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  • Blog Post: New Telemetry Dashboard article and video on custom reporting on TechNet

    Find out how custom reports in Telemetry Dashboard help you create a customized view of Office telemetry data. If you’ve used Telemetry Dashboard, you may have seen the Custom Report worksheet but didn’t quite know what it’s used for. After all, there’s already a ton of data...
    on30 Apr 2013

  • Blog Post: The new Office Garage Series: Did Deployment Just Get Faster?

    In this week’s episode, our hosts Jeremy Chapman and Yoni Kirsh explore the change in guard of compatibility tools; race Click-to-Run Office installs using MDT, SCCM, and Windows Intune versus the MSI and catch up with Office engineer, John Hoegger, on the end-to-end aspects of deployment. They...
    on26 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: Recent IT Pro questions about Office Telemetry

    This post describes recent IT Pro questions about Office Telemetry, such as how the agents are licensed, installing agents on Windows XP and Windows Vista, and more. It’s been rewarding to see an increase in Office Telemetry questions come in through forums and internal discussion groups. More...
    on26 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: Introducing the Telemetry Dashboard Administration Tool, Tdadm.exe, and two new TechNet articles about Telemetry Dashboard

    Learn about the new Telemetry Dashboard Administration Tool (Tdadm.exe) and two new TechNet articles about Telemetry Dashboard. We are pleased to announce that the Telemetry Dashboard Administration Tool (Tdadm.exe) is now available in the Microsoft Download Center. You can use this tool to: ...
    on7 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Download the new Microsoft Visio Viewer

    In case you missed the announcement, the Visio team has announced the availability of the Microsoft Visio Viewer on their blog .The Microsoft Visio Viewer is a free download that lets your users view Visio drawings without having Visio installed on their computer. This download is also useful for users...
    on18 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Introducing content roadmaps for Office IT Pros

    The Office Resource Kit team is rolling out a series of content roadmaps for subject areas like Office 2013 deployment and compatibility. We designed these roadmaps with several goals in mind: Give context and order to the articles so that you know what to read, when, and why. Act as a central...
    on13 Dec 2012

  • Blog Post: Deploy Telemetry Agent by using System Center Configuration Manager

    This blog post was written by Shinobu Furuma, a Program Manager on the Office Solutions Management team. In our last blog post, we introduced how to Quickly set up Office Telemetry Dashboard on a workgroup or domain-joined computer . In this post, we’d like to explain how you can deploy Telemetry...
    on29 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: Deploying labels (tags) for better analysis in Telemetry Dashboard

    When you deploy Telemetry Agent to clients, you can specify up to four labels that best describe your users. Labels are one of the key features of Telemetry Dashboard because they let you filter the collected telemetry data by geographical location, individual business groups, specific types of users...
    on15 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: New Telemetry Dashboard video and article on TechNet

    If you've never seen Telemetry Dashboard in action, check out our new video, Quick tips for Telemetry Dashboard navigation . These tips help you start the dashboard, hide and show data, and quickly go back to a previous worksheet. If you're still in the process of evaluating Telemetry Dashboard, be...
    on13 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: Introducing Telemetry Log in Office 2013

    This post is written by David Matsumoto, a Program Manager with the Office Solutions Management team In our recent blog posts, we’ve been talking about the Office Telemetry features that are new for Office 2013. You may have read a few blog posts that discussed Telemetry Dashboard in greater...
    on6 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: New Office 2013 compatibility and telemetry content for IT Pros in the Office Resource Kit

    We've published a new Visio poster and article about compatibility and telemetry in Office 2013. These are both good starting points for IT Pros who want a high-level view without diving into too much detail. The Visio poster (also available in PDF format and Zoom-it ) describes how telemetry works...
    on17 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: Quickly set up Office Telemetry Dashboard on a workgroup or domain-joined computer

    This blog post was written by Junko Kyomasu, a Program Manager in the Office Solutions Management team Office Telemetry Dashboard is a new, powerful tool to manage Office documents and add-ins in your organization. It enables a better upgrade experience from your existing Office to Office 2013. We’re...
    on25 Sep 2012

