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Office 365 Blog

Welcome to the Office 365 Blog! Learn best practices, news, and trends directly from the Office 365 team.
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Dynamically convert MSI versions of Project and Visio to Click-to-Run

Matt Philipenko (PROPLUS-RANGER) on 08-12-2019 06:38 AM
With the latest release of the Office Deployment Tool (ODT) we have implemented a new feature based on customer feedback...
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How to manage Office 365 ProPlus Channels for IT Pros

Dave Guenthner on 08-08-2019 11:03 AM
Let's talk about Microsoft 365 Apps channel management.
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Understanding Office 365 ProPlus Updates for IT Pros (CDN vs SCCM)

Dave Guenthner on 08-08-2019 10:30 AM
Talking about Office 365 ProPlus update process (CDN vs SCCM)
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Office 365 Home and Personal Licensing and Activation Improvements

Shubham Gupta (LICENSING) on 08-05-2019 12:18 PM
Since launching Office 365 to consumers, we have heard feedback from customers about the challenges in installing and us...
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Office 365 Client Licensing and Activation Improvements

Shubham Gupta (LICENSING) on 07-22-2019 10:30 AM
Over the years, we’ve heard feedback from customers and IT Admins about the difficulty in managing Office activation for...
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Recommended Documents in Office apps and Version History in Office for the web

The_Office_Apps_Team on 06-27-2019 09:00 AM
We are committed to ensuring that the collaboration experience in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is great for you.
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Nail your next presentation with Presenter Coach in PowerPoint for the web

Richard Tso on 06-18-2019 09:19 AM
Public speaking can be stressful. From boardrooms to classrooms, stepping on stage can cause our blood pressure to rise,...
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How to create custom templates that work well with Designer in PowerPoint

Richard Tso on 06-18-2019 08:05 AM
Today we announced that Designer now works with a company or organization's branded templates! Now AI recommendations on...
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Microsoft wants your ideas on end user adoption & engagement with Microsoft 365 & Office 365

Dhruv_Jain on 06-12-2019 12:51 PM
Microsoft is looking for IT professionals like you to provide feedback on end user adoption and engagement for Microsoft...
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Save your Office deployment configurations to the cloud

Chris Hopkins on 06-05-2019 10:51 AM
Take a look at the latest release for https://config.office.com/ which allows you to save your deployment configurations...
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Office 365 helps you get back to work, now with improved brand customization

Noga Ronen on 05-30-2019 12:31 PM
Office provides the best way to get started and back to work, and improves brand representation of company and school br...
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Go Dark Mode and more on OneNote

Jee Soo Han on 05-29-2019 09:00 AM
This month, we’re excited to bring you some highly anticipated features in OneNote: Dark Mode, Send to OneNote from Outl...
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Announcing a new Whiteboard for your Surface Hub

Itai Almog on 05-23-2019 07:55 AM
We are excited to announce that the most up-to-date version of Microsoft Whiteboard will roll out to the original Surfac...
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Do more with OneNote for Android

Jee Soo Han on 05-22-2019 09:00 AM
Updates on OneNote for Android you may have missed
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Microsoft wants your ideas on end user adoption & engagement with Microsoft 365 & Office 365

Dhruv_Jain on 05-20-2019 09:00 AM
We are looking for Microsoft 365/Office 365 Admins to participate in an online focus group regarding end user adoption a...
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Edit your content faster with OneNote

Jee Soo Han on 04-30-2019 09:00 AM
In April, we want to be short and sweet for our OneNote for Windows 10 users: you can now edit content more efficiently ...
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Your Feedback in Action: New Insertable Icons in Office

Richard Tso on 04-24-2019 11:00 AM
We’re here today with another example of how the feedback you provide directly impacts the development of Office!
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The new cloud-based policy management service for Office 365 ProPlus has been released!

