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In the near future, hybrid customers will be able to take advantage of the REST APIs for both Office 365 and on-premises mailboxes.

The REST APIs (Mail, Calendar, and Contact APIs) simplify programming against Exchange by providing a familiar syntax that is designed with openness (e.g., open standards support JSON, OAUTH, ODATA) and flexibility (e.g., granular, tightly scoped permission to access user data). These APIs allow developers to connect from any platform, whether it be web, PC, or mobile. SDKs exist for.NET, iOS, Android, NodeJS, Ruby, Python, Cordova, and CORS for use in single page JavaScript web apps.

As announced at Microsoft Ignite, Exchange 2016 Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) includes support for the REST API integration with Office 365. This integration enables customers that are in a hybrid deployment with Office 365 to have a seamless authentication and application experience regardless of mailbox location.

In order to take advantage of the REST APIs in your hybrid deployment, you must implement these prerequisites.

Mailbox Requirements

All on-premises mailboxes that will utilize the REST APIs must be located on databases residing on Exchange 2016 servers.

Infrastructure Requirements

All Exchange 2016 servers must be upgraded to CU3 or later. In addition, when upgrading an existing Exchange 2016 server to CU3, /PrepareAD must be executed in the on-premises environment to enable support for the REST specific cmdlets and parameters.

While Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2013 servers can coexist in the same load balanced array, Exchange 2013 does not provide REST API integration. Therefore, in order to support a seamless REST API experience, all Exchange 2013 servers must be removed from the load balanced array.

Networking Requirements

From a DNS perspective, the Autodiscover namespace and on-premises client namespace must have Internet DNS records.

CU3 introduces a new virtual directory to support the REST API, the /api virtual directory. If you have deployed a firewall or application gateway that inspects and restricts access based on the virtual directory being accessed, you will need to update the appropriate settings to allow access to the REST API virtual directory.

The REST API takes advantage of a new Autodiscover method for determining authentication and mailbox location. In order to ensure REST API applications can access the on-premises infrastructure correctly, you will need to update the appropriate firewall or application gateway settings to allow access to the /autodiscover/autodiscover.json virtual directory file.

Hybrid Requirements

In a soon to be released update to the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW), support will be added for the REST API integration with on-premises environments. Specifically, the HCW will add a new authentication provider and register a hostname with the Azure security token service.

You must also ensure that your on-premises Active Directory is fully synchronized with Azure Active Directory.

Summary

We hope you will take advantage of the new functionality and capabilities offered by the REST API in your hybrid deployments.

For more information and code examples on the REST API, please see https://dev.outlook.com/.

Ross Smith IV
Principal Program Manager
Office 365 Customer Experience

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Cyber threats are evolving at an astonishing pace, and safeguarding your cloud workloads requires constant innovation. Since Azure Security Center became generally available in July 2016, we have been hard at work on new capabilities to help customers better defend against these threats. This includes expanded integration with security services from partners, along with additional monitoring of Azure services:

• Integrated Vulnerability Assessment (preview): Customers can now deploy vulnerability assessment solutions from partners like Qualys in just a few clicks. Findings from these solutions will be integrated so customers can view a prioritized list of all security vulnerabilities identified by Security Center and integrated partners in one place.
• Expanded Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities (preview): Streamlined deployment, monitoring and alerting of WAF solutions from partners is now available for Azure App Service Environments. In addition, customers will soon have more options when deploying WAF solutions, including solutions from Azure and additional partners.
• Azure Storage Security Assessment (preview): Security Center will begin monitoring and recommending encryption for Azure Storage in the coming weeks, and within a few clicks customers can enable built-in encryption for their Azure Storage Accounts.

To begin using these new features and gain instant visibility into the security state of your Azure resources, simply launch Security Center from the Azure portal.

In addition, Microsoft security research and data science teams are constantly monitoring the threat landscape to identify new attack vectors. As a result, Security Center detection algorithms are being continuously developed and refined. This security intelligence is also used to create richer, more actionable insights that you can use to remediate attacks more quickly – mitigating the business and financial impacts. New detection capabilities, available in the Standard tier, include:

• New Threat Detections: Ongoing security research has resulted in new analytics designed to detect insider threats and attempts to persist within a compromised system – both are achieved using behavioral analysis. Security Center is also now monitoring for outbound DDoS attacks and has enhanced brute force detection capabilities.
• Enhanced Security Incidents (preview): Incidents, which combine alerts that align to kill chain patterns, now offer insights into attack campaigns that span multiple VMs. Malicious activity detected on one VM can be correlated with similar activity on a second VM to enable customers to quickly understand what actions an attacker took and what resources are impacted. In addition, alerts from integrated antimalware and WAF solutions can now be included in incidents.
• Threat Intelligence Reports (preview): Security Center now features threat attributions reports that are built-in to security alerts – so you get valuable information in the context of active threats. Getting access to intelligence about an attacker, including their tactics and objectives, enables customers to target incident response and investigations.

To take advantage of these and other advanced detection capabilities, select the Standard tier or free 90 Day Trial from the Pricing Tier blade in the Security Center Policy. Security Center is now also available as part of the Operations Management Suite Security & Compliance solution. Learn more about pricing.

For more information on using Security Center, including details about these new capabilities, see the documentation.

Leading the Azure engineering organization over the past several years has been an incredible experience, and one that has taught me a great deal. My discussions with enterprise customers has given me an intimate understanding of the challenges IT teams (including our own) are facing today – How do I innovate with greater agility and faster time to market? How do I modernize our app portfolio? How do I maintain and optimize what I have? How do I manage and secure it all? Amidst all these challenges, however, lies a unique opportunity to align IT with business strategy. And the cloud is the enabling technology that makes this more possible than ever.

Azure is the cloud platform designed for enterprises with the fundamental tenets of global, trusted and hybrid. With Azure infrastructure spanning 34 global regions, we provide twice the choice of regions than AWS to run your applications, as well as offering unique data sovereignty capabilities. With 47 compliance certifications and attestations, Azure is the most compliant hyper scale cloud on the planet. Our hybrid IT depth means ensuring your on-premises investments work consistently with Azure, because hybrid IT means true consistency across your entire environment, not just connectivity between your datacenter and the cloud. But what’s exciting and humbling is to see the tremendous value customers are getting by betting on Azure. From Fortune 500 organizations like Wal-Mart, BMW and EcoLab to startups like Soluto and Linukury, our customers save on costs, are more agile and can transform their businesses.

This week at Ignite, we’re unveiling many new Azure capabilities and you’ll see a common meme across these – enabling IT with cloud infrastructure, security capabilities, holistic management, and world-class support for open source.

Infrastructure for IT innovation

In Azure’s global datacenters lies incredible compute capacity that you can tap into. We want to ensure you can run every workload – meaning all the performance and scale you need, regardless of what you are running. To that end, we are making several announcements today.

New compute offerings – storage optimized, fastest CPU, SAP HANA

We are introducing new Virtual Machine and compute offerings to address your unique application needs – the L-series, H-series and general availability of special-purpose large instances for SAP HANA. This expands upon the recently released N-series, available in preview and offering best-in-class GPU compute VMs.

• L-Series – L-series are storage-optimized VMs specially designed for applications requiring low latency, high throughput, large local disk storage such as NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, Cloudera and Redis), and data warehousing. Built on Intel Haswell processors (Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v3), L-series supports up to 6 TB of local SSD and offers unmatched storage performance. We will be rolling out L-series in the coming weeks.
• H-series - Aligned with our commitment to deliver the best performing technology to market, H-series sports the fastest CPUs in public cloud as well as RDMA with InfiniBand, so you can run high performance computing (HPC) applications like computational fluid dynamics, automotive crash testing, genome and molecular research. H-Series VMs provides customers the ability to easily get on-demand HPC infrastructure and use it for faster insight.
• Large Instances for SAP HANA - Continuing our commitment to be able to run the largest enterprise applications, I am delighted to announce the general availability of large instances specifically designed for SAP HANA workloads. These purpose-built hardware configurations can run the largest SAP HANA workloads in the public cloud. They accommodate SAP HANA OLTP scenarios for up to 3 TB, and for large scale-out OLAP deployments for up to 32 TB of RAM.
• N-series – Earlier in August, we announced the preview release of our new GPU-powered N-series VM sizes. With both a visualization SKU and a compute-focused SKU, these VM sizes offer unparalleled performance for desktop graphical modeling/rendering and deep learning computational models.

More openness options

Azure is an open platform, deeply committed to leading open source support. Today, nearly one in three VMs deployed on Azure run Linux. The strong momentum for Linux and open source on Azure is driven by our ongoing innovation and demonstrated commitment. Customers like Johnson Controls and KPMG are using Azure for open source workloads and building modern application architectures, including containers and big data solutions. Two weeks ago, we released a preview of our microservices platform, Service Fabric on Linux, for creating highly scalable, cloud-native applications. Customers can now also provision Service Fabric clusters in Azure using Linux as the host OS and deploy Java applications in these clusters.

This week, we are expanding our open source support with further regional availability of Linux and open source solutions, including on-demand Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in Azure Government. We are also adding RHEL support for SAP applications (NetWeaver and HANA). We are committed to great experiences for developers and system admins and to meet customers where they are, from platform stacks to management tools.

New networking capabilities

Azure provides a rich set of networking features so you have the most performant network and diverse set of options for your applications. To that end, we are introducing several new capabilities today.

• IPv6 support - With the explosive growth of devices powered by Internet of Things (IoT), compliance regulations and the need for future proofing applications, the need for IPv6 has become more real than ever before. Today, we’re introducing support for IPv6 for applications within virtual machines on Azure.
• Azure DNS - We introduced Azure DNS to provide you the speed, reliability, and convenience of having your DNS services hosted close to your applications and cloud infrastructure. We are excited to make this networking service generally available today.
• Accelerated Networking – As applications demand faster performance than ever before, we are previewing the ability for VMs to tap into incredible network performance (up to 25 Gbps). Powered by FPGAs, the network throughput and low latency offered by this capability is unparalleled in the public cloud today.
• Web Application Firewall (WAF) – With the addition of WAF capabilities to the Application Gateway service, we’re significantly enhancing your ability to manage application security.
• New Virtual Network capabilities like peering, active-active VPN gateways and a new ultra-performance gateway for ExpressRoute, all significantly improve the way in which you define network topologies and connect different network environments in powerful ways.

Hybrid cloud enablement

Over 80% of enterprises today have a hybrid cloud strategy – this is the real world for organizations. With decades of experience partnering closely with enterprises, we understand the importance of true hybrid that provides a consistent and comprehensive approach for your entire IT estate. Today, we announced the next step in delivering the power of Azure in your datacenter with the release of Azure Stack Technical Preview 2, bringing more proven cloud innovation such as the Azure Marketplace and security capabilities like Key Vault directly to your datacenter.

We are also bringing cloud-first innovation to your on-premises datacenters and other clouds with General Availability of Service Fabric for Windows Server. With this release, we enable microservice-based Service Fabric applications to have portability and flexibility. This standalone offering provides you a runtime that can be installed on Windows Server on-premises or even in other clouds.

Many of our customers turn to Azure for backup and disaster recovery across the enterprise. In addition to Azure integration with offerings from our rich storage partner ecosystem, we now have the Azure StorSimple Virtual Array for remote and branch offices and the existing Azure StorSimple 8000 series hybrid cloud storage offerings for the datacenter. We are also providing data transformation services that make data backed up using StorSimple available in native Azure formats like blobs and disks. This makes it easy for customers to address business needs with services such as Media Services, Search, Analytics and even custom applications.

New Azure SQL database enhancement

We are announcing general availability of Temporal Tables feature of Azure SQL Database. Temporal Tables are designed to improve your productivity when you develop applications. It lets you focus data analysis on a specific point in time and use a declarative cleanup policy to control retention of historical data. It also enables you to track the full history of data changes in Azure SQL DB, without custom coding.

Securing infrastructure

Security is a primary adoption concern for customers embracing the cloud. We know that staying ahead of sophisticated and ever-evolving cyber threats is a challenging and an ongoing process. We can firmly say that trust and security are cornerstones of the Azure platform. We have the largest compliance portfolio and with it, organizations in even highly regulated industries like Financial Services can use Azure; nearly 85 percent of the world’s largest banks are Azure customers. We are investing heavily in building a cloud that you can trust and today we are announcing key enhancements that further bolster the security of our platform.

