Guide: How to do the change management for Office 365 clients?

Daily i come across good number of customers/IT pros where they want to know more about the change management for Office 365 clients, so i am posting the related info here.

As you aware the client applications that are included with Office 365 are released regularly with updates that provide new features and functionality together with security and other updates. Windows 10 has also adopted this servicing model and is also releasing new functionality regularly. As an IT Professional, you need to understand this servicing model and how you can manage the releases while your organization takes advantage of the new functionality.

So we have documented the detailed info about the change management for Office 365 clients, service models for updates, understand about the release channels, cadences and how to effectively manage the release of Office 365 client application for your organization  – so please go through and make use of it.

In addition, you can refer the related articles as well:

Overview of update channels for Office 365 ProPlus

Overview of Windows as a service

Microsoft cloud IT architecture resources

Release information for updates to Office 365 ProPlus

Hope this helps.

Join monthly Microsoft Graph Community Call @ May 1, 2018

Its time for #MicrosoftGraph monthly community call, May 1 at 8AM PST. Join us to learn about Security APIs, Extension updates and more.

Invite @ https://aka.ms/microsoftgraphcall …

Office 365 Graph Developer : Lets use Microsoft Graph Delta Query…

As you aware that Microsoft Graph provides a single API endpoint that gives you access to rich people-centric data and insights, via a number of resources like users and messages. Many applications need to keep track of what’s changing in these data sets, and we recently added support for delta query across a variety of resources on our /beta endpoint to help make that easier. These include Users, Groups, Messages, Mail Folders, Calendar Events, Personal Contacts, and Contact Folders.

So what is Microsoft Graph delta query? This capability enables applications to discover newly created, updated, or deleted resources and relationships without performing a full read with every request. delta query also provides change tracking for relationships between these entities, like changes to a user’s manager and group membership updates.

Here is a video which talks about it in-detail:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/MicrosoftGraph/Use-Microsoft-Graph-Delta-Query-to-keep-data-up-to-date/player

Watch this video to learn more about Delta Query, scenarios where it is useful, and how to use it in your applications.

You can try one of the following:

Ok, let we try few and burn our hands.

This time let we try specific to messages in the given Inbox folder and see what i notice…

Let me call,

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/inbox/messages/delta/

I see the following response:

{
     “@odata.context”: “https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#Collection(message)”,
     “@odata.nextLink”: “https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/inbox/messages/delta/?$skiptoken=q5iAzeZ8lj7sNlt4pNN8MJIcMDKCWl9cflb41CDbnbtj6s4MQJzos4Fc99nM_6a_OutQ07fNQUeW7Q.DLfr-2TZABSAM-“,
     “value”: [
         {
             “@odata.type”: “#microsoft.graph.message”,
             “@odata.etag”: “W/”CQAAABYAAABuW0RzxJhUT4ez5BWQCxI9AABAJ1D1″”,
             “createdDateTime”: “2017-06-19T18:04:42Z”,
             “lastModifiedDateTime”: “2017-06-19T18:04:42Z”,
             “changeKey”: “CQAAABYAAABuW0RzxJhUT4ez5BWQCxI9AABAJ1D1”,
             “categories”: [],
             “receivedDateTime”: “2017-06-19T18:04:42Z”,
             “sentDateTime”: “2017-06-19T11:50:56Z”,
             “hasAttachments”: false,

You can find detailed examples containing series of requests and responses for various resources, along with additional information on using Delta Query in our documentation: 

• delta query Overview
• Example: Events
• Example: Messages
• Example: Groups
• Example: Users
• Example: Drive

Hope this helps.

Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 1

Last week we announced the Update 1 for Microsoft Studio 2015 and you can download it from Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. This release includes our latest feature and functionality updates – refer the below snapshot:

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For more detailed info, you can refer the release notes – https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/vs2015-update1-vs.aspx

In addition, it also talks about Bug Fixes, known issues and related releases etc. – refer the below snapshot:

Hope this helps.

Office IT Pro: Deployment scripts for Office 2016

To help IT pros with Office client deployments using PowerShell to streamline the process we created a community project.  It contains all of the scripts on our GitHub repository in five categories:

– Preparation
– Information
– Deployment
– Management
– Updates

Also please visit the related Wiki, which contains useful information designed to provide context for using these scripts in real-world situations. So its your go-to source for all information related to Office IT pro deployment scripts. It holds information explaining completed scripts, upcoming scripts and general information around contributing to the project. You are invited to contribute to the Office IT Pro deployment scripts GitHub Project; also you can get more information here and https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts/wiki/Contribute.

