Office Insider Program – How to Join

What is the Windows Insider Program?

Microsoft Insider

was created for all Microsoft 365 users.

  • Office insider participants are granted first-hand access to new features and updates.
  • You can access dynamic array formulas.
  • In addition to this, you can share your comments about developments with the developers.

Click here to become an Office Insider member.


Access to the Insider Program

The procedure below is the simplest and most complete one.
For a long time it was blocked to go back to “standard” Excel version after you became an Insider .

But with this method you can change between channels anytime you want. smiley

When you go to File> Account menu and want to see information about Microsoft Account like synchronized files, you will see that there are 3 standard buttons that enable you to know your software version number and Office news. If you cannot see the Office Insider button there, follow the steps below.

1st Step: Add Office Insider Button to your Account

After yo do the settings below, you will see that the 4th button is added too. Click on the Insider button.
To do it you need to add a key into registry.  To open your registry type regedit on your Windows taskbar.

Normally Office, 16.0 and Common arrays are not on registry, you need to create them.

Path : HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftOffice16.0Common
Key Name: insiderslabbehavior
Value type : REG_DWORD
Value : 1

After you restart Office you will see that on the File > Account menu you have the Office Insider button.

 

2nd Step: Changing Office Channel 

Then, to see both of the recommended levels click on the Insider > Modification Level button.

You can see 2 levels of the available update by clicking on the popup menu: Monthly Channel or Insider.
Needless to say you need to accept terms of use to change the channel of your application.

3rd Step: Differences between the Two Programs

 

Insider Channel
This is the level that open the latest Office updates. Some of them didn’t have the chance to be tested by the developers or to be completed. Thus, it carries a risk to fail your Excel functions and collapse your workbooks (it is pretty common). However, it is the only way to access latest features like XLOOKUP.

My recommendation: Don’t set up this version on a professional environment. Would be better in a test machine.

Monthly Channel
This channel is not for test users, it is for very advanced level Excel users. This version opens up persistent features that are usually non-existent in Office standard version (six month channel). For example, to be able to use dynamic array functions you need to subscribe to one of the 2 levels of Insider. If not, you cannot use them.

For this, if some of your employees want to access features that require Insider, this channel is the one that needs to be set up.

4th Step: Update Office

Whatever Office level you choose, it is a must to update your Office.
Single selection of Office channel is not enough to open the Insider program.

After you choose one of the insider levels and click on update button, upgrade will start automatically.

 

5th Step: Restarting Excel

It is enough to restart your Office apps once or twice to see the changes.

 

Going back to the Six Month Channel (standard version)

The only thing you need to go back to the six month channel which is Office’s basic version:

  • Click on the Insider icon.
  • Uncheck Save to Preview new versions of Office option
  • Update Office again.

 

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How to Add a Poll to a Stream Video

You are at the right place if your organization has educational/informative videos for your users to watch and you want to do polls/tests or collect feedback during videos. It is possible to insert polls that you created in Forms to certain minutes of your videos on Stream. This way while watching the videos people will come across a form and keep watching from where they left after answering. Now let’s take a look at how it is done. 

1. Upload a video on Stream and click on the “Add New” option under “Interactivity”. 

In this step stop the video at the minute you want your poll to appear and continue with the “Add New” option.  

Stream video Interactivity tab ready to add a new form

2. Choose the poll to be added from the Forms app and copy the share link. 

The poll to be added should be created in the “Microsoft Forms” app. Copy the share link of your poll like in the image below. Microsoft Forms screen for getting the URL of the form to copy to Stream

3. Paste the poll link to “Form URL” field. 

Paste the share link of the poll you want to have on your video to the “Form URL” text box and name your poll. Then end your action with the “Add to timeline” option below.  Interactivity tab showing where to paste the URL

4. Job Done! Now your viewers can continue their videos after they reply the poll that comes across them.  

Stream video Interactivity tab showing a new form called Feedback

Power BI – Our 2020 June Favorites

Hello there dear reader!  As much as the weather has different opinions on this subject, according to the seasons calendar they taught us in the 1st grade,  summer is here! This month even if we write about just one of the updates, it would be enough. What an update! Come on, lets start analyzing Power BI June updates right away.

