New Outlook for Mac available to Office 365 customers

The new Outlook for Mac includes:

• Better performance and reliability as a result of a new threading model and database improvements.

• A new modern user interface with improved scrolling and agility when switching between Ribbon tabs.

• Online archive support for searching Exchange (online or on-premises) archived mail.

• Master Category List support and enhancements delivering access to category lists (name and color) and sync between Mac, Windows and OWA clients.

• Office 365 push email support for real-time email delivery.

• Faster first-run and email download experience with improved Exchange Web Services syncing.

The new Outlook for Mac is available to Office 365 commercial customers and Office 365 Home, Office 365 Personal and Office 365 University subscribers.

• Office 365 Commercial customers can get the new Outlook for Mac by accessing their Office 365 Portal, (Gear icon > Office 365 Settings > Software > Outlook for Mac icon) or visiting the Software page.

• Office 365 consumer subscribers can get the new Outlook for Mac by going to their My Account page.

After you install Outlook for Mac for Office 365, you’ll have two icons in the Dock, see this article on how to remove the old icon.

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote for Mac

Historically we have released a new version of Office for Mac approximately six to eight months after Office for Windows. However, following the release of Office 365 we made the conscious decision to prioritize mobile first and cloud first scenarios for an increasing number of people who are getting things done on-the-go more frequently. This meant delivering and continuing to improve Office on a variety phones (iPhone, Windows Phone, and Android) and tablets (iPad and Windows)—brought together by the cloud (OneDrive) to help people stay better organized and get things done with greater efficiency at work, school, home and everywhere between.

Continuing our commitment to our valued Mac customers, we are pleased to disclose the roadmap for the next version of Office for Mac—including Word for Mac, Excel for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac and OneNote for Mac.

In the first half of 2015 we will release a public beta for the next version of Office for Mac, and in the second half of 2015 we will make the final release available. Office 365 commercial and consumer subscribers will get the next version at no additional cost, and we will release a perpetual license of Office for Mac in the same timeframe.

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New Outlook for Mac available to Office 365 customers

The new Outlook for Mac includes:

• Better performance and reliability as a result of a new threading model and database improvements.

• A new modern user interface with improved scrolling and agility when switching between Ribbon tabs.

• Online archive support for searching Exchange (online or on-premises) archived mail.

• Master Category List support and enhancements delivering access to category lists (name and color) and sync between Mac, Windows and OWA clients.

• Office 365 push email support for real-time email delivery.

• Faster first-run and email download experience with improved Exchange Web Services syncing.

The new Outlook for Mac is available to Office 365 commercial customers and Office 365 Home, Office 365 Personal and Office 365 University subscribers.

• Office 365 Commercial customers can get the new Outlook for Mac by accessing their Office 365 Portal, (Gear icon > Office 365 Settings > Software > Outlook for Mac icon) or visiting the Software page.

• Office 365 consumer subscribers can get the new Outlook for Mac by going to their My Account page.

After you install Outlook for Mac for Office 365, you’ll have two icons in the Dock, see this article on how to remove the old icon.

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote for Mac

Historically we have released a new version of Office for Mac approximately six to eight months after Office for Windows. However, following the release of Office 365 we made the conscious decision to prioritize mobile first and cloud first scenarios for an increasing number of people who are getting things done on-the-go more frequently. This meant delivering and continuing to improve Office on a variety phones (iPhone, Windows Phone, and Android) and tablets (iPad and Windows)—brought together by the cloud (OneDrive) to help people stay better organized and get things done with greater efficiency at work, school, home and everywhere between.

Continuing our commitment to our valued Mac customers, we are pleased to disclose the roadmap for the next version of Office for Mac—including Word for Mac, Excel for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac and OneNote for Mac.

In the first half of 2015 we will release a public beta for the next version of Office for Mac, and in the second half of 2015 we will make the final release available. Office 365 commercial and consumer subscribers will get the next version at no additional cost, and we will release a perpetual license of Office for Mac in the same timeframe.

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De-clutter your inbox in Office 365

The Clutter experience

Take a look at this video to learn how Clutter helps you keep focused on the most important items in your inbox.

