appeared first on Office Blogs.

Today’s post was written by Reuben Krippner, director of product management for Office 365, focused primarily on OneDrive for Business. The OneDrive for Business team has been working to deliver the most commonly requested controls by IT admins. Today, we’ll highlight new management options you have to protect and control the flow of your information using OneDrive for Business. In addition, this week’s Office Mechanics show walks through the new controls and how to implement them as IT admin: Limiting file sync to domain joined PCs OneDrive for Business enables users to synchronize their files for offline use across their PCs or Macs. One of the most common requests from IT admins is to have the ability to block sync on unmanaged PCs. Now you can enable file sync to work only on domain-joined PCs (and you can even specify which of your domains you want to allow to sync), thereby blocking file sync on personally owned or unmanaged PCs. Note that using this setting means that you will disable file sync on all Macs as they cannot be domain-joined and managed like PCs. This new control uses PowerShell to limit file sync to a list of permitted domains and, if your organization uses multiple domains, you can select the individual domains from which you allow sync requests. The PowerShell cmdlet and syntax you use is:Set-SPOTenantSyncClientRestriction  -Enable -DomainGuids "786548DD-877B-4760-A749-6B1EFBC1190A; 877564FF-877B-4760-A749-6B1EFBC1190A"The "DomainGuids" value represents the domain you are allowing. You can find more details on TechNet, including how to determine your domain GUIDs. We also demonstrate this on the show. Auditing all actions taken against OneDrive for Business files New auditing controls rolling into the Office 365 compliance center allow you to audit all actions taken against files stored in OneDrive for Business. If you want to monitor activities like which PCs or Macs attempted to sync with OneDrive or who viewed and shared files, the auditing controls provide that visibility. You can learn more in this recent Office Blogs post, and we demonstrate some of the auditing capabilities on the show. Managing mobile devices connecting to OneDrive for Business data As more people move to OneDrive for Business to store and access their files, email-based mobile device management (MDM) policies may not suffice to protect data. Now using MDM in Office 365, you can ensure that devices connecting to your OneDrive for Business data are managed. After you’ve set up MDM policies, a device will need to enroll in MDM for Office 365 when it tries to connect to your data using OneDrive for Business or Office Mobile apps. This ensures that the device meets security requirements, enforces PIN log-in and other chosen configurations on the device. You can find out more about MDM for Office 365 and see it in action on the show. Setting storage quotas in OneDrive for Business Even though the prospect of having 1 TB of data in the cloud is attractive for many people, several organizations have requested the ability to set smaller quota limits. It could be to limit the amount of data stored, for information protection reasons, or simply to ensure that what people store in OneDrive for Business can sync (and fit) on their PC’s hard drive. In this case, PowerShell is again used to determine the storage quota. Here’s an example:Set-SPOSite -Identity https://yourdomain-my.sharepoint.com/personal/username_yourdomain_com   -StorageQuota 512000We demonstrate this feature on the show, and you’ll find more information for the Set-SPOSite cmdlet on TechNet. Preventing unintentional sharing to "Everyone" or "All Users" in OneDrive for Business OneDrive for Business is designed to ensure that only those with viewing or editing permissions can view or edit a file. Many organizations want sharing with people to be a very specific and targeted action. For example, they want their users to determine the specific people they need to share a file with and explicitly invite them through the sharing dialog. We’ve also offered the "Shared with Everyone" folder, which means files placed in this folder automatically grant users permissions and are publically discoverable through Delve. We had a lot of feedback from customers that this folder was an all-too-simple way to avoid specifically nominating people who should get access to a file. Based on this feedback, for all new tenants and users, the "Shared with everyone" folder will no longer be created by default; however, IT admins have the ability to override this setting. If this is something you’ve been waiting for to protect information, you’ll also be happy to know that there are controls to remove "Everyone," "All Users" and "Everyone except external users" from the people picker in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. Again, you would use PowerShell to disable these entries from the people picker with the following settings:Set-SPOTenant -ShowEveryoneClaim $falseSet-SPOTenant -ShowEveryoneExceptExternalUsersClaim $falseSet-SPOTenant -ShowAllUsersClaim $falseMore information about the Set-SPOTenant cmdlet is on TechNet and we highlight this as well as the resulting user experience on the show. More to come in OneDrive for Business These new controls, all based on your feedback, provide more capabilities to protect corporate information in OneDrive for Business. In the coming months, we’ll deliver a whole range of new user experiences including our new sync client (featuring selective sync), new web client refresh and offline file support for mobile devices. We’ll also bring in new controls for IT admins to manage the scope or span of sharing outside the organization as well as other controls that provide additional ways to protect key business files. So keep checking back; be sure to try out the new management controls today and let us know what you think. -Reuben Krippner The post New IT management controls added to OneDrive for Business appeared first on Office Blogs.