Without keeping you waiting for too long, here is the superstar of the Power BI June updates:

1- Enhancements to mobile authoring

We always liked the fact that Power BI had mobile authoring. Of course it lacked some stuff. For example the squares were too big. Not being able to change the background, not being able to place, not being able to put objects on top of each other could be a bit of a pain in the neck. We got rid of all of them with just one update! Now, isn’t that amazing?

We don’t have to display expressions with low values in huge areas anymore, we can place them to an empty part of a graph. Thus we obtain a mobile layout fully matched with the design of the report. We can easily find images by their names.

There is one more thing that I am still waiting for:  Images that are not displayed on page view can be displayed on mobile layout. For example I use a slicer on page view but it is not useful on mobile layout. I need another slicer special for mobile layout. I hide these slicers or any image that I will be using behind the other graphs. I wish it was not necessary, but i do believe that it will not be in the near future. 😁

2-Automatic Page Refresh

It was a feature that made Pro users on Premium cry out “Aren’t we gonna have automatic page refresh too?” Finally it is released for Pro as well. Now Pro users too can enjoy instant refresh. To enable this feature you have to connect to a Direct Query source with this method. After that you can see this feature in page properties.

3-Enhancements to Hierarchical Slicer

In February hierarchical slicer was introduced to us. We had some issues since then, like issues with icons and font size. It is indicated that with this month’s update we got a new slicer cleared off these issues completely. Now we have more options for expand/collapse icons. Now we are able to customize indentation for child items -we had too seek it in the space back in the day as you know. Also the icons are scaled with the font size.

 

4-RLS is now supported for Featured Tables in Excel’s Data Types gallery

The matter of connecting to Power BI datasets from Excel is developing rapidly. Now, when you mark a table as featured and then publish to the Power BI service, that table will appear in Excel’s data types gallery even if it has RLS rules applied. Previously, these tables were not shown in Excel. This new enhancement means that users in Excel will only see the rows of data they have access to.

5-Line chart dot formatting options

Sometimes we realized that something was not quiet right, that something was missing in this line chart. But what?  We found the missing point, or shall we say the missing dot. Now we can color the dot corresponding to the related title on the X axis in the line chart. We can do it on the Data colors tab in the formatting pane.

6-Data Connectivity

Palantir Foundry Connector

Palantir Foundry is a platform that reimagines how people use data by removing the barriers between back-end data management and front-end data analysis. Foundry enables users with varying technical ability and deep subject matter expertise to work meaningfully with data. With Foundry, anyone can source, connect, and transform data into any shape they desire, then use it to take action.

This connector will soon be available in the Online services section of the Get data dialog.

 

You can click here to go to the download page of Power BI June updated version. And to take a look at out other articles on Power BI you can click here.

 

Wish you all a great month. Take care!

Good game well played.

NOVA IoT Platform Online Press Launch

[mk_page_section][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][mk_fancy_title color=”#000000″ size=”20″ font_family=”none”]NOVA that is a completely domestic and national platform developed by Turkish Engineers in the PEAKUP technology laboratories has been introduced with an online press launch.

Brilliant Invention from Turkish Engineers: Now you can control an office with just one click

“Technology”, the lead actor of the changing world order, is digitalizing everything rapidly. Digitalization that has gotten even faster with the Covid-19 pandemic has surrounded us, so to speak. Our offices where we spend most of our time get their shares from this change as well. But most of us are still worried. The biggest question we have in our minds is if the precautions taken in the offices against pandemic are enough or what awaits people who work from home in the new order… Thanks to the IoT app developed in PEAKUP technology labs, an invention answering all these questions has been made. The era of minimum physical contact in the offices will begin with the IoT platform called NOVA.

