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11 Aug 16:44

Interim report issued on Challenger loss of control accident in A380 wake turbulence

by Harro Ranter
11 Aug 15:22

Transform Data By Example—a Microsoft Garage project for Excel

by Excel Team

A common problem facing Excel users is data wrangling—transforming raw data into a different format so that it can be used for further analysis. For many common data domains—such as date-time, addresses, phone numbers and URLs—sophisticated transformation functions and services exist but are locked up in code repositories such as Stack Overflow, .NET and GitHub, or services such as Bing Maps. For Excel users attempting to perform a specific data transformation task, these functions are difficult to find and use.

Transform Data By Example—auto-magic? You decide

Transform Data By Example is an Excel add-in that makes it easy to quickly find relevant transformation functions for a specific data transformation task. All you need to do is provide a few examples of the desired output, and Transform Data By Example automatically returns a ranked list of relevant data transformation functions from the large repository of functions it has crawled and indexed. Simply click one of the returned functions to see the results of applying that function on the data.

In the example below, the user has a collection of addresses in the United States in various formats and needs to extract city, state and zip code information for aggregate analysis. The user only needs to provide a few output examples in the column next to the input and then click Get Transformations! Within a few seconds, Transform Data By Example finds relevant transformation functions from a large collection of functions it indexes, and then automatically uses these functions to compose and generate new code that can perform the exact transformation the user specified. All the heavy lifting happens under the cover and is transparent to users. There is no need to write code or leave the familiar Excel interface.

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Extensible engine for transformations

In addition to the large collection of data transformation functions that Transform Data By Example already indexes, users can add their own data transformation code to the collection through an easy extensibility interface below. Transform Data By Example makes the new transformation functionality instantly searchable.

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Like a web search engine, Transform Data By Example continuously improves its quality by leveraging implicit user feedback. The more you use it, the better it gets. At Microsoft Research, we’re constantly developing and improving Transform Data By Example, so be sure to give it a try and let us know what you think at our UserVoice forum. We greatly value your direct feedback to help us get better at helping you wrangle that data!

Learn more

—The Microsoft Research team

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22 May 19:32

Reinventing business processes in SharePoint & Office 365

by Chris McNulty

An overview of our vision for integrating Flow and PowerApps directly in the user expereince for SharePoint.

22 May 19:18

Reach your audience via SharePoint communication sites in Office 365

by Mark Kashman

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A new generation of the mobile and intelligent intranet -- beautiful, dynamic, mobile-ready communication sites and pages to keep everyone informed and engaged.

17 May 20:51

Pkw-Maut: EU-Kommission beendet Maut-Verfahren gegen Deutschland

by ZEIT ONLINE: Deutschland -
Der Streit zwischen der EU-Kommission und Deutschland um die Pkw-Maut ist beigelegt. Nachdem das Gesetz angepasst wurde, sieht sie Ausländer nicht mehr benachteiligt.
17 May 20:51

Schüler klagt wegen Handy-Entzug

by Udo Vetter

Dürfen Lehrer das Handy eines Schülers übers Wochenende einkassieren, wenn der Schüler vorher den Unterricht gestört hat? Diese Frage wollte ein Neuntklässler in Berlin gerichtlich klären lassen.

Die Mutter des Schülers durfte das Handy erst am Montag im Schulsekretariat abholen. Das Verwaltungsgericht Berlin möchte allerdings gar nicht in der Sache entscheiden, ob so eine „Erziehungsmaßnahme“ gerechtfertigt ist. Stattdessen verweisen die Richter darauf, der damals minderjährige Schüler habe mittlerweile die Schule gewechselt. Somit habe er kein juristisches Feststellungsinteresse, weil keine Wiederholungsgefahr bestehe.

Allerdings deutet das Gericht an, die vorübergehende Unerreichbarkeit auf dem Handy sei eher kein schwerwiegender Grundrechtseingriff. Auch das Erziehungsrecht der Eltern sei nicht beeinträchtigt (Aktenzeichen 3 K 797.15).