How Clutter works

Clutter learns from your actions to determine the messages you are likely to ignore. As less important messages arrive, they are automatically moved to the Clutter folder. Clutter does this by leveraging Office Graph’s sophisticated machine learning techniques to determine which messages are Clutter. It gets smarter over time, learning from your prior actions with similar messages, and assessing things like the type of content and even how you are addressed in the message. The Clutter experience is personalized to each individual and reflects an email experience that adapts to your actions and preferences without you having to do anything. The information Clutter learns from each user’s actions are only applied to that user’s experience and are not shared with anyone else.

Getting started with Clutter

By default, Clutter is disabled for your inbox. Each person controls whether to turn Clutter on or off. You control Clutter from the Outlook Web App (OWA) options menu. You can turn it on as soon as Clutter is available for your Office 365 tenant. Clutter begins taking actions once it has sufficiently learned your work style and can confidently begin working for you. If you later find Clutter isn’t for you, it can be turned off any time.
Clutter is best suited and most effective for those of us who tend to pile up messages in our inboxes. Clutter respects your existing email rules, so if you have created rules to organize your email those rules continue to be applied and Clutter won’t act on those messages.

Working with Clutter

The less important messages are simply moved to the Clutter folder. They remain out of your way until you have time to review the items—if you choose to. You can proactively train Clutter by marking items as Clutter or simply move the items to the Clutter folder. If you find items in your Clutter folder that shouldn’t be there, train Clutter by moving the message back to your inbox. Clutter continuously learns and will adapt to your new patterns within days when you begin working on new projects or a new role. As you work with Clutter it will notify you of its activity in your inbox, this is Clutter helping you keep in control of your messages

The Clutter folder allows you to take advantage of the feature across many email clients including Outlook, OWA, OWA for devices, or EAS connected devices. Clutter continuously learns from your actions across these clients. Regardless of the client, the messages moved to the Clutter folder are out of your inbox view—yet readily accessible.

Join the YamJam

On Thursday, November 13th, the Office 365 Technical Network will host a Clutter YamJam from 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. PT / 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. UTC to discuss the Clutter feature. For those unfamiliar with a YamJam, it is similar to a “TweetJam” on Twitter or an “Ask Me Anything (AMA)” on Reddit, except it takes place on Yammer. A YamJam provides the opportunity for the community to ask questions and have a discussion with a panel of Microsoft experts on a particular topic.
How to participate:

1. Request access to the Office 365 Technical Network.
2. Join the Exchange IT Pro group. You can find it by using the Browse Groups function or through the search bar.
3. Log in at 9:00 a.m. PT on Thursday, November 13th to ask questions, follow the discussions and connect with Microsoft team members

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Microsoft Teams rolls out to Office 365 customers worldwide

Today, during a global webcast from Microsoft headquarters, we announced that Microsoft Teams—the chat-based workspace in Office 365—is now generally available in 181 markets and in 19 languages. Since announcing the preview in November, more than 50,000 organizations have started using Microsoft Teams, including Accenture, Alaska Airlines, Cerner Corporation, ConocoPhillips, Deloitte, Expedia, J.B. Hunt, J. Walter Thompson, Hendrick Motorsports, Sage, Trek Bicycle and Three UK. We’ve also introduced more than 100 new features to deliver ongoing innovation and address top customer requests.
With more than 85 million active users, Office 365 empowers individuals, teams and entire organizations with the broadest and deepest toolkit for collaboration. Office 365 is designed to meet the unique workstyle of every group with purpose-built, integrated applications: Outlook for enterprise-grade email; SharePoint for intelligent content management; Yammer for networking across the organization; Skype for Business as the backbone for enterprise voice and video; and now, Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365.

Microsoft Teams—the chat-based workspace in Office 365

Microsoft Teams is a digital workspace built on four core promises: chat for today’s teams, a hub for teamwork, customization options and security teams trust.

Chat for today’s teams

Microsoft Teams provides a modern conversations experience, with threaded, persistent chat to keep everyone engaged. We’ve rolled out many new communication features since preview, including audio calling from mobile devices, plus video on Android, which is coming soon to iOS and Windows Phone. And we’ve addressed numerous customer requests, adding the ability to email a channel, including attachments, send messages with markdown-based formatting, and receive notifications about all posts in a channel.