Model of working from home that has been tried out for years but got faster with the pandemic is full of unknowns both for the employers and the employees. Even though some of the workers are back at their offices, the old way of working is going to change for sure. PEAKUP that develops technology for the offices of future with products like digital workplace platform Velocity, digital signature application Sign&Go and cyber security solution PassGate brought the IoT Platform NOVA into life, and integrated all these products to the same platform. NOVA that has been introduced by PEAKUP COO Kadircan Toprakçı and Head of Labs Emrah Uslu in the press conference held on Microsoft Teams, turns offices into safer environments, increases efficiency and  savings by minimizing physical contact.

Ahmet Toprakçı who gave the opening speech of the meeting stated that he is proud of the inventor team of NOVA and that their goal now is to export this domestic and national technology to the world. He also reported that their England office might sign a major agreement. Here are the merits of NOVA… [/mk_fancy_title][mk_image src=”https://peakup.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/hodoor05.jpg” image_size=”full” lightbox=”true” align=”center”][mk_fancy_title color=”#000000″ size=”20″ font_family=”none”]


NOVA, welcomes at the office door

NOVA takes the lead starting from the entrance to the office. The biggest benefit is decreasing physical contact in the environment. You will not need to touch the door handle everyone touches, you will not need to touch the remote controller for ac or a button for lighting. Opening a door with fingerprint ends with NOVA as well. All these can be done with just one button on a mobile phone or on a computer screen. Taking someone’s temperature is going to be contact-free and in a risky situation the person is not going to be let in. Warning and guidance systems will kick in by detecting with heat detectors  if someone’s temperature gets high during the day and in which parts of the office this person walked around and with who he/she has been in contact with.[/mk_fancy_title][mk_image src=”https://peakup.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/hodoor03-1.jpg” image_size=”full” lightbox=”true” align=”center”][mk_fancy_title color=”#000000″ size=”20″ font_family=”none”]

Regulates the air inside, prevents crowdedness 

Air density quality and calorific values in the environment are important values when it comes to the health and motivation of office workers. NOVA analyzes all the changes in the air and sends notifications to the system in an adverse condition. Traditional air conditioning systems don’t have any functions other than measuring the environment temperature and automatically turning on and off. NOVA, in addition to these, offers an automatic system management to optimize the conditions by tracking the environment conditions like sufficient lightning, density of carbon dioxide and similar gases, and air flow. System can take the decision of turning on and off in accordance with the conditions that can be defined. It warns the crowded areas by detecting the number people per square meter, plays a determining role in putting specific people into quarantine in cases of risk rather than shutting the whole office down. NOVA that detects people who have been in contact with the person with risk, analyzes and reports it, is the safest and most advanced way of keeping track.[/mk_fancy_title][mk_image src=”https://peakup.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/screen-shot-2020-03-04-at-09.04.19.png” image_size=”full” lightbox=”true” align=”center”][mk_fancy_title color=”#000000″ size=”20″ font_family=”none”]

Meetings are in control of NOVA 

While the digital meetings are becoming more efficient with the functions that Microsoft Teams offers to the workers, online meetings are being done in a shorter period of time and they are more target-driven. While physically it is not possible to have more than 3 meetings a day, the number triples when it comes to online meetings. On top of it, you don’t have to take notes thanks to being able to record the meetings as a video. The number of minutes of online meetings that were 900 million on March, 19 Monday had reached 4.1 billion minutes on April 29, Wednesday. The number of users increased to 75 million from 44 million in the same period of time. All these changes lead to serious expectations on both efficiency and security in physical meeting rooms.  NOVA, by means of the devices placed in the meeting rooms, measure the air quality, crowdedness, time management and organizes the room reservation in compliance with the social distance rules. While entrance of a risky amount of people to the meeting rooms is monitored by NOVA, safer and more target-driven meetings  from the meeting notes to the meeting statistics are possible via the mobile app. /mk_fancy_title][mk_image src=”https://peakup.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/meetingmanager04.jpg” image_size=”full” lightbox=”true” align=”center”][mk_fancy_title color=”#000000″ size=”20″ font_family=”none”]

