Office Blogs

Garage Series: Automating user access to the new Office 365 across your organization

Office Team — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:30:00 GMT

This week our intrepid Garage Series hosts take you through your identity options with Office 365 ProPlus and tips and tricks for how to automate provisioning. Watch too as Yoni takes to the water with our latest XStream install while wakeboarding in the backwaters of Sydney, Australia.

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Webinar on Office training: 5 top courses and tips

Doug Thomas — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:06:00 GMT

The webinar is over. A video of the webinar will be posted shortly. Go to http://aka.ms/offweb for more information on how to join the series live every Tuesday.

In this webinar we’ll show you the free training courses at Office.com customers have raved about over the years. We will be joined by veteran productivity expert Vickie Sokol Evans (Redcape), who has delivered hundreds of "technology tips and tricks" presentations around the world. She’ll dish on favorite time-saving Office tips and answer your questions.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar

Top courses for Office 2010 and the new Office 365
What Vickie has learned about giving 1,000 "technology tips and...

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Garage Series: Going under the hood of Office software updates

Office Team — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:55:00 GMT

In this episode, our adventurous hosts go deeper on how software updates really work for the new Office. Tune in as they demystify what's different compared to the Office Professional Plus 2013 MSI install and explain the optimized update service for the Office 365 ProPlus Click-to-Run install. Learn how the service works optionally so that you can set up your environment to look at sanctioned updates on premises or in the Public Cloud and see how to go beyond default settings. Plus Yoni gets behind the wheel in a Ferrari F430 Spider to see if he can beat Sydney, Australia traffic in today's XStream Install.

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Garage Series: Crossing the bridge to Click-to-Run integration

Office Team — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:24:00 GMT

In the finale of our three part deep dive on customizing and deploying the new Office, our intrepid hosts demonstrate Office 365 ProPlus Click-to-Run integration with your existing management and deployment tools while exploring pre-installation via Windows image. Watch too as our fearless host Jeremy gets behind the wheel to test if Windows Intune can install Office as fast as a direct install from Office 365 from his car, in the time it takes him to go over Seattle's famous 520 floating bridge.

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Webinar: Your questions answered on Office 365 Home Premium

Doug Thomas — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:50:00 GMT

Office.com receives over 3,000 customer messages a week-and we dig through them all. In this webinar, we bring you answers to the top questions and comments about the new Office and Office 365 Home Premium.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar

What is the difference between Office 365 and Office 2013?
What to do if you want to work offline, or don’t want the cloud...

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Felicity Huffman on OneNote, and Surface RT giveaway

Jevon Fark — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:44:00 GMT

According to Felicity Huffman, "If Office 365 is like having your office travel around with you, OneNote is like having an office assistant combined with my own personal tutor right there in my big Mom bag that I carry around everywhere." Read on to find out how Felicity uses OneNote to keep everything straight and how to enter her Mother's Day Giveaway of four Surface RT tablets, all equipped with Office 2013 Home and Student RT with OneNote 2013 RT and other Office 2013 RT applications.

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Garage Series: Workarounds for customizing your new Office

Office Team — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:00:00 GMT

This week marks the second in a three part series, as hosts Jeremy Chapman and Yoni Kirsh, explore potential workarounds for your Office configuration, from removing and blocking applications such as Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, Access and Lync that come with the new Office 365 ProPlus, using multiple languages, disabling the first run video to changing update properties and much more. Hear too from our lead Office set-up engineer, Paul Barr.

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Garage Series: Office automation meets high-G aerobatics

Office Team — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:00:00 GMT

This episode marks the first in a three part series, as hosts Jeremy Chapman and Yoni Kirsh go deeper on automating the new Office for your organization. Watch as they reveal the second XStream install of the season, as host and pilot Yoni attempts an Office 365 ProPlus install, with no Internet access, while performing outrageously high-G aerobatics.

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Extend your networking reach with social apps for Office

Daniel Vancini — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Social apps can make working with Office 2013 more engaging, efficient, and fun. They combine the networking and outreach capabilities of social media sites with the mobile productivity power of Office. Together, Office and social apps give you more insight into your contacts, allow you to monitor your social channels without using a browser, and can spice up your SharePoint sites in ways that you'll "like" (thumbs up). Read on to learn about apps for Office 2013 that can make your work easier, increase your productivity, and help you have fun.

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Another chance to watch Garage Series Live!

Office Team — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:51:00 GMT

Five shows into the series, we've looked at options, changes and what's new in the new Office. We threw a skydiver out of a plane to test if Office 365 ProPlus could be installed during 90 seconds of free fall; we took a look at the new Office telemetry to help you optimize your Office configuration; we've explored identity and data access with the new user-based Office and caught up on the security model for online services. We even performed the great race of Office installs.

We've received a lot of your questions along the way so, for our sixth show, we changed gears to present a live 60-minute episode on real world adoption tips and tricks with live Q&A. If you missed the show, you can see it again here and also find out who won the lightning trivia round.

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