BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 now Available

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Jan 312012
 

BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 offers advanced administration and flexible smartphone self-service features to support an organization’s BlackBerry deployment in the cloud. Key features include:

  • Wireless synchronization with Microsoft Exchange Online email, calendar and organizer data from a BlackBerry smartphone
  • BlackBerry Balance technology, which presents a unified view of work and personal content on a BlackBerry smartphone while keeping the content separate and secure
  • An intuitive web-based console for IT administrators to provision, manage and secure BlackBerry smartphones from anywhere
  • Online access to employee self-service smartphone security functions, allowing users to easily reset a device password or remotely lock or wipe a device in the event of loss or theft

Managed service providers, systems integrators, carriers, resellers and other partners can also use the cloud service to manage BlackBerry deployments on behalf of their customers.

The service is available today in over 50 countries including Singapore. Customers can go to www.blackberry.com/cloudservices to get started.

Office 2010 Developer Training Course and Training Kit (June 2011)

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Jun 122011
 

An update to the MSDN Office 2010 Developer Training Course and downloadable training Kit has just been released. Updates include two new training Modules around developing your own custom Outlook Social Connector Provider and connecting up Office with Azure Services. There is also new content for the Open XML 2.0 SDK, using the JavaScript Object Model (JSOM) with Excel and Visio Services and how to migrate an Excel client solution to a new service-based Web solution.

Developing an Outlook Social Connector Provider:

The Outlook Social Connector (OSC) is a set of new features in Outlook 2010 that help you keep track of friends and colleagues while enabling you to grow your professional network. As your read your email, you can view information in the People Pane such as the picture, name, and title of the sender along with a rich aggregated collection of status updates and activities related to the sender. This module has a hands-on lab that provides the basics on developing a custom Social Connector Provider that can bring social or line-of-business data directly into Outlook 2010.

Using the JavaScript Object Model (JSOM) with Visio and Excel Services:

Visio Services includes a JavaScript Object Model that allows developers to integrate JavaScript code with a Visio Web Access web part. The objective of this hands-on lab is to provide you with a foundation for using the Visio JSOM to expand the functionality of a Visio Web Access web part.

Likewise, the Excel JSOM provides a way to interact with the Excel Web Access web part. The hands-on lab provides the fundamentals for doing so.

Open XML SDK 2.0:

For the Open XML SDK 2.0 there are two new videos with demo scripts and source code. The demo scripts and source code are located in the Open XML Programming Lab’s source folder.

  • The first video is an introduction to the Open XML SDK 2.0. The demo shows how to pull data out of an Excel document and generate a Word employee appraisal document on the client.
  • The second video discusses using the Open XML SDK 2.0 for solution development and demonstrates using the SDK for highly scalable document generation on SharePoint coupled with Word Automation Services.

Designing Excel Solutions for the Web:

Excel Services, part of SharePoint Server 2010, offers new capabilities to developers looking to create server-based Excel solutions either on-premises or in the cloud with Office 365. This hands-on lab will explore some of the common tasks that developers perform while designing and migrating Excel client-based solutions to Excel Services-based solutions.

In the two videos that accompany this module, Larry Waldman, Excel Program Manager, discusses how to think about designing Excel solutions for the Web and shows how to execute the migration of an Excel client solution to a web-based Excel Services solution. Larry discusses how to use the Excel Services JavaScript object model, the Excel Services REST API and the Excel Web Service to round-out the new web solution.

Office 365 is moving to Public Beta

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Apr 182011
 


Microsoft Office 365 beta is now open to public for registration. If you haven’t done so yet, go join the public beta and try out Microsoft Office 365. It will take about 2-4 weeks to get your registration approved. After you get into the beta, you can visit the Office 365 Community site for more information on using Microsoft Office 365.

Microsoft Office 365 (Plan P1) Beta is a subscription service that combines the familiar Microsoft Office Web Apps with online versions of our next-generation communications and collaboration services:

  • Email & Calendar
  • Office Web Apps
  • Websites & Collaboration
  • IM & Online Meetings