Office 365 news round-up

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Warren Buffett once said that, "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." Indeed, our goal with Office 365 has always been to provide top value for the money. From building all the important capabilities businesses need directly into the suite to providing an enterprise-class experience, Office 365 is a complete cloud-based productivity solution that offers top value. Don't miss the guest blog post from Christopher Hertz, CEO of Microsoft partner New Signature.  Chris explains his perspective working with customers on  why Office 365 offers top value for the dollar.  Also if you haven't already, please read how businesses of all sizes get value from using Office 365. Also, learn why Office 365 offers an enterprise-class experience.

Below is a round-up of these and other news items from the last couple weeks. Enjoy!

Microsoft Tops Apple as America's Most Inspiring Company; Google 7th, Amazon 8th. Americans rank Microsoft as the most-inspiring company.

Microsoft Customers Can Now Buy Go Daddy Domain Names Directly Within Office 365. Microsoft "has made its Office 365 software even more convenient for enterprises" by integrating it with web hosting company Go Daddy.

Durham University Moves into the Cloud with Office 365.  Durham University migrates the email of 16,000 students and staff to the cloud by deploying the Office 365 suite. Microsoft has made its Office 365 software even more convenient for enterprises by integrating it with Web hosting company Go Daddy.

Office Garage video series demonstrates the Office Mobile capabilities. The latest episode of Microsoft's Office Garage video series takes a look at Office on mobile devices.

SharePoint 2013 Adds Better In-Memory Analytics. Microsoft's business intelligence tools "have arrived squarely on the doorstep of serious big data analytics."

Microsoft Details Updated Mail App for Windows 8.1 with Outlook.com Integration. Microsoft optimizes the Mail app in Windows 8.1 with Outlook.com integration.

Microsoft Details SkyDrive's Smart Files Feature, Prepares To Roll Out Bing-Powered OCR Search. Microsoft announces that its optical character recognition (OCR) feature for searching through SkyDrive files will be rolling out over the coming weeks.

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Office 365 news round-up

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AppId is over the quota

Warren Buffett once said that, "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." Indeed, our goal with Office 365 has always been to provide top value for the money. From building all the important capabilities businesses need directly into the suite to providing an enterprise-class experience, Office 365 is a complete cloud-based productivity solution that offers top value. Don't miss the guest blog post from Christopher Hertz, CEO of Microsoft partner New Signature.  Chris explains his perspective working with customers on  why Office 365 offers top value for the dollar.  Also if you haven't already, please read how businesses of all sizes get value from using Office 365. Also, learn why Office 365 offers an enterprise-class experience.

Below is a round-up of these and other news items from the last couple weeks. Enjoy!

Microsoft Tops Apple as America's Most Inspiring Company; Google 7th, Amazon 8th. Americans rank Microsoft as the most-inspiring company.

Microsoft Customers Can Now Buy Go Daddy Domain Names Directly Within Office 365. Microsoft "has made its Office 365 software even more convenient for enterprises" by integrating it with web hosting company Go Daddy.

Durham University Moves into the Cloud with Office 365.  Durham University migrates the email of 16,000 students and staff to the cloud by deploying the Office 365 suite. Microsoft has made its Office 365 software even more convenient for enterprises by integrating it with Web hosting company Go Daddy.

Office Garage video series demonstrates the Office Mobile capabilities. The latest episode of Microsoft's Office Garage video series takes a look at Office on mobile devices.

SharePoint 2013 Adds Better In-Memory Analytics. Microsoft's business intelligence tools "have arrived squarely on the doorstep of serious big data analytics."

Microsoft Details Updated Mail App for Windows 8.1 with Outlook.com Integration. Microsoft optimizes the Mail app in Windows 8.1 with Outlook.com integration.

Microsoft Details SkyDrive's Smart Files Feature, Prepares To Roll Out Bing-Powered OCR Search. Microsoft announces that its optical character recognition (OCR) feature for searching through SkyDrive files will be rolling out over the coming weeks.

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Office 365 news round-up

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Diese Woche Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) erinnert mich an John Donne's Gedicht "Niemand ist eine Insel." Microsoft hat ein ausgedehntes Netz von Partnern in allen Größen, von die alle eine entscheidende Rolle spielen bei der Herstellung unserer Produkte und Dienstleistungen ein Erfolg. Donnes Worten ausgedrückt, ist jeder unserer Partner "ein" Stück des Kontinents, ein Teil des Mains." Ich bin gedemütigt durch die unglaubliche Kreativität und das Engagement, die jeder unserer Partner auf die Mischung bringt.

