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  • 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: Volume activation of Office 2013 –frequently asked questions

    If you’ve seen the TechNet article FAQ:Volume activation of Office 2010 , you know that it contains many frequently asked questions about Office 2010 volume activation, including Key Management Services (KMS) and Multiple Activation Key (MAK). The questions in the article apply to Office 2013 volume...
    on30 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Now you can reset or remove a password from a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file—with Office 2013!

    This post describes how to use the new DocRecrypt tool and your company public and private key to unlock password-protected Office 2010 or Office 2013 Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files. Password protected files with lost or forgotten passwords have plagued IT admins since the password feature was first...
    on24 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Migrate an Office 2013 KMS host from the command line or the UI

    Migrating an Office 2013 KMS host to another computer is similar to migrating an Office 2010 KMS host. You can find the basics for Office KMS host migration at Migrate an Office 2010 KMS host . For Office 2013, there is a new Microsoft Office 2013 KMS Host License Pack and activation ID. And if the...
    on21 Jan 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: Which versions of Office are supported on Windows 8 and on Surface with Windows RT?

    Window 8 With the recent launch of Windows 8, you might be asking "Which versions of Office can I deploy to Windows 8 computers?" Well, the following versions of Office are supported on Windows 8 (and on Windows Server 2012, too): Office 2013 Office 2010 Office 2007 If you are considering...
    on12 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: What IT Pros need to know about the new VSDX file format in Visio 2013

    You may have heard by now that Visio 2013 has introduced an XML-based file format, VSDX, to provide new capabilities in Visio, such as co-authoring , and to improve interoperability with other applications. If this is news to you, you’ll find some great information in the Visio Blog’s post...
    on26 Oct 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: Office 2013 Preview Administrative Templates and Office Customization Tool download available

    The Office 2013 Preview release includes Administrative Templates (ADMX, ADML) and Office Customization Tool (OCT) files which administrators can download here: Office 2013 Preview Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool . Included in this download is an Excel spreadsheet...
    on4 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: apps for Office and SharePoint on Office Next blog

    In case you missed it, there are three great posts on the Office Next blog that introduce apps for Office and apps for SharePoint. If you say "What?" then check out these posts: Introducing apps for the new Office and SharePoint and the Office Store - As you can guess, this post explains what apps...
    on24 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Office 2013 Preview training content available

    The Office team has created lots of great training content to help users learn about the new features in Office Customer Preview and Office 365. Content URL Self-paced Office training http://officepreview.microsoft.com/en-us/support/training-FX101782702...
    on23 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: What’s new in volume activation for Office 2013 Preview? Active Directory-Based Activation

    Office volume activation is an enterprise feature for volume-licensed editions of Office 2010 and Office 2013 Preview. In addition to the volume activation methods you used for Office 2010 - Multiple Activation Key (MAK) and Key Management Service (KMS), a new volume activation method is available for...
    on15 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
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