SharePoint User Group UK – December 2013 – Mark Stokes

SUGUK Updates

Lots of new things happening next year - Look out for some great changes

Yammer network now available

http://bit.ly/SUGUK-Yammer

SharePoint updates

SharePoint 2013 Service pack 1 is coming… - The SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is coming soon.

Office 365 Beta Exams are Now Available

Beta exam period runs: December 6th – February 16th, 2014.

http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/btl/b/weblog/archive/2013/12/06/office-365-beta-exams-are-now-available.aspx

Yammer is expanding to all Office 365 Enterprise Customers - Along with other updates and advancements in the roadmap, Yammer will now be available to all Office 365 Enterprise customers.

http://blogs.office.com/b/sharepoint/

Office 365 for business updates Real time co-authoring across the Office Web Apps - Word,

Excel, and PowerPoint Web Apps now show people working together in documents simultaneously.

Word Web App updates - New features include ability to find and replace words and phrases, apply styles and formatting to tables, and insert headers and footers for more professional reports and papers

Excel Web App updates - New features include drag and drop cells and reorder sheets, a quick analysis of a range of data right in the status bar, including sum, count, and average of a selected range of cells, and support for more workbook types including opening and interacting with spreadsheets that have Sheet Protection.

OneNote Windows Store update - New Share Charm and Camera Scan integration makes it easier for you to capture your screen, documents, and whiteboards bringing the physical notes into your notebook. Optical Character Recognition searches your image captures for text, and Recent Notes and Page Previews help you quickly navigate your notebook. Finally improved inking gives you more options for annotating your notes and captures.

Office Remote from Microsoft Research - Microsoft Research is releasing an app that lets you control a PowerPoint presentation from your Windows Phone.

Improved Message Center - Messages are now more specific to your Office 365 account, helping you stay current with Office 365.

Yammer integration updates - Yammer mobile app updates across, Windows Phone, Windows 8, and iPad improve the tablet experience for organizing inbox messages, notifications and more. Better email interpretability so that users can contribute to Yammer group conversations without leaving their inbox.

Office 365 now available in 141 markets - Office 365 is expanding to 17 new markets and supporting 4 new languages, Indonesian, Kazakh, Hindi, and Hebrew.

Lync 2013 desktop client update - New features include inline photos during an IM conversation, ability to manage your photo, recording quality options for 720P and 1080P video, and Login trace files to help admins with troubleshooting login issues.

Touch Design mobile experience - We are redesigning the SharePoint Online SkyDrive Pro and Sites experiences for touch across mobile devices making it easier for you to view, share, and explore documents and SharePoint team sites.

SharePoint Online improves external sharing - New features make external sharing easier with Get a Link for anonymous Guest Links, enabling all site members to share with external users, and the auto-generated sharing email includes all invitees on the To line.

Office 365 Admin App - Office 365 Admins can now see their Office 365 service health dashboard on their Windows Phone, with iPhone and Android versions coming soon.

Office 365 Message Encryption - Announcing an upcoming service that will enable you to send encrypted email to people outside your Office 365 organization.http://

blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/12/02/what-s-new-november-2013.aspx

Office Web Apps: Real time co-authoring

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Web Apps now show people working together in documents simultaneously.

http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/11/06/collaboration-just-got-easier-real-time-co-authoring-now-available-in-microsoft-office-web-apps.aspx

Office Web Apps: Word Web App Updates

New features include ability to

Find and replace words and phrases

Apply styles and formatting to tables

Insert headers and footers http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-word/archiv

e/2013/11/07/what_1920_s-new-in-the-word-web-app_3f00_-.aspx

Office Web Apps: Excel Web App Updates

New features include

Drag and drop cells

Reorder sheets

Quick analysis of a range of data right in the status bar, including sum, count, and average of a selected range of cells

Support for more workbook types

Opening and interacting with spreadsheets that have Sheet Protection.

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-excel/archive/2013/11/06/we-ve-updated-excel-web-app-what-s-new-in-november-2013.aspx

OneNote Windows Store Update

New Share Charm and Camera Scan integration makes it easier for you to capture your screen, documents, and whiteboards bringing the physical notes into your notebook.

Optical Character Recognition searches your image captures for text

Recent Notes and Page Previews help you quickly navigate your notebook.

Improved inking gives you more options for annotating your notes and captures.

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-onenote/archive/2013/11/25/a-big-onenote-update-for-windows-note-taking-devices.aspx

Office Remote from Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research is releasing an app that lets you control a PowerPoint presentation from your Windows Phone.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/inside_microsoft_research/archive/2013/11/18/advance-your-presentation-with-your-phone.aspx

Improved Message Centre

Messages are now more specific to your Office 365 account, helping you stay current with Office 365.

http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/11/04/an-improved-message-center.aspx

Yammer integration updates

Yammer mobile app updates across, Windows Phone, Windows 8, and iPad

Improve the tablet experience for organizing inbox messages, notifications and more. 

Better email interpretability so that users can contribute to Yammer group conversations without leaving their inbox.

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft_office_365_blog/archive/2013/11/06/getting-it-done-with-social-yammer-introduces-new-features-expands-to-all-office-365-enterprise-customers.aspx

Office 365 now available in 141 markets

17 new markets

4 new languages

Indonesian, Kazakh, Hindi, Hebrew.

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft_office_365_blog/archive/2013/11/12/office-365-now-available-in-141-markets.aspx

Lync 2013 desktop client update

New features include

Inline photos during an IM conversation

Ability to manage your photo

Recording quality options for 720P and 1080P video

Login trace files to help admins with troubleshooting login issues.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/lync/archive/2013/11/12/november-2013-update-for-the-lync-2013-desktop-client.aspx

Touch Design mobile experience

MS are redesigning the SharePoint Online SkyDrive Pro and Sites experiences for touch across mobile devices making it easier for you to view, share, and explore documents and SharePoint team sites.

http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/11/19/sharepoint-online-introduces-the-touch-design-mobile-experience.aspx

SP Online improves External Sharing

New features make external sharing easier with

Get a Link for anonymous Guest Links

Enabling all  site members to share with external users

The auto-generated sharing email includes all invitees on the To line.

http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/11/21/sharepoint-online-improves-external-sharing.aspx

Office 365 Admin App

Office 365 Admins can now

See their Office 365 service health dashboard on their Windows Phone

iPhone and Android versions coming soon

http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/11/21/check-the-service-health-of-your-office-365-service-on-the-go.aspx

Office 365 Message Encryption

Announcing an upcoming service that will enable you to send encrypted email to people outside your Office 365 organization.

http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/11/21/introducing-office-365-message-encryption-send-encrypted-emails-to-anyone.aspx