Here’s the latest from the Office IT Pro Blog.  In this episode hosts Jeremy Chapman and Yoni Kirsh answer your questions about a user-based Office service, how identity and services are provisioned, where data and passwords are stored and what the user experiences look like. They also catch up...

REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 27, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced worldwide availability of a major new update to its Microsoft Office 365 services for business. Microsoft’s most complete Office cloud service to date has new features and offerings tailored to the needs and budgets of small, medium-size...

Jeremy Chapman, resident deployment guru for Microsoft, is launching a new blog series on Office they are calling the “Garage Series for IT Pros”.  In addition to providing a wealth of information on deployment, it looks like they are going to do some crazy stuff like jump out of a perfectly fine...

Go get em @ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/office-2013-quick-start-guides-HA103673669.aspx .

Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. In addition to the application improvements mentioned in this article, Office for Mac 2011 is now available as a subscription offering. For more information about subscription, see the Frequently Asked Questions. This update provides...

This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works may be used by others. The add...

NEW YORK — Jan. 29, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced worldwide availability of Office 365 Home Premium, a reinvention of the company’s flagship Office product line for consumers. Office 365 Home Premium is a cloud service designed for busy households and people juggling ever-increasing work and...

For those of you anxious to try Office 2013, it’s now available on the download center for MSDN and TechNet subscribers.  I must admit I really like Outlook 2013.  The Office team did an excellent job.  Enjoy! Want to learn more about the product?  Check out http://office.microsoft...

Windows Azure AD Rights Management provides the ability to enable the use of digital rights management technology in organizations that subscribe to the Office 365 preview services. Office 365 Preview customers can enable rights management capabilities within the Preview versions of Exchange Online,...

By default, Office 2013 installations that use Click-to-Run will download the Office product from the Internet, with full UI, and with automatic updates enabled.  Some administrators will need more control beyond the default Click-to-Run installation behavior in order to work best in their environments...

With a single subscription, you can use Office across a wide variety of devices - everything from PCs and tablets to Macs. You can easily save to and access your documents from the cloud and personalize your experience with Office. We will update Office more frequently to support new scenarios, and subscribers...

“SAN FRANCISCO — July 16, 2012 — Today, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office, available at office.com/preview . The next release features an intuitive design that works beautifully with touch, stylus, mouse or keyboard across new Windows devices...

The Office team has a blog network at http://blogs.office.com .  As you might expect, they post information on the various products in the Office family of products.  Today they added a couple of new blogs.  The Office Next blog and the Office News blog.  Add them to your favorites...

Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. This update provides the latest fixes to Office for Mac 2011. Additionally, this update contains stability and reliability improvements. See the list of fixes @ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2685940 . Go get the download @ http://www...

This update fixes critical issues in Communicator 2011, including issues that might cause Communicator to stop responding or quit unexpectedly. For more information about this update, please visit the Microsoft Web site . Applies to: Office 2011, Communicator 2011, Office for Mac Standard 2011 Edition...

Today, just in time for the holidays, we’re releasing OneNote 1.3 for iOS. Since the launch of OneNote for iPhone nearly a year ago, a recurring request from our customers has been for a version that can be used more easily on the iPad's larger screen. We're happy to announce that today's new release...

This update resolves an issue for users of Mac OS X 10.7.2 (Lion) that causes Microsoft Lync for Mac 2011 to close unexpectedly when you sign in. This update also resolves an issue that prevents users from signing in to Office 365. This update is required for all users who use Lync for Mac 2011 with...

I nearly forgot to download the .ISO files for Office after the SP1 release.  That is until I did a new install and went to fetch a key a little while ago.  Be sure and get some.

Train. Coffee shop. Soccer field. Now you can connect, collaborate, and get things done—virtually anywhere—using Microsoft Office 365. Guided by business productivity expert Katherine Murray, you’ll get a running start with Office 365 cloud-based business services. And you’ll take wing as you learn best...

See the blog post at http://blog.officeformac.com/lync-for-mac-2011-released-to-manufacturing for more information.  See http://www.microsoft.com/mac/enterprise/lync for the product marketing site.

Fabio Correa developed and has just released a new Windows Phone 7 application that pulls in Office 365 information from a variety of sources.  You’ll see entries from the Office 365 blog, other technical blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc.  The application is free. You can follow the http://windowsphone...

This update fixes critical issues in Communicator 2011, including issues that might cause Communicator to stop responding or quit unexpectedly. This update resolves an issue that causes Microsoft Communicator for Mac 2011 running on Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) to crash when you send an IM or start an audio call...

NEW YORK — June 28, 2011 — Today, at media events around the world, Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of Microsoft Office 365 , the company’s newest cloud service. Office 365 is now available in 40 markets, and it brings together Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange...

Moving productivity services to the cloud requires a serious consideration of security and privacy issues and technologies. Office 365 is designed to deliver the enterprise-grade security you require to move to the cloud with confidence. Our data centers are designed, built, and managed using a defense...

Welcome to TechEd Atlanta ! For those of you unable to attend the event in person, we’d like to take a moment to introduce our Service Pack 1 release. Service Pack 1 is on track for release at the end of June. SP1 releases for both Office client suites and SharePoint server products will be made available...