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The new SharePoint Online Administration Center—more customer control 

Hi, I’m Kate Everitt, a Program Manager in SharePoint Online. I’m going to share insight about how to manage the new SharePoint Online environment while highlighting key features of the new SharePoint Online Administration Center. I’ll then ask Phil Newman, a Program Manager on my team, to discuss how to automate SharePoint Online management tasks
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Juiced. Pickled. Canned. Use Word templates to label your holiday goodies 

My handwriting is about as legible as a doctor's.  And this year my Italian plum trees pumped out fruit like a post-recession factory, producing enough for three different kinds of chutney, and yes, Slivovitz (plum brandy). I didn't want someone slathering garlic-ginger chutney on their English muffin so I decided to create spiffy, READABLE, holiday labels with the help of Word templates.
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Making the most of SharePoint 2013 when you upgrade 

Bojana Duke is a Program Manager on the SharePoint team. She’s been working on the sharing features along with the callout, performance and legacy features. We know that people often use SharePoint sites for mission-critical information and processes. So it’s extremely important that upgrades to our product and service are as quick and painless as
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Update on Windows Live Mesh 

Windows Live Mesh was first released in beta back in late 2008 and was used to keep files in sync and to remotely access a PC. A lot has changed since 2008—the cloud has become far more ubiquitous and capable of storing larger and larger amounts of data, usage of always-connected mobile devices with minimal
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Introduction to PowerPivot in Excel 2013 

This blog post was brought to you by Diego Oppenheimer a Program Manager on the Excel team. Some weeks ago I introduced an important, new part of the Excel 2013 Data Model and how you could create relationships between different data sources right in your Excel workbook (http://www.microsoft.com/b/microsoft-excel/archive/2012/08/23/introduction-to-the-data-model-and-relationships.aspx). In today’s post I am going to
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Reorder your folders, any way you like ‘em 

<p>Sometimes, it's the little things that really make the day easier. We understand this really well. The Outlook team gets lots of suggestions for a convenience here or a shortcut there, to make the edges of your day go more smoothly. One thing we've noticed is that some people like their folders in a non-alphabetical order. This allows you to have important or frequent ones near the top of your list, or unimportant ones near the bottom. To achieve that in Outlook 2010's alphabetical world, we've seen folks like you play the special character game. You pick your favorite random character on the keyboard and put those characters in front to bring those folder to the top, like "___folder" or "***folder." Or the "ZZZfolder" game to get things near the bottom. But why can't you just drag a folder where you want it? </p>
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Download the free Microsoft Visio Viewer 

<p>The Microsoft Visio Viewer is a free download that lets anyone view Visio drawings without having Visio installed on their computer. If you have Visio, you can still benefit from the viewer because it allows you to preview drawings in both Outlook and the Windows Preview pane. We recommend that everyone with Windows 7 or Windows 8 download the latest viewer to get the best experience viewing drawings. In this post, we explain the Microsoft Visio Viewer in more detail.</p>
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Emirates Airline Serves Up New Inflight Experiences with Windows 8 

Greetings from Dubai! I’m here celebrating the recent global availability of Windows 8 at an event with press, analysts, business customers and Microsoft partners. Antoine Leblond, Corporate Vice President of Windows Web Services, is keynoting today and highlighting an array of great Windows 8 apps, new devices and customer experiences. Emirates has joined us here
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Introducing BPMN 2.0 in Visio 

<p>Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a standard maintained by the Object Management Group that allows businesses to document and communicate business processes uniformly using graphical notation. The new version of Visio supports BPMN 2.0, which is the current version of the standard, and corresponding Diagram Validation rules. Using these rules, a user can check the visual correctness of a diagram against logical rules specified in the standard. This article explains more about our new BPMN 2.0 support.</p>