TechNet Flash Special Edition: The new Office at your service

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Volume 15, Issue 5 | February 27, 2013

1. ▪ Try Office 365 ProPlus: learn how new telemetry tools can speed up testing and deployment
2. Office 365 ProPlus uses several technologies to deliver new user and administrative experiences to support Office as a service, and geo-redundancy for maximized uptime. This is the full evaluation version of Office - not just web apps. You will be able to try Office 365 ProPlus applications and manage up to 25 users. Check out the new Office 365 service descriptions, study your deployment options, and learn how to pilot, deploy, and extend Office 365 to meet your organization's needs on the Office 365 deployment center.
6. ▪ Office delivered: See what's new for IT and get the trial
7. Office Professional Plus 2013 is the future of productivity. Office Professional Plus 2013 includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, and Lync. Installation and deployment videos, white papers, and library articles are available now with your free evaluation.
11. ▪ The new Office: Garage Series for IT Pros - watch today to find out what's in it for IT
12. With the availability of the commercial service for the new Office, today marks the inaugural episode of the Office Garage Series show. Our desktop specialist hosts Jeremy Chapman and Yoni Kirsh highlight differences between the two versions, new IT pro capabilities, the promise of the new Office roaming across devices of all form factors, plus installation and coexistence of a highly-customized Office 2010 alongside the new Office.

Editors Note Mitch Irsfeld

TechNet Flash Editor

New Office has arrived and is ready for deployment

The new Office has reached the general availability milestone, and with it a plethora of new content, resources, and tools are available to help IT professionals gear up to deploy the latest and greatest.

One unconventional approach to get IT pros on their feet with the new Office is the Garage Series for IT Pros - a weekly video blog series that explores what's new and different from a manageability, deployment, and automation perspective....

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Microsoft Office 2013 review: Designed for tablets, but great for everyone Familiar tools coupled with new features and a simplified and redesigned interface make Office 2013 well worth the paid upgrade. Download the trial version of Office Professional Plus 2013.	Office Deployment Tool for Click-to-Run If you have provisioned user accounts for the users in your organization, you can enable users to install Office 365 ProPlus (and Project Pro, Visio Pro, SharePoint Designer, or Lync products) directly from the Office 365 portal. This is the default option. In managed enterprise environments, end-users may not have permission to install software from the Office 365 portal.
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New book from Microsoft Press: Microsoft Office Professional 2013 Plain & Simple This full-color, no-nonsense book shows you the quickest ways to get things done with Office 2013. Follow the book's easy steps and screenshots and clear, concise language to learn the simplest ways to do your work with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, and OneNote .

 

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Training and Books

 

Upgrade your MCSA and take advantage of free training and free second chances to pass exams

Eighty-four percent of IT hiring managers say that IT certifications are used as a measure of a person's ability to work hard and achieve goals (CompTIA, Employer Perceptions of IT Training and Certification, January 2011). If you plan to upgrade your MCSA: Windows Server 2008, now is the perfect time to upgrade to an MCSE: Server Infrastructure, MCSE: Desktop Infrastructure, or MCSE: Private Cloud certification. Request your certification pack and you'll get access to exam 417 and a Jump Start for free. Plus, you will receive 15% off the last two exams, and free retakes if you don't pass your exams on the first try.

Announcing the Windows Server Early Experts Challenge IT professionals interested in achieving Microsoft certifications are invited to join, participate, and contribute to Windows Server Early Experts Challenge. This program is to learn about the latest version of Windows Server. Read Yung Chou's blog for details about the program. To get started, first set up a Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) account.

Preorder the new Training Guide: Configuring Windows 8 If you're an IT professional with a few years' experience administering previous versions of Windows client operating systems, you'll want to upgrade your skills to support Windows 8 in your workplace. This book will help you do exactly that. It provides detailed technical information and practice exercises to help you expand your skills for deploying, managing, and maintaining Windows 8. If you are planning to validate your skills through certification, this book will help round out your study plan. It includes most of the topics and skills covered in the Microsoft certification exam 70-687.

Free virtualization training on MVA Set yourself apart from your peers by upgrading your knowledge of System Center 2012 with SP1 self-paced learning from Microsoft Virtual Academy for System Center 2012 SP1 Updates and System Center 2012 SP1 Capabilities. Add another string to your virtualization bow with the Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals self-paced course.

Windows Intune for IT Professionals Jump Start on MVA We've posted the Windows Intune for IT Professionals Jump Start on Microsoft Virtual Academy, so you can take advantage of this free accelerated training at your convenience. Our experts, Technical Evangelist David Tesar and IT Security and Infrastructure Architect Richard Harrison, explain why Windows Intune is the perfect choice for IT organizations exploring the best approach to Mobile Device Management.

Events

Early bird registration extended for SDC 2013 Early bird pricing (a US$400 savings) has been extended for the Security Development Conference 2013 to March 1st. SDC is offering sessions in three tracks, Engineering for Secure Data, Security Development Lifecycle and Data Security, and Business Risk and Data Security.

Register for the PASS Business Analytics Conference April 10 - 12, Chicago, IL If you are a business analyst, data scientist, architect, or BA/BI practitioner, you cannot afford to miss the PASS Business Analytics Conference. With more than 60 sessions covering data discovery, data exploration and visualization, predictive analytics, content management and architecture, collaboration, information strategies, and more, you will learn how to capture the value of business analytics for your organization.

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