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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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What’s New with Information Rights Management in SharePoint and SharePoint Online? 

by Barak Cohen, Lead PM Document Protection Services; Neil Wang, SDET Document Protection Services Document protection in the cloud The new Office is the version that brings document protection using Information Rights Management (IRM) services to the cloud for the first time. Office 365 users can get a service plan that includes IRM capabilities powered
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Office 365 University for Higher-Education Students 

<p>Today, we're introducing a new offering for university and college students called Office 365 University. Available in the first quarter of 2013, Office 365 University will be offered online, at retail locations and at Microsoft Stores in 52 markets worldwide. Starting today, eligible students can buy Office University 2010 or Office University for Mac 2011 and receive a free subscription to Office 365 University when it becomes available. </p>
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SharePoint Public Websites in Office 365 

Update: Starting in January 2015, Microsoft is making changes to the SharePoint Online Public Website feature. Office 365 customers who currently use the feature will continue to have access to the feature for a minimum of two years following the changeover date. Microsoft will offer alternate solutions from industry leaders to enable Office 365 customers
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Changes to the Design View in SharePoint Designer 2013 

Hi, I’m Keenan Newton, a senior product marketing manager on the SharePoint team. We’re making some changes to the Design View in SharePoint Designer 2013, and I wanted to talk about the reasoning behind the changes. With SharePoint Server 2013 embracing new web standards for client side rendering of pages such as JavaScript, JSON, and
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5 Questions about SkyDrive Pro! 

​Hi, I’m Tejas Mehta, a senior marketing manager on the SharePoint team. In July, we introduced the new SharePoint, which includes SkyDrive Pro. With the Preview in full swing, we wanted to provide some additional context on SkyDrive Pro. In this post, I’ll answer some of the common questions being asked by our customers and
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The new People Hub in Outlook 2013 

<p>Ever wonder what's going on with the person you haven't spoken to in a while?  Want to find out what's new with someone before sending them an email or giving them a call? If you do, Office 2013 is the product for you. Office 2013 brings all the people you care about in one place. You can view contacts from multiple email accounts, and updates from social networks, including Facebook and LinkedIn. Office 2013 makes it easy for you to get things done with people. If you are like most people, you have contact information spread across multiple different sources. For example, Wendy is a Facebook friend, a LinkedIn connection, and I have her personal mobile number saved in Outlook. In Office, I can see all of Wendy's data from these various sources in one place:</p>
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Overview of Search in SharePoint 2013 

Quick introduction: My name is Gerhard Schobbe, I’m the Group Program Manager for the team in the SharePoint organization that’s focused on search scenarios for Information Workers in the Enterprise. Goals for Release Let me first talk about the goals for this release. As for any release, there are several areas we were aiming to