This month’s Office 365 Dev Digest was written by Jeremy Thake, technical product manager for the Office 365 Dev team. Welcome to the fifth edition of Dev Digest, designed to help you—the Office 365 developer—keep up-to-date with what’s new in Office 365 development. On July 9th we announced the news that Office 2016 for Mac was released. Currently this includes support for Office Add-ins in Outlook, and our engineering team is working hard to support add-ins in Word, PowerPoint and Excel as well. This means if you have written an Office Add-in that works right now with Office 2013 on Windows desktop, Office Online or Office for iOS, it will also work with the Mac version. On June 24th, we also announced that Office for Android Phone is generally available. Right now, these apps do not support Office Add-ins, but once our engineers are done with OSX and iOS add-in support, Android is next! Visual Studio 2015 will also be released on July 20th with an online streamed Connect() event that is well worth watching! Based on your feedback we made improvements for Office 365 developers, including an updated Add Connected Service wizard. Yesterday we announced a new dedicated Channel 9 show, The Office Dev Show, devoted to all things Office 365 development-related. The show, hosted by Sonya Koptyev, will include guests from the Office 365 Extensibility engineering team, as well as key community members. The show will feature new code and capabilities that have been added for devs to customize the Office platform, including the desktop, online and mobile versions as well as a series on how to "Get Started" building on the platform. We also announced that Office 365 users gain one-click access to third-party apps through a new Office 365 Store tile on the app launcher and Store link in the My Apps page. This will dramatically increase the exposure of your products in the Office 365 Store. We are seeing more and more products want to be a first-class citizen of the Office 365 experience across all our workloads and not just inside Office apps and SharePoint. There are new activity logging and reporting capabilities through the Office 365 Management Activity API. The capabilities here will continually grow over time, and if you are an ISV, there is a program where you can submit your interest. We have just published a bunch of new hands-on labs for APIs that we announced in a preview of Build/Ignite at dev.office.com/training. Check out over 80 labs, including File Handler, Groups API, Unified API and Video Portal APIs, which you can take in your own time for free at dev.office.com/training. We worked closely to get a case study published about how Blue Meteorite in Finland transformed their on-premises SharePoint Farm Solution intranet product to the SharePoint Add-in model. For more information on how to transform your product, please visit dev.office.com/transform. Our team also created a new Reddit sub-reddit to encourage contributions and a FlipBoard magazine to keep up-to-date with news around Office 365 development! I encourage you all to engage with us on the Office 365 Technical Network with your questions. Dev documentation The Microsoft Content Publishing team works hard producing documentation to help developers learn our platform. Here are the key new and updated articles for this month: Solution guidance (SharePoint) Create remote timer jobs in SharePoint Authorize provider-hosted app users at run time by using OAuth Cross-domain images in SharePoint provider-hosted add-ins Elevated privileges in SharePoint Add-ins Upload web parts in SharePoint Use asynchronous operations in SharePoint Add-ins Office Add-ins Document.getFileAsync method Document.getSelectedDataAsync method Document.setSelectedDataAsync method TableData object TableData.headers property TableData.rows property Context.commerceAllowed property Context.touchEnabled property Office integration Integrate with Office from iOS applications Office for iOS support for the iOS Document Picker Integrate with Office from Windows universal apps Integrate with Office from Win32 sync clients Office for Android support for the Android Storage Access Framework Integrate with Office from Android applications Office 365 APIs New Office 365 Management APIs overview  Office 365 Service Communications API reference (preview) Office 365 Management Activity API reference (preview) Office 365 APIs for Mail hands on Lab Office 365 APIs for Calendar hands on Lab File Handler hands on Lab Groups API hands on Lab Unified API hands on Lab Video API hands on Lab Updates Office 365 Groups REST API reference (preview) Video REST API reference (preview) Files REST API reference Resource reference for the Mail, Calendar and Contacts REST APIs Discovery Service REST API reference Office 365 for Enterprise Developers SharePoint Add-ins New Add custom client-side rendering to a SharePoint-hosted SharePoint Add-in Create a custom ribbon button in the host web of a SharePoint Add-in For more documentation check out Office developer documentation. Code samples Our team is continually on the lookout for new code