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17 May 20:51

Einverstanden!

by Udo Vetter

Die Polizei war mal wieder in der Wohnung meines Mandanten. Ohne richterlichen Beschluss. Zugegeben, die Beamten haben dort auch auch kleinere Mengen an Betäubungsmitteln gefunden. Jetzt wollte aber auch der Staatsanwalt mal genauer wissen, wieso die wiederholte Durchsuchung erfolgte, ohne dass vorher ein Durchsuchungsbeschluss eingeholt wurde.

Ich zitiere aus der Stellungnahme der Drogenfahnder:

Ein Durchsuchungsbeschluss war nicht erforderlich. Der Beschuldigte wurde von mir befragt, als die Maßnahme in seiner Wohnung lief. Er erklärte: „Ihr habt ja sowieso schon alles gefunden, also bin ich einverstanden.“

Somit war der Beschuldigte ausdrücklich einverstanden und es wurde davon abgesehen, den Eildienst der Staatsanwaltschaft zu kontaktieren.

Es ist ja schon ein Unding, dass Betroffene bei uns auf ihre Grundrechte „verzichten“ können. Damit wird den immer häufiger werdenden Geschichten Tür und Tor geöffnet, wonach der Beschuldigte sich geradezu gefreut hat, dass seine Wohnung durchsucht wird.

Die Begründung in diesem Fall schlägt an Dreistigkeit allerdings so gut wie alles, was ich in solchen Fällen bisher gelesen habe. Der Staatsanwalt sieht es übrigens genau so. Er bejaht ein Verwertungsverbot und stellt das Verfahren mangels Tatverdachts ein.

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17 May 20:49

Polizeikosten: Eure Risikospiele, unser Geld?

by ZEIT ONLINE: Sport - Oliver Fritsch
Der Staat zahlt die Polizei. So steht's im Gesetz, so entscheidet nun ein Gericht. Der reiche deutsche Fußball könnte sich aber freiwillig an den hohen Kosten beteiligen.
17 May 20:48

Inside the Microsoft FPGA-based configurable cloud

17 May 20:45

Some mother cells kick DNA damage 'down the road' to offspring

17 May 20:44

Using Amazon Snowmobile to transmit 100PB of satellite images to AWS

17 May 20:43

Auth0 Extend: A new way to extend SaaS applications beyond Webhooks

17 May 20:43

Police make first arrest for refusing to hand over passwords under terrorism law

17 May 20:42

Today's Webinar: Seven Tips to Better Visualization Design

Join us this morning at 10 a.m. PT for the webinar, Simply Compelling - Seven Tips to Better Visualization Design, presented by Miranda Li. Today she'll be presenting an introduction to visualization design, concepts, and basic factors. If you've been looking for a way to give more visual punch to your reports and dashboards, you won't want to miss this free webinar!
17 May 20:13

Endlich Smiley statt J: Microsoft repariert Emoji-Bug nach sieben Jahren

Nach sieben Jahren hat Microsoft endlich ein Problem gelöst, das sicher Millionen E-Mail-Nutzer genervt hat. Ein Smiley erscheint jetzt auch als Smiley und nicht als „J“. Wir sagen euch, warum.

Outlook-E-Mails: Smiley ist jetzt Smiley

Wer öfter per E-Mail kommuniziert, der kennt sicher das Problem: Hin und wieder steht ein großes „J“ scheinbar ganz unmotiviert mitten in oder am Ende der E-Mail. Damit ist jetzt Schluss. Nach sieben Jahren hat Microsoft den Emoji-Bug behoben und erklärt, warum dieser bisher aufgetreten ist.

Smiley: Jetzt auch in Outlook-Mails. (Bild: Flaffy/Shutterstock)

Demnach hat Microsofts E-Mail-Programm Outlook das Zeichen „:)“ bisher automatisch in ein Smiley-Symbol in Microsofts proprietärem Font „Wingding“ umgewandelt. Dieses Zeichen erkannten andere E-Mail-Programme wie die iOS-Mail-App, Gmail und andere E-Mail-Programme nicht und gaben es daher stattdessen als „J“ aus.