Compliance portfolio expansion

We are further strengthening our robust compliance portfolio with these new additions.

• ISO 22301 Certification - Azure is the only hyper scale cloud service provider to receive a formal certification for business continuity management, demonstrating comprehensive internal guidelines for the prevention, response, and recovery from disruptive incidents.
• EU-US Privacy Shield Framework - Microsoft is also the first cloud vendor to get certified under the new EU-US Privacy Shield Framework for the protection of personal data of EU citizens and is the latest example of the company’s commitment to privacy.
• IT-Grundschutz Workbook - Azure has also made available a new security and compliance workbook, IT-Grundschutz, for Azure for who are subject to the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) information protection standards.

Azure Security Center enhancements

We continue to enhance Azure Security Center, offering unmatched security monitoring and management for your cloud resources, since its general availability earlier this year.

• Using Security Center, customers benefit from ongoing security research resulting in new analytics released today that are designed to detect insider threats, attempts to persist within a compromised system, and use of compromised systems to mount additional attacks, such as DDoS and Brute Force.
• Security Incidents, currently available in preview, have been enriched to correlate alerts from different sources, including alerts from connected partner solutions.
• Threat attribute reports are now built-in to provide valuable information about attackers, which can be used to remediate threats more quickly.
• Security Center also released support for integrated vulnerability assessment from partners like Qualys, along with security assessment of Web Apps and Storage accounts.

Azure Key Vault support for certificates

To better secure your cloud resources and data, Azure Key Vault now extends support for certificates helping simplify tasks associated with SSL/TLS certificates. This service helps customers enroll and automatically renew certificates from supported 3rd party Certificate Authorities while providing auditing trails within the same environment. Aligning with our approach to work with industry partners, the following Certificate Authorities are supported at GA: Digicert, Globalsign and WoSign.

General Availability of Encryption Services

With the general availability of following encryption services, we help customers protect and safeguard their data and meet their organizational security and compliance requirements.

• With the availability of Azure Disk Encryption for both Windows and Linux Standard VMs, customers can protect and safeguard their OS disk and data disks at REST using industry standard encryption technology.
• Two weeks ago, we announced the general availability of Storage service encryption for Azure Blob Storage. For accounts that have encryption enabled, data will be encrypted using Microsoft managed keys using the industry leading Encryption algorithm, 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256).

Management from the cloud

Cloud intelligence and cloud scale, gives you new options when it comes to management. As you take advantage of the agility of Azure, you need to closely monitor and analyze the utilization and performance of your Azure resources. Today, we announced the preview of Azure Monitor, which provides better insights by enabling you to collect performance and utilization data, activity and diagnostics logs, and notifications from your Azure resources. With workloads on-premises, in Azure or spanning both, you need a unified view and the tools to drill down deep when required. Delivered from Azure, Operations Management Suite gives you a comprehensive hybrid cloud management platform. With Azure Monitor and Operations Management Suite Insight & Analytics, all data from your workloads and applications in Azure, on-premises, in AWS, and on VMware is now at your fingertips.

Empowering the IT cloud journey

While we’re committed to continuous innovation to deliver the world leading cloud platform, staying abreast of rapidly changing technologies can be difficult. Microsoft is therefore providing free resources to help IT Professionals through your cloud career journey, from planning your career path to getting started with Azure to hands-on practice with the latest cloud technology.

• Microsoft IT Pro Cloud Essentials program will help you get started with $300 Azure credits, a free support incident, free Pluralsight courses and certification discounts. Today we are expanding availability of the Microsoft IT Pro Cloud Essentials and IT Pro Career Center programs to 25 languages.
• Microsoft IT Pro Career Center can help you navigate the skills needed to transition to a cloud role. 
• Microsoft Tech Community provides a modern digital community where you can ask questions, exchange ideas, and build connections with Microsoft Valued Professionals (MVPs), Microsoft engineers and peers.  Finally, to stay current with the latest Microsoft cloud technologies subscribe to the Microsoft Mechanics YouTube channel for weekly IT focused videos.

I strongly believe that these investments and innovations on Azure are contributing in a significant way to business transformation. I thank you for being a part of Azure’s incredible growth and am very interested in hearing your feedback on the new releases we have on Azure!

This week we are announcing several new Azure networking services and features to provide customers greater performance, higher availability, better security and more operational insights. We will continue to innovate to make it even easier and more seamless for customers to run their services in the public cloud. For an overview of all our exciting Azure Ignite announcements please see Jason Zander’s blog post.

Higher Performance

Azure has been developing Microsoft’s cloud scale data center infrastructure for over nine years.  Early on we realized that building network infrastructure for mega scale data centers and ever increasing data transfer rates required fundamental shifts in networking technology.  We have been working across the industry to promote and develop cutting edge networking solutions including Microsoft developed hardware solutions.

Today we are announcing break-through advancements to our entire global server fleet that will improve networking bandwidth performance 33% to 50%. This is achieved by utilizing hardware technologies such as NVGRE offload which harnesses the network processing capabilities of the hardware. Windows and Linux VMs will experience these performance improvements while returning valuable CPU cycles to the application. Our world-wide deployment will complete in 2016 and once completed we will update our VM Sizes table to reflect these new performance benefits.

To provide even more performance, we are very excited to announce the Public Preview of Accelerated Networking. Accelerated Networking provides up to 25Gbps of throughput and drastically reduces network latency up to10x! Applications will benefit from a new generation of hardware technologies including SR-IOV, allowing VMs to communicate directly to the hardware NIC completely bypassing the Hypervisor’s virtual switch. Along with higher bandwidths and lower latencies, applications will experience reduced jitter and improved Packets Per Second (PPS) performance. With Accelerated Networking, Azure SQL DB In-Memory OLTP transaction performance improved 1.5X.  Also with this preview, DS15v2 and D15v2 VM sizes provide up to 25Gbps of network throughput. More details on regional availability and a link to sign up for the preview are available at Accelerated Networking for a virtual machine.

In addition, Azure Storage users will benefit from substantially increased IOPS performance based on these advancements, combined with newly developed storage specific offloads. Hardware now efficiently performs data transfers up to the line rate of the NIC. The roll out for Storage will also complete in 2016.

We are announcing the general availability of Virtual Network Peering (VNet Peering). VNet Peering connects Virtual Networks (VNets) in the same region, enabling direct full mesh connectivity. VMs in the peered VNets communicate with each other as if they are part of the same VNet, thus benefiting from high bandwidth and low latency. Hub & Spoke topologies are supported with Transit Routing through gateways. The VNet without a gateway still has cross-premises connectivity via the gateway in the peered VNet. VNet Peering works across subscriptions allowing for simplified service management.

This allows consolidation of VPN gateways and network virtual appliances in the same region, simplifying management and reducing costs. User-Defined Routes (UDR) and Network Security Groups (NSGs) can manage fine grain control between the peered VNets. Vnet peering enables co-existence of “Classic” VNets and Azure Resource Manager VNets. This allows for incremental adoption to the Azure Resource Manager model.

Many enterprise customers use ExpressRoute to connect their private networks to Microsoft. ExpressRoute is supported by a large ecosystem of global telecom providers, cloud exchanges and service providers in over 35 locations. Today, we are introducing the UltraPerformance Gateway SKU for ExpressRoute that supports up to 10 Gbps throughput. This is a 5x improvement over the existing ExpressRoute HighPerformance gateway with a 99.95% availability SLA. With the UltraPerformance Gateway, customers can deploy even more networking intensive services and workloads into their virtual networks.

Cloud applications with demanding networking and massive real time data access requirements will greatly benefit from these new performance enhancements. We are ready for your workload.

IPv6

Azure now supports Native IPv6 network connectivity for applications and services hosted on Azure Virtual Machines. The demand for IPv6 has never been greater with the explosive growth in mobile devices, billions of Internet of Things (IOT) devices entering the market, along with new compliance regulations. IPv6 has been used by internal Microsoft services such as Office 365 for over three years. We are now offering this feature to all Azure customers. Native IPv6 connectivity to the virtual machine is available for both Windows and Linux VMs.

Higher Availability

Our new Active-Active Virtual Private Network (VPN) Gateway for the High-Performance VPN gateway SKU is recommended for production workloads. Availability requires a complete end to end perspective that includes the customer’s on-premises VPN devices and using different service providers to connect to the Active-Active VPN gateway. Each VPN gateway has two active instances. Customers can now implement dual redundancy for cross-premises VPN connections, increasing the availability of their VPN connections to their Azure VNets. All customers should consider adopting the new Active-Active VPN Gateway.
 

Our customers need more degrees of freedom for their Azure Load Balancer configurations. Today, we are making several announcements to increase design flexibility, enable new scenarios, and allow efficient resource consolidation.

We are announcing general availability of multiple VIPs on internal load balancers and new port reuse options across public and internal load balancers. In the following week, we will be previewing two additional abilities in specific regions: Multiple IP addresses on a Network Interface Card (NIC) and enabling all NICs on a VM to have a Public IP address on the NIC or through the load balancer. Check the service update page on the availability of these abilities.

Network Virtual Appliances (NVA) can now offer more flexible configurations. A firewall appliance can expose an Internet facing service on NIC 1 and an internal management service on NIC 2 using the same backend machines. In addition, an NVA can use a single NIC to host multiple services by securing individual private IP addresses per customer/service. Security can be further enhanced using NSG rules targeted at individual IP addresses.

Another use case is SQL AlwaysOn with Multiple Listeners which is now available in Preview. You can also host multiple availability groups on the same cluster and optimize the number of active replicas.  

Azure DNS

We are announcing the GA release of Azure DNS. Customers can now host domains in Azure DNS and manage DNS records using the same credentials, APIs, tools, billing and support as other Azure services.  Azure DNS also benefits from Azure Resource Manager’s enterprise-grade security features, enabling role-based access control and detailed audit logs. Azure DNS supports multiple record types including, A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SOA, SRV and TXT and comes with a 99.99% availability SLA.

Azure DNS uses a global network of name servers, providing exceptionally high availability, even in the event of a multi-region failure or network partitioning.  DNS queries are answered by the closest available DNS server for the fastest possible query performance.

With Azure DNS, IT Pros can manage DNS zones and records using either the Azure Portal, or through scripting using Azure PowerShell or the cross-platform Azure CLI. Developers can use the Azure DNS REST API or SDK to automate DNS record provisioning as part of their application workflows. In both cases, fast DNS record provisioning avoids the need to wait for new DNS records to propagate to the name servers. Customers can use the SDK to automate DNS record provisioning as part of their application workflows.

More Secure

Last year we introduced Application Gateway, an Application Delivery Controller (ADC) offering a Layer 7 load balancing as a service. This complements Azure Traffic Manager (DNS load balancer) for load balancing across geographical regions and Azure Load Balancer for layer 4 load balancing within a region (availability set). Over the past year we have enhanced Application Gateway to better address web application requirements. These capabilities include SSL termination, round robin load distribution, cookie based session affinity, URL path based routing, ability to host multiple web applications on the same load balancer, rich diagnostics with access and performance logs, WebSocket support, VM scale set support and the ability to define user configurable health probes.

In our continued effort to provide enhanced application security, Application Gateway now supports end to end SSL encryption and user configurable SSL policies. Customers can secure end to end communication from user requests to the backend using SSL/TLS, while taking advantage of routing rules set on the Application Gateway. The user’s SSL request is terminated at the gateway, which applies user configured routing rules and then re-encrypts the request before sending it to the backend. User configurable SSL policies allows the customer to selectively disable older SSL/TLS protocol versions thus further strengthening the security profile of the applications behind the Application Gateway.

To provide even more advanced security to protect web applications from common vulnerabilities like SQL injection or cross-site scripting attacks, we are announcing the public preview of Web Application Firewall (WAF) as part of the Application Gateway service.

Application Gateway WAF offers simplified manageability of application security and comes preconfigured with protection from the most prevalent web vulnerabilities as identified by Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) top 10 common vulnerabilities. Customers can run Application Gateway WAF in either protection or detection only mode. Application Gateway WAF also provides real time metrics and alert reporting to continuously monitor web application against exploits. Security rules customization and integration with the Azure Security Center will be available soon.

