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February 2012 Cumulative Update for Office is now available

You can now get the February 2012 Cumulative Updates (CUs) packages for Office 2010 and the 2007...

Author: DarrylMo Date: 03/14/2012

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...

Author: Jill_M [MSFT] Date: 01/06/2012

Using OMPM Part 2 – Performing Bulk Conversion

Brought to you by our compatibility guru Curtis Sawin. Still using OMPM? Give Office Telemetry...

Author: Jill_M [MSFT] Date: 01/06/2012

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...

Author: Jill_M [MSFT] Date: 01/06/2012

Deploying a custom dictionary

We've had some questions about how to deploy a custom dictionary in an organization. To deploy a...

Author: PattyN_ Date: 12/15/2011

The updates list for Office 2007 Service Pack 3 is now available

The Office Sustained Engineering team has released the list of updates that are included in Office...

Author: DarrylMo Date: 12/12/2011

Video: Solving Office Compatibility to Accelerate Office Deployments

Our compatibility guru Curtis Sawin shared his expertise on Office compatibility planning at the...

Author: Jill_M [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2011

Working exclusively with Office Web Apps - one small business customer's experiment

One of our colleagues on the Get to the Point SharePoint blog recently wrote about working with a...

Author: Jill_M [MSFT] Date: 11/04/2011

Service Pack 3 for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 is now available

The Office Sustained Engineering team has released Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Office 2007 and...

Author: DarrylMo Date: 10/27/2011

Windows, iPad and Android - Managing and Using Your Office Assets in a Tablet World (Part 6) – Building Solutions for Remote Access to Windows Environments

Welcome to the sixth and final part in the series about managing your Office assets in a world of...

Author: Garage Series for IT Pros Date: 10/26/2011

You Asked, We Answered… Where is MODI?

First off maybe you might be asking, what is MODI? MODI stands for Microsoft Office Document...

Author: Karina Meik Date: 10/25/2011

When you install Office 2010 SP1, SharePoint Workspace 2010 is also installed

When you install Office 2010 SP1, SharePoint Workspace 2010 is automatically installed whether or...

Author: DarrylMo Date: 10/24/2011

Windows, iPad and Android - Managing and Using Your Office Assets in a Tablet World (Part 5) – Accessing Remote Windows Environments

Welcome to part five in the series about managing your Office assets in a world of tablet computing....

Author: Garage Series for IT Pros Date: 10/23/2011

Office 2010 SP1 now updates multiple languages in Office 2010 installations

An update to Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 now enables the service pack to update all language...

Author: DarrylMo Date: 10/21/2011

Windows, iPad and Android - Managing and Using Your Office Assets in a Tablet World (Part 4) – Device-based Access Management

Welcome to part four in the series about managing your Office assets in a world of tablet computing....

Author: Garage Series for IT Pros Date: 10/19/2011

Windows, iPad and Android - Managing and Using Your Office Assets in a Tablet World (Part 3) – Accessing Office from the Browser

Welcome to part three in the series about managing your Office assets in a world of tablet...

Author: Garage Series for IT Pros Date: 10/18/2011

Windows, iPad and Android - Managing and Using Your Office Assets in a Tablet World (Part 2)

Welcome to part two in the series about managing your Office assets in a world of tablet computing....

Author: Garage Series for IT Pros Date: 10/12/2011

Windows, iPad and Android - Managing and Using Your Office Assets in a Tablet World (Part 1)

Hello and welcome to my first blog as a member of the Office IT Pro team. I used to blog quite a bit...

Author: Garage Series for IT Pros Date: 10/11/2011

Service Pack 3 for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007 target date announced

The Office Sustained Engineering team has announced the third Service Pack release for Office 2007...

Author: PattyN_ Date: 10/06/2011

Hotfix in the August 2011 Cumulative Update fixes possible Outlook 2010 SP1 issues

If you’ve installed Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and are experiencing either of the...

Author: DarrylMo Date: 09/13/2011

Hiding the Ribbon in Office 2010

Brought to you by our compatibility expert Curtis Sawin Helping users get used to the ribbon is a...

Author: Jill_M [MSFT] Date: 09/12/2011

Understanding potentially impactful changes in the Office 2010 object model

Brought to you by our compatibility expert Curtis Sawin One of the challenges of migrating to Office...

Author: Jill_M [MSFT] Date: 09/08/2011

Patching Office Web Apps to SP1 and June CUs including SharePoint Server 2010 and language packs (Part 2)

In our previous post, for those of you running Office Web Apps hosted on-premises, we covered which...

Author: Catherine Watson Date: 08/24/2011

Microsoft Service Pack Uninstall Tool for Office 2010 is released

The Microsoft Service Pack Uninstall Tool for Office 2010 is now available. Administrators and...

Author: DarrylMo Date: 08/23/2011

Experience from the Field: Resolving the OMPM issue “Type of column ‘WarningInfo’ in table ‘osWarning’ is too small to hold data”

My name is Anthony Cafarelli and I’m a Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services who...