Savings of 11 thousand dollars in a year increased the attention on the digital workplaces 

PEAKUP COO KadirCan Toprakçı who put emphasis on the fact that even though the offices are enhanced thanks to the advanced technologies, running the business on digital platforms is easier and more efficient  contrary to the popular belief said: “Even though the number of workers working at the office is pretty low right now, it is certain that it will increase over time. But it is estimated that around 30% of the workforce will be done from home a few days a week by the end of 2021 in the whole world. This rate right now is 3.6%. It is a must for the people who cannot  let go of working at the office to redesign their office with regards to the pandemic rules. This means extra costs for a business. NOVA makes the life of both the employers and the employees easier without the need of redesigning the office with its online and offline integration.

Toprakçı who mentioned that the demand for digital workplaces has increased 70% in 3 days with most companies changing to working from home because of corona virus pandemic commented: “A worker working from home provides the employer a saving of 11 thousand dollars a year in average. Interest of businesses that want to carry out the digitalization parallel with the pandemic in change management service given by PEAKUP has increased by 15 times on a monthly basis. This means that our country is going through change parallel with the world trends and that we are on good terms with technology at least as much as the other developed countries. [/mk_fancy_title][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/mk_page_section][vc_row][vc_column][mk_button dimension=”savvy” url=”https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/teknoloji/nesnelerin-interneti-platformlu-nova-tanitildi-41544908″ align=”center”]Hürriyet[/mk_button][mk_button dimension=”savvy” url=”https://www.bthaber.com/artik-tek-tusla-ofis-yonetmek-mumkun/” align=”center”]BT Haber[/mk_button][mk_button dimension=”savvy” url=”https://www.platinonline.com/teknoloji/artik-tek-tusla-ofis-yonetmek-mumkun-1071585″ align=”center”]Platin Dergisi[/mk_button][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Active Directory Setup

First of all, hello everybody! In this article we will be talking about Active Directory Setup together. We need to go over the question of “What is Active Directory?” before we start the setup. It wouldn’t be wrong to briefly say that Active Directory is directory service. So what are the attributions of Active Directory? We can say manageability, delegation, replication, scalability, expandability, and management with group policy.

Before we go into the questions like “What is Active Directory? What is it used for? What are its FSMO roles?” I want to move on to the setup. Because all the attributions and roles we talk about here are an article topic on their own. First we can complete the Active Directory setup, Forest setup and AD Connect setup and then move onto the roles and their attributions. 

For setup we of course need a server. We activate the “Active Directory Domain Services” Role via“Add roles and features” on the server that we will set Active Directory up on.  

Active Directory

Once the said “Active Directory Domain Services” role is added, we will be required to complete the Active Directory setup.  We can access it through the part that is seen as a yellow flag on the Server Manager screen on top right. Since we will be setting up a new Active Directory in this part, we will continue with “Add a new forest”. We continue with next after entering the domain we want to use to the Root domain name section. 

We are required to specify attributions of the dc that we will be setting up and enter a password after we enter the domain. The password we will be entering here is very important. If we were setting up AADC or RODC our steps would have been different. Since we are setting up Active Directory from zero here the settings can be kept as recommended.  

In the next screen we are welcomed by the area concerning DNS. I leave this area empty because I don’t want DC to provide DNS service for now. We will be coming back to DNS service setup and administration later.  We leave the parts that come after DNS service as default and complete the setup by clicking next-next-install. The server will automatically restart when the setup is complete. 

You can see that Active Directory Role on the “Tools” section which is located on top left and top right on Server Manager once the server is on again. To get to the AD you have set up, after clicking Windows button you can reach it through “Windows Administrative Tools”. 


To get to the Golden Rule with the Intranet Portal Velocity article click here 

Manage Microsoft Teams with PowerShell

Hello everybody, we all know that Microsoft Teams that has millions of active users daily has its Admin Center. So do we have the capabilities that we have on the admin center with Powershell that makes IT personnel’s job easier? The answer, for sure, is yes. 🙂 Even if we want to import the list of existing channels or make changes on policies, we can. I will be sharing Powershell cmtlets of the mostly used actions and some Powershell outputs. In addition to what I share, you can access Powershell cmtlet list published by Microsoft through this link. 