Move a conversation from email into Microsoft Teams with rich formatting, including attachments.

Hub for teamwork

The Office 365 applications and services that people use every day—including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint and Power BI*—are built into Microsoft Teams, giving people the information and tools they need. We’ve recently added support for open, public teams within an organization. We’ve also enhanced the meeting experienceby adding scheduling capabilities, integrating free/busy calendar availability for team members, adding recurrence, and making it easier to transition from chat to high-quality voice and video.

Ad hoc and scheduled voice and video meetings right from within Microsoft Teams.

Customizable for every team

Every team is unique, so we’ve made it easy for teams to customize their workspace with Tabs, Connectors and Bots. More than 150 integrations are available or coming soon, including Bots from hipmunk, Growbot and ModuleQ. We’re also partnering with SAP and Trello to build new integrations. SAP SuccessFactors will help employees and managers track goals and performance as part of the way they work in Microsoft Teams every day. Trello will empower teams to easily get projects done with boards, lists and cards right within Microsoft Teams. These partnerships let users bring important apps and services into Microsoft Teams, truly making it their own hub for teamwork.

New Bots help you to complete tasks within your conversations.

Security teams trust

Finally, Microsoft Teams is built on the Office 365 hyper-scale, enterprise-grade cloud, delivering the advanced security and compliance capabilities our customers expect. Microsoft Teams supports global standards, including SOC 1, SOC 2, EU Model Clauses, ISO27001 and HIPAA. We also added support for audit log search, eDiscovery and legal hold* for channels, chats and files as well as mobile application management with Microsoft Intune.* And starting today, Microsoft Teams is automatically provisioned within Office 365.
These security and compliance capabilities are critical for enterprise customers, but our responsibility at Microsoft goes beyond this. Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. With that in mind, we’re working to ensure every team member can participate, with new accessibility features, including support for screen readers, high contrast and keyboard-only navigation. This will enable Microsoft Teams to be more inclusive and tap into the collective brainpower and potential of every person.

Customers achieve more with Microsoft Teams

We’re thrilled by the enthusiasm of customers like Trek Bicycle, who’ve built Microsoft Teams into the way they work every day.
“Across Trek’s global teams, the integrated collection of Office 365 applications serves up a common toolset to collaboratively drive the business forward. We see Microsoft Teams as the project hub of Office 365 where everybody knows where to find the latest documents, notes and tasks, all in-line with team conversations for complete context. Teams is quickly becoming a key part of Trek’s get-things-done-fast culture.”
—Laurie Koch, vice president of Global Customer Service at Trek Bicycle

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New Office 365 adoption resources, webinar with Microsoft CIO Jim DuBois

Over the past couple years Microsoft FastTrack, the customer success service for the Microsoft Cloud, has helped more than 22,000 customers worldwide achieve success with Office 365. That number is growing quickly, with more than 4,000 new customers each month now turning to FastTrack for guidance on Office 365 implementation and user adoption. In addition to providing onboarding, FastTrack helps customers think beyond just the deployment to help organizations move to the cloud with confidence and realize business value faster.

Many organizations rely on FastTrack for assistance, guidance and resources that are provided directly from the people that build and run Office 365. Today, FastTrack is announcing several exciting new resources to help customers achieve widespread adoption of Office 365 and get the most from their investment, including:

• A new webinar, featuring Microsoft CIO Jim DuBois, which will share best practices and discuss the resources available to help you achieve your business goals through Office 365 adoption.
• Expanded Productivity Library scenarios to show your users how embracing Office 365 will lead to success.
• The Office 365 Adoption Guide, which provides a step-by-step blueprint for adoption.

Ensure your business goals are met—plan ahead for user adoption

Organizations of every size and description—including 85 percent of Fortune 500 companies—count on the Microsoft Cloud and Office 365 to provide the collaboration, mobile productivity, intelligence and trust they need to run their businesses. But what if you’re the person your company has charged with ensuring user adoption to realize the full value of Office 365? How can you help your organization achieve its business goals through Office 365 adoption when your schedule is overloaded, your team is overextended and you aren’t sure where to begin?

“We found the Microsoft FastTrack adoption methodology really beneficial,” says Simon Denton, business architect at Mott MacDonald. “It set out quite clearly the steps we needed to go through to define principles and scenarios. Once we did that, we knew adoption would come easily. We based our entire adoption plan on Microsoft FastTrack documentation. It gave us a really good foundation.”