Network Monitoring and Diagnostics

As the cloud begins to mature it is important to offer not only the same networking performance but also the same level visibility and insights as on-premises solutions.  We are committed in continually enhancing our capabilities in monitoring and diagnostics, empowering you to more easily manage your networks.

In continuation of our earlier announced capabilities in monitoring and diagnostics –

• Network Security Group events and counters
• SLB resource exhaustion event and Probe health status
• Application Gateway performance and access logs
• Audit logs for all Networking resources

We are releasing a series of new capabilities.

Customers can view performance metrics for an Application Gateway on the Azure Portal.  The metrics requires no additional configuration. The current release supports continuous aggregated throughput statistics and additional metrics support will be available soon.

Customers can configure threshold based alerts on metrics to proactively monitor the network. An alert can send an email notification or invoke a web hook that can integrate with 3rd party messaging services.

ExpressRoute users can get operational insights into routing configurations and network peering statistics.

Improved diagnostics for Network Security Groups (NSGs) and Routes enable you to better diagnose complex network connectivity problems.  Effective Routes provide an aggregated view of user-defined routes (UDRs), system and BGP routes that impact a VM’s network traffic flow

The ability to easily verify the correctness of network security settings is critical. The effective security rules view offers a comprehensive yet a simplified and intuitive way to understand the security rules as configured on a VM/NIC.

You can expect a lot more capabilities in the coming months.

Looking forward

The cloud is ever evolving and customers are deploying more demanding and complex workloads. This evolution means our mission and commitment is not an end-point but a journey.  We hope you spend time exploring the new services, features and capabilities and provide your valuable feedback as we continue to create, enhance, and deploy new networking technologies to meet your needs.

Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of Azure DNS. As a global service, it is available for use in all public Azure regions.

We announced the Public Preview of Azure DNS at the Ignite conference in May of last year. Since then the service has been used by thousands of customers, whose valuable feedback has helped drive engineering improvements and to mature the service.

With this announcement, Azure DNS can now be used for production workloads. It is supported via Azure Support, and is backed by a 99.99% availability SLA.

As with other Azure services, Azure DNS offers usage-based billing with no up-front or termination fees. Azure DNS pricing is based on the number of hosted DNS zones and the number of DNS queries received (in millions). General availability pricing applies from 1 Nov 2016, until that time the Preview pricing discount of 50% continues to apply.

Key Features and Benefits

Azure DNS enables you to host your DNS domains and manage your DNS records in Azure.

Hosting and managing your DNS in Azure provides the following benefits:

• Reliability – Azure DNS has the scale and redundancy built-in to ensure high availability for your domains—and is backed by our 99.99% uptime SLA. As a global service, Azure DNS is resilient to multiple Azure region failures and network partitioning for both its control plane and DNS serving plane.
• Performance – Our global network of name servers uses ‘anycast’ networking to ensure your DNS queries are always routed to the closest server for the fastest possible response.
• Ease of use – Your DNS zones and records in Azure DNS can easily be managed via the Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, or cross-platform Azure CLI. Application integration is supported via our SDK or REST API.
• Security – Azure DNS benefits from the same authentication and authorization features as other Azure services, including the ability to configure multi-factor authentication and role-based access controls.
• Convenience – Hosting your DNS in Azure enables you to manage your Azure applications and their DNS records in one place, using a single set of credentials, with a single bill and with end-to-end support.

Key features of Azure DNS include:

• All common DNS record types—Azure DNS supports all of the DNS record types most commonly used in customer domains: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SOA, SRV and TXT.  (SPF records are supported via the TXT record type, as per the DNS RFCs.)
• Easy migration – Migrating your existing domain hosting to Azure DNS is quick and easy using our zone file import feature, which enables existing DNS zones to be imported into Azure DNS in a single command. This feature is available via Azure CLI on Windows, Mac and Linux.
• Fast record propagation – When you create a new DNS record in Azure DNS, that record is available at our name servers in just a few seconds. You can verify name resolution and move on to your next task without having to wait.
• Record-level access control – As you would expect, Azure Resource Manager’s role-based access controls can be applied to restrict which users and groups are able to manage each DNS domain. In addition, these permissions can be applied on individual DNS record sets. This is particularly useful for large enterprises, in which shared zones are common, enabling different teams to self-manage their own DNS records without having access to records owned by other teams.

Third-Party Support

Men & Mice is a leading supplier of DNS, DHCP and IPAM (DDI) software solutions for enterprise networks operating on diverse and distributed platforms. Deployed on top of existing network infrastructure, the Men & Mice Suite consolidates hybrid environments and offers comprehensive tools for managing large portfolios of DNS domains and IP address blocks, via a powerful user interface or via the robust Men & Mice APIs.

The Men & Mice team has been working with the Azure DNS team during the Azure DNS Preview to implement full support for Azure DNS in the Men & Mice Suite. This combination offers customers with large domain portfolios the flexibility and power of the Men & Mice Suite for large-scale DNS management together with the low cost, convenience, availability and performance of hosting their domains in Azure DNS.

Magnus E. Bjornsson, CEO of Men & Mice, says: “We are proud partners of Microsoft and embrace the opportunity to join forces with this leader in the field of IT. Our mutual collaboration enhances the value of the open and adaptable Men & Mice Suite to our customers. We look forward to continuing the development of third-party support products in close cooperation with Microsoft.”

Many of you have asked us about how we plan and prepare in Azure so that you can learn from our best practices as well as have the peace of mind that your applications, and data, are safe and available in Azure. Today we are pleased to announce that Microsoft Azure has achieved ISO 22301 certification. Microsoft is the first hyper-scale cloud provider to achieve this important certification that ensures your Azure applications are backed by the highest standard for business continuity and disaster preparedness.

For years, we’ve heard from organizations about the importance of disaster preparedness and continuous improvement in their operations to ensure their IT systems can survive, and be restored, in the aftermath of major incidents (such as natural disasters, power outages, or cyber-attacks). As of today, we are the only major cloud provider to prove our commitment of being fully prepared for all eventualities through this internationally recognized standard for business continuity, ISO 22301. Our ISO 22301 certification is applicable across both our Azure public and Azure Government clouds. 

What does Azure achieving ISO 22301 provide? It gives you the assurance that you can trust Microsoft Azure with your mission critical applications by providing an extensive independent 3rd party audit of all aspects of Azure’s business continuity. This includes the following:

• how backups are validated
• how recovery is tested
• the competency/training of critical staff
• the level of resources available
• buy-in by senior management
• how risks are assessed/mitigated
• adherence to legal/regularly requirements
• the process for response to incidents
• the process for learning from incidents

Being prepared for whatever happens is not easy, but it’s something that we in Azure take seriously. We test at all levels of our infrastructure to ensure that every day we are working to improve the cloud experience for you. We do tests as small as fault injections at the individual service layer, all the way up to entire region fail-over tests. We’ve been doing these tests for years and this work has helped us continuously improve the Azure infrastructure and services you use every day. ISO 22301 reviews and validates that we are selecting the right tests of our cloud services, that we’ve created programs to continuously run those tests, and that we implement improvements based on those test results.

Achieving the ISO 22301 certification demonstrates the seriousness of our commitment to providing you the highest quality of service, and our achievement of this rigorous third party attestation is part of our promise to provide you the most robust infrastructure possible for deploying your applications in the cloud. To learn more about Microsoft Azure’s ISO 22301 certification and download a copy of the certification, please visit https://aka.ms/iso22301cert.

Im Zuge der heutigen Ignite-Konferenz hat Microsoft vor allem über die eigenen Dienste gesprochen, die man an Unternehmenskunden richtet. Neben den eigenen Cloud-Diensten ging es auch um Office 365.

Microsoft hat während der eigenen Präsentation verlauten lassen, dass bereits 70 Millionen Abonnenten die Produktivitätssoftware für Unternehmen nutzen.

Was Office 365 für Endkunden betrifft, so gibt es von Microsoft noch keine aktualisierten zahlen. Zuletzt hatte man zu Ende des Fiskaljahrs FY16 angekündigt, dass 23,1 Millionen Privatkunden ein Office 365 Abo abgeschlossen haben. Der Umsatz mit Office 365 stieg damals im Vergleich zum Quartal davor.

Microsoft hatte im März zuletzt Zahlen zu den Unternehmenskunden veröffentlicht. Damals waren es noch 60 Millionen Kunden, die im Unternehmen auf Office 365 setzten.

Der Beitrag 70 Millionen Unternehmenskunden verwenden bereits Office 365 erschien zuerst auf WindowsArea.de.

On July 21st 2014 the Russian Defence Ministry presented their evidence relating to the downing of Flight MH17 on July 17th 2014. Bellingcat has previously examined the claims made in this press conference in great detail, demonstrating how all the major claims made in the press conference were false, from claims about satellite imagery to claims about the movements of Buk missile launchers.

Today, the Russian Defence Ministry produced fresh radar data, supposedly previously misplaced, that showed the situation above Ukraine on July 17th 2014. In this presentation MH17 was identified and tracked from 13:04 onwards:

On July 21st 2014 the Russian Defence Ministry produced the following graphic, claiming the following: “Besides it, Russian system of air control detected the Ukrainian Air Force aircraft, purposed Su-25, moving upwards toward to the Malaysian Boeing-777. The distance between aircrafts was 3-5 kilometers.”

They would also go on to claim that shortly after MH17 began to break up an object appeared on radar that they identified as an aircraft close to MH17.

In today’s press conference the story had changed completely. No longer was the Russian Defence Ministry talking about SU-25s, but now there was in fact no other aircraft, or any other object close to MH17. Now we have the Russian Defence Ministry themselves confirming Bellingcat’s earlier work that demonstrated they had produced false evidence at their July 21st 2014 MH17 press conference.

In addition to this, during today’s press conference the radar data showed the flight path of MH17 in the time before it was shot down:

This flight path clearly contradicts the Russian Defence Ministry’s July 21st 2014 claims, debunked by Bellingcat and others, that MH17 had made a significant course change shortly before being shot down:

It’s now clear that on July 21st 2014, only a few days after 298 were killed in Ukraine, the Russian Defence Ministry presented to the world a series of clearly fabricated evidence and claims, and even the Russian Defence Ministry’s own evidence proves that is the case.

 

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We’re pleased to introduce Microsoft StaffHub—the go-to app for deskless workers to manage their life at work. With Microsoft StaffHub, it’s easy to create and manage shift schedules for your team and provide relevant information needed for the job. For deskless workers, their work schedule, and other important information, is right at their fingertips—on their mobile device. Starting today, Microsoft StaffHub is available in public preview for Office 365 customers. Learn more at staffhub.ms.

Deskless workers—the unsung heroes

There are hundreds of millions of deskless workers around the world working in hotels, restaurants, retail stores, on construction sites and in manufacturing and other service-related industries. These team members are often the public face of the company—interacting with customers and making things happen. While critical to the company, deskless workers typically don’t have a dedicated work space or computer. This makes it difficult to get the information they need for their job. Microsoft StaffHub makes this all easier.

Easily create and manage shift schedules for your team

For many deskless workers, it starts with being at work on the right day and time. However, for managers, creating, distributing and maintaining up-to-date schedule information can be difficult and time consuming. Microsoft StaffHub allows managers to quickly create, update and manage shift schedules for their team members—using a simple and intuitive interface.

Managers can easily see their team’s schedule, create new shifts and change existing shifts. Shifts can be color-coded for easy identification.

You can add a shift for an employee at any time by clicking a cell and entering the shift details. Since shift schedules sometimes remain similar over time, you can copy over the entire schedule from the previous week, giving you a starting point. You can also copy just a range of shifts and paste it in for another worker. When you are ready to share the schedule, just click or tap Publish and the schedule, updates and notes are automatically pushed to your team in the Microsoft StaffHub app, so everybody always has up-to-date information.

Team members can quickly view their schedule and request changes

Workers have access to all their schedule information right on their mobile app—no more having to go into the breakroom at work to look at the bulletin board. The home screen provides a summary of upcoming shifts as well as any important notes for the day. You can also see who else is on the schedule, which is useful if you want to know who you’ll be working with or if you want to swap shifts.

See your upcoming shifts at a glance and review shift details, such as important notes for the day.

Schedule conflicts come up occasionally—Microsoft StaffHub makes it easy for workers to swap a shift or offer their shift to someone else. Requests are always routed to a manager for approval, and updates are automatically pushed out to the involved team members.