Connecting to Microsoft Teams with Powershell   

We need to connect to Teams via PS first to be able to run actions on Powershell just like in Exchange Online. But first we need to install the Microsoft Teams module on PS or if it is installed, we need to import it. I will accept it as not installed for you and share both versions below. 

1. Install-Module MicrosoftTeams

2.Import-Module MicrosoftTeams

3.$credentials=Get-Credential

4.Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $credentials

Teams Login PSAs you can see in the image above, now we are connected to Microsoft Teams with Powershell 

Most Frequently Used Cmtlets for Microsoft Teams on Powershell 

Cmtlet To Find Out Current Team List :

Get-Team

Cmtlet to Find Out the List of users in Microsoft Team : Get-TeamUser -GroupId 2f162b0e-36d2-4e15-8ba3-ba229cecdccf

Cmtlet to See the Owners in the existing Team : Get-TeamUser -GroupId 2f162b0e-36d2-4e15-8ba3-ba229cecdccf -Role Owner

Teams

Cmtlet to Add a User to the Team on Microsoft Teams : Add-TeamUser -GroupId 31f1ff6c-d48c-4f8a-b2e1-abca7fd399df -User [email protected]

Cmtlet to Remove a User from the Team on Microsoft Teams : Remove-TeamUser -GroupId 31f1ff6c-d48c-4f8a-b2e1-abca7fd399df -User [email protected]

Cmtlet to Add a User to Private Channel on Microsoft Teams : Add-TeamChannelUser -GroupId 31f1ff6c-d48c-4f8a-b2e1-abca7fd399df -DisplayName “Engineering” -User [email protected]

Cmtlet to Remove a User from a Private Channel on Microsoft Teams :Remove-TeamChannelUser -GroupId 31f1ff6c-d48c-4f8a-b2e1-abca7fd399df -DisplayName “Engineering” -User [email protected]

Cmtlet to Remove a Team on Microsoft Teams : Remove-Team -GroupId 31f1ff6c-d48c-4f8a-b2e1-abca7fd399df

 

Even though the actions we run on Powershell save us time compared to GUI, the changes we make are going to take some time to be displayed on the system and always keep in mind that Powershell doesn’t afford mistakes. It is important to check the cmtlets that we haven’t tested or we are not sure 3 times before we run them.  

I hope that this was helpful for you. 

You can click here to read our article about the effects of severe paper usage in offices on deforestation.  

A Deep Insight into Guest Access

Guest access allows users outside your organization to access your existing teams and channels and cooperate with the people in your organization.  

Guests are people like partners, suppliers, and consultants that are not workers or members of your organization. Anyone who is not a part of your organization can be added to Teams as a guest. Which means that anyone that has a business (I.e. an Azure AD account) or a consumer e-mail account (Outlook.com, Gmail.com etc.) can join your teams and channels with full access as a guest. All guests in Teams are covered by the same compliance and auditing protection with the rest of Microsoft 365 and can be managed securely within Azure AD 

Guest Access is tenant-level setting that is turned off by default on the Admin Center and when it is turned on everyone in your organization can add guests to Microsoft 356 Groups. Guest Access includes a lot of Microsoft 365 subscriptions without the need of an extra license 


There are two different options as Guest Access and External Access for communication with people outside your organization in Organization-wide Settings of Teams Admin Center . Guests access allows people outside your organization to reach your teams and channels while External Access allows communication by entering their e-mail into the Search Box in Teams. Most importantly, WHILE EXTERNAL ACCESS GIVES ACCESS PERMISSION TO AN ENTIRE DOMAIN, GUEST ACCESS GIVES ACCESS PERMISSION TO INDIVIDUALS!