Join us for our upcoming webinar, “Microsoft FastTrack: Achieve your success with Office 365”

 Microsoft CIO Jim DuBois will share insights on how to enable digital transformation of your organization through Office 365 adoption. In addition, Simon Denton of Mott MacDonald will explain how he used FastTrack resources to help his company increase productivity by moving to Office 365. And we’ll demonstrate many of the adoption resources at fasttrack.office.com. The webinar is Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 10 a.m. PDT / 1 p.m. EDT/UTC. Reserve your place today.

Plan for success with our new Office 365 Adoption Guide

Based on our extensive research, and insights from thousands of customer engagements worldwide, the new Office 365 Adoption Guide provides an end-to-end methodology to help you realize business value through user adoption. The Adoption Guide includes best practices and guidance on how to develop and execute a successful adoption strategy.

Explore the Office 365 Productivity Library at fasttrack.office.com

Use the Productivity Library to learn how to talk to users about Office 365, discover what the service makes possible for your professional role and your industry, and access guidance and resources to help you get started with your chosen scenarios. It includes guidance to help you get started, awareness and training templates, and resources that relate Office 365 apps to real-world business situations and highlight product benefits for daily tasks we all experience. We’re continually improving and expanding the Productivity Library, so visit often to get regular updates related to Office 365 product features and see case studies of how organizations use the platform to realize business value.

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Complete Info on how Microsoft plans to upgrade Office 365

office.com setup Six week before, Microsoft officially declared that from that time onwards its Windows 10 would be refreshed two times in a year –in the month of March and September for making its updates, launches schedules more obvious and reasonable to the enterprises.

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However an unnoticed but a real fact is that almost a similar scheme was also announced by the company based in Redmond, Washington for corporate subscribers to Office.com/setup 365. The scheme signifies that the application suite called Office 365 ProPlus made available to customers at $20 per head per month Enterprise E3 and at $35 per head per month Enterprise E5 would also be upgraded twice in a year same as Windows 10.
Microsoft summarized the method which it will use for delivering and supporting ProPlus from September. In this article, we will bring some most important questions along with their answers that we had extracted from this description of Microsoft, in front of you.

1. What will be the new schedules for updates of Office?

Same as Windows 10, twice in a year, say- in the month of March and September.
Since the launch of Office 2016, Microsoft has turned the updates to be launch twice in a year from the previously three times schedule.

1. Why a word “feedback” has been said by the Microsoft?

It is used by the Microsoft to justify the change it had made, as it usually does. Microsoft’s marketing executive Ron Markezich posted in a blog that “the company has been asked to simplify the process of updates as well as to improve the synchronization between Windows and Office by the users.”

1. Really, that’s all it took or money played a role?

Microsoft is focused on promoting its one year ago introduced subscription program “Secure Productive Enterprise,” which is a more secure, trusted and productive method that combines the best of Enterprise Mobility + Security(a combination of user management tools and devices, along with enhanced security options), Windows 10 Enterprise and Office 365. Similar to other subscriptions program, SPE is also available in two types; E3 and E5. Out of the two, E5 is more costly as it is available with additional features such as enterprise calling, security and others.
Ron Markezich, the Microsoft’s marketing executive said “the change, that SPE had bundled both Office 365 ProPlus and Windows 10, will make it easy for the customers to plan and manage updates for both Windows and Office using this ‘Secure Productive Enterprise’”.
Hence, Customers suggests the Microsoft that the Windows 10 and the Office 365
ProPlus release schedules have to be synchronized for raising the sale of SPE.

1. What are the other changes made in addition to the schedule change?

The change has also been made in the support duration that is Microsoft has increased it up to 50%, extending it from 12 months per update to 18 months. Hence, according to Markerich, “IT professionals can update once or twice a year now”.

1. Were Windows 10 and Office 365 not on the same tempo before and also didn’t come with 12 months of support per update?

The answer of both the questions is “Yes”. Based on Office 2016, both the Windows 10 and latest version of the Office 365 ProPlus were shifting towards the launch. Microsoft’s new schedule for releasing updates thrice a year and providing support for 12 months is available for both the sources but firstly for Windows and then for ProPlus. Even the names used for release tracks were similar before, for example it was “Branch” before switching to “Channels”.