Smiley: Microsoft hat Emoji-Bug gefixt

Microsoft hat das schon lange bekannte Problem jetzt offenbar bearbeitet. Der Guardian-Journalist Alex Hern hat den Fix des Emoji-Bugs als erster bemerkt – in einer Gmail-Nachricht in Google Chrome stand statt des üblichen „J“ auf einmal ein Smiley-Emoji. Microsoft hat gegenüber der US-Newsseite Businessinsider bestätigt, dass das Problem behoben wurde.

Office-365-Nutzer, die Outlook verwenden, werden nach und nach die richtige Darstellung bemerken – beziehungsweise deren Kommunikationspartner in anderen E-Mail-Programmen. Das entsprechende Feature soll bis zum Jahresende vollständig ausgerollt sein. Zudem sollen künftig auch Emojis aus iOS- oder Android-Anwendungen in Outlook besser dargestellt werden.

Fokus und Produktivität: Diese 15 Tools schützen dich vor Ablenkung

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17 May 11:29

Secure your information with SharePoint and OneDrive

by Bill Baer

Today at the SharePoint Virtual Summit, we unveiled the latest innovations for SharePoint and OneDrive, including powerful integrations across Office 365, Windows and Azure - and while we continue to drive forward with a cloud-first, mobile-first vision - security and compliance are at the foundation of everything we do...

17 May 11:29

SharePoint Server 2016 and Beyond…

by Bill Baer

Today at the SharePoint Virtual Summit, we unveiled the latest innovations for SharePoint and OneDrive, including powerful integrations across Office 365, Windows and Azure - and while we continue to drive forward with a cloud-first, mobile-first vision - we're excited to also announce new innovation for our customers on-premises...

17 May 11:29

Personalize team sites in Office 365 and amplify teamwork using MS Teams and Office 365 Groups

by Mark Kashman

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SharePoint team sites connected to Office 365 Groups help amplify your news via integration with Microsoft Teams with the ability to personalize your site navigation and look and feel.

17 May 11:29

Harnessing Collective Knowledge with SharePoint and Yammer

by Naomi Moneypenny

Make it easier to find expertise as well as best practice sharing. Today we share how creating and sustaining Communities of Practice can be a core solution in your organization with new intelligent search features, SharePoint communication sites and Yammer.

17 May 11:28

Power BI + ZoomCharts = (Power BI)²: Boost your productivity and add the cool-factor to your reports

As of today, all Microsoft Power BI users can start using dynamic and cool-looking ZoomCharts in reports and dashboards. With ZoomCharts, you can easier than ever before, explore, present and analyze your data. Full multi-touch support makes interaction seamless across all your devices. See it for yourself and learn more!
17 May 11:24

„Meine Vorteilswelt“ – exklusive Vorteile für Bahnkunden

by DB Redaktion

Sie sind häufig mit der Bahn unterwegs? Prima! Wissen Sie auch schon, dass Sie bei jeder Fahrkartenbuchung Punkte sammeln und darüber hinaus regelmäßig von weiteren Vorteilen profitieren können?

Wie Sie teilnehmen können, erklären wir Ihnen hier Schritt für Schritt.

  1. Wenn Sie noch keine haben, bestellen Sie sich eine BahnCard oder eine bahn.bonus Card. Die bahn.bonus Card ist kostenlos und ermöglicht Ihnen das Sammeln von Punkten bei jeder Fahrkartenbuchung.
    Mit beiden Karten können Sie die Angebote der „Meine Vorteilswelt“ nutzen. Als Inhaber einer BahnCard stehen Ihnen noch mehr Vorteile zur Verfügung.
  2. Legen Sie sich online einen „Meine Bahn“ Account an.
  3. Lassen Sie sich für die BahnCard Services freischalten. Hierfür bekommen Sie eine PIN, wahlweise per Mail oder per Post, mit der Sie die Freischaltung abschließen können.
  4. Nach der Freischaltung klicken Sie auf das Symbol von „Meine Vorteilswelt“.
  5. Wählen Sie aus einer Reihe von Angeboten, Gutscheinen und Gewinnspielen.