Author: Jill_M [MSFT] Date: 08/23/2011

Security Best Practices for Office 2010 Applications

You can learn about the security best practices for Office 2010 applications by reading the...

Author: RossC Date: 08/22/2011

Office Compatibility Tools Update 1 Available for Download

The Office Compatibility Tools Update 1 delivers important fixes to the Office Compatibility tools...

Author: Brian Shiers [MSFT] Date: 08/08/2011

Build your own book of TechNet articles

Although the Office Resource Kit offers a set of downloadable books, we realize that there are many...

Author: Dee T Date: 07/29/2011

Announcing the release of Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.0. - with new Office 365 readiness assessment features

The latest release from the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) team provides organizations with...

Author: Jill_M [MSFT] Date: 07/19/2011

Temporary removal of Lync connectivity with Windows Live Messenger in Office 365 for professionals and small businesses

As of this week, Lync connectivity with Windows Live Messenger in Office 365 for professionals and...

Author: DarrylMo Date: 07/14/2011

Important information for Access 2010 64-bit customers regarding Office 2010 SP1

A customer recently contacted us via this blog about issues reported with Access 2010 and SP1. The...

Author: Jill_M [MSFT] Date: 07/11/2011

Patching Office Web Apps to SP1 and June CUs including SharePoint Server 2010

As you know from previous posts, on this blog and the SharePoint Team Blog, Service Pack 1 and the...

Author: Catherine Watson Date: 07/11/2011

Office 365 Security

Microsoft Office 365 provides enterprise-grade security for businesses of all sizes. To learn more...

Author: RossC Date: 07/06/2011

Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) version 2 (BETA) available for download

The Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) version 2 (BETA) is available for download. Some of...

Author: RossC Date: 07/05/2011

Tips for estimating OMPM scanning times

A common question among OMPM customers is “How do I estimate how long OMPM will take to...

Author: Jill_M [MSFT] Date: 06/30/2011

SP1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 officially released

Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 is officially released. SP1 contains new...

Author: DarrylMo Date: 06/29/2011

Office 365 is now available worldwide

Today, Steve Ballmer announced the worldwide availability of Office 365, which brings together...

Author: DarrylMo Date: 06/28/2011

Looking for a reference document on Access 2010 VBA?

A customer recently left the following comment in our Changes in Access 2010 topic in the Office...

Author: Jill_M [MSFT] Date: 06/24/2011

Get to SharePoint from an Office Application

Maybe you've heard about connecting to SharePoint from your favorite Office applications but you're...

Author: Karina Meik Date: 06/20/2011

Sequencing Office 2010 for App-V, Part 4 – Getting it to your users

Continuing on from Sequencing Office 2010 for App-V, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, Matt and Jason from...

Author: Alistair S Date: 06/16/2011

Sequencing Office 2010 for App-V, Part 3 – The Actual Sequencing Part

Continuing on from Sequencing Office 2010 for App-V, Part 1 and Part 2, Matt and Jason from 43Tc to...

Author: Alistair S Date: 06/16/2011

Sequencing Office 2010 for App-V, Part 2 – Preparing the Sequencing Workstation

Continuing on from Sequencing Office 2010 for App-V, Part 1, Matt and Jason from 43Tc to share their...

Author: Alistair S Date: 06/16/2011

Sequencing Office 2010 for App-V - Part 1: Considerations

Application Virtualization is a technology that we are really excited about in the Office team....

Author: Alistair S Date: 06/15/2011

How to plan, deploy, and monitor the security baselines of computers running Microsoft Office 2010

You can use the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager tool, which includes the Office 2010 Security...

Author: RossC Date: 06/14/2011

Collect data about Office installations by using the new Robust Office Inventory Scan script

The Office Sustained Engineering and the Office Deployment Support teams have published Robust...

Author: PattyN_ Date: 05/26/2011

Tech-Ed Atlanta presentations available online

Didn't make it to Tech-Ed North America 2011 last week? Or maybe you did but didn't make it to all...

Author: Catherine Watson Date: 05/25/2011

Tips for using SQL filters with OMPM

A consultant recently asked us whether OMPM supports using wildcards for scanning files. Turns out,...

Author: Jill_M [MSFT] Date: 05/19/2011

TechEd Atlanta : Day 3

Wow - not only did I find out the Canucks are actually leading 2-0 over the Sharks, but today was a...

Author: Karina Meik Date: 05/18/2011

TechEd Atlanta : Day 2

If you missed out on TechEd Berlin highlights, follow the links for each day.Last night was great as...

Author: Karina Meik Date: 05/17/2011

TechEd Atlanta : Day 1

At 8:55am (EST) the final launch of the Endeavor lifted off, and at the Georgia World Congress...

Author: Karina Meik Date: 05/16/2011

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