WPC-2013 wurde ein bemerkenswerter Vorgang. Zu den Höhepunkten: Power BI für Office 365haben wir angekündigt, eine neue Self-Service-Business Intelligence (BI) bietet, ermöglicht Unternehmen an leistungsstarke neue Möglichkeiten in Excel und Office 365 Erkenntnisse aus ihren Daten gewinnen. Wir erleichtert nach Partnern für ihre Kunden den Übergang zwischen verschiedenen Versionen von Office 365. Windows 8 Partner Gelegenheitbesprochen. Wir veröffentlichten Untersuchungen, die belegen, dass Partner mit mehr als 50 Prozent ihres Umsatzes mit Bezug zu der Wolke haben Genuss höheren Rohertrag. Und wir unsere Top-Performance-Partner geehrt.

Wenn Sie noch nicht, sendet bitte lesen Sie in der Gast-Blog von Palmetto Technology Group, Wortell, SkyKick, CDW Corporationund Sapienta Holdings--einige der vielen Microsoft-Partner, die Kunden, die Migration zu Office 365 helfen. Bitte siehe auch unsere Ankündigung über die Verfügbarkeit der Office und SharePoint-Speicher in 22 neue Märkte.

Hier ist eine Zusammenfassung von einigen von diesen und anderen wichtigen Nachrichten aus den letzten paar Wochen:

Microsoft: It's Time to Pounce auf Cloud-Markt mit den richtigen Tools. Mit der großflächigen Einführung von Office 365 und Windows Azure ist der richtige Zeitpunkt für Partner in dem Reich Markt Cloud-Ready Kunden zu erschließen.

Microsoft COO Turner sagt, dass noch mehr Innovation kommen in diesem Jahr ist. Rede auf der Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft-COO Kevin Turner verspricht, dass Microsofts Geschäftsjahr 2014 werden seine größte Jahr der Innovation aller Zeiten.

Microsoft-Intros macht BI für Office 365. Microsoft kündigt Power BI für Office 365, eine neue Self-Service Business-Intelligence bietet gelieferten durch Excel und Office 365.

Microsoft Spreads Office Store für 22 neue Märkte, Intros Business-Intelligence-Tool. Die Microsoft Office und SharePoint-Speicher ist in 22 neue Märkte mit zusätzliche Sprachunterstützung für Französisch, Deutsch, Spanisch und Japanisch jetzt offen.

Microsoft bietet nahtlose Bewegung zwischen Office 365-SKUs #WPC13. Microsoft machte es möglich, nahtlos von einer Office-365-Kunden-Plan, oder SKU, auf einen anderen verschieben.

Poste Italiane zielt auf Cloud-Computing mit Office 365 binden. Poste Italiane, der staatlichen Postdienst in Italien, hat einen deal mit Microsoft-Italien, um seine digitalen Dokumenten-Services mit Office 365 integrieren.

Windows 8.1: neue Chance für Microsoft-Partner. Windows 8.1, die zur Fertigung Ende August veröffentlicht wird, bietet neue Möglichkeiten für Partner mehr apps auf weitere Geräte für Kunden zu bringen.

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Office 365 news round-up

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It's been another remarkable couple of weeks for Office 365. Thanks to our customers, the new Office is officially the best-selling Office edition yet, with more than one sold every second on average since it launched. And if that wasn't enough, in just over 100 days, Office 365 Home Premium has become a hit with more than 1 million subscribers, putting it on pace with some of the most popular services around.

We also announced the availability of Lync-Skype connectivity for Lync customers around the world, marking our first important step in extending Lync's unified communications capabilities to the hundreds of millions of people who use Skype.

Notably, a recent Computing survey found that Microsoft is about to surge ahead, with 37 percent of IT decisions makers reporting that their organization is likely to adopt Office 365 against just 15 percent for Google Apps. We hope you enjoyed the recent blog post describing why Office 365 offers the most value, and the most complete vision for businesses of all sizes. We also hope you had a chance to read the three Q&As with executives from SEPCOIII, Arysta Lifescience, and Sensia Hälsovård AB explaining why they chose Office 365 over Google Apps. Here is a round-up of some of the key news from the last couple weeks:

Microsoft Office 365 Hits 1 Million Users. Office 365 Home Premium has surpassed the 1 million subscribers mark in just over 100 days.

Office 365 and Google Apps Fight for Supremacy. Microsoft is about to surge ahead, with 37 percent of IT decisions makers reporting that their organization is likely to adopt Office 365 against just 15 percent for Google Apps, according to a recent Computing survey.

Microsoft Announces Skype And Lync Interoperability With IM & Audio To Start, Video Soon. Skype and Lync now interoperate, meaning users can access their Lync contacts via Skype and vice versa, and then message them or place an audio call.

Microsoft Cloud deployed by AGL. Energy retailer AGL Energy sees significant improvement in employee satisfaction after deploying Office 365 across its entire operation with 3.6 million business and residential customers.