Workers can easily request to swap a shift or offer a shift to someone else, and managers stay in control by reviewing and approving all requests.

Enables deskless workers to stay connected to the information they need

Deskless workers often don’t have their own company email or access to internal sites. This makes it hard for managers to distribute important information—such as policy manuals, handbooks or training materials. With Microsoft StaffHub, it takes just a few clicks for managers to select and share files with their workers. For employees, the content shows up directly in the mobile app. Deskless workers can also send quick messages to each other such as “Let’s grab lunch today” or “VIP guest is arriving in 20 minutes” by tapping a coworker’s contact icon and typing a note.

Managers select the content they want to distribute to their team; deskless workers view the files in the mobile app.

How to get the Microsoft StaffHub Preview

Microsoft StaffHub is now available in public preview on the web, iOS and Android. Visit staffhub.ms to learn more.

Frequently asked questions

Q. Who has access to the public preview?

A. Customers need to visit staffhub.ms and request a promo code for a Microsoft StaffHub Public Preview license. Customers must also have one of the following Office 365 plans: K1, E1, E3 or E5. Public preview customers can download the mobile app on Google Play and iTunes.

Q. What’s currently available in the public preview?

A. Microsoft StaffHub is currently available in public preview on the web, iOS and Android. During the public preview, Microsoft StaffHub is available in the following languages: Chinese-Simplified, English (U.S.), Spanish, Russian, Japanese, French, Brazilian-Portuguese, German, Korean, Italian, Chinese-Traditional, Dutch, Turkish, Swedish.

Q. Does each team member need to have an Office 365 account for the Microsoft StaffHub Public Preview?

A. Yes, each deskless worker and manager using Microsoft StaffHub must have an Office 365 account.

Q. Are there major differences between the iOS and Android public preview apps?

A. The core functionality is the same between iOS and Android.

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

Last May, we unveiled a cloud-first, mobile-first vision and roadmap for SharePoint and OneDrive to empower people, teams and organizations to intelligently discover, share and collaborate on content from anywhere and on any device.

We promised to make file sharing both simple and powerful, to establish the mobile and intelligent intranet, to accelerate productivity with experiences that surface relevant, high-value information in the context of your work. We promised our developers an open and connected platform that embraces modern web development and open standards. And we promised IT an ongoing commitment to security, privacy and compliance.

Over the last weeks and months, we have been delivering on those promises to you. We built a new home for SharePoint in Office 365. We modernized team sites, document libraries, lists and pages to be simple and intuitive—without sacrificing powerful capabilities. We brought SharePoint team sites to all Office 365 groups. We expanded the OneDrive mobile apps so you can work with all your files in Office 365 and discover relevant content with intelligent recommendations surfaced by Microsoft Graph. We integrated Microsoft Flow with SharePoint lists so you can automate business processes and connect lists with other data sources and services. We also brought PowerApps into lists so you can rapidly create applications that mobilize your SharePoint data. We released the preview of the SharePoint Framework and webhooks for developers. And we released SharePoint Server 2016 to general availability, as a foundation for the future that connects on premises customers to cloud innovations through hybrid experiences and capabilities.

It was a busy summer for our team, who was inspired by the overwhelming response of our community—which includes hundreds of millions of users in more than 200,000 organizations, a million developers and a $10 billion ecosystem of more than 50,000 partners. Your passionate support for our vision and for each new feature or capability we released has been inspiring.

Today at Microsoft Ignite, we announced the next wave of innovations. Here are some of the highlights:

• A significant update to the OneDrive browser experience, so that you can find, access, share and collaborate on all your files in Office 365.
• OneDrive sync preview for SharePoint Online document libraries and folders shared with you.
• Team news to keep your team up to date and informed of what matters.
• People cards in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business that intelligently surface content and details from your colleagues’ profiles.
• New integration with Microsoft Flow, PowerApps and Yammer.
• Preview of the SharePoint mobile apps for Windows 10 Mobile and Android.
• Enhancements for developers including new sites and lists APIs in Microsoft Graph.
• New security controls including site classification and conditional access based on location and device.
• Feature Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2016.
• Expanded FastTrack services and tools to support hybrid configurations and migration.

Below is an overview of these innovative experiences and capabilities, with links to more details.

Simple, powerful file sharing

File sharing is core to most team work, and it’s now brilliantly simple when you share files from your OneDrive for Business or save team files in your SharePoint team site. And now, all Office 365 groups have a SharePoint team site. So, whether you save your files to a SharePoint document library, upload a file to a group in Outlook or share a file in a Yammer conversation, you can leverage SharePoint to organize and manage the files you and your team rely on.

Chances are you work on many teams and many projects, so we’ve enhanced OneDrive—in the browser and on your mobile device—to deliver a unified view of all your Office 365 files, in your individual OneDrive for Business and in all your sites and groups, as well as files that other users have shared with you.

OneDrive gives you access to all your files in Office 365, including SharePoint sites and Office 365 groups.

The new Discover view in OneDrive on the web, surfaces relevant files with intelligent recommendations by Microsoft Graph, so instead of you finding files, the files find you. OneDrive also gives insight into the activity, reach and impact of your files.

And because we know you want to be able to work when you’re on the go, we added SharePoint sync to OneDrive for PC and Mac. In preview now, this new feature of OneDrive sync gives you superior levels of reliability, performance and control for syncing all your Office 365 files. You can now take files offline from OneDrive for Business, SharePoint sites, Outlook and Yammer groups, as well as folders shared with you by others.

Finally, we announced support for a massive 25 TB of storage per site or group—so there’s almost no limit to what you can do with files in Office 365.

That’s not all that we announced at Ignite. To learn more about what’s new for OneDrive for users and IT, read “Major OneDrive updates at Ignite 2016 include SharePoint Online sync preview.”

The mobile, intelligent intranet—people experiences, team news and powerful integration

For fifteen years, hundreds of millions of customers around the world have relied on SharePoint to build rich intranets that connect people, content and processes across collaborative team sites, departmental and organizational portals and custom business applications.

The most important part of a team or organization is its people. It’s not only what you know, it’s who you know. And who you can discover and what they know is what matters. People cards—now in SharePoint document libraries and OneDrive—surface details about the people you work with and the content they work on, so you can connect with expertise and discover new resources.

People cards bring profile information, organizational relationships and content from your colleagues right into the context of your work in SharePoint or in OneDrive for Business.

To learn more about other new people experiences, read “Connect to expertise and content with new people experiences in context throughout Office 365.”

An Office 365 group defines a team of people and gives them access to shared content and to the collaborative resources of the group—such as a calendar, a OneNote notebook, a Plan to manage tasks, conversations powered by Outlook or Yammer. Now, a SharePoint team site to connect team members with the content and apps they need.

Teams also need to stay on the same page, and today the SharePoint home page provides team news—modern pages to keep your team up to date and in the know. SharePoint pages have rich support for multimedia and tight integration with Yammer, can be extended with custom web parts, and are mobile by default. Team news articles are featured at the top of the team site home page. And the SharePoint mobile app’s News tab pulls together news from all your team sites and groups.

The team site home page in the browser and in the SharePoint mobile app features team news, so your team can stay informed about what’s new and what’s important.

News articles offer a great reading experience in SharePoint mobile.	News can contain multimedia and embedded files, and it’s all mobile by default.	The News tab, now on iOS, aggregates news from across your team sites for a holistic look at what’s going on in your teams.

You can collect, manage or collaborate on data with SharePoint lists. You’ll find the modern experience makes it easy in the browser and in the SharePoint mobile app. But the powerful capabilities you need are still there. And tighter integration with Microsoft Flow and PowerApps enables new options for automating business processes, integrating with external data sources and rapidly developing mobile-ready applications with SharePoint lists.

There’s a lot more that we’re announcing today, including the preview of the SharePoint mobile apps for Windows 10 Mobile and Android. To learn more about what’s new for the mobile, intelligent intranet, read “Enriching the mobile and intelligent intranet with team news, apps for Android and Windows and more.”

An open and connected platform

SharePoint’s success is in no small part due to its rich ecosystem of partners who develop sophisticated applications to address myriad business scenarios. The SharePoint Framework, now in public preview, allows developers to extend SharePoint and build mobile-ready web parts, pages and applications using modern and open frameworks. Webhooks help developers stay up to date with changes in lists and document libraries. Microsoft Graph enables access to SharePoint sites and lists from any device or service. We celebrate, embrace and empower the innovation of our extended community of SharePoint developers. Over the coming months, we will work to expand the SharePoint Framework into app and team site extensibility scenarios, and improve SharePoint add-in capabilities.

To learn more about the SharePoint Framework and other SharePoint development topics, visit dev.office.com/sharepoint.

Security, privacy and compliance

We are also delivering to our IT professionals the controls they need to govern, to manage, to secure and to ensure compliance of their SharePoint service. And in Office 365, we continue to drive the fastest innovation, with site-level information classification and conditional access policies that manage content access dynamically, based on a user’s location or device. Site classification allows you to categorize sites to identify the sensitivity of information in the site, so your users are reminded to follow information policies.

To learn more about today’s announcements regarding SharePoint security, read “Enhanced conditional access controls, encryption controls and site classification in SharePoint and OneDrive.”

SharePoint Server 2016 Feature Pack 1

While we’ve been innovating first, fast and foremost in Office 365, we promised to deliver cloud-born innovations to SharePoint Server 2016. The November Public Update for SharePoint Server 2016 brings Feature Pack 1, with features for developers, IT professionals and end users.

Feature Pack 1 introduces auditing for administrative activities performed in Central Administration and Windows PowerShell and new deployment options for smaller farms to MinRole. For hybrid customers, Feature Pack 1 delivers unified taxonomy to support a single information architecture across SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server, and comprehensive, unified auditing in the Office 365 Reports Center.

Feature Pack 1 also brings the first updates to the user experience in SharePoint Server 2016, including an update to OneDrive for Business and custom tiles in the App Launcher.

There’s more in Feature Pack 1, and there’s more to come in 2017. To learn more, read “Announcing Feature Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2016—cloud-born and future-proof.”

Expanding FastTrack services

We remain committed to helping our on-premises SharePoint customers move to Office 365 smoothly and with confidence. Today, we’re announcing the expansion of Microsoft FastTrack, with services to migrate from SharePoint Server 2013 to Office 365, and for hybrid configuration. In addition, file migration services from network files shares, Google Drive and Box are available as a no cost benefit for customers with 150+ eligible seats. In addition, we are also releasing a free migration assessment tool for SharePoint Server 2013, empowering our customers to start their own migration planning or do so with the help of Microsoft FastTrack.

To learn more about FastTrack and the related announcements made at Ignite today, visit fasttrack.office.com.

The future is here

For over a decade, our customers—including Booz Allen Hamilton, Coles and Marks and Spencer—have relied on SharePoint to power teamwork, to automate business processes, to create business applications and to build company-wide intranets. As a core part of Office 365, SharePoint provides content management and collaboration capabilities that are seamlessly integrated with the other applications people use every day to create and co-author documents, meet and work with their teams, brainstorm, analyze and make decisions. SharePoint is also integrated with the powerful cross-suite capabilities of Office 365, such as Office 365 Groups, Microsoft Graph and governance controls for security, privacy and compliance.

We strive to meet your challenges as you transform your business and stretch the possibilities of collaboration. Welcome to the future of SharePoint. And there is so much more to come! Join us at Ignite, follow us on Twitter and on Office Blogs, and be part of the conversation in the SharePoint space in the Microsoft Technical Community.

—Jeff Teper

Additional resources

Here’s a quick guide to what we’ve done between May and mid-September:

• We put simple and powerful file sharing at the center of collaboration, throughout Office 365.
• We established the foundation for a modern, mobile and intelligent intranet.
• We enabled you to take your intranet in your pocket with the SharePoint mobile app.
• We updated the experience of libraries, lists, pages and the Sites Content page.
• We delivered an updated team site experience for Office 365 Groups.
• We empowered you to create business solutions using innovative, rapid application development tools to connect with data sources and automate business processes.
• We announced the SharePoint Framework, so you can customize and extend SharePoint using the same modern, open frameworks we use to build our experiences. The SharePoint Framework is now in preview, as are SharePoint webhooks.
• We deployed innovative new features and controls, so you can govern, secure and manage your content and your service.
• We released SharePoint Server 2016 as a foundation for the future, as you evolve your on-premises and hybrid SharePoint environments.

