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      <title>Check out Snip from Office Mix!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Great tool&nbsp;I started using today.&nbsp; Designed to replace the snipping tool, it grabs...]]></description>
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      <title>Updated list of Free Microsoft eBooks posted</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Thanks Eric!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2015/07/07/i-m-giving-away-millions-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-again-including-windows-10-windows-8-1-windows-8-windows-7-office-2013-office-365-sharepoint-2013-dynamics-crm-powershell-exchange-server-lync-2013-system-center-azure-clo.aspx">https://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2015/07/07/i-m-giving-away-millions-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-again-including-windows-10-windows-8-1-windows-8-windows-7-office-2013-office-365-sharepoint-2013-dynamics-crm-powershell-exchange-server-lync-2013-system-center-azure-clo.aspx</a></span></p>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Academics invited to create new Microsoft HoloLens experiences</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2015 08:33:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the Microsoft Research Connections blog yesterday: <a href="https://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/archive/2015/07/06/academics-invited-to-create-new-microsoft-hololens-experiences.aspx">https://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/archive/2015/07/06/academics-invited-to-create-new-microsoft-hololens-experiences.aspx</a></p>
<p>If you have not heard of Hololens yet, it is an augmented reality platform that is enabled by Windows 10.&nbsp; A really good video of some work done with Hololens by our partner Trimble shown at the Ignite Conference in May: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXVW4sUsh3A">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXVW4sUsh3A</a></p>
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      <title>Windows 10 Rollout plan</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[With about 4 weeks to go before Windows 10 General Availability, Terry Myerson just authored this...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">With about 4 weeks to go before Windows 10 General Availability, Terry Myerson just authored this blog post detailing our rollout plan: <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/07/02/windows-10-preparing-to-upgrade-one-billion-devices/">https://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/07/02/windows-10-preparing-to-upgrade-one-billion-devices/</a></span></p>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>The future of End User Programming</title>
      <link>https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/markmic/the-future-of-end-user-programming</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2015 07:36:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The bar for creating your own applications keeps getting lower.&nbsp; Can you create&nbsp;a...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">The bar for creating your own applications keeps getting lower.&nbsp; Can you create&nbsp;a PowerPoint presentation?&nbsp; If so, you can probably write a business application.&nbsp; Check out some of our latest work in this space at <a href="https://www.kratosapps.com/en-us/">https://www.kratosapps.com/en-us/</a> and try it for yourself!</span></p>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Office 365 Deployment Center and Customer Success Center</title>
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Accelerate...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Two more Office 365 resources I often point my customers to that they find useful:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Accelerate deployment with the Office 365 Deployment Center: <a href="https://deploy.office.com/">https://deploy.office.com/</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Accelerate usage and adoption with Office 365 Customer Success Center: <a href="https://success.office.com/">https://success.office.com/</a></span></p>
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      <title>Office 365 Adoption Kit for Healthcare</title>
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      <title>Preview of New Skype for Business Services in Office 365</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2015 10:02:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">In March, 2015, we <a href="https://blogs.office.com/2015/03/18/skype-for-business-is-here-and-this-is-only-the-beginning/">announced our intention to deliver a full set of Skype for Business voice and meetings services in Office 365</a>, starting with public </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">previews this summer.&nbsp; Today we are launching the <strong>Skype for Business Preview Program</strong>, </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">which will enable existing Office 365 customers, including partner companies, </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">to try our new cloud communications services before they reach general </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">availability.&nbsp; We have 3 primary objectives for inviting customers to try </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">these capabilities in preview, before development is complete:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">To validate our new cloud communications services at scale</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">To capture real-world feedback to improve the services and the associated documentation</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">To enable early assessment by customers comfortable with the limitations of pre-release products</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Starting today, Office 365 enterprise customers can visit the <a href="https://www.skypepreview.com/">Skype Preview signup page</a> to register for the following </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">previews:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Skype Meeting Broadcast, which enables broadcast of a </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Skype for Business meeting on the Internet to up to 10,000 people, who may </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">attend in a browser on nearly any device.