Die Angebote in der DB Vorteilswelt können Sie bequem über Ihren PC zu Hause über Bahn.de einsehen. Es lohnt sich übrigens, immer mal wieder vorbeizuschauen, das Angebot wechselt regelmäßig.

"Meine Vorteilswelt" bietet Ihnen exklusive Rabatte, Gutscheine und Gewinnspiele. Jetzt auch im DB Navigator.
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Ganz neu: „Meine Vorteilswelt“ im DB Navigator

Ab sofort können Sie „Meine Vorteilswelt“ auch über den DB Navigator besuchen und erhalten dort genauso wie auf bahn.de einen Einblick in die Vorteilswelt der Deutschen Bahn. Einfach App herunterladen und mit Ihrem Benutzerkonto anmelden. Sie finden die Vorteilswelt im DB Navigator im Reiter BahnCard. Nicht vergessen: Lassen Sie sich vorher für die BahnCard Services freischalten.


17 May 11:15

Kein neuer James Bond

by Udo Vetter

Im Alltag nannte er sich schon länger James Bond, jetzt wollte ein Mann aus Rheinland-Pfalz das auch in seinem Personalausweis dokumentiert sehen. Die Behörden weigerten sich. Auch das Verwaltungsgericht Koblenz sieht keinen Grund, der Welt einen echten „James Bond“ zu bescheren.

Begründet hatte der Mann den Wunsch nach Namensänderung mit ständigem Streit, den er mit seinem Onkel und dessen Familie habe. Außerdem wolle er sein Leben neu ordnen. Sogar eine ärztliches Stellungnahme legte der Kläger vor. Diese befürwortete einen Namenswechsel.

Das Gericht sieht das nicht so. Es sei nicht erkennbar, wie ein neuer Namen Familienstreit beenden könne. Auch mit der geplanten Neuordnung des Lebens haben die Richter Probleme. Denn der Name James Bond sei durch eine britische Romanfigur recht stark vorbelegt und trage deshalb „den Keim neuer Schwierigkeiten“ in sich. Beide Argumente sind, so finde ich, nun wirklich nicht von der Hand zu weisen (Aktenzeichen 1 K 616/16.KO; Link zum Urteil).

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17 May 11:15

Mit der Bitte um Kenntnisnahme

by Udo Vetter

Erst ließ die Anwaltskanzlei Waldorf Frommer jeden Nachmittag die Faxbombe platzen. Dann kamen Briefe eine Zeit lang per Post. Das scheint den Münchner Anwälten aber etwas zu teuer zu werden. Ich vermute, da hat sich mal ein Kollege gewehrt. Plötzlich kommt alles per Mail, wobei der Inhalt der Mail immer gleich ist („anliegendes Schreiben übersenden wir Ihnen mit der Bitte um Kenntnisnahme und ggf. zur weiteren Veranlassung“).

Der Brief zum Fall steckt womöglich in etwas, das sich als PDF-Datei ausgibt. Ich kann das nur vermuten, denn wir werden die Anhänge nicht öffnen. Das steht auch in meiner recht kurzen Antwort, die ich vorsichtshalber schon mal als Textbaustein abgespeichert habe:

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

wir möchten Sie höflich darum bitten, uns keine Schreiben per Mail zu senden, die in einer angehängten Datei enthalten sind. Gerade im Hinblick auf die aktuelle Bedrohungslage mit Viren und den Umstand, dass in letzter Zeit immer wieder gefälschte Mails von Abmahnkanzleien in Umlauf gerieten und auch uns erreichten, werden wir angehängte Dateien nicht öffnen.

