Office for iPad

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Q: How much does Office for iPad cost?
A: You can download the Office apps for free and read, view and present documents, spreadsheets and presentations.  To get the full editing and creation experience, you need an Office 365 subscription. Office 365 gives you always-up-to-date versions of Office across your PC, Mac and iPad, and much more.

Q: Can I try Office for iPad?
A: Yes, you can read, view and present documents, spreadsheets and presentations for free.  To get the full editing and creation experience, you can sign up for a free 30 day Office 365 trial at www.office.com/try. Then download the Office for iPad apps in the App Store.  During your trial period, you can use Office across your PC, Mac and iPad.

Q: What Office 365 subscription plans include Office for iPad?
A: Office 365 Home, Office 365 Small Business Premium, Office 365 Midsize Business, Office 365 E3 and E4 (Enterprise and Government), Office 365 Education A3 and A4, Office 365 ProPlus, and Office 365 University. The new Office 365 Personal will also qualify when it becomes available later this spring.

Q: What are the system requirements for Office for iPad?
A: You need an iPad running iOS 7.0 or later.

Outlook Web App delegated access.

The ability to delegate access to your inbox or calendar has historically been limited to the desktop version of Microsoft Outlook until today.  Office 365 users will soon have the ability to delegate folder permissions within Outlook Web App (OWA).

More information can be found here; there are a few limitations such as sending emails on behalf-of as this comes from the delegate email address.  Some nice touches around calendar access and notifications.

IGNITE ONLINE: Training

Ignite Online provides technical training for IT Professionals on the new Exchange, Lync, Office and Office 365.

These guides feature new product capabilities and cover topics such as design, deployment and management of these technologies

 

 

Ignite guides are tutorials in video (point and click) format.

More information can be found here;

PST Capture 2.0

PST Capture 2.0 includes the following improvements:

• Support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013
• Updated profile generation code to use Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTP).
• Fixed Exchange Online import failure issue when PST Capture is not installed on an Exchange server.
• Removed User Interface limit of 1,000 users when performing an import to Exchange Online.
• General performance improvements

More information can be found here; download here.

Microsoft Office 2013 RTM

The Office engineering team signed off on the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build. This milestone means the coding and testing phase of the project is complete and we are now focused on releasing the new Office via multiple distribution channels to our consumer and business customers.

General availability is planned for the first quarter of 2013. Starting October 19, customers purchasing Office 2010 from local retailers or resellers will receive the new Office for free upon availability. Customers will also see a preview version of the new Office on Windows RT devices, beginning with the Windows 8 launch on October 26. 

Additionally, we have a number of programs that provide business customers with early access so they can begin testing, piloting and adopting Office within their organizations:

• We will begin rolling out new capabilities to Office 365 Enterprise customers in our next service update, starting in November through general availability.
• Volume Licensing customers with Software Assurance will be able to download the Office 2013 applications as well as other Office products including SharePoint 2013, Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013 through the Volume Licensing Service Center by mid-November. These products will be available on the Volume Licensing price list on December 1.
• IT professionals and developers will be able to download the final version via their TechNet or MSDN subscriptions by mid-November.

RTM List includes; Office 365, Office 2013 applications, Exchange 2013, Lync 2013, SharePoint 2013, Project 2013 and Visio 2013.

More information can be found here and here;