&nbsp; Meeting broadcast is </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">useful for a variety of scenarios, including internal, organization-wide </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">&ldquo;Town Hall&rdquo; style meetings and public webinars.&nbsp; The preview will </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">include integration with <a href="https://pulse.bing.com/">Bing Pulse</a>, for real-time polling and sentiment, and <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/solutions/yammer/default.aspx#fbid=EZbXIXRdvID">Yammer</a>, to enable attendee sharing during the </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">broadcast.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">PSTN Conferencing for US customers, which allows people </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">invited to a Skype for Business meeting in Office 365 to join the meeting </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">by dialing-in using a traditional telephone.&nbsp; This traditional </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">dial-in capability is in addition to simple, single touch join options on </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">PC, smartphone, and browser, and allows people to join an online meeting </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">even in places with no Internet access.&nbsp;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling for US customers, which </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">gives Skype for Business users in Office 365 the ability to make and </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">receive calls from landline and mobile phones in their Skype for Business </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">client, and to manage these calls using features such as hold, resume, </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">forward and transfer.&nbsp; This preview is built on the proven enterprise </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">voice technology available in Lync Server and Skype for Business Server.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">The Meeting Broadcast preview is open to Office 365 customers around the world, as well as Skype for Business Server customers with an Office 365 tenant.&nbsp; PSTN Conferencing,<br />PSTN Calling, and Cloud PBX are limited to Office 365 customers in the US only at this time.&nbsp; In the fall, will ship Cloud PBX for customers worldwide, with a configuration option for customers to use existing on-premises phone lines for inbound and outbound calling</span></p>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>July Microsoft Technology Center Studio Virtual Events - The Trusted Cloud Series</title>
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<p><span style="color: #505050; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Cloud Services can help companies be more competitive and differentiate themselves from the competition.&nbsp;So the question is not only should you use the Cloud, it is whose Cloud Services can you trust and very specifically why should you trust Microsoft&rsquo;s Cloud Services.&nbsp;Questions you have probably include: is the service compliant with key standards, who has access to my data and what controls to I have?&nbsp; You are probably also asking business-related questions such as can my users easily, and securely share documents?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #5c2d91; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="color: #505050; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">To help answer these questions and more, join us for a series of four webcasts delivered from a Microsoft Technology Center, </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><a href="https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:APIUTILS!51004&amp;PageID=C17DCF6F-802A-456F-8ED1-AF11CC990BAE&amp;AffliliateCode=amemseriesml">register today</a></span><span style="color: #505050; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><strong>Webinar Schedule and Registration Information:</strong><strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">July 9 &ndash; July 30 - The Trusted Cloud Webcast Series - <a href="https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:APIUTILS!51004&amp;PageID=C17DCF6F-802A-456F-8ED1-AF11CC990BAE&amp;AffliliateCode=eicomm">Registration Series Page</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">July 9, 2015 - How Microsoft Secures Your Data in Office 365 &ndash; <a href="https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:APIUTILS!51004&amp;PageID=C17DCF6F-802A-456F-8ED1-AF11CC990BAE&amp;AffliliateCode=amemseriesml">Registration Link</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">July 16, 2015 - How to Secure Your Employee Identity&nbsp; - <a href="https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:APIUTILS!51004&amp;PageID=C17DCF6F-802A-456F-8ED1-AF11CC990BAE&amp;AffliliateCode=amemseriesml">Registration Link</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">July 23, 2015 - How to Protect Your Data with Office 365 Services&nbsp; - <a href="https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:APIUTILS!51004&amp;PageID=C17DCF6F-802A-456F-8ED1-AF11CC990BAE&amp;AffliliateCode=amemseriesml">Registration Link</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">July 30, 2015 - How to Secure Your Mobile Devices - <a href="https://vts.inxpo.com/scripts/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:APIUTILS!51004&amp;PageID=C17DCF6F-802A-456F-8ED1-AF11CC990BAE&amp;AffliliateCode=amemseriesml">Registration Link</a></span><span style="color: #5c2d91; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="color: #505050; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"></span></span></p>]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:19:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great tool for folks evaluating IaaS workloads for Azure was released to web last week: <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43376">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43376</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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