Everything is bigger in Texas: State adopts Office 365 for more than 100,000 employees

The following is a post by Michael Donlan, Vice President of U.S. State and local government at Microsoft.

The Texas Department of information resources assumption of Office 365 is for more than 100,000 employees in the largest nationwide deployment of email and collaboration services in the United States

The Government will consolidate multiple systems in an effort to streamline and improve their own communication and collaboration through agencies and help to better serve the needs of its citizens. Moving into the cloud staff with Web conferencing, collaboration in real time and document sharing of calendars at the same time provides considerable savings in the IT spending through greater efficiency and increase capacity of.

Office 365 government compliance helps maintain posture and high standards for security and privacy. Several agencies, including the Texas Department of criminal justice, alcohol and drink Commission, Department of insurance, health and human services and many others need access to data, is subject to the complex Security and privacy policy. Microsoft has a contractual obligation to the Texas Department of information resources made by the signing of the CJIS security addendum in addition to a HIPAA business associate agreement. Thanks to this partnership, the jurisdictions at all levels of the States of Texas, including the cities and counties, Office 365 will benefit.

Microsoft is the industry leader in providing cloud computing solutions with robust security, privacy, and compliance functions and has many years of experience of working with Governments at all levels. We offer our clients flexible, secure and reliable cloud solutions in the industry.

Today, the State of Texas joins a rapidly growing list of State and County customers moving to the cloud with Microsoft, including the city of Chicago, city of San Francisco, California, and the State of Minnesota are taking advantage of the cost savings and efficiency. Learn more about today's news and what it means for the country, read the press release.

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To avoid, that the State of global IRibbonUI Ribbon object

In today's post offers Excel MVP Ron de Bruin a solution to a common problem that occurs if you use RibbonX and VBA, customize Ribbon. For more tips and links to Excel add-in the Ron's Web site: http://www.rondebruin.nl/.

It is a common problem when you work with the Ribbon using RibbonX and VBA. Ribbon object (that is initialized when Excel loads the file) can lose the reference to the Ribbon, which is that your code can no longer say mean Excel to update your Ribbon customizations.
There is simply no simple, restore integrated fashion that handle for the Ribbon, if it problems in or with your code. The only way to fix it is close and not very user friendly reopen your workbook.

But MVP Rory Archibald came with a great idea in a post in the Forum MrExcel. In the example in the workbook that you can download on this page (see below) is based on Rory's idea and works in 32-bit Excel 2007 and Excel 2010 32-bit - and 64-bit.

You store the pointer to the IRibbonUI in a cell (or the name or where ever) and it use CopyMemory then get back, if the State is lost.

You can test this sample workbook this method, the Ribbon handle restored if it is lost.

Download: Loss of the Ribbon state.zip.  

Note: decided I me not the workbook code RibbonX to this page add, because, if you work the code in the workbook can see, it is much clearer. If all this is new to you, I suggest that you click on the link below, with my Ribbon page start then.

For more information about customizing the Ribbon, see to change the Ribbon in Excel 2007 or Excel 2010.

--Ron de Bruin

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