You can see the guest access diagram below: 

Managing Guest Access 

Guest Access can be managed at 4 main levels: 

  1. Azure Active Directory
  2. Microsoft Teams
  3. Microsoft 365 Groups
  4. SharePoint Online & OneDrive for Business

Azure Active Directory

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft 365 Groups

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-dependencies

Ideal Office Environment During the “New Normal”

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_fancy_title size=”20″ font_family=”none”]Workplaces have started to gradually go back to work life with the normalization process.  Terms that we didn’t use 3 months ago like social distance, face shield, 3 mm mask have come into our lives. We have to learn how to live with the new normal until we go back to the “normal” that we are used to. But how is our new normal going to be when we go back to our offices? Here are the precautions we have to take against Covid-19 that has a very high spreading rate: 

Inside the office:

  • We should disinfect our offices with a special team and equipment in a way that will provide 2 months of protection, 
  • Common use area should be reorganized in accordance with social distance rules; warnings and guidelines to inform people should be placed, 
  • Maintenance of air conditioners that we use for in-office air conditioning and ventilation should be carried out regularly. To fight Covid-19, disinfectants that provide long term protection should be applied to air conditioners and our equipment should be made safer, 
  • Masks and face shields should be provided to be used while coming to work and going from work, and at work. 
  • Hand sanitizers should be handed out to workers, 
  • Trash cans special for throwing used masks and gloves should be placed at the door entrances, 
  • It is a must to take and record every workers temperature while they are entering the office every day, 
  • Sitting arrangement of workers should be reorganized with regards to social distance rules, 
  • Offices, meeting rooms and restrooms, elevator, hand rails of the stairs, door handles, equipment like tools with screens that are frequently touched, computer keyboards, mouses and phones should be disinfected regularly. 

Services:

  • Capacity of all service vehicles should be redetermined with regards to social distance rules. 
  • Hand sanitizers and disposable masks should be provided in vehicles. 
  • To prevent possible overcrowdedness, service timetables should be rescheduled 

Keep in mind that we can prevent this pandemic by taking personal measures and keeping social distance.  We all have to take a responsibility in this new normal period. Just like authorities mention all the time, social distance and wearing masks are our most important weapons against the virus.  

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Office Insider – What Happened in June?


NEW FEATURES/FIXES

 

You can find and follow all monthly Office insider new features and fixes (updates) on our blog. 👍🏻  Officer insider gets updates and new features regularly. It is important to follow these Office insider updates and use them in terms of increasing your knowledge. Now let’s take a look at what kind of changes happened in Office insider in the month of June.

 

 

June 06, 2020

 

excel new iconExcel

Sheet View

Now you can sort and filter your Excel file while collaborating with others with Sheet View.
Thanks to this new feature, users working on the file together don’t get affected by the others’ sorting and filters.

 

Create PivotTables from Datasets in Power BI

Now, you can create PivotTables connected to datasets stored in Power BI in Excel with just a few clicks. This allows you to get the best of both PivotTables and Power BI.
Calculate, summarize, and analyze your data with PivotTables from your secure Power BI datasets.

Learn More

Notable fixes

  • An issue that caused the custom values in the chart axis not to be applied correctly has been fixed.
  • An issue that caused saving worksheets containing multiple formulas with defined names to take more time compared to now.

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Quickly reopen items from previous session

We added an option to quickly reopen items from your previous session. Now you can automatically restore items that were open when Outlook got locked or closed.
To turn off the feature go to Options > General > Start up options.

önceki oturumdaki öğeleri yeniden açma

Notable Fixes

  • An issue where the Input Method Editor (IME) window would overlap the underlying text being entered via the IME when using multiple monitors with different resolutions has been fixed.
  • An issue where viewing a template when composing a new email message would result in a crash has been fixed.
  • An issue where users were unable to Exchange 2010 public folders after Outlook version 1911 has been fixed.
  • An issue where the Categorize button for group calendars in the Office Ribbon was disabled has been fixed.
  • An issue that caused users to experience a crash in Outlook when working with hyperlinks in plain text emails has been fixed.
  • An issue that caused Outlook to be unable to parse long file names encoded with RFC2231 has been fixed.
  • An issue that was causing Outlook users to experience intermittent hangs when using screen readers has been fixed.
  • An issue that resulted in the Online Archive dropdown in folder properties to be missing for users on high DPI monitors has been fixed.
  • An issue that would cause users with conflicting contacts to experience crashes in Outlook has been fixed.