Make use of this project and take advantage of these scripts

Microsoft Office 2010 SP2 available for download

Now you can download Office 2010 SP2 which provides the latest updates for Office 2010. This service pack includes two kinds of fixes: (1) Previously unreleased fixes that are included in this service pack. In addition to general product fixes, these fixes include improvements in stability, performance, and security. (2) All the public updates that were released through May 2013, and all the cumulative updates that were released through April 2013.

Either you can install this via Microsoft Update (recommended one) or download Office 201 SP2 32-bit or Office 201 SP2 64-bit package. For more info you can refer, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687455

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//build 2013

Yesterday Steve Ballmer kicked off Build 2013 in San Francisco (The Moscone Center, June 26-June 28) by announcing the availability of the Windows 8.1 Preview, which I blogged earlier. This years Build 2013 will showcase how developers can take advantage of the future of Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Visual Studio and much more.  At Build, we’ll share updates and talk about what’s next for Windows, Windows Server, Windows Azure, Visual Studio, and more. Build is the path to creating and implementing your great ideas, and then differentiating them in the market.

You can watch it live or offline by sessions @ Build 2013. You can check the schedule by clicking here. For more additional event information you can refer more @ http://www.buildwindows.com/.

Enjoy the session. Cheers

Windows Phone 7.8 Update 7.10.8862.144

I got the above update couple of days earlier to my HTC Mozart device. At this, check its build number – 7.10.8862.144 (You’ll see same on your phone in Settings > About > More info). It contains the following update:

Start. Provides resizable small, medium, and large Live Tiles so you can customize your Start experience in new ways.

Accent colors. Expands the number of available accent colors to 20.

Lock screen. Improves the lock screen experience with accidental wipe protection features and the Bing image of the day wallpaper.

Marketplace and Xbox. Expands Windows Phone Marketplace and Xbox support to new countries and regions.

Fonts. Enhances the Chinese font and improves the appearance of Arabic and other languages.

Live Tiles. Fixes performance issues from a previous update.

Other improvements. Includes many other improvements to Windows Phone.

For more information, you can refer: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-to/wp7/basics/update-history…. Enjoy!!

Latest Windows Phone Update

Hi Windows Phone users, Recently I got the latest Windows phone update for my HTC Phone (OS Version 7.10.8112.7)…

This software update includes the following:

So, connect your phone via Zune to update it

Download: Exchange Web Services (EWS) Managed API 1.2.1

Now, you can download the latest Exchange Web Services (EWS) Managed API 1.2.1 (version 14.03.0067.001) @ two flavors – 64-bit, 32-bit. It provides a managed interface for developing client applications that use Exchange Web Services. 

The latest EWS Managed API 1.2.1 includes new Exchange Web Services (EWS) client logging features for Exchange Online as part of Office 365, as well as some minor bug fixes. It introduces an important change for client applications that target Microsoft Office 365. This change includes the following two new properties on the ExchangeService object:

• ExchangeService.ReturnClientRequestId – Indicates whether the x-ms-client-request-id header is sent. This is set to true by default.

• ExchangeService.SendClientLatencies – Indicates whether the client will send client latency information to Exchange Online. This is set to true by default.

For more information, you can refer the articles @ Exchange API-spotting and Exchange Web Services Managed API 1.2.1 SDK page.

How to install the latest applicable updates for Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010?

The above query is a common one that we receive from our customers. Have a look at our support KB regarding this (specific to US English version only) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2625547 . This article provides a comprehensive list of the most recent hotfix updates and service packs for Microsoft Outlook. Some Outlook features are dependent on Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office components. Therefore, you should also install the latest updates for the Word and Office core components.

The above article is applicable to Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010. Also, the above article will be updated to reference new updates as they are released.

Note: You can visit the Update Center for Microsoft Office (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee748587.aspx) to find links to the most recent cumulative and public updates for Microsoft Office.

Happy updating!!

Update: Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 available for download

The Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update is now available for your download.

It enables Windows Phone developers to do two things:

• Develop apps that work well on the new 256 MB devices
• Use the WPSDK 7.1 to develop on machines running Windows 8

The 7.1.1 Update is really just that – it’s an update to the existing WPSDK: it doesn’t add much in the way of new features to your WPSDK installation; it updates your existing install to do a few new tricks:

• The Visual Studio IDE is patched to enable selection from a list of emulators, and launching it (note that the WPSDK can only support connecting to one at a time, though)
• The Windows Phone [512 MB device] emulator image is updated to use build 8773
• A second, new emulator device image is included, allowing you to emulate running your app on a 256 MB device
• The Microsoft Advertising SDK is updated to the latest version (previously only available as a separate install)
• IntelliSense now supports specifying the 512 MB device requirement in your manifest file, should you choose to opt your app out from running on the new 256 MB devices
• Language support is again consistent both in the IDE (the 7.1.1 Update supports all 10 of the WPSDK 7.1 languages) and in the emulator OS (Malay and Indonesian been added)