And here are the blogs that contain the details of our announcements at Microsoft Ignite:

• SharePoint sync preview headlines Ignite announcements for OneDrive
• Enriching the mobile and intelligent intranet with team news, apps for Android and Windows and more
• Connect in context to expertise and content with new people experiences in Office 365
• Enhanced conditional access controls, encryption controls and site classification in SharePoint and OneDrive
• Announcing Feature Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2016—cloud-born and future-proof

The “Future of SharePoint” is captured in this video:

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Over the past year, Office has gained incredible momentum, with people around the world using our apps and services in the cloud and on all devices to be more productive wherever they go. Along with this period of usage growth, Office has also grown tremendously as a platform. For example, the share of users connecting third-party apps and services to Office 365 has quadrupled over the last 12 months. This is a testament to the fact that—as useful as Office is on its own—we can help people be even more productive by partnering with developers to build solutions tailored to our customers’ business needs.

At Ignite this week, we are announcing the next set of Office platform functionality, giving developers the tools they need to build even more compelling productivity applications with the Office platform.

You’ll find a brief summary of the news below, and you can read through our full set of announcements at dev.office.com/blogs/ignite-2016.

Web and device apps—build smarter apps by connecting to Office services through Microsoft Graph

Microsoft Graph is our unified API for accessing data and intelligence in the Microsoft cloud. Developers can connect to the context and insights in Microsoft Graph to make their standalone web and device applications smarter and more productive.

We launched Microsoft Graph almost a year ago, and it has grown dramatically since then—both in terms of usage and capabilities. Microsoft Graph is now used in tens of thousands of first- and third-party applications and is used by millions of people every day.

At Ignite this year, we expanded the Graph beyond pure cloud to hybrid environments, added a collection of new APIs like SharePoint sites and lists and made it easier to call from a variety of platforms through a broader set of SDKs.

Add-ins and web parts—make your solution a native part of the modern Office

Extending Office apps with custom experiences is one of the original Office extensibility scenarios and is still one of the most popular. We want to make sure that you can build the same rich extensions to Office experiences in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and SharePoint that you could build with technologies like Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO), COM and full-trust code. But we want to do it with the best and latest web technologies, and we want it to work everywhere modern Office runs.

Many of our Ignite announcements are steps toward that goal. We expanded the set of apps that support these new models with the SharePoint Framework and OneNote add-ins, and we expanded the set of platforms where they run by adding Outlook add-in support to the Mac. We also enabled a wider variety of UX integration points, exposed a deeper set of functionality through our APIs and enabled new methods for managing and distributing these extensions.

Voice, video, connectors and bots—create the next generation of productivity experiences

At Build this year, Qi Lu talked about an emerging new platform based on natural language and conversations augmented with custom services. At Ignite, we are making several announcements about the new types of productivity experiences you can build with Office.

No user interface is as natural as natural language, and magically productive things happen when you can connect someone to another person or a service through smart conversations, bots and agents. We’ve expanded Connector support to users’ personal inboxes, enabled capabilities that make email and messages more actionable and continued to improve our capabilities for embedding voice and video powered by Skype for Business in custom applications.

Start building!

As always, your starting point for all things related to the Office platform is dev.office.com. Find everything you need to get started with all of today’s announcements there. If you’re here with us at Ignite, come see detailed sessions on many of these announcements and visit us at the Office Developer booth to ask questions from Office extensibility engineers. Watch for future updates on Twitter via @OfficeDev and provide your ideas and feedback on UserVoice.

Happy coding!

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The intranet is the publishing center of all things happening throughout your company. It is where people keep up with news and discover what’s happening around them at work. It’s time, now, to further empower employees—more precisely, give them a way to broadcast their work.

Today at Ignite, we are pleased to announce the newest waves of innovations to your mobile and intelligent intranet, powered by SharePoint, including:

• Team news for SharePoint Online modern team sites (announced today).
• SharePoint mobile apps for Android and Windows 10 Mobile (in preview today).
• News roll-up tab within the SharePoint mobile app for iOS (announced today).
• Create a modern team site and an associated Office 365 group from the SharePoint home (announced today).
• New people experiences within SharePoint Online team sites, document libraries and lists, and OneDrive for Business (rolling out now).

Below is a summary—along with links to additional resources—of these innovations.

Keep the team informed and up-to-date with team news

Team news is how you keep up with and broadcast key events and accomplishments with other members of the team and extended stakeholders. You can use team news for things like trip reports, best practices, project updates, highlights of new documents and content, welcoming a new team member, sharing team goals and celebrating milestones.

To add a news item, from within the News web part on the team site home page, click + Add to create a news article. Next, add content to the news post using the toolbox—a gallery of web parts—to add text, video, documents, quick links and more. When you’re finished, click Publish and the news article will be featured prominently on the team site home page within the News web part. And when you click See All, you’ll land on a dedicated News page that serves as the team’s news archive.

Below shows how a team site with all the news—front and center—is displayed in the SharePoint mobile app:

Team news in the SharePoint app.	News articles render beautifully in the SharePoint app.

Team news is a great way to broadcast of all the important content from your team. In the future, you will receive mobile and email notifications to help keep you up to date.

SharePoint mobile app previews come to Android and Windows 10 Mobile

In June 2016, we released the first version of the SharePoint mobile app for iOS—your intranet in your pocket. Today, we are filling more pockets by introducing the SharePoint mobile app for both Android and Windows 10 Mobile previews.

The SharePoint mobile app helps keep your work moving forward by providing quick access to your team sites, organizational portals and the people you work with throughout Office 365 by letting you search for content and people across your organization. We leverage the Microsoft Graph to power several of the in-app experiences, providing you relevant information to get to the content and people you work with most frequently.

Android: Main Sites tab showing Frequent and Followed sites.	Android: Team site showing site activity, files, lists and the full site navigation.

Windows 10 Mobile: Main Sites tab showing Frequent and Followed sites.	Windows 10 Mobile: team site showing site activity, files, lists and the full site navigation.

You can use the SharePoint mobile app to:

• Navigate from Sites to team sites you follow or frequently visit.
• Navigate from Links to important sites configured by your organization.
• Catch up on what’s happened with the Activity view, which shows recent file activity in your team site.
• Open your document libraries with the OneDrive app and then edit your files using Office mobile apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
• Learn more about people you work with and discover what they are working on.
• Perform an enterprise-wide search to find sites, files and people throughout your organization.
• Android first: you’ll be able to launch a PowerApp from a team site directly in the SharePoint mobile app.

Learn more about SharePoint mobile app for Android and the SharePoint mobile app for Windows 10 Mobile.

Catch up with all your team’s news in the SharePoint app on iOS

If you use the SharePoint app on iOS, you get the first look at the mobile experience of team news. When you tap the News tab, you will see a list of aggregated news using the intelligence of the Microsoft Graph from the sites you work in, the sites you follow and the sites your colleagues work in. SharePoint mobile on iOS gives you one place to catch up on the news from across your intranet. That’s your news in your pocket!

News on SharePoint mobile will come to other platforms as a future update.

Create a modern team site and an associated Office 365 group from the SharePoint home

We’re pleased to announce that soon you’ll be able to create a site and a group for your team—right from SharePoint home in Office 365. The Create site wizard will create an Office 365 group as well as a modern SharePoint team site. You will even be able add members and classify the site along the way. And if you’ve ever waited for a SharePoint site to be provisioned in the past, you’ll discover this process will create the site in mere seconds.

Coming soon: Create a team site right from SharePoint home.

The result is the same as when you create an Office 365 group from Outlook: every group in Office 365 Groups gets the full power of a SharePoint Online team site.

Know who’s who, and who’s working on what, with new people cards

Teamwork is all about the people and what they’re working on. Now, when you see a person in a SharePoint team site, document library, list, or in OneDrive for Business, the value of discovering more about that person lies at your fingertips where you are already working.

People cards appear in SharePoint document libraries when you hover over a person’s name.

When you hover over a person’s name or photo, you’ll now see a richer people card. Previously, the card contained basic contact information and one-click methods to connect with the person. Now, you instantly see who the person works for and what documents they recently worked on. Powered by the Microsoft Graph, these intelligent people cards provide a personalized and actionable experience as you work with your files across Office 365.

Read more about upcoming updates to people experiences throughout Office 365.

Stay tuned for more innovations

The innovations will keep coming. For example, with news, you’ll see enhancements to the news reading experience on both mobile and web, and you will be able to interact with news as well as sign up for notifications. We’ll expand on team news, using the Microsoft Graph to provide a stream of personalized news from across all your sites, complementing it with traditional corporate news articles. In future iterations, we envision corporate, divisional and influential blog posts to be surfaced along with a blend of top-down, curated content all powered by Microsoft Graph-driven relevance.

Here is a summary of what we’re doing to power your mobile, intelligent intranet:

Release date	Feature
First Release in October 2016.	Team news in SharePoint Online team sites.
In preview today.	SharePoint mobile apps for Android and Windows 10 Mobile.
Update pushed to App Store in October 2016.	News tab within SharePoint mobile app for iOS.
First Release in October 2016.	Create site from SharePoint home integrated with Office 365 Groups.
Rolling out now.	New people experiences in SharePoint Online document libraries and OneDrive for Business.

Good news is good news. We hope you like all the news we’re sharing today. We look forward to your feedback. Please share your thoughts in the SharePoint space of the Microsoft Technical Community and submit your ideas to the SharePoint UserVoice page—and we always have an eye on our tweets @SharePoint. Let us know.

—Mark Kashman, senior product manager for the SharePoint team

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Customers tell us they are faced with information and document overload. And the adage “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” rings true. What truly counts is what you discover based on what others know. Office 365 people experiences let you tap into the power and value of the people around you to promote intuitive, proactive knowledge sharing based on the intelligence of the Microsoft Graph.

Today at Ignite, we’re pleased to announce the rollout of innovative people experiences:

• A new Delve app for Windows 10 desktop and mobile (available today).
• People cards that surface profile information and content throughout Office 365 (rolling out now).
• Updates to the Office 365 profile (rolling out to first release today).

These new people experiences in Office 365 help you stay in the know. No matter what app you are using, you can discover content through people, share expertise more easily, and connect with each other right from where you are already working.

Let’s dive into the details, starting with the new people-centric Delve Windows 10 app.

Delve app for Windows 10 desktop and mobile

The Delve Windows 10 app is where we first see people experiences for Windows desktop and mobile. The app helps catch you up with what’s going on and gain insight into work being done by your colleagues—an activity stream of all important, timely files in one place. You’ll know what’s going on when you see number badges on the photos of relevant people and receive important notifications based on changes they have made throughout Office 365.

With the new Delve Windows 10 app you can:

• Stay in the know and discover what your colleagues are working on with badges and notifications.
• Find relevant documents and email attachments based on people you know.
• Get back to important documents you’re actively working on.
• Locate expertise and learn more about colleagues relevant to you.

Install the Delve app for Windows 10 today.

Learn more about how to benefit your discovery using the Delve Windows 10 app. If you use other devices, check out Office Delve for iOS and Office Delve for Android, both in app stores already.

Intelligent people cards in SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Outlook on the web

You’ve probably seen contact cards in Outlook. This update brings intelligent, Delve-like experiences to Office 365 apps (like SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business), right in the context of your work. When you hover over a person’s name or image, people cards expands to reveal contact information, organizational relationships and documents they have been working on.

People cards have already begun to appear in Outlook on the web, and they are rolling out now within SharePoint Online team sites, document libraries, lists and OneDrive for Business. You, too, can access the same valuable information and insight through people within the SharePoint and OneDrive mobile apps. See a person’s name or photo, and simply click or tap to learn more about them and the work they do. People cards are within reach where you are working and will help you prepare and stay informed throughout your day.

People cards throughout Office 365 show contact information and more about who a person works with and what they work on.

Updates to Office 365 profiles

Your Office 365 profile represents you, who you know and what you and they are working on. Profiles are content-rich and actionable. You can start a Skype chat or call or email a colleague right from their profile page. To make it easier to know when to reach out, Delve now gives you a peek into what their day looks like by showing you the free/busy information from their Exchange Online calendar. And if they’re not in, Delve shows their out-of-office message.