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Notable fixes

  • An issue where timestamps in Comment panes were not based on the system locale time has been fixed.
  • An issue where comments between the web app and the desktop application were not in sync has been fixed.

PowerPoint

Notable Fixes

  • We fixed an issue where the slide editor from one slide would overlap on to the next slide.
  • We fixed an issue where a Comment pane that had been closed by the user would re-open automatically.
  • We fixed an issue where PowerPoint files with embedded charts/workbooks could result in failures when saving the file.
  • We fixed an issue with opening files from server-configured with Forms-based authentication.

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Notable Fixes

  • We fixed an issue that prevented orphaned tasks from being deleted or reassigned after the parent plan was deleted.

 

June 12, 2020

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Get Organization Data from Power BI using Data Types

Excel data types from Power BI are now rolling out to Insiders in organizations with Office 365 E5/A5 or Microsoft 365 E5/A5. Getting the information you need and easily refreshing it is critical to many everyday workflows.  You can access your company or organization information from Power BI as a data type in Excel, which expands your ability to bring in linked information in your spreadsheets.

Learn More 

Notable Fixes

  • An issue where the major gridlines of radar charts could not be formatted correctly has been fixed.

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Notable Fixes

  • An issue where the ability to clear formatting within the Comments pane via the Clear Formatting button in the Office Ribbon was not working has been fixed.
  • An issue where changing the size of a table when the ruler is not displayed caused other applications running in the background to start flashing has been fixed.
  • An issue where if Word had a list of more than 50 frequently opened documents, then after saving and opening a document, a revision history would be displayed even though no revisions were made to that document has been fixed.

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Notable Fixes

  • An issue where a baseline reset or update could change time-phased budget cost/work resources and the baseline could reflect incorrect budget values has been fixed.
  • An issue where the ProjectBeforeTaskChange event didn’t fire when there was a change to the project summary task, either the project start/task field has been fixed.

Access

Notable Fixes

  • An issue that caused Microsoft Access to fail to identify an Identity Column in a linked SQL Server table, which could cause rows to be reported as deleted incorrectly has been fixed.

June 19, 2020

 

excel new iconExcel

Notable Fixes

  • An issue where workbooks were read-only when the file only had read-only recommended has been fixed.
  • An issue where CustomUI XML for a custom ribbon tab was removed when saving to SharePoint /OneDrive has been fixed.

PowerPoint

Notable Fixes

  • An issue where a user’s presence color indicator was not getting refreshed in the co-authoring gallery during a live, co-authoring session has been fixed.

word new iconWord

Notable Fixes

  • An issue where the HTML hyperlink color was not being rendered correctly has been fixed.

outlook new iconOutlook

Notable Fixes

  • An issue where the Input Method Editor window would overlap the underlying text being entered via the IME when using multiple monitors with different resolutions has been fixed.
  • An issue where the dates in mini calendar failed to display in bold for users in Japan has been fixed.
  • An issue that prevented calendar reminders from showing exact times for the meetings coming up in less than a week has been fixed.
  • An issue that caused users to see the following error when closing an appointment that was previously saved has been fixed: “The item cannot be saved because it was changed by another user or in another window. Do you want to make a copy in the default folder for the item?”

msproject new iconProject

Notable Fixes

  • An issue where if Fixed Duration tasks are%100 complete but Actual Finish is not specified, the Task % Complete would display as less than 100% has been fixed.

 

Office Suite

Notable Fixes

  • An issue where the URLs that were not http or http based were not being displayed in the Most Recently Used list hast been fixed.

 

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