Mark Stokes provided updates on SharePoint, Office 365, and other Microsoft collaboration and productivity tools. Key updates included real-time co-authoring coming to Word, Excel and PowerPoint Web Apps, new features for the Word and Excel Web Apps, an improved OneNote Windows Store app, and the Office 365 Admin App allowing admins to view service health from their phone. Yammer integration was also expanding across Office 365 and various mobile platforms.

1. SharePoint User Group UK – December 2013 – Mark Stokes

2. SUGUK Updates
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Lots of new things happening next year - Look out for some great changes
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Yammer network now available
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http://bit.ly/SUGUK-Yammer

3. SharePoint updates
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SharePoint 2013 Service pack 1 is coming… - The SharePoint 2013 Service
Pack 1 (SP1) is coming soon.
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Office 365 Beta Exams are Now Available
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Beta exam period runs: December 6th – February 16th, 2014.
http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/btl/b/weblog/archive/2013/12/06/office-365beta-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/

4. Office 365 for business updates
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Real time co-authoring across the Office Web Apps Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Web Apps now show people working
together in documents simultaneously.
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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
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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.
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Improved Message Center - Messages are now more specific to your
Office 365 account, helping you stay current with Office 365.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Office Remote from Microsoft Research - Microsoft Research is
releasing an app that lets you control a PowerPoint presentation from
your Windows Phone.
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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.
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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.
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http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/12/02/what-s-new-november-2013.aspx

5. Office Web Apps: Real time co-authoring
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Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Web
Apps now show people working
together in documents
simultaneously.
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http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2
013/11/06/collaboration-just-got-easier-real-timeco-authoring-now-available-in-microsoft-office-webapps.aspx

6. Office Web Apps: Word Web App Updates
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New features include ability to
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Apply styles and formatting to
tables
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Find and replace words and
phrases
Insert headers and footers
http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoftword/archive/2013/11/07/what_1920_s-new-in-theword-web-app_3f00_-.aspx

7. Office Web Apps: Excel Web App Updates
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New features include
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Reorder sheets
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Quick analysis of a range of data
right in the status bar, including
sum, count, and average of a
selected range of cells
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Support for more workbook types


Drag and drop cells
Opening and interacting with
spreadsheets that have Sheet
Protection.
http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoftexcel/archive/2013/11/06/we-ve-updated-excel-webapp-what-s-new-in-november-2013.aspx

8. 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/microsoftonenote/archive/2013/11/25/a-bigonenote-update-for-windows-note-takingdevices.aspx

9. Office Remote from Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research is releasing an
app that lets you control a
PowerPoint presentation from your
Windows Phone.
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/insid
e_microsoft_research/archive/201
3/11/18/advance-yourpresentation-with-yourphone.aspx

10. Improved Message Centre
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Messages are now more specific to
your Office 365 account, helping
you stay current with Office 365.
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http://blogs.office.com/b/office3
65tech/archive/2013/11/04/animproved-message-center.aspx

11. Yammer integration updates
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Yammer mobile app updates
across, Windows Phone, Windows 8, and
iPad
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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_offi
ce_365_blog/archive/2013/11/06/getting
-it-done-with-social-yammer-introducesnew-features-expands-to-all-office-365enterprise-customers.aspx

12. Office 365 now available in 141 markets
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17 new markets
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4 new languages
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Indonesian, Kazakh, Hindi, Hebrew
.
http://blogs.office.com/b/micros
oft_office_365_blog/archive/2013
/11/12/office-365-now-availablein-141-markets.aspx

13. Lync 2013 desktop client update
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New features include

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Ability to manage your photo

Recording quality options for 720P
and 1080P video


Inline photos during an IM
conversation
Login trace files to help admins with
troubleshooting login issues.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/lync/ar
chive/2013/11/12/november-2013update-for-the-lync-2013-desktopclient.aspx

14. 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.
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http://blogs.office.com/b/office3
65tech/archive/2013/11/19/share
point-online-introduces-the-touchdesign-mobile-experience.aspx

15. SP Online improves External Sharing
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New features make external sharing
easier with
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Enabling all site members to share
with external users
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Get a Link for anonymous Guest
Links
The auto-generated sharing email
includes all invitees on the To line.
http://blogs.office.com/b/office365
tech/archive/2013/11/21/sharepoin
t-online-improves-externalsharing.aspx

16. Office 365 Admin App
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Office 365 Admins can now
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See their Office 365 service health
dashboard on their Windows Phone
iPhone and Android versions
coming soon
http://blogs.office.com/b/office3
65tech/archive/2013/11/21/chec
k-the-service-health-of-youroffice-365-service-on-the-go.aspx

17. Office 365 Message Encryption

Announcing an upcoming service
that will enable you to send
encrypted email to people outside
your Office 365 organization.
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http://blogs.office.com/b/office3
65tech/archive/2013/11/21/intro
ducing-office-365-messageencryption-send-encrypted-emailsto-anyone.aspx