We made it much easier to edit your profile, to add value to how people discover you and your content. Listing projects, skills and education history to your profile is a great help to others who don’t know you yet. The updated profile editing experience makes it easier to keep your information fresh and updated with a few clicks and keystrokes.

Smart search results in Delve are organized into sections for people, documents and boards—making it easier to find exactly who and what you’re looking for. This is a more intuitive experience to find people by expertise, title or location. As your profile fills up with more important business information, expertise search and discovery becomes more valuable throughout the company.

Updated Office 365 Profiles show numerous details like free/busy calendar information, skills, projects and more.

The new inline profile editing experience when you click Update profile.

Learn more about your Office 365 Profile to better connect and collaborate in Office 365.

What’s coming next

We’re excited to bring the latest round of people experiences to Office 365, which will roll out automatically as new features are ready, and we plan to continue innovating in this area. Currently, we are looking at improving group cards for Office 365 Groups, bringing new people experiences to the Outlook 2016 client for Office 365 subscribers, and showcasing more Microsoft Graph insights within people cards.

If you have an idea for a future Office 365 people experience feature, please visit our Delve UserVoice page and submit your feedback using the People Experiences category tag. And vote items up! And we’re always attuned to what you tweet @OfficeDelve—let us know. You will see us continue to iterate and build more and more of what you tell us you need.

—Mark Kashman, senior product manager for the SharePoint team

Frequently asked questions

Q. What do I need to use the Delve mobile apps on my device?

A. You need an Office 365 work or school account that has Office Delve enabled by your Office 365 admin.

Q. Can I expect consistency of people experiences across Office 365?

A. Yes. We are working to bring consistent experiences and capabilities to people cards everywhere, and full profiles. As we progress, you may see specific workload nuances; for example, if you are in Outlook for the web, the initial focus may be more on showcasing the common email exchanges and meetings you have between each other.

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Today’s post was written by Alym Rayani, director for Office Security and Compliance.

Given the explosive growth in data production, IT is tasked with securing a volume of corporate data that is growing exponentially. To stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape, companies need the ability to analyze and learn from that data in order to identify, intercept and respond to threats. Office 365 provides unmatched security intelligence to help customers protect, detect and respond to threats.

As part of the Office news that Kirk Koenigsbauer announced today at the Microsoft Ignite conference, we are pleased to introduce the following new security and compliance capabilities in Office 365:

Improvements to Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection

Since introducing Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection last year, we’ve seen significant adoption and are excited to announce several enhancements including:

• New reports—Get better insights to malware activity. Security admins will have a new reporting dashboard to see details of malware that Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection is analyzing. The new reports will be in preview later this year.
• Dynamic delivery—Better performance and lower latency for emails with attachments. Users will see a placeholder while attachments are scanned in a sandbox environment. If deemed safe, attachments are re-inserted into the email. Dynamic Delivery is starting to roll out to customers now.
• URL detonation—Deeper protection against malicious URLs. Not only do we check a list of malicious URLs when a user clicks on a link, but Office 365 will also perform real-time behavioral malware analysis in a sandbox environment to identify malicious attachments. URL reputation checks are part of Advanced Threat Protection today; URL detonation will be in preview later this year.
• Intelligence sharing with Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection—Security admins will be able to see malware activity and relationships across Windows 10 and Office 365. Integration with Windows will be in preview in early 2017.
• Broader protection—Advanced Threat Protection will extend to include protection for SharePoint Online, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneDrive for Business. These extended capabilities will be in preview in early 2017.

Advanced Threat Protection checking for malicious links in Word.

Availability: Advanced Threat Protection is available now as part of Office 365 E5 or as add-on to any Office 365 Enterprise plan. Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection is available with Windows 10 Enterprise E5. Both are also available as part of Secure Productive Enterprise E5, available starting October 1, 2016.

Announcing Threat Intelligence

Organizations are being targeted with increasingly sophisticated attacks. Today, we’re pleased to announce Threat Intelligence, which helps you proactively uncover and protect against advanced threats by analyzing billions of data signals across Office consumer and commercial services. Threat Intelligence also provides deep insights from cyber threat hunters to create a comprehensive view of malware trends around the world. In addition, we’re integrating signals from Windows and Azure to help customers realize the full benefit of the Microsoft Cloud.

Security admins will see a dashboard with rich insights to do deep investigation of malware and will be able to integrate data with existing security management tools.

Threat Intelligence takes it a step further by alerting security admins and proactively creating and suggesting security policies to help protect you against malware. For example, if analytics show that attacks are happening in the financial industry, the service will alert customers in finance and related areas to the trend. Threat Intelligence will also dynamically create and suggest additional security policies to help protect you before they get to your network.

Availability: Threat Intelligence will be available in the first quarter of 2017 and will be included as part of the Office 365 Enterprise E5 plan and the new Secure Productive Enterprise E5 offering.

With Threat Intelligence, you can monitor and protect against risks before they hit your organization.

Announcing Advanced Data Governance

We’re also pleased to announce we are bringing Advanced Data Governance to Office 365 to help customers manage the exploding volume and increasing complexity of corporate data. We’re applying intelligence to help you achieve organizational compliance and automate data retention.

You’ll be able to classify, set policy and take action on the data that is most relevant for your organization and industry, with recommendations driven by behavioral analysis and machine learning.

Advanced Data Governance will include the following capabilities:

• Import—Intelligently import only the data you need from on-premises and third-party archives using classifications such as age, data type, user or groups, sensitivity or importance.
• Policies—Policy recommendations are provided, based on machine assisted insights of your data, classifications, tenant, organization, industry, geography and more. Recommendations may include delete, move, encrypt or share.
• Retention—Intelligently preserve only what’s important to you by using classifications such as keywords, age, data type, user or group, sensitivity, importance. Integration with line-of-business systems allows you to trigger retention based upon events, such as creation of a human resources record.

Advanced Data Governance will help organizations apply the right actions to preserve high value data and purge redundant or obsolete data.

Availability: Advanced Data Governance will be available in the first quarter of 2017 and will be included as part of the Office 365 Enterprise E5 plan and the new Secure Productive Enterprise E5 offering.

The intelligence behind Advanced Data Governance helps achieve organizational compliance.

Updates to Advanced Security Management

Earlier this year, we launched Advanced Security Management to help give organizations visibility and control over security in Office 365. This week, we are adding a new feature called Productivity App Discovery, which will help IT pros and security operations teams understand their organization’s usage of Office 365 and other productivity cloud services. This will help them to better determine the extent to which shadow IT is occurring in their organization.

Productivity App Discovery shows usage of Office 365 and other productivity cloud services.

In October, we will release another feature called App Permissions, which will assist in monitoring applications that users are connecting to Office 365.

Availability: Advanced Security Management is available now as part of the Office 365 E5 or as add-on to any Office 365 enterprise plan. It will also be available as part of Secure Productive Enterprise E5, available starting October 1, 2016.

These new capabilities enable organizations to take advantage of intelligence built in to Office 365 and protect, detect and respond to threats, while reducing risk and maintaining compliance. To learn more, visit us at Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta or join us online.

For more information about our trust principles and how we manage security, privacy and compliance, please visit the Office 365 Trust Center at trust.office365.com.

—Alym Rayani

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Around the world, teamwork is on the rise. Our research suggests employees now work on nearly double the number of teams than they did just five years ago. This means, more than ever, people are reliant on their peers to help get things done. But a “one size fits all” approach does not work when it comes to group collaboration—different tools appeal to different groups and address unique needs. Already in use by 85 percent of the Fortune 500 as part of Office 365, Yammer is the social network built for work. Yammer connects teams across your organization, enabling the open exchange of ideas that results in better decisions, faster.

Today, we’re pleased to announce that Yammer is integrating with Office 365 Groups, bringing together the power of open collaboration with the productivity tools millions rely on every day. With this integration, Yammer users can easily turn ideas into action with access to SharePoint sites and document repositories, a shared OneNote notebook, and lightweight task management with Planner. These new experiences and more will be rolling out in phases over the coming months.

Let’s take a closer look at how Yammer gets even better with Office 365 Groups.

Create and share content with Office Online and SharePoint

You can now take advantage of the powerful content creation and management capabilities of Office Online and SharePoint from within Yammer.

Individuals and teams can create and co-author Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents on the web. You can also quickly share files in Yammer by uploading documents from a personal OneDrive, OneDrive for Business or SharePoint site using the new Yammer file picker. No matter how you choose to share a file, all links and attachments render in rich preview.

Additionally, teams working within Yammer can now take advantage of a SharePoint document library, making it easy to manage files, apply workflow, review version history and comply with document retention policies. Each team also gets a SharePoint site, which gives members the ability to create structured content like wikis and blogs.

Share files from your personal OneDrive, OneDrive for Business or group SharePoint document library.

Attachments and links render in rich preview.

Take note with OneNote

Yammer also gives your team access to a shared notebook in OneNote to help ideas take shape. OneNote gives team members a great way to jot down notes, keep meeting minutes and brainstorm the next big thing.

Gather ideas and inspiration in OneNote.

Stay organized with Planner

To help you stay on top of key deliverables, Yammer now provides your team with quick access to Planner’s simple-to-use task management capabilities. Planner lets teams create new plans, assign tasks and track progress throughout the life of a project.

Create plans, assign tasks and track progress with the shared Planner.

Share to Yammer by email

Because Office 365 Groups are part of your company’s global address list (GAL), it’s a cinch to share content to Yammer by email. Whenever you receive an email that would benefit from open discussion and sharing, you can forward it to Yammer by typing the name of your group in the recipient list—auto-complete fills in the email address.

Send emails to groups in Yammer using your company’s global address list (GAL).

Easily manage Yammer from Office 365

Yammer is now connected to the Office 365 Groups service, so all group properties, including name, description, profile picture, membership and public/private setting, are available in both Yammer and Azure AD, where Office 365 groups are stored. For example, whenever users or admins add and remove group members in Yammer, these changes are reflected across Office 365, and permissions are updated accordingly. Admins can also centrally manage groups in the Office 365 admin center and apply PowerShell scripts to them to simplify bulk updates.

Centrally manage groups in Yammer from the Office 365 admin center.

Earlier this year, we integrated with the Office 365 reporting dashboard and rolled out Yammer usage reports to help admins monitor Yammer usage across your network. To provide greater transparency, we will soon give admins the ability to export and share this usage data via Power BI content. Once we roll out Yammer group usage reports in the coming weeks, admins will also be able to drill down into group-level analytics and make this data available to others within your organization.

What to expect as we integrate Yammer with Office 365 Groups

The integration between Yammer and Office 365 Groups will roll out in phases over the next several months.

Customers who enforce Office 365 identity will receive the new integrated experience first. When new groups are created in Yammer, they will automatically be able to take advantage of tools like SharePoint, Planner and OneNote. Phase 1 starts later this year. Subsequent phases will automatically migrate existing groups in Yammer, address remaining Office 365 tenants and deliver integration with Outlook Calendar as well as enhancements to SharePoint and Planner. For the latest details around the rollout of Yammer’s integration with Office 365 Groups, please follow this article.

Since Yammer was turned on for all eligible Office 365 customers earlier this year, we have seen huge growth in usage. The vast majority of Yammer customers now use it as part of an Office 365 subscription. With Office 365 applications such as SharePoint and OneNote becoming an integral part of the Yammer experience, users will need an Office 365 subscription that includes these services. An Office 365 subscription with Yammer Enterprise alone will no longer be available for purchase. Customers can purchase or transition to an Office 365 plan, such as K1 or E1, both of which have Yammer Enterprise. The Office 365 K1 plan, priced at $4 per user per month, provides additional benefits such as Outlook email. For more details, read this article.

Yammer—part of the Office 365 complete collaboration solution

Office 365 embraces the diverse workstyles and needs of the modern workplace by giving teams their choice of tools. Groups that prefer the familiarity and structure of email can use groups in Outlook, which expand the capabilities of traditional email distribution lists. For groups that want to meet and work together in real-time, there’s Skype for Business. And groups that want to connect across the organization and foster open conversations can use Yammer.

No matter what collaboration solution your team chooses, Office 365 has you covered.