Wir stellen anheim, mit uns auf dem Postweg zu korrespondieren.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Udo Vetter
Rechtsanwalt

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17 May 11:15

New in Yammer—building a more connected and engaged organization

by Yammer Team

Yammer empowers every person in your company with an open space to connect, share and work out loud. With 70 percent annual growth in active groups, there’s greater momentum in Yammer than ever before. Yammer and SharePoint have always been natural complements, because together they deliver powerful connections and discoveries of people, content and information. Today, during the SharePoint Virtual Summit, we unveiled several new capabilities that make it easier to connect and engage through Yammer, whoever and wherever you are in the organization.

Spark conversations on your intranet by bringing Yammer and SharePoint together

Productive conversations can arise from anywhere you do your work. Last year, we enabled a more seamless document sharing capability across the Office 365 suite, including SharePoint, while collaborating in Yammer. You can now enrich your new SharePoint communication sites with a conversational layer by using the existing Yammer embed capability, triggering contextually relevant discussions and increasing the virality of your content.

Over the coming year, we will enhance the integration between Yammer and SharePoint by further improving the way SharePoint content appears in Yammer and making conversations from Yammer render more naturally within SharePoint on the web, desktop and mobile.

Share, view and discuss videos from Office 365 Video and Microsoft Stream

Companies are increasingly looking to use video as an effective way to reach employees and drive engagement across the organization. Now, you can share and play videos from Office 365 Video and Microsoft Stream directly within your Yammer conversations. Yammer already offers high quality, in-line viewing of video uploads or external websites like YouTube and Vimeo. These new integrations with Office 365 Video and Microsoft Stream make it seamless to embed internal videos in Yammer conversations and include security controls and infrastructure to keep valuable information secure.

To share a video from Office 365 Video or Microsoft Stream, copy the URL of the video and paste it into your Yammer conversation either as a reply or post. Yammer recognizes that the URL is a video, adds a playable thumbnail and allows people in the group to watch the video in the context of Yammer. They will also see the number of views and likes. Those who don’t have access to a specific video will be shown a message that the video is private or the user is not authorized.

Whether you are running a monthly Q&A session, sharing an executive message, broadcasting product updates or releasing a campaign, your employees can now share, watch and discuss videos right within Yammer and see tallies of views and likes.

Discuss relevant information from third-party apps and services using Connectors in Yammer

You can now use Office 365 Connectors to bring relevant content and updates from over 90 popular third-party apps and services directly into your current Yammer conversations. Connectors allow you to configure automatic posts to groups from a wide variety of tools, such as news and social media sources like Bing News and Twitter, developer tools including GitHub and PagerDuty, and project management tools like Trello and Asana.

Anyone in the group can add or delete a connector in Yammer, as long as the group is connected to the Office 365 Groups service. Simply click Add or Remove Apps under Group Actions (on the right of your group’s feed) and then follow the instructions on how to add the connector. To learn more about Connectors in Yammer, please visit the support article.

Connectors bring relevant third-party information right to your group. For example, you can set up a connector to deliver a weekly digest of social media posts or articles regarding a specific hashtag or search term. For groups managing the customer experience, you can set up a connector with your organization’s customer support system to escalate important tickets and drive group problem solving.

Keep group membership up to date by enabling dynamic groups in Yammer

Starting today, you can more easily manage groups in Yammer using dynamic group membership. Dynamic groups are Office 365 groups with membership defined as a rule, rather than as a static list of members, in Azure Active Directory. Whether you’re looking to group people based on role, geography, department or any other attribute, once created, these groups update automatically as people join, leave or move within your organization. So you can rest assured that you are including the right people from across the company to engage and collaborate in your Yammer conversations.

To create a group with dynamic membership in Yammer, an Office 365 administrator will need to sign in to the Azure portal, select the Yammer group to configure and set up the membership rules for that group.

Group members are added and removed based on membership rules set in the Azure portal.

This new capability works well for organizations where people often change teams, roles and geographies. For quickly growing companies seeking to bring new hires into group conversations relevant to them, dynamic membership helps to ensure these employees have all the right permissions to find applicable content and make meaningful connections from day one.

