2015

Lync / Skype for Business / Office 365 – Native support for PSTN will be available in Office 365

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After announcing the Skype for Business preview (formerly Lync), Microsoft has announced today that PSTN support will be natively available in Office 365 (starting with US first this summer) See the announcement here http://blogs.office.com/2015/03/18/skype-for-business-is-here-and-this-is-only-the-beginning/ (section The right cloud for communication and productivity in the middle of the page) You can also sign in to be […]

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Windows 10 – Availability scheduled for this summer

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Today, in China during the Windows Hardware Engineering Community Conference, Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will be available this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages. See the announcement in the Windows blog http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/03/17/windows-10-launching-this-summer-in-190-countries-and-111-languages/

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Office – Office 2016 is now a public beta

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After announcing a limited technical preview (limited as per invitation), and following a more private beta program before, Microsoft has announced today that Office 2016 is now in public beta, meaning everyone can access the beta build and start testing it Satya Nadella has announced it during his keynote at the Convergence Conference at Atlanta

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Office 365 / Yammer – Change to the integration of Yammer with SharePoint

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Microsoft is making some changes in the integration of Yammer with SharePoint; as part of these changes, the Yammer App for SharePoint (2013 and Online) and the Yammer webpart for SharePoint 2010 will be discontinued on March 15th, 2016.   At this date, these applications will stop working completely. The Yammer Embed will be the

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Office 365 – Office 365 Admin mobile application has been updated

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It has been a while since the Office 365 admin mobile application (on Windows Phone, iOS and Android) has been published. Since then, there has been few (not to say no) updates while Office 365 services were evolving very quickly. Finally, today, this app has been updated. You still CAN NOT completely manage your Office

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Office 365 – New compliance center is coming

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As announced on the Message Center, over the next few weeks a new compliance service/feature will be deployed on Office 365. This new feature is in fact a compliance center which will become the single place to manage compliance across Office 365 services, from Exchange to SharePoint sites. At the time of writing this post,

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Office 365 / OneDrive for Business – Microsoft will remove the OneDrive for Business app from the store

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As you may know, OneDrive for Business is the personal space of each user on Office 365. When Windows 8 has been released, Microsoft has also published an app to connect to OneDrive for Business. On March 27th, Microsoft will remove this app from the store, meaning already installed app will no longer be updated

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – New option available on the contextual menu on OneDrive for Business

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As you may already know, Microsoft is frequently introducing new features and services to his cloud services. As part of these new features/services, an update on the contextual menu in OneDrive for Business now allows user to copy/move items within his own space(at this time, this option is ONLY available on OneDrive for Business, not

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Windows Phone – OneDrive mobile application get updated with some cool stuff

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I usually do not post about mobile application updates but this is one is interesting. The OneDrive mobile application has been updated on Windows Phone to include, after integrating Office 365 OneDrive for Business, the ability to logon to OneDrive with more than one Microsoft account – yep, that’s right, we are finally able to

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Office 365 – Exchange Hybrid Configuration Troubleshooting tool

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Microsoft has announced and delivered a tool to help in the Exchange Hybrid Configuration troubleshooting process. As you may know, the Exchange Hybrid Configuration allows a simple way to move mailboxes between on premises Exchange and online, share the free/busy details between online and on premises, mail flow security with antispam/antimalware (if going through Exchange

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