Microsoft: Social at Work is Not a Time Waster - If Done Right. Forty-six percent of workers feel that their productivity and greatly or somewhat increased because of social tools, according to a Microsoft-commissioned survey.

68% of Organisations to Adopt Hybrid Cloud Model in Two Years. Research commissioned by Microsoft finds that more than 52 percent of organizations believe that the cloud adoption will help their business growth, with 68 percent turning to the hybrid cloud model in the next two years.

SkyDrive Pro for Windows Now Available. The SkyDrive Pro client is now available as a standalone version.

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Office 365 news round-up: June 28

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Many exciting things have happened since our last news round up. The Build Conference wraps up today, where we heard about the Windows 8.1 preview which is now available for download. Earlier this week, we celebrated the one year anniversary of the acquisition of Yammer with an update to our enterprise social road map. On June 17, we announced that video messaging has become a full-fledged feature in Skype.

I hope you got a chance to read about how Energy retailer AGL Energy Limited simplified email support and saved with Office 365 and why FLO Wine chose Office 365 to improve collaboration for their small business.

Here is a round-up of some of these and other key news items from the last couple weeks:

How Office 365 Pays Off For Two SMBs. Microsoft Office faces more competitors than ever, but Office 365 gives it a leg up with small and midsize businesses seeking to cut costs and improve collaboration.

Exchange 2013 and SharePoint 2013: Great alone, even better together. IT administrators may have Exchange and SharePoint set up and working in their respective circles, with Exchange handling email nicely and SharePoint working well for collaboration. However, they may not be taking full advantage of key combination features.

50 Percent of Fortune 500 Using Windows Azure. In just a year, Windows Azure has grown to over 200 services for the platform, more than doubled their customer base (now at 250,000) and are seeing an average of 1,000 new customers per day. 

The Future of the Cloud Looks Sunny Indeed! Cloud computing adoption continued to rise in 2013, with nearly 75% of businesses using some sort of cloud platform (up from 67% last year).

Popular apps come to Windows 8. There are great apps hitting the Windows Store all the time. In fact, at Computex in Taipei just 2 weeks ago, Microsoft highlighted the growth from 70,000 apps to 80,000 apps in just 3 weeks.

Microsoft's Twitter-based tech support. Learn how Microsoft uses Twitter to proactively reach out to existing customers that are struggling, with gusto and to great effect across all of its brands.

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Office 365 news round-up

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

It's been another remarkable couple of weeks for Office 365. Thanks to our customers, the new Office is officially the best-selling Office edition yet, with more than one sold every second on average since it launched. And if that wasn't enough, in just over 100 days, Office 365 Home Premium has become a hit with more than 1 million subscribers, putting it on pace with some of the most popular services around.

We also announced the availability of Lync-Skype connectivity for Lync customers around the world, marking our first important step in extending Lync's unified communications capabilities to the hundreds of millions of people who use Skype.

Notably, a recent Computing survey found that Microsoft is about to surge ahead, with 37 percent of IT decisions makers reporting that their organization is likely to adopt Office 365 against just 15 percent for Google Apps. We hope you enjoyed the recent blog post describing why Office 365 offers the most value, and the most complete vision for businesses of all sizes. We also hope you had a chance to read the three Q&As with executives from SEPCOIII, Arysta Lifescience, and Sensia Hälsovård AB explaining why they chose Office 365 over Google Apps. Here is a round-up of some of the key news from the last couple weeks:

Microsoft Office 365 Hits 1 Million Users. Office 365 Home Premium has surpassed the 1 million subscribers mark in just over 100 days.

Office 365 and Google Apps Fight for Supremacy. Microsoft is about to surge ahead, with 37 percent of IT decisions makers reporting that their organization is likely to adopt Office 365 against just 15 percent for Google Apps, according to a recent Computing survey.

Microsoft Announces Skype And Lync Interoperability With IM & Audio To Start, Video Soon. Skype and Lync now interoperate, meaning users can access their Lync contacts via Skype and vice versa, and then message them or place an audio call.

Microsoft Cloud deployed by AGL. Energy retailer AGL Energy sees significant improvement in employee satisfaction after deploying Office 365 across its entire operation with 3.6 million business and residential customers.

Microsoft: Social at Work is Not a Time Waster - If Done Right. Forty-six percent of workers feel that their productivity and greatly or somewhat increased because of social tools, according to a Microsoft-commissioned survey.

68% of Organisations to Adopt Hybrid Cloud Model in Two Years. Research commissioned by Microsoft finds that more than 52 percent of organizations believe that the cloud adoption will help their business growth, with 68 percent turning to the hybrid cloud model in the next two years.

SkyDrive Pro for Windows Now Available. The SkyDrive Pro client is now available as a standalone version.

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Office 365 news round-up

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Every couple weeks, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. We hope you enjoy our latest selections.