For companies looking for a reliable and secure way to engage with the frontline, a group with dynamic membership can be created based on a specific role or location. Group managers can then announce major updates, sending a notification to employees’ mobile apps. Conversely, workers on the frontline can share input and escalate issues knowing they’re connected to the right people back in the central office.

Connect wherever you do your best work with new Yammer apps for iPad, Windows and Mac

Staying connected requires tools that have the versatility to fit your work style. Whether you are highly mobile, moving from meeting to meeting, on the ground talking to customers or jumping from app to app on your desktop, your cross-company conversations should be accessible, highly engaging and easy to navigate. We are pleased to share new Yammer apps for iPad, Windows and Mac.

The Yammer iPad app has been re-launched with a richer navigation and group experience, as well as universal search capabilities.

With great feedback and usage of our current Desktop Notifier, we will also be delivering a more full-featured desktop app for Windows and Mac within the next couple months. The new app will enable automatic sign-in and will have a similar look and feel as the current browser experience. Organizations will also be able to broadly deploy the desktop app through central management.

Learn more and join us for our Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA)

The features and capabilities announced today represent the next steps in Yammer’s journey of empowering people to connect and engage across their organization. With several exciting announcements, we invite you to watch our latest Microsoft Mechanics video:

Also, join us next Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 9 a.m. PDT for a special Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) in the Microsoft Tech Community. Our product and engineering teams will be available to answer questions you have about new features in Yammer. Add the event to your calendar and join us in the Yammer AMA group next week. To keep up with Yammer releases and connect with our product teams on an ongoing basis, please join the Yammer Service Updates External Group.

—The Yammer team

 

Frequently asked questions

Q. How does embedding a Yammer conversation into my SharePoint site work today?

A. To embed Yammer on a SharePoint page today, edit the page, insert the Yammer feed web-part from the gallery and enter the URL of a Yammer group or topic. Adding a Yammer conversation into a SharePoint page embeds the exact conversations that you see in Yammer. Your group feed in Yammer and the view of the conversation in SharePoint will update concurrently, in real-time.

Q. What is the difference between Connectors and Flow?

A. While Connectors for Office 365 Groups and the first-party app Microsoft Flow both involve integration with various third-party apps and services, there are several differences. Connectors post updates to your Yammer feed from a specified system. Microsoft Flow can post updates as well, and add the ability to automate multi-step workflows involving actions taken across multiple systems. To learn more, visit the Microsoft Flow website.

Q. What are the eligibility requirements for dynamic group membership?

A. Eligibility requires that your group in Yammer be connected to the Office 365 Groups service and your tenant be subscribed to Azure Active Directory Premium. Dynamic groups in Yammer currently have a 100K member maximum. For more details about configuration and eligibility, please visit the support article.

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17 May 11:14

SharePoint Virtual Summit showcases growth, innovations and customer success

by Jeff Teper

Today’s post was written by Jeff Teper, corporate vice president for OneDrive, SharePoint and Office.

Today, during the SharePoint Virtual Summit, we unveiled the latest innovations for SharePoint and OneDrive, including powerful integrations across Office 365, Windows and Azure. These developments build upon the vision we unveiled last year, and have been delivering on since, with innovations to reinvent content collaboration and usher in a new generation of mobile and intelligent intranets. We also showcased Office 365 customers who are using SharePoint to accelerate their digital transformation.

SharePoint continues to gain momentum

With more than 100 million monthly active users, Office 365 provides the most complete, intelligent and secure service for communications and collaboration. SharePoint plays an important role in Office 365, empowering customers to share and manage content, knowledge and apps to create a more connected workplace.

As customers transition to the cloud, we’re seeing tremendous adoption of SharePoint:

  • More than 250,000 organizations and over 85 percent of Fortune 500 companies now have SharePoint as part of Office 365.
  • In the last year, usage of SharePoint has grown 90 percent, content stored has grown 300 percent and more than 10 million new SharePoint sites have been created.
  • More than 60 percent of SharePoint seats are now online, reflecting the value customers see with SharePoint in Office 365.

We unveiled many innovations across SharePoint and OneDrive. Here’s a look at the four headline announcements.