  • Blog Post: Let's manage add-ins using Telemetry Dashboard

    This blog post was written by Nobuko Miwa, a Program Manager in the Office Solutions Management team HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO MANAGE ADD-INS FOR OFFICE? If you are an IT pro who manages application use, you might want to manage add-ins for Office as well. If you can prevent end users from running non...
    on18 Sep 2012

  • Blog Post: The Mathematics of Office Compatibility

    Back in July, one of our Office compatibility gurus, Chris Jackson, posted a very enlightening article about the mathematics of Office compatibility. You don’t have to be a math person to appreciate the down-to-Earth advice that Chris gives about topics such as creating inventories, researching...
    on28 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Assess the status of your Office 2013 deployment in 1 minute using Telemetry Dashboard

    This post is written by Makoto Yamagishi, a Program Manager with the Office Solutions Management team In this series of blog posts , we have introduced how you can use Office Telemetry Dashboard to facilitate your Office upgrade by identifying important Office solutions and monitoring how well your...
    on22 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Sample Office documents for testing Office telemetry

    Hi again everyone. We hope you've had a chance to use the new telemetry features in Office 2013 . One easy way to see the power of Office telemetry is to open some legacy Office files in Office 2013. To help you out, we've created some samples files (attached to this blog in a .zip file) that contain...
    on20 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Still using OMPM? Give Office Telemetry Dashboard a try!

    Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) continues to be a popular tool with our Office IT Pro customers. We still get comments and questions about it from our blog readers and even from our own Microsoft consultants. Our frequent guest blogger and compatibility guru, Curtis Sawin, has been working tirelessly...
    on10 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Using Office Telemetry Dashboard to see how well your Office solutions perform in Office 2013

    This post is written by Makoto Yamagishi, a Program Manager with the Office Solutions Management team In our last blog post , we introduced the modern Office compatibility process and the Office Telemetry Dashboard. We also showed you how to identify the most important documents and solutions. In...
    on9 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Using Office Telemetry Dashboard to understand what documents are important in your organization

    This post is written by Makoto Yamagishi, a Program Manager with the Office Solutions Management team In our last blog post , we introduced the recommended Office compatibility process and the Office Telemetry Dashboard. A key part of the process is understanding which documents and solutions are...
    on6 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Introducing Office Telemetry in the new Office

    This post is written by Makoto Yamagishi, a Program Manager with the Office Solutions Management team On July 16th 2012, we unveiled the next version of Office. One of the powerful features for IT Pros in the new Office is Office Telemetry, which we built to make IT Pros’ Office upgrade experience...
    on1 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: TechEd North America 2012: Office client deployment and Office 365 sessions

    The TechEd North America 2012 conference , held June 11 - June 14 in Orlando, Florida, included several presentations on Office deployment and Office 365 that may be of interest to IT Pros. Learn about office deployment tools and methods, compatibility assessment and remediation, supporting Office, Office...
    on18 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Using OMPM Part 3 – Are there other uses for OMPM?

    Brought to you by our compatibility guru Curtis Sawin. Still using OMPM? Give Office Telemetry Dashboard a try! Overview The primary use for OMPM is to provide details about document conversion issues, and it helps answer the question, “What’s my risk of converting my binary Office...
    on13 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Using OMPM Part 2 – Performing Bulk Conversion

    Brought to you by our compatibility guru Curtis Sawin. Still using OMPM? Give Office Telemetry Dashboard a try! Overview In Part 1 of this series, we discussed how to use OMPM to identify “conversion candidates,” which are documents that pose virtually no compatibility risks when...
    on11 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Using OMPM Part 1 - Identifying Document Conversion Candidates and Estimating Storage Savings

    Brought to you by our compatibility guru Curtis Sawin. Still using OMPM? Give Office Telemetry Dashboard a try! Overview Using Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) to identify “high-risk” binary format documents—that is, xls, doc, and ppt files that will have conversion...
    on9 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Video: Solving Office Compatibility to Accelerate Office Deployments

    Our compatibility guru Curtis Sawin shared his expertise on Office compatibility planning at the recent SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, CA. Here's his introduction to the video, along with the link. Office file and solution compatibility causes concern for organizations when they begin planning...
    on7 Nov 2011
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