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Join April 3rd for the Garage Series Live! New Office Real World Adoption Tips, Tricks and Secrets Shared

Posted 1 month ago

by Garage Series for IT Pros
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SAVE THE DATE APRIL 3rd, 9AM PST Join us for live discussion and Q&A as we are joined by well-known technology analyst, author and blogger, Paul Thurrott and other special guests including early adopters and top Office engineers. Don’t miss...
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Create a custom WOPI host for Office Web Apps Server

Posted 2 months ago

by Catherine Watson
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If you’re a developer for a document storage system and you’d like to use Office Web Apps with that system, we have what you have been waiting for! Well to be more specific the Office Developer blog has it! The Office Developer blog post Introducing...
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The new Office Garage Series: Identity, Activation and Data Access with a User-Based Office

Posted 2 months ago

by Garage Series for IT Pros
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In this blog post, our intrepid 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...
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Office Web Apps on SharePoint 2010 products: What are the updates since the July 2011 updates?

Posted 2 months ago

by Catherine Watson
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This post describes what order to apply updates for Office Web Apps installed on SharePoint Server 2010 or SharePoint Foundation 2010. In a previous post on this blog , we talked about what order to apply Service Pack 1 and the June 2011 cumulative...
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March 2013 update released for Office Web Apps Server

Posted 2 months ago

by Catherine Watson
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An update for Office Web Apps Server was released on March 5th. You can find details on what's included in the March update and where to get it from here: Description of the Office Web Apps Server 2013 hotfix package (Wacserver-x-none.msp): March 5, 2013...
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The new Office Garage Series: Client Configuration Management 101

Posted 2 months ago

by Garage Series for IT Pros
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In this blog post, our animated hosts Jeremy Chapman and Yoni Kirsh begin to tackle the frequently asked question, "Do I get more control if I use the traditional Office installation?" They look at automation support and install-time controls, configuration...
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The new Office Garage Series: Who Moved My MSI?

Posted 2 months ago

by Garage Series for IT Pros
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In this blog post, our adventurous hosts Yoni Kirsh and Jeremy Chapman explain the differences between Windows Installer Package (MSI) and Click-to-Run package types, how to download Click-to-Run builds for use with software distribution tools, when its...
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The new Office: What are your options, what's changed and what's new?

Posted 2 months ago

by Garage Series for IT Pros
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In this blog post, our desktop specialist hosts Jeremy Chapman and Yoni Kirsh, walk us through the differences between the Click-to-Run and MSI-based Office versions, the new IT Pro capabilities, and the premise of the new Office including a demo of user...
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The New Office: Garage Series for IT Pros

Posted 2 months ago

by Garage Series for IT Pros
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Welcome to the official blog for the Garage Series for IT Pros. As we gear up for the commercial release of the new Office, I'm excited to announce that we will also be bringing you a brand new weekly show, here on this blog , each Wednesday starting...
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Updated Office Deployment Tool for Click-to-Run available

Posted 3 months ago

by PattyN_
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Summary: Learn about the updated Office Deployment Tool for Office 365 Click-to-Run desktop applications. If you are an IT Pro administrator who has signed up for Office 365, you likely already know that you can choose whether to allow users to install...
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Office and the Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro device — what's supported?

Posted 3 months ago

by DHB_
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Learn what versions of Office are supported on the Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro device and how that device differs from the Surface with Windows RT device for deploying Office. Back in November, we blogged about which versions of Office are...
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Introducing the Telemetry Dashboard Administration Tool, Tdadm.exe, and two new TechNet articles about Telemetry Dashboard

Posted 3 months ago

by Jill_M [MSFT]
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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...
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Volume activation of Office 2013 –frequently asked questions

Posted 3 months ago

by DarrylMo
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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...
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Now you can reset or remove a password from a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file—with Office 2013!

Posted 3 months ago

by LeAnn A
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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...
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How to customize Click-to-Run for Office 365 products

Posted 3 months ago

by PattyN_
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Summary: Provides a summary of Click-to-Run for Office 365 customization and discusses how to use AppLocker and AppHelp for customization at the application level. Click-to-Run is a streaming and virtualization technology that is designed to significantly...