Share files directly from File Explorer on Windows and Finder on Mac

OneDrive lets you share files securely with anyone—inside or outside your organization. Its deep Office integration, which powers rich co-authoring, allows you to collaborate on these shared files with others in real-time. And it lets you access all your Office 365 files, including your individual work files and files shared with you by individuals, teams and the organization—regardless of whether you’re on a PC, Mac, an iOS or Android device or a Windows phone.

Building upon last week’s announcement of OneDrive Files On-Demand—which lets you work with all your files within File Explorer on Windows 10—we announced today that starting this summer you will be able to share Office 365 files directly from File Explorer on PC and Finder on Mac. The sharing experience has been simplified, so you can share a file or folder with specific people or send a link that enables anyone who needs access, inside or outside your organization. In addition, you can now control how long a link provides access, and you can easily view and modify the permissions you have granted. The new sharing experience is the same, whether you share on the web, in Explorer on Windows 10 and Windows 7, or in Finder on Mac.

Share files and folders with colleagues inside and outside your organization directly from File Explorer on Windows 10 and Windows 7.

Share files and folders with colleagues inside and outside your organization directly from Finder on Mac.

Innovations that we’ve released over the last year and announced today are sparking customers to choose OneDrive over other file storage and sharing solutions. Read “File sharing and cloud storage with OneDrive and Office 365” to learn more.

Inform and engage employees with SharePoint communication sites

As the next step toward ushering in the next generation of intranets, today we announced SharePoint communication sites, coming this summer. A communication site is a beautiful, dynamic site that lets you reach a broad audience to keep the organization informed and engaged. Communication sites look great on the web, on a PC or Mac, on mobile browsers and in the SharePoint app.

Easily create beautiful intranet sites to reach a broad audience across your organization.

While your team site lets you share within your group as you’re working, a communication site lets your group share broadly and communicate its message across the organization. News published on a communication site surfaces on SharePoint home in Office 365 and on SharePoint mobile to all users who have access to the site.

Communication sites can be created in seconds. You can configure the default web parts on your site’s pages to tell your story. You can customize page layout with new multi-column sections and drag-and-drop authoring with a range of richly functional web parts, including an image gallery, interactive Bing maps, videos from a Microsoft Stream channel and a new events web part.

Add the Yammer web part to a communication site to solicit feedback and foster conversation. Yammer adds a conversational layer to the intranet, so you can drive employee engagement and share best practices across the organization, right in the context of a communications site. To learn more about Yammer integration with SharePoint and other Yammer announcements made today, read “New in Yammer—building a more engaged and connected organizationand watch Updates to Yammer—integrating conversations into your SharePoint experiences.

Create custom SharePoint forms with PowerApps and automate approvals with Microsoft Flow

SharePoint enables you, your team and your organization to streamline tasks, automate workflows and integrate processes seamlessly into your work—on any device and from anywhere you work. Starting this summer, you will be able to use Microsoft PowerApps to easily create custom forms that surface right in the context of a SharePoint list or library. Users can then create, view and interact with data using your custom form, rather than default SharePoint forms. This is a significant milestone for both SharePoint and PowerApps, as it empowers any user to drive transformation of team and organizational processes.

Create custom forms inside SharePoint lists and libraries with no code using PowerApps.

We also continue to deepen integration of SharePoint and Microsoft Flow. New built-in approval flows let you send any document for approval with a custom message. The recipient can approve the request directly from a rich, actionable email message, so approval and feedback can be given without leaving your inbox.

Approval flows, built in to SharePoint, send a rich, actionable email message.

Find people, expertise and content with powerful, personalized search

Today, we announced a more personalized search that leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence from Microsoft Graph to surface more relevant and valuable results, faster. When you’re searching for knowledge, it may be found in content such as files, sites and news. And it might also be found through your colleagues. Now, your search results will include people whose skills, interests and projects—part of their Office 365 profile—are relevant to your query.

