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OneDrive for Business training now available

This past spring Information Technology Services rolled out OneDrive for Business to the campus community. This is a service that enables you to access data stored in OneDrive for Business from multiple devices as well as through a web browser. Many are interested in the sharing capabilities that this services brings and there are a lot of questions around how best to use and access all of the features.

Throughout the summer and into the fall, Information Technology Services will be providing training opportunities via Zoom covering the features and usage options of OneDrive for Business.

The initial round of Zoom-based training are scheduled for the following dates and times:

Additional training will be offered over the next several months so keep an eye on K-State Today for announcements on new dates.

Microsoft Lync becoming Skype for Business

In April, Microsoft began the transition of their Lync product to Skype for Business. Over the next several months, Microsoft will be updating their Lync applications to reflect the new Skype for Business name.

Along with the renaming of Lync, Microsoft has started to make changes to the look and feel of the Skype for Business applications to bring the end user experience more in line with other Skype products. At this time, the Lync application that is installed as a part of Office 2013 for Windows has been updated.

The week of May 4, K-State will be transitioning the Lync service that is a part of Office 365 to the new Skype for Business branding. The only change that the campus community will see is the Skype for Business branding and a new user interface when Office 2013 is updated with the latest Microsoft patches. As Microsoft updates their other Lync applications, K-Staters will see Skype for Business replace the Lync applications.

For more information on Skype for Business, see Discover Skype for Business and Lync is now Skype for Business.

Office 365: OneDrive for sharing and storage

by Information Technology Services

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OneDrive is now available campus-wide. With 1TB of file space, OneDrive can be used as a file sharing and storage solution for class assignments, homework, departmental and committee documents, public research data, and other project information. With OneDrive, you can securely share files with specific individuals.

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Office 365: New features covered in Zoom sessions March 26-27

Three Zoom videoconferencing sessions are scheduled this Thursday-Friday for students and faculty/staff to learn more about new features for Office 365 that were released earlier this month by Information Technology Services, including:

  • Free Office 365 for desktop applications (Office 2013 for Windows, and Office 2011 for Mac)
  • Office Web Applications
  • Office mobile applications
  • OneDrive for Business
  • Lync

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Office 365: Web apps, OneDrive, and ProPlus coming this week

by Information Technology Services

Today, the new features of Microsoft Office 365 begin rolling out to K-State students and faculty/staff through their webmail accounts. The process will continue throughout the week, until all users have access to the OneDrive file-storage space and Office Online web apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote). If you do not see these features in your App Launcher by Monday, March 16, contact the IT Help Desk.

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Office 365: New features to be released the week of March 9

by Information Technology Services

During the week of March 9, Information Technology Services will release the following new features for Office 365:

  • OneDrive, a file-storage space that provides 1 terabyte (1TB) of storage that can be synced across all your devices
  • Office Online, a web-based version of Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote)
  • Office ProPlus, which provides desktop and mobile app versions of Microsoft Office

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Microsoft makes iOS Office apps free

Green "Office" graphic with Word, Excel, PowerPoint icons (created by iTAC staffer)Microsoft announced that the iOS Office apps will be available for free, without the need of an Office 365 subscription. The apps include mobile versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. To access the editing features, log into the apps with a Microsoft account (Live or Hotmail account), which can be freely created at www.live.com. Previously users would have needed an Office 365 subscription to edit within the iOS Office apps.

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Two Microsoft Excel training sessions Aug. 12

iTAC is offering two Introduction to Microsoft Excel 2010 classes to all faculty/staff. Both classes are in Fairchild 9 and require advance registration through the HRIS system.

  • 9:30-10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12
  • 4:30-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12

This one-hour introduction to Excel will cover the basics of Excel spreadsheets: Create and save a workbook; enter data; format a spreadsheet; copy, move, or delete data; change the order of a spreadsheet; filter out extra information; calculate data with formulas; chart your data; and print​​​.

New features in Office 365

by Information Technology Services

Microsoft continually rolls out updated features in Office 365. Below are a few highlights of new features implemented over the last few months:

Microsoft Office 2013 in university computing labs and K-State InfoCommons

The newest Microsoft Office suite, version 2013, was installed over the summer on all Windows computers in the university computing labs and K-State InfoCommons (Hale Library). The software suite is also on three Windows computers near the IT Help Desk at 214 Hale Library. These resources are available to all K-Staters. Continue reading “Microsoft Office 2013 in university computing labs and K-State InfoCommons”