It’s a new year and a new month of updates for the many products and services that make up Microsoft’s Office 365.
“We’re kicking off 2017 with updates to OneDrive, the Activity feed within the Office apps, Microsoft StaffHub and more,” Microsoft’s Kirk Koenigsbauer explains.
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Here’s a quick rundown.
OneDrive for Business. As Brad outlined earlier today, Microsoft has finalized its all-in-one sync client for OneDrive, which now works with OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint Online team sites (commercial customers on Windows desktops and Macs). There’s a new Mac client, too, (for commercial customers) and simplified sharing (OneDrive on the web).
Activity feed. The activity feed view is now available in Word, Excel and PowerPoint on Windows desktops for commercial Office 365 customers and for consumer Office 365 subscribers in the Office Insider program. This feed provides a view of the recent documents accessed through SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, or (for consumers) OneDrive.
Office Lens integration. Office Lens integration in Word and PowerPoint on Android helps you capture, crop, straighten and enhance pictures of whiteboards, Microsoft says, without leaving the app you’re working in. This will come to Excel in the future and will add more Office Lens capabilities, including document capture, Optical Character Recognition, and more.
Office Insider for iPhone and iPad. Announced previously, the Office Insider program is now available (with limited capacity) for iPhone and iPad, providing early access to builds of Word, Excel and PowerPoint at the Insider Fast level.
Microsoft StaffHub. Also announced previously, a new Office 365 web app called StaffHub is now generally available. This tool is available to Office 365 subscribers with a K1, E1, E3 or E5 plan (including the Education version of these plans).