1. Something more?

“Yes”, the terminology Microsoft uses before has been changed.
Microsoft’s twice-in-a-year feature updates will refer to both “Pilot” as well as “Broad” by most of the people. Both of these are named as Semi-annual Channel and describe how Microsoft proposes them to be utilized in the enterprises.
This is the 3^rd set of names hung on the faster release schedule by Microsoft after its first
and original label “Current Branch” and “Current Branch for Business” that was used for
Windows 10, and was ditched for the “Channel” terminology in 2016.

1. When will be the first Office 365 ProPlus update release under the new schedule?

Microsoft said that the “Pilot” channel will be transported on 12^th of September this year followed by the “Broad” channel which will be transported four month from then on 9^th of January 2018.
The second releases of the two; a new “Pilot” and a new “Broad” will be available for the customers on March 13, 2018 and July 10, 2018 respectively.
The above information clarifies that the “Pilot” channel will be made available each March and September and the “Broad” will be each January and July.

1. Can I or my firm skip a ProPlus features update?

The answer to this question is “Yes” but with the conditions that one has to hurry up to acquire the next supported version before completely leaving the first one.
It means the companies are provided a time of just two months to migrate from one version to another additionally skipping the version in between. For example: you have only two months for migrating from “Broad 1” to “Broad 3” skipping “Broad 2” in between.
Explanation: Suppose a company wants to employ the “Broad” Channel to be release in January 2018 but to skip the one to be release in July 2018. So, here the company will be getting only the two month time between January 8, 2019 and March 12, 2019 to utilize the next ProPlus.

1. What will happen to the update (due in June according to the previous schedule of the Office 365 schedule) under the new schedule?

Microsoft stated in an extended support report that, “Office is still planning to release a new delayed channel and June 13, 2017 is the date set for its first release”.
Signifying that instead of the usual four months, there are only three months available for the current Office 365 subscribers to conduct “Pilots” and validate the applications with the June’s “First Release for Deferred Channel” release before validating with the final “Deferred Channel” release that will take place in September.
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Get started on PowerShell for Office 365

Starting today, PowerShell for Office 365, a new website designed to help Office 365 IT administrators get started on Windows PowerShell for Office 365 is now live. Announced at Microsoft Ignite, this website is targeted at IT administrators with little to no experience with Windows PowerShell. The website is focused on simple scenarios that are focused entirely for Office 365 administration.

Learning PowerShell for Office 365 makes the job of IT admins easier and more efficient. For example, say your company goes through a large reorganization where departments change names and move to different management. If you are dealing with a few changes and a few people, the Office 365 Admin Center can quickly be used to make the changes. However, consider the task at hand if the changes involved hundreds or even a thousand users. While the Office 365 Admin Center is more than capable of making all the changes, the amount of work and the time it would take would be massive if the IT admin had to edit the users one–by-one.

With PowerShell the updates can be made in three steps. First, you export the list of users into a CSV (comma separate values) file. Second, you make the necessary edits in the CSV file. Third, you import the edited user list back into Office 365. With a few PowerShell scripts, you have just automated the process of updating the company directory to match your organization. And you saved yourself significant amounts of time.

PowerShell does not replace the Office 365 Admin Center. In fact, they are complementary tools and should both be used. The strength of PowerShell only really becomes apparent when you need to handle scenarios such as:

• Adding or editing a large number of users.
• Using multiple filters to sort through data.
• Exporting data such as user lists and groups.
• Configuring less commonly used settings.

The new PowerShell for Office 365 website is targeted to get you up to speed with PowerShell as soon as possible. The website is organized to provide you with the following right from the start including:

• Consolidated guide to help you setup your machine to run PowerShell.
• Simple and applicable common scenarios.
• Sample scripts you can download, edit and then use right away.
• Links to resources such as TechNet to get more details.
• Connect with your peers and with us in the Office 365 Network.

By using the PowerShell for Office 365 website, you start the journey in learning a valuable tool for administering Office 365 to help you complete your tasks quicker and get more done. Get started on PowerShell for Office 365 today.

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