Office 365 New Features for December 2013

Checking back in after a great holiday vacation, and wish all of our Partners a great 2014!!!

Normally at the beginning of the month, I post a video and list of the O365 features that were released in the previous month, but December was relatively slow on new feature releases as our Partners, Customers, and Employees spent some well-deserved time with their families.  Don’t worry… there is plenty of innovation in the pipeline, so look forward to a much longer “Office 365 New Features for January 2014” post next month.

Over on the Office 365 Technology Blog, Andy posted a list of the Office 365 features released in December:

https://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2014/01/02/what-s-new-december-2013.aspx

Office 365 Home Premium & Office 365 University updates:

Outlook.com makes it even easier to switch from Gmail - A new tool easily imports your mail and contacts, preserves the "read" status, and enables you to send email from your @gmail.com address from within Outlook.com.

OneNote for Android update - Capture information from anywhere on your phone with a new Add to OneNote via the Android Share button. See recent notes from your Home screen with the new OneNote Recent Widget.

Office 365 for business updates*:

Office 365 Admin app - Office 365 admins can now see their Office 365 service health dashboard on their iPhone and Android devices.

Switch Plans to a different Office 365 service family - Customers can now upgrade from Small Business plans to Midsize and Enterprise plans, or from the Midsize plan to an Enterprise plan.

OneNote for Android update - Capture information from anywhere on your phone with a new Add to OneNote via the Android Share button. See recent notes from your Home screen with the new OneNote Recent Widget.

Office 365 Education updates*:

In addition to the Office 365 for Business updates,

Student Advantage is now available - Educational institutions that subscribe to Office 365 ProPlus for their faculty and staff can now extend Office 365 ProPlus to their students at no additional cost.

*Not all updates apply to every Office 365 plan; please check the individual post for specifics.

Previous feature update posts are available below:

Office 365 New Features for October 2013
Office 365 New Features for November 2013

A playlist with all the Office 365 Monthly Service Update videos is available here.