Office 365 Mixes New Features, Familiar Feel and Bridge to the Cloud. Office 365 and its enterprise-grade cloud services "are a good option for a business of any size."

Explained: Why Microsoft office 365 and Cloud Makes Unbeatable Force. Anyone who works with Office "will naturally welcome Office 365 with its familiar layout, menu system and other features."

Microsoft Scores Three Higher-Education Office 365 Contracts. Sacramento State University, the University of Miami, and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs are the latest higher-education institutions to move to Office 365.

Microsoft Office 365 Boosts Communication, Morale for Small Provider Practice. Mihills Webb Medical, a small provider practice in Texas, improves employee communication and morale with Office 365.

Microsoft Working to Bring Natural Language, Speech Input to Excel. Microsoft researchers are working on a future Excel feature that combines natural language and automatic programming technologies to make queries and data analysis easier.

OneNote Update Improves Custom Pens, Syncs Office 365 Notebooks. Microsoft  improves pen customization capabilities with update to OneNote app for Windows 8.

Google Drive: 10 Reasons to Choose Another Cloud Data Storage Service. Ten ways in which Google Drive falls short as a cloud data storage service.

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Office 365-news round-up

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Every couple weeks, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. We hope you enjoy our latest selections.

Office 365 Mixes New Features, Familiar Feel and Bridge to the Cloud. Office 365 and its enterprise-grade cloud services "are a good option for a business of any size."

Explained: Why Microsoft office 365 and Cloud Makes Unbeatable Force. Anyone who works with Office "will naturally welcome Office 365 with its familiar layout, menu system and other features."

Microsoft Scores Three Higher-Education Office 365 Contracts. Sacramento State University, the University of Miami, and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs are the latest higher-education institutions to move to Office 365.

Microsoft Office 365 Boosts Communication, Morale for Small Provider Practice. Mihills Webb Medical, a small provider practice in Texas, improves employee communication and morale with Office 365.

Microsoft Working to Bring Natural Language, Speech Input to Excel. Microsoft researchers are working on a future Excel feature that combines natural language and automatic programming technologies to make queries and data analysis easier.

OneNote Update Improves Custom Pens, Syncs Office 365 Notebooks. Microsoft  improves pen customization capabilities with update to OneNote app for Windows 8.

Google Drive: 10 Reasons to Choose Another Cloud Data Storage Service. Ten ways in which Google Drive falls short as a cloud data storage service.

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Password Roundup: Protection, what is their

We know that password want to find, but in the immortal words of the Crabby Office Lady, "I have not forgotten."

While we recover a lost passwordcan help you, we have support resources with passwords and password protection. So, roll up you, you follow the guidelines for Office password, and then select from one of these resources, set your sleeves to help you with, change and remove passwords with Office.

Outlook requires a password to the login, but you can protect your personal Outlook data such as messages and calendar items with a password, to prevent the display of other people. To learn more:

Set a password to protect of your Outlook information (Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007and Outlook 2010)

Remove a password from a personal folder file (. pst) (Outlook 2003)

You can protect a full workbook, a worksheet, or even ranges in a worksheet using Excel.

Password protect worksheet or workbook, Excel 2003, Excel 2007and Excel 2010.

Unlock specific areas of a protected worksheet (Excel 2010)Change or remove worksheet or workbook elements element protection (Excel 2007)

Secure a workbook with a password (Excel 2003)

Change or remove a workbook password (Excel 2003)

Overview of the security and protection in Excel (Excel 2003)

Secure and protect data in Excel (Excel 2003 course)

Protecting a document from unauthorized changes (Word 2003)

Password protection for a file (Word 2003)Password protection for documents, workbooks, and presentations (Office 2007)

Remove or change a password (Office 2003)

Demo: set a password to open or modify a workbook, document, or presentation (Office 2007)

Demo: use passwords to protect your files (Office 2003)

You have something that you would like with readers about passwords or password recovery to share? We want to hear from you.

-Leslie H. Cole

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Roundup: Print with Office

Any Office user of any Office application must print to a specific point in time. This shows one of the top query in the search on Office.com, where is "print" course. Some of the top resources for help with printing on Office.com are here for easy reference.

But first, be careful;. many of the problems with print have to do with the printer and not the program. For example, if the alignment is off or the printer has a non-printable margin that corresponds to your document or worksheet margins, you may find in your printer documentation. The printer manufacturer's website is online help, as your printer documentation is check out presumably so they.

First of all, the large help articles is Office:

Office 2010:

Office 2007:

And then the application specific help for Word, Excel and Publisher:

Word 2010:

Word 2003:

Excel 2010:

Excel 2007:

Excel 2003:

Publisher 2010:

Publisher 2007:

Publisher 2003:

--Bob deLaubenfels

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