Frequently asked questions

Q. Do Office 365 Groups provide conversations in both Yammer and Outlook?

A. To avoid fragmenting team conversations, Office 365 Groups will provide either conversations in Yammer or conversations in Outlook. Office 365 Groups created in Yammer will have conversations in Yammer. Office 365 Groups created elsewhere in the suite will have conversations in Outlook.

Q. What happens to files stored in Yammer with the introduction of the group SharePoint document library?

A. Files uploaded to Yammer are stored in Azure today and will remain so for the time being while retaining all their current permissions and capabilities. With the Office 365 integration announced today, Yammer users will also be able to upload and store files in their group’s SharePoint document library. We recommend storing content that needs the structure and management capabilities of SharePoint in the group document library. For easy, quick sharing of images and documents, or to stream videos in Yammer, we recommend continuing to use Yammer. To provide unified file storage, our long-term plan is to migrate all files stored in Yammer to SharePoint.

Attaching files to a Yammer conversation from OneDrive, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint from the new file picker experience simply shares the links and rich previews of those files; it does not change where the files are stored. For more information on attaching files in Yammer, please read “Attach a file to a Yammer message.”

Q. What happens to Yammer Notes with the introduction of the group OneNote?

A. In the coming months, we will replace the Yammer Notes functionality with group OneNote notebooks, which provide a better notebook experience, including rich text formatting, inking and the ability to organize notes by sections and pages. In the short term, nothing will happen to existing Yammer Notes. Over the coming months, we will migrate existing Yammer Notes to Word documents and move them into the Yammer Files section.

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Microsoft understands that enterprise security is critical. Trust is not a product—it’s a value that must be earned. Our approach to SharePoint and OneDrive security, privacy and compliance is simple: It’s your data. You own it. You control it. We’re just caretakers. We give you controls to manage the data, paired with our own controls for securing and running our services. Policy governs every stage of a file’s journey, from conception to deletion.

Our investments are focused on five core pillars.

• Platform security—Protect information at rest and in transit with layered encryption, Microsoft datacenter procedures and customer controls for access and key management.
• Secure access and sharing—Ensure sensitive data remains secure with managed access and sharing settings.
• Awareness and insights—Track account and file activity with full transparency using reports and alerts.
• Information governance—Govern your data retention, discovery and deletion policies.
• Compliance and trust—Leverage Microsoft’s continuous compliance, ongoing certification and transparent operations.

Security, privacy and compliance are a core pillar of SharePoint’s vision for collaboration in Office 365.

Today at Ignite, we’re announcing the next wave of innovations that give you more control over your company’s valuable information and intellectual property:

• Conditional access policies that govern access to files based on endpoint location (available today).
• Granular conditional access policies based on the managed state of a device (available by end of year).
• New Office 365 datacenter locations in Germany and Canada, extending our industry leadership in the number of distinct global regions to meet your compliance needs (available today in Canada and by end of year in Germany).
• Customer-controlled SharePoint and OneDrive encryption keys (available by end of year).
• Site classification that guides users to understand the value and sensitivity of information and can be extended to apply classification-specific security configuration (available by end of year).
• Unified auditing across site collections in Office 365 and on-premises SharePoint Server 2016 with Feature Pack 1 (available in November 2016).

Below is an overview of these innovative experiences and capabilities, with links to additional resources.

Conditional access policies for location

Access controls have traditionally been scoped to users or groups. Today, a user’s work is no longer limited to one computer on a desk, and information risks exposure as users connect mobile devices to unsecure networks or use personal, unmanaged devices.

Conditional access in SharePoint and OneDrive goes beyond user permissions: it is based on a combination of factors, such as the identity of a user or group, the network that the user is connected to, the device and application they are using, and the type of data they are trying to access. The access granted to the user adapts to this broader set of conditions.

Control user access based on location.

With new location-based conditional access policies in SharePoint Online, you can limit access to specific corporate networks or locations. For example, if you restrict access to only your corporate network, users will not be able to access organizational data when they leave the office. This policy helps you prevent access to organization’s data from rogue or insecure networks.

Blocking access from unknown locations.

Conditional access based on device state

We recognize that users are increasingly mobile and use multiple devices, including personal devices, to access organizational data. It is important to enable users to be productive on any device while maintaining the security of data across all devices. That is why we are announcing new device access policies that allow you to decide the level of access you want to offer different types of devices based on the management state of each device.

Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility Suite allows you to customize the definition of a managed device to fit the needs of your organization. You can either grant full access, prevent all access or allow restricted access from unmanaged devices.

The new restricted access policy allows a user to view a file in their browser but does not allow them to download, print or sync. This allows users to be productive on personal, unmanaged devices, but at the same time, prevent accidental leakage of data to devices that are not managed by the organization.

When you set any of these policies, you also default to blocking access from legacy apps that can’t enforce device-based restrictions.

Customer-controlled encryption keys

One of the core principles of security in SharePoint Online is that your data is yours. We are only the custodians of your data. It is always stored and served using multiple Microsoft encryption controls to assure information privacy and integrity.

In addition, we are announcing today the upcoming availability of customer-controlled encryption keys, sometimes referred to as “bring your own key.” Customer-controlled encryption keys provide an additional layer of security and privacy above that which is already supplied by Microsoft. You can use customer-managed “master keys” to encrypt/decrypt the individual encryption keys used to encrypt each file. You can also decide to change or revoke access to these keys to guarantee that Microsoft has no way to access encrypted files.

Identify sensitive information, guide users and apply security configuration with site classification

Using the new site classification feature, you can apply a custom label to a SharePoint site and its associated Office 365 group. The label identifies the sensitivity of the information for the site and group. The site classification appears in the header of the site and group pages and serves as a reminder to users that your organization has guidance regarding the use and sharing of information on the site.

The site classification is a property that can be accessed programmatically, so you can script reporting or the application of additional security policies. Site classification will enter First Release in October. You will be able to select a classification when provisioning a site and group from SharePoint home, and you will see the site classification in the header of site and group pages.

In the future, we will give you the ability to link Office 365 information policies directly to site classification, without the need for script or code.

Unified auditing

SharePoint unified auditing combines data from the cloud and on-premises for complete audit reporting in one unified console in the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center. Unified auditing will be enabled for on-premises customers as part of SharePoint Server 2016 Feature Pack 1 in November 2016. After Feature Pack 1 is enabled, customers will have the option to join the public preview using the hybrid configuration wizard in SharePoint Online administration.

Once enabled, auditing data from on-premises is available in the Security and Compliance Center, as shown below.

These innovations build on our recent investments in Office 365 security and compliance. Read these recent posts for more information:

• DLP policy tips in OneDrive mobile apps
• Activity Reports in Office 365 Admin Center
• Auditing and reporting across numerous user and admin activities
• Service Assurance Dashboard

Today’s announcements represent the continued investments we are making in security, privacy and compliance. We stand by these values. To learn more about how we deliver powerful security controls as the foundation for simple user experiences, please read our white paper.

Please share your thoughts and ideas through the Microsoft Technical Community and SharePoint’s UserVoice. And for the latest information on Office 365 security and compliance, visit the Office 365 Trust Center.

—Chris McNulty, senior product manager for the SharePoint and OneDrive teams

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Last May, we announced our vision, strategy, timeline and investment areas for SharePoint in Office 365 and on-premises. We unveiled our plan to bring cloud-born innovation to SharePoint Server 2016. Today, we’re excited to announce details for Feature Pack 1.

We’re pleased to announce that we’re ahead of schedule with our inaugural Feature Pack for SharePoint Server 2016. Feature Pack 1, available in November, brings several enhancements driven by recent innovation in Office 365 and feedback from you on UserVoice, including:

• Logging of administrative actions performed in Central Administration and with Windows PowerShell.
• Enhancements to MinRole to support small environments.
• A new OneDrive for Business user experience.
• Custom tiles in the SharePoint app launcher.
• Unified auditing across site collections on-premises and in Office 365.
• Unified taxonomy across on-premises and Office 365.
• OneDrive API 2.0.

We’re excited to share with you some of the details of Feature Pack 1 today.

What’s a Feature Pack?

Unlike previous versions of SharePoint, release-to-manufacture (RTM) did not define the end of innovation, but the beginning. As we continue to develop SharePoint Server 2016, we’ve paid close attention to customer feedback, trends in content management, team collaboration, user experiences across devices, and how the cloud can be blended into existing on-premises scenarios in new and compelling ways. Feature Packs allow us to accelerate delivery of cloud-first features to our Software Assurance customers (where noted) of SharePoint Server 2016 outside of the traditional 2- to 3-year release cadence.

New capabilities for administrators

For IT professionals, Feature Pack 1 includes several new capabilities based on feedback we received throughout the development of SharePoint Server 2016, from IT Preview to Release Candidate.

Administrative actions logging—SharePoint administrators spend a considerable amount of time troubleshooting administrative changes to their on-premises environment, which can result in failure conditions or other undesired effects.

We heard your feedback surrounding the need for more insightful, granular logging and, in Feature Pack 1, we introduced logging of common administrative actions performed in the Central Administration website and with Windows PowerShell.

MinRole enhancements—One of the infrastructure advancements in SharePoint Server 2016 was the concept of MinRole. MinRole is designed to transform architectural guidance into code, simplifying deployment and scale with SharePoint by ensuring a request is served end-to-end by the receiving server based on the origin of the request (i.e., end user or batch processing) and role of the destination server.

MinRole was originally optimized for larger farm topologies. With four server roles, the minimal requirement for a supported MinRole configuration was a four-server farm. A farm with high availability (HA) requires two servers for each role, making eight servers the minimal requirement for a HA MinRole configuration. You told us that you would like to have the benefits of MinRole with smaller farm topologies too. We listened to you and enhanced MinRole to address this request.

Once the new MinRole enhancements are enabled, you will notice that two additional server roles are available: “Front-end with Distributed Cache” and “Application with Search.” The Front-end with Distributed Cache role combines the Front-end and Distributed Cache roles together, while the Application with Search role combines the Application and Search roles together. These new roles let you host a multi-server MinRole farm with just two servers or four servers with HA.

New user experiences

A new OneDrive for Business experience—OneDrive for Business is an integral part of Office 365 and SharePoint Server. It provides a place where you can store, share and sync your work files. OneDrive for Business makes it easy to manage and share your documents from anywhere, and work together in real-time, on your favorite devices. Feature Pack 1 brings the modern OneDrive for Business user experience to SharePoint Server 2016. The new OneDrive user experience is a Software Assurance benefit.

SharePoint App Launcher custom tiles—The App Launcher was introduced in SharePoint Server 2016 with the ability to extend the tiles with the SharePoint Hybrid App Launcher to include apps available in Office 365. The App Launcher provides a common location to discover new apps and navigate between on-premises SharePoint and Office 365 applications. Now, in addition to native SharePoint and Office 365 apps, you can also add your own custom tiles that point to other SharePoint sites, external sites, legacy apps and more. This makes it easy to find and navigate to the relevant sites, apps and resources to do your job.

Hybrid capabilities

Unified auditing—Unified auditing gives SharePoint administrators detailed visibility into file access activities across all site collections, on-premises and in Office 365. With unified auditing in place, the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center can provide audit logs search for your SharePoint Server 2016 on-premises audit logs in addition to Office 365 audit logs.

This hybrid auditing capability—powered by Microsoft SharePoint Insights—enters preview with Feature Pack 1. Configuration is simple: a few clicks in Hybrid Scenario Picker wizard and you’re ready to start viewing and experiencing unified auditing.

Learn more about hybrid auditing (preview), powered by Microsoft SharePoint Insights.

Unified taxonomy—SharePoint’s managed metadata service application makes it possible to create a taxonomy for information architecture across site collections and web applications. With Feature Pack 1, you can implement a unified taxonomy across a SharePoint Server 2016 farm and Office 365. You can seed the term store in SharePoint Online from your on-premises term store and then manage your taxonomy in SharePoint Online. Replication to on-premises SharePoint is performed by the hybrid taxonomy feature.

Learn more about the hybrid taxonomy (preview) feature.

For more information on other SharePoint and Office 365 hybrid scenarios, see hybrid.office.com.

Developer enhancements

OneDrive API 2.0—The OneDrive API provides a common API for access to files located on-premises and in the Office 365 cloud. The API provides access and enables developers to build solutions that target user data stored in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint document libraries.