Search results activate people cards, so you can learn at a glance about a person and the content they work on. One more click activates an extended view with richly detailed information from the user’s profile. These enhancements to search are rolling out over the next few months.

Showcasing customer success

These innovations illustrate our commitment to reinventing productivity, so that you, your teams and your organization can achieve more. Today, we showcased customers like DBS, Avanade, Shire and Fourlis who use SharePoint and OneDrive to achieve more. We’re honored to have them join the growing ranks of customers who are sharing their stories of success, including RackspaceThe Hershey Company, NASCAR, Qantas, T-Mobile and many more.

The headline announcements I’ve shared here are but the tip of the iceberg. At the SharePoint Virtual Summit, we announced dozens of innovations that will help you accelerate your digital transformation in the year ahead. To learn more about the new capabilities across SharePoint and OneDrive, and the transformational outcomes they drive, read “New SharePoint and OneDrive capabilities accelerate your digital transformation.”

—Jeff Teper

If you missed the event today, you can view the recording of the SharePoint Virtual Summit.

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17 May 11:12

Bundeswehr: Von der Leyen will Bundeswehr zwei Jahre lang durchleuchten

by ZEIT ONLINE: Deutschland -
Was braucht es für eine gute Führungskultur in der Bundeswehr? Diese Frage will die Verteidigungsministerin in einem ausgedehnten Verfahren klären.
17 May 11:12

Office 365 Roadmap Updated: 2017-05-16

Additions : 24
Updates : 7

More Details At: www.roadmapwatch.com


New Features Current Status
SharePoint Online communication sites In Development
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New Sharing Controls from Windows Explorer In Development
Multi page scan from Mobile In Development
OneDrive Files on Demand – Preview via Windows Insider Builds In Development
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People cards on SharePoint home in Office 365 In Development
SharePoint app for Windows 10 Mobile: view news In Development
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SharePoint mobile app for Android: create news In Development
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SharePoint Online - personalized search from SharePoint home in Office 365 In Development Description
Microsoft Teams Availability for US Gov In Development Title, Description
Microsoft Teams: classification is available when creating or modifying a group across apps In Development Title
Usage reports update: new report for Microsoft Teams Cancelled Status
Microsoft Teams: Team Templates In Development Title
17 May 11:11

“Unzufriedenheit mit Workflows”: Erste Ergebnisse der “SharePoint Studie 2017 Spezial” beim MBUF-Kongress vorgestellt

by Wolfgang Miedl
Workflows und Geschäftsprozesse gehören zu den Einsatzbereichen mit wachsender Bedeutung auf der SharePoint-Plattform. Wie viele Unternehmen hier bereits aktiv sind, wie zufrieden sie mit den eingesetzten Lösungen sind und welche Weiterlesen Ähnliche Beiträge: Neue Anwenderstudie SharePoint 2014/2015: So setzten Unternehmen SharePoint ein Wie zufrieden sind Sie mit SharePoint? Große SharePoint-Anwender-Umfrage 2016 – mitmachen und gewinnen SharePoint-Studie 2016 – erste Trends: Unternehmen setzen auf SharePoint bei der digitalen Transformation

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17 May 11:10

Vor zwei, drei Monaten

by Udo Vetter

Botschaften aus dem Sekretariat:

Der Anrufer hatte seine eigene Rufnummer nicht parat. Er hat Ihnen aber vor zwei, drei Monaten mal eine Mail geschickt mit einer Anfrage. Darin steht die Rufnummer vermutlich drin. Sie sollen die Nummer nachschauen und sich melden. Seine Mailadresse wollte er nicht nennen, da Sie diese ja schon haben. Es ist eilig.

Es ist immer eilig. Aber zum Glück nicht immer so kompliziert…

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16 May 20:54

Wie weit die EU und die Schweiz auseinander liegen

by nospam@example.com (Manuel Schmitt)
... sieht man schon daran, dass Schweizer* keine .eu-Domain bekommen :-O

* bezieht sich nicht auf die Nationalität sondern nur darauf, dass für eine .eu-Domain eine Anschrift in der EU nötig ist