Chris Hopkins on 04-23-2019 04:27 PM
The Office cloud policy service allows administrators to define policies for Office 365 ProPlus and assign these policie...
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Announcing 3D Content Guidelines for Office 365

Richard Tso on 04-11-2019 10:14 PM
Since 3D was first introduced in Office, we’ve heard resounding feedback from the community that better guidance was nee...
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5 steps to get you collaborating more effectively in Office 365 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

The_Office_Apps_Team on 03-28-2019 12:00 PM
With last month’s Twins Challenge, we shared a few time-saving tips a few ways to get you started collaborating in your ...
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OneNote: March 2019

Jee Soo Han on 03-28-2019 12:00 PM
Stay in the flow with OneNote’s newest navigation update, roundtrip editing of embedded files, and phrase search.
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Whiteboard in Teams meetings integration, ink grab and ink beautification are here!

Itai Almog on 03-28-2019 12:00 PM
Microsoft Whiteboard continues to evolve rapidly. This month we are introducing Whiteboard integration into Teams meetin...
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Save your files to the cloud more easily

The_Office_Apps_Team on 01-25-2019 09:25 AM
We’ve made it simpler to save your Office 365 https://aka.ms/TechCommunity/KFMdocuments to the cloud with an updated sav...
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OneNote in 2018

Jee Soo Han on 01-15-2019 09:58 AM
What a year 2018 was for OneNote!
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Announcing the new cloud-based policy management service for Office 365 ProPlus

Chris Hopkins on 01-08-2019 11:47 AM
Today we are pleased to announce the preview of the Office cloud policy service to help administrators manage policies f...
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Custom tags available soon in OneNote

Jee Soo Han on 12-17-2018 09:47 AM
We’re extremely excited to bring custom tags to our users in the next few weeks! With this feature, users will be able t...
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What’s new in Office Lens – December Update

Mitali Jain on 12-11-2018 09:00 AM
Today we are pleased to release some exciting new features that you have been requesting in Office Lens.
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Microsoft Whiteboard: now more colorful and customizable than ever

Itai Almog on 12-07-2018 09:00 AM
The Whiteboard team has been hard at work since our announcements at Ignite. A few weeks ago, we announced Microsoft Whi...
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Multi-Geo India satellite geo available in December 2018

Sameer Sitaram on 12-07-2018 12:50 AM
No more restrictions, the India satellite geo will soon be available to all Multi-Geo customers.

Latest Comments

Ian Mikutel
in Microsoft Whiteboard now available for the web and integrated in Teams on 07-10-2020
@JMP1986 We hear you and we're doing a lot behind the scenes to improve Whiteboard on the web. We announced this week that Whiteboard Web (and in Teams) will soon be updated with new features including faster much load times, sticky notes, text, and drag and drop capabilities. These features enable ...
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JMP1986
in Microsoft Whiteboard now available for the web and integrated in Teams on 07-10-2020
I just want to echo alot of the comments on here. The browser version of Whiteboard needs significant expansion of its functionality. As a lecturer most of my students access their IT resources through the Web Browser versions of Office 365 and Teams, on a huge variety of devices. I would like to se...
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EDubs
in How to manage Office 365 ProPlus Channels for IT Pros on 07-10-2020
@RichardStephens Glad to hear it. I have many legacy instances in my environment, and that's exactly what I'm hoping to fix by patching through the CDN. My challenge is that we currently use a third party platform to patch, so Office updates are disabled by GPO. Changing that means having to tell a ...
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RichardStephens
in How to manage Office 365 ProPlus Channels for IT Pros on 07-10-2020
@Dave Guenthner & @EDubs Scheduling bugs aside what I can say is that servicing Office 365 Updates through the CDN has massively (i hate to say it) "flattened the curve" of legacy instances within our enterprise. I cannot fault the reliability of the upgrade mechanism itself it does exactly what it ...
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Dave Guenthner
in How to manage Office 365 ProPlus Channels for IT Pros on 07-10-2020
@EDubs Its a fair question but a difficult one to answer. The throttle is dynamic based on telemetry\signals we receive from our audience. Typically, when a new build is released, very conservative number is initially used and once confidence based on signals are verified, volume is turned up to get...
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