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Do you have Office 365 and want to know when you’ll get Office 2019?
Applies to: Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Business, Office 365 Home, Office 365 Personal If you’re an Office 365 subscriber, there is no need to upgrade to Office 2019. Office 365 ProPlus apps already have all the latest features included in Office 2019, and many more. Office 365 ProPlus is the most productive, most secure and lowest total cost of operation version of Office. Office 2019 is for customers who aren’t ready to move to the cloud yet. Office 2019 doesn’t have cloud-connected intelligent features, such as real-time collaboration, PowerPoint Designer, and Office 365 Groups, that Office 365 ProPlus has. Also, an added benefit of being an Office 365 subscriber is that we release new and updated features on a monthly basis (or an semi-annual basis, if you choose that). Office 2019 won’t receive any new features. In the past, Office 365 subscribers had to do a manual upgrade to go from Office 2013 to Office 2016. This year, Microsoft delivered on our promise of no more manual upgrades for Office 365 subscribers to get the latest features. What this means for you: No big download: There is no big upgrade that will overload your network. Subscribers will continue to receive new features in updates. Always up to date: You no longer need to worry about the year in the Office product title. Subscribers on Office 365 will continue to get the latest features in the Office 365 ProPlus apps. Settings stay in-place: There is no need to update user settings and policies since we’re not changing the Office version. Add-ins remain the same: You don’t need to re-test add-in compatibility since the file locations and registry entries stay the same. To enable these continuous feature updates for Office 365 subscribers while preserving all your settings and policies, we are keeping the first part of the binary version number the same (16.0). That means that all your settings, policies, and even add-ins aren't affected by any change of version or file locations. If you’re not yet on Office 365, we have made it easy to upgrade from legacy Office (MSI) versions to newer versions of Office. For existing subscribers, we’ll continue to release new features to Office 365 ProPlus and it will keep evolving to give you the best Microsoft has to offer. Thanks--Steve (special thanks to Naomi Harrington, the author of this post)944Views1like1CommentExchange Hybrid: From Cradle to Grave pre-day session at Ignite
If you're attending Ignite in Orlando, or are thinking about it, consider attending the Exchange Hybrid pre-day on Sunday September 24th. It's a full day of expert-led lecture and hands on labs. We'll cover everything from determining the type of hybrid to create, through operations and updates, to deciding if you're ready to fully move to Exchange Online. If you've already registered for Ignite, you can add the pre-day by re-visiting the registration site; if you haven't registered for Ignite, do so quickly, as we're trending to sell out soon. The cost for the pre-day is $500. We hope to see you on September 24th! https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/53754670Views1like0CommentsDiscontinuation of support for Session Border Controllers in Exchange Online Unified Messaging
In July 2018, we will no longer support the use of Session Border Controllers (SBC) to connect 3 rd Party PBX systems to Exchange Online Unified Messaging (UM). We're making this change to provide a higher quality of service for voicemail, using Exchange standard and Skype for Business protocols. Customers considering a new deployment of this scenario should be aware that they will have a little less than a year to complete one of the migrations below. Customers with existing deployments remain fully supported until July 2018, including moving voicemail-enabled mailboxes from Exchange on-premises and voicemail-enabling new mailboxes. The following configurations are not affected by this change: Skype for Business Server (on-premises) connected to Exchange Online UM 3 rd party voicemail solutions that deposit voicemail messages into Exchange Online mailboxes through APIs, rather than an SBC connection All forms of Exchange Server UM (on-premises) There are several alternative solutions for impacted customers, one or more of which must be implemented prior to July 2018. Option #1: Complete migration from 3 rd party on-premises PBX to Office 365 Cloud PBX. Option #2: Complete migration from 3 rd party on-premises PBX to Skype for Business Server Enterprise Voice on-premises. Option #3: For customers with a mixed deployment of 3 rd party PBX and Skype for Business, connect the PBX to Skype for Business Server using a connector from a Microsoft partner, and continue using Exchange Online UM through that connector. For example, TE-SYSTEMS anynode UM connector can be used for that purpose. Option #4: For customers with no Skype for Business Server deployment or for whom the solutions above are not appropriate, implement a 3rd party voicemail system. Although only a small number of customers are affected by this change, we know that planning for changes to voice platforms requires time to evaluate options, and to implement the selected option. We encourage you to start this process soon. For more information, please visit the following pages: Exchange Online Unified Messaging Exchange Online UM support for 3 rd party PBX via SBC Cloud PBX Skype for Business Server Enterprise Voice Note: this post is also on the Exchange Team (EHLO) blog.43KViews0likes62Comments