The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: Cloud

  • Brewery FM – Now on iTunes

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    Did you miss the announcement that Scott Hoag started a podcast? You can find out more about our recordings over on Twitter by following @breweryfm or interact with us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/breweryfm. Do you use iTunes? Then why not click on over and subscribe now here – https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/brewery.fm/id965720953.

  • Office on Android out of Preview…

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    It would seem that Microsoft has gone gang busters and Office on Android has left preview and is now generally available. Pretty cool to see the Office team cranking out the donuts right now to provide solutions to folks. As a former Android user, I have to say that I’m intrigued to see how other…

  • Metamorphosis Complete

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    Acompli is now Outlook Apparently when I wrote my blog article a few days ago about Acompli showing up as MS Outlook, I may have stumbled onto the new Outlook app that was released to iOS and Android today. More information on that available here – Office everywhere: More great news for Office on iOS…

  • Supported Video Codes for Office 365

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    Office 365 recently launched their Video Portal that leverages the power of Azure Media Services as documented on the Office Blogs entry by Mark Kashman on the entry titled Introducing Office 365 Video. It’s definitely a step up compared to using something like the Digital Asset Management library that debuted in SharePoint Server on-premises many…

  • Rights Management Services Migration Guide

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    If you’re working in the cloud, then you’ve probably had a client or two request that you enable Rights Management Services. This is a fairly common task and in a Microsoft Azure cloud scenario or Office 365 scenario fairly simple to enable. If however you’re working a hybrid configuration or with an organization that’s moving…

  • Welcome to Carousel…

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    Hey thanks DropBox… just what I was… hoping… for. If you’re a DropBox user and you have your mobile device setup to automatically push photos up to the “Camera Uploads” directory within your DropBox then you might notice the next time that you go there that you’re being flipped over to Carousel. I didn’t receive…

  • Azure Preview Services

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    If you’re using Azure in either a PaaS or IaaS capacity, you’ve probably come to realize that there’s quite a bit of opportunity to use the platform to meet requirements that you might have for your client engagements or internal organization needs. Keeping up to date on the platform can be difficult though – especially…

  • Office 365 Development Resource

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    Are you an Office 365 Developer? Do you feel like you’re not getting the information that you need? Have you stumbled across the Patterns and Practices site? Act now!!! https://github.com/OfficeDev – the home of the Office 365 Developer content that includes both Patterns and Practices information, MSDN information and training content. If you’re not familiar…

  • DropBox and Office… Integration

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    So this just happened. http://blogs.office.com/2014/11/04/office-dropbox-work-together-phones-tablets-web/ https://blog.dropbox.com/2014/11/dropbox-microsoft-office-partnership/ http://news.microsoft.com/2014/11/04/microsoft-and-dropbox-announce-strategic-partnership-to-give-people-more-freedom-in-how-they-work-2/ So what’s this mean? Basically that you’ll be able to edit documents through Office Web Applications and Mobile Apps directly connected to DropBox. So if you’re already using DropBox for all of your document storage for your personal stuff, and you’re using OneDrive for Business for all of…

  • Office 365 Customers to receive Unlimited OneDrive Storage

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    So this was rather unexpected… or perhaps I just hadn’t read the writing on the wall as Microsoft takes a cue from competitors to up their cloud storage offering. Starting with Home, Personal and Education Office 365 accounts, Microsoft will be offering unlimited storage for OneDrive for Office 365 customers. It would seem that this…