samples to help you jump-start your own projects. Here is a list of the most recent new and updated samples from Microsoft as well as the dev community. New O365-Android-ArtCurator O365-iOS-ArtCurator O365-WinPhone-ArtCurator O365-Angular-ArtCurator Office app development—Medium article for Art Curator sample apps Most recent Office 365 Dev podcasts Since joining Microsoft last year, I have been running around campus interviewing people about various dev topics. If you would like to hear me interview someone on a particular topic, please submit your suggestions in the Yammer group, and I’ll go hunt the relevant people down to interview. Here are the most recent podcast interviews: Episode 051 on Office UI Fabric Episode 052 on client side dev with Mark Rackley Episode 053 on micro services with Bob German Episode 054 panel discussion on SharePoint development For more podcasts check out dev.office.com/podcasts. Patterns and practices The Microsoft Patterns and Practices team is working hard to release samples to show the power of SharePoint Add-ins. Don’t forget to join the monthly community calls to hear the updates from them directly on Skype for Business and the previously launched Skype Developer Platform (developer.skype.com). Here are the latest updates from the team: Updated Transform page on dev.office.com/transform Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP)—June release details PnP July community call recording at Channel 9 New training package created based on the PnP guidance at OfficeDevPnPTraining Numerous new videos in the PnP Channel 9 check at OfficeDevPnPVideos Numerous updates and new articles to PnP section in MSDN at OfficeDevPnPMSDN For more on patterns and practices check out dev.office.com/patterns-and-practices. All questions related on released materials and guidance can be added to our Yammer group at OfficeDevPnPYammer. Dev community blog posts The Office 365 dev community has been busy this month. It is exciting to see the effort people put into their posts in their spare time to share with the community. Check out these articles from the Microsoft field, MVPs and more: An early look at Cortana integration with Office 365 Microsoft Garage Tossup app Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2015 Gigjam: unleashing the human process Debugging websites with Visual Studio code by Sahil Malik SharePoint apps add-ins minify Adding Custom Tiles to the Office 365 App Launcher by Wes Hackett Inconvenient Internet Explorer security zones and Azure AD web applications by Waldek Mastykarz Header/Footer with Breadcrumb and Global Ribbon SPO Office 365 Dev Getting started with adaljs and Office 365 APIs by Scot Hillier on ITUnity Troubleshooting SharePoint Add-ins configuration on-premises by Matthew McDermott SharePoint client-side devs be heard by Marc Rackley Office 365 Video Portal API deep dive by Balamurugan Kailasam on the SharePointCommunity.net Azure Logic apps YouTube Channel Implementing AD integration with Office 365 using a sub-domain (for dev/test) by Chris O’Brien Hooking SharePoint APIs with Android by Kris Wagner Inconvenient ADAL JS Angular with simultaneous CORS requests by Waldek Mastykarz Using The Force With Office 365 by Todd Baginski SPTechCon Developer Days follow Up by Marc Anderson Get SharePoint Apps for current web using JavaScript CSOM (Office 365) by Chris O’Connor Transforming SharePoint customizations to add-in model training package by Vesa Juvonen Why are we talking about the new Office 365 Authoring Tools again? by Marc Anderson on ITUnity.com Visual Studio 2015 RC Connected Services by Tim Ferro Developing Yammer apps for iOS/OS X with ADAL, REST API and Swift 2.0 by Stephane Cordonnier MVP Dev Track Day1—Native iOS Apps using Swift for Office365 by Sahil Malik Office Store Companies across the globe are extending the value of Office every day with Office Add-ins. See how these solutions are making a difference at real companies by watching their stories on betterwith.office.com! We have two new videos for you to check out. Barnes Healthcare deploys BetterCloud to tighten management of its Office 365 platform New Signature migrates to a digital approval process with DocuSign and Office 365 Upcoming events There are plenty of events on the horizon…don’t miss out on these great events with Office 365 content. Our team looks forward to meeting you all at these events, so don’t be shy come say hello at the Office 365 booth! Aug. 18-20 SharePoint Fest, Seattle Oct. 12 Unity Connect, Amsterdam Oct. 14 DevIntersection, Amsterdam Oct. 26 DevIntersection, Las Vegas Nov. 9-12 European SharePoint conference For more events check out dev.office.com/events. Until next month, please join our community discussions at www.yammer.com/itpronetwork and follow us on @OfficeDev on Twitter and on Facebook. Also, be sure to follow along with us on our daily developer mission: Jeremy Thake (@jthake), Chris Johnson (@loungflyz), Sonya Koptyev (@SonyaKoptyev), Dave Pae (@davidpae) and Jim Epes (@j_epes). —Jeremy Thake The post Office 365—monthly Dev Digest for July appeared first on Office Blogs.