SharePoint Roadmap

Feature Pack 1 features will be generally available November 2016. To learn more about the Feature Pack process, be sure to attend the BRK2047 Explore Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 and Beyond session at Microsoft Ignite.

As we make decisions about where to invest to deliver cloud-born innovation to your on-premises teams, we look forward to hearing from you. Please share your thoughts and ideas through the Microsoft Technical Community and SharePoint’s UserVoice.

The future of SharePoint Server is bright, and we are excited to collaborate with you on our next steps, and to empower you, your teams and your organization to do more.

Join the conversation

Send us your comments, suggestions and feedback:

• Evaluate SharePoint Server 2016.
• Join the Microsoft Technical Community to engage with community members and fellow enthusiasts.
• Provide feedback and suggestions through UserVoice.

—Bill Baer, @williambaer, senior product manager of the SharePoint team

Frequently asked questions

Q. Is there a cost for Feature Pack 1?

A. No, there is no cost associated with Feature Pack 1; however, some features of Feature Pack 1 are limited to Software Assurance customers where noted in this post.

Q. Where can I learn more about Software Assurance?

A. To learn more about the benefits of Software Assurance and how to get started, see this overview.

Q. How can I find out if I have Software Assurance or check my benefits?

A. Your Software Assurance benefits are determined by your Volume Licensing agreement, such as the Enterprise Agreement (EA), Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) or Open Value agreement—and by the qualifying license purchases you have with Software Assurance.

Depending on which agreement your organization has, you use one of two tools to manage your available Software Assurance benefits.

Use the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) to view and activate your Software Assurance benefits. You must be registered to use the VLSC. To learn more about registration, view how-to videos or download the VLSC Software Assurance Guide at VLSC Training and Resources. You can also contact your Microsoft Partner for more information.

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OneDrive and SharePoint work together to make storing and accessing all your files simple and powerful. We recently outlined a vision for file management in Office 365 that included a set of new features, such as simplified file sharing (both inside and outside your organization), the ability to copy files directly from OneDrive to SharePoint, mobile access to all your Office 365 files on iOS and the innovative Discover view that uses Microsoft Graph to suggest relevant and trending files.

Today at Ignite, we’re proud to announce new sync, browser, mobile and IT capabilities for you!

New sync capabilities include:

• Ability to sync SharePoint Online document libraries and OneDrive folders shared with you (preview available today).
• An “activity center” has been added to the OneDrive sync client to allow you to view synchronization and file activity at a glance (preview available today).

New browser capabilities include:

• Rich thumbnails and previews for over 20 new file types (rolling out before the end of 2016).
• Ability to access and edit all your files in OneDrive and SharePoint Online from the OneDrive browser client (rolling out before the end of 2016).
• Capability to download multiple files as a .zip file (rolling out before the end of 2016).

New mobile capabilities include:

• Notifications to your iOS or Android device when someone shares a OneDrive file with you (available today).
• Access to SharePoint Online files in the OneDrive app on Android (available today).
• Multi-page scan enhancements in the OneDrive app on Android (available today).
• Ability to see over time how many people have discovered and viewed your files in OneDrive for iOS (available today).

New IT capabilities include:

• Enhancements to integration with Office 2016 (available in First Release).
• Simple, flexible OneDrive user management in Office 365 (available in First Release).
• Dedicated OneDrive administration console in Office 365 (rolling out before the end of 2016).

Take your files on the go with powerful new sync options

We promised to bring a single sync experience for all your files in Office 365, across OneDrive and SharePoint. Today, we’re proud to announce the public preview of this eagerly anticipated update for both PC and Mac.

SharePoint sync is being added to the OneDrive sync client, which we released last year, and offers superior levels of reliability, performance and control—including the flexibility to select the specific folders you want to take offline.

Now you have one simple way to take any of your Office 365 files offline. And we’ll make it even easier, with a seamless upgrade from the legacy sync client (groove.exe).

Shared folder sync is another powerful capability shipping with this preview. If a colleague in your organization shares a folder with you from their OneDrive, then you can choose to take that folder offline. What’s more, it doesn’t count against your storage quota!

For better visibility of what is going on with your sync client, we’re rolling out the activity center. When a file is added, deleted or changed in a folder that you are syncing, the activity center shows you exactly what happened—so you can catch up on the most recent activity and see current sync status.

To get started with the preview download the setup instructions here.

View files fast with better previews and thumbnails

OneDrive offers deep integration with Office Online, so you can view, edit and create Office files from any browser. There are times you want to view other types of files in the browser without downloading them. So, we’re enabling rich previews for your most commonly used business file types. Without leaving OneDrive, you will be able to preview Adobe files, including Illustrator (.ai), Photoshop (.psd) and Encapsulated PostScript (.eps). Email files (.msg and .eml), almost all photo files (including many RAW formats) and streaming video are also supported. Additionally, most of these file types now have high resolution thumbnails in the folder’s tile view. We won’t stop here—we’re continuously building support for new file types, creating better previews and increasing coverage for thumbnails.

Access all your Office 365 files through the OneDrive browser experience

Our mission is to enable you to work with all your Office 365 files wherever you are. We’re releasing an update to the OneDrive browser experience that enables you to access, edit and share all files and folders in SharePoint Online that you own or follow. We’ll start rolling this out to First Release customers in the coming months, and rollout to all customers will be complete in the first quarter of 2017. Combined with the single experience in mobile apps and sync, you have one consistent way to work with the Office 365 files you care about. Regardless of whether you’re in the browser on PC or Mac, or on your device using our apps, OneDrive is the one place to access, share, edit and collaborate on all your Office 365 files.

Download multiple files as a .zip file

Based on your feedback, we’ve added another new capability to the OneDrive browser experience. You can now select multiple files and folders and download them in a .zip file.

Keep informed with mobile notifications

For iOS or Android users, we’ve added notifications when a colleague shares a file with you. You can now open the file directly from the notification. You won’t have to rely on email to know when you can start working on that shared proposal with colleagues or complete the final review of tomorrow’s presentation. In the future, we’ll bring notifications to Android and Windows, as well as add notifications for other file activities beyond just sharing.

Extending the Scan function to handle multiple photos

Earlier this year we released the Scan function on Android, which enables you to take single photos that are then converted to PDF files and uploaded to OneDrive. We’ve now expanded this allow you to add multiple photos and combine them in the one PDF file. Now you can scan your multi-page expense receipt or extensive notes across multiple whiteboards into a single PDF that’s uploaded and stored in OneDrive.

This feature will be rolling out to iOS in the coming weeks.

Understand the reach and impact of your work

When you copy from OneDrive to SharePoint—a feature we recently released—your file becomes accessible and discoverable by your team. We announced in May that we were working on a feature to measure the reach of your files. Starting today on iOS, you can see over time how many people have discovered and viewed your files. This provides simple insight into the impact of your work. We’ll add this capability to Android and Windows in future updates.

New deeper Office 2016 integration saves you time in collaborating with others

We’re continuing to deliver true, seamless Office integration everywhere you use Microsoft Office and OneDrive. In the top right of the Office 2016 ribbon, you can see the users who are currently editing the file and launch Skype for Business to converse in real-time. You can also share the file, see the history of all activity on the file as well. Being able to share with others and getting a snapshot of what is going on with your file without having to jump out of the Office app are big time-savers.

Additionally, when you click the File tab to open a file, you’ll notice now that in addition to having access to files you recently accessed in OneDrive and SharePoint Online, you can now also access files most recently shared with you. The result is simple: access to all the files you’re working with on any device—yet another time-saving feature exclusive to OneDrive and SharePoint.

Secure and manage OneDrive with enhancements for IT pros

Between now and the end of 2016, we’re releasing even more features for IT to secure and manage OneDrive. We’ll add per-user controls for OneDrive directly in the Office 365 User Management console. As an admin, you will be able to set the storage quota and external sharing permissions for a specific user, as well as help a user who misplaced a file or inadvertently shared the wrong file with others. In emergencies, such as a lost device, you can sign a user out of OneDrive on all devices. And, when an employee leaves the organization or is terminated, you can take over the user’s OneDrive to move or copy important files to other locations. This capability complements the feature we shipped earlier this year that allows you to preserve files in a deleted user’s OneDrive for up to 10 years, so that you can be confident important files are not lost. We’ll continue to add new per-user settings and controls.

We’re also creating a dedicated administration console for OneDrive in the Office 365 admin center, so you’ll have one place to discover and configure OneDrive-specific settings and perform administrative tasks—many of which used to require PowerShell. The new experience is simple, modern, fast and responsive, and makes managing OneDrive for your organization much easier.

The future of simple and powerful file sharing is now

We’re pleased to deliver these innovations that lead the way to simple and powerful file sharing for Office 365 customers. OneDrive delivers a single, consistent experience for working with all your files in your individual OneDrive, your SharePoint team sites and Office 365 Groups. We’re bringing you rock-solid sync, a rich browser experience, highly-rated mobile apps and deeper, more powerful integration with Microsoft Office. And we’re bringing all of this to your PC and Mac as well as all your devices. We’re innovating ways to use intelligence to accelerate your productivity, with content discovery and insights into the impact of your work. And of course, behind these great experiences and capabilities are the security, compliance and manageability controls that are the hallmark of Office 365.

Get started with the new updates today! And let us know what you think: Please share your thoughts and ideas through the Microsoft Technical Community and UserVoice. There’s so much more to come with OneDrive and SharePoint!

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Mein Mandant war alkoholisiert mit dem Wagen unterwegs. Die zuständige Bußgeldstelle ist sich auch sicher, dass mein Mandant vorsätzlich handelte. Und nicht nur fahrlässig.

Das ergibt sich allerdings nicht aus einer näheren Prüfung der Umstände des Einzelfalles, sondern aus einem vorgehefteten „Aktenvermerk“. Dieser Textbaustein wird anscheinend in alle passenden Fälle reinkopiert. Darin steht:

Aktenvermerk:

Jeder Kraftfahrzeugführer, welcher in einem überschaubaren Zeitraum vor Fahrtantritt alkoholische Getränke in nicht ganz unerheblichem Umfang zu sich nimmt, weiß, dass er in Gefahr läuft, eine Atemalkoholkonzentration von 0,25 mg/l bzw. eine Blutalkoholkonzentration von 0,5 Promille oder mehr erreicht zu haben. Wenn er dennoch ein Kraftfahrzeug führt, handelt er in aller Regel bedingt vorsätzlich.

Mit Arbeitsvermeidung bei der Bußgeldstelle hat das viel zu tun, mit der tatsächlichen Rechtslage aber wenig. Denn tatsächlich darf Vorsatz nur angenommen werden, wenn feststeht, dass der Betroffene seine Fahruntüchtigkeit gekannt oder wenigstens mit ihr gerechnet hat. Maßgeblicher Zeitpunkt ist der Fahrtantritt, mögliche Überlegungen vorher spielen erst mal keine Rolle. Sogar Fahrfehler sind nicht unbedingt ein Beleg. Vielmehr muss man feststellen, dass der Fahrer die Fehler bemerkt und dadurch über seine Fahrtüchtigkeit nachgedacht hat.

Nicht mal eine hohe Blutalkoholkonzentration reicht alleine aus, um den Vorsatz zu bejahen. Eine hohe Blutalkoholkonzentration führt nämlich zur Kritiklosigkeit, die den Täter seine Fahrunsicherheit nicht wahrnehmen lässt. Es gibt daher keinen Erfahrungssatz, dass man ab einer bestimmten Blutalkoholkonzentration seine Fahrunsicherheit erkennt.

Nach Schema F auf eine vorsätzliche Alkoholfahrt zu schließen, ist da schon ziemlich dreist. Schauen wir mal, ob das Amtsgericht ergebnisoffener denkt, wenn es über den Einspruch gegen den Bußgeldbescheid verhandelt. Ich kann mir jedenfalls nicht vorstellen, dass der Textbaustein dort auf sonderlich viel Gegenliebe stößt.

In Kalifornien ansässige Schauspieler können künftig verlangen, dass ihr Alter aus Datenbanken der Branche entfernt wird. So will es ein Gesetz gegen Altersdiskriminierung, das in Kalifornien verabschiedet wurde. Kritiker sehen dadurch die Redefreiheit eingeschränkt. (Politik/Recht, Bundesregierung)