Office 2016 is Out Today!

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The new version of Office 2016 for Windows desktops is available today. It is the full-featured set of Office apps, best suited for PC’s with a keyboard and mouse.

For Office 365 Personal and Home users, Office 2016 apps are available via the Office.com portal. Customers with Volume Licensing agreements will be able to download the new version of Office starting from October 1 via the Volume Licensing Servcice Center (VLSC).

New Features

These are just a few new features in Office 2016:

  • Real Time Presence in Word
  • Simplified File Sharing
  • Insights (powered by Bing)
  • Version History improvements
  • Improved grammar checker
  • Power Pivot improvements

With this release comes the Data Loss Prevention, additional document coauthoring capabilities, new navigation support, files syncing to OneDrive, integration with Power BI, and more.

Updates

The updating scheme is similiar to the one available for Windows 10. Office 365 ProPlus customers will recieve the Current Branch scheme with new feature releases and security updates on a monthly basis. The other model is called Current Branch for Business which will offer updates every four months, with monthly security updates.

 

KulenDayz: Hrvoje Kusulja – IT Overview of the Office 365 Admin Portal Menu

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KulenDayz is a different kind of IT conference with unusual conference rooms, casual speakers and atmosphere. The conference is suitable for developers, database administrators, web developers and other IT professionals.

Our COO, Hrvoje Kusulja, will give an overview of the portal.office.com/admin interface. You will have an opportunity to see the options within the Microsoft Office 365 Admin portal menu from an IT point of view, as well as its connection with Azure, CRM, Intune, Yammer and other cloud services.

When and where?

Date and time: September 09th, 2015;

Location: Osijek, Croatia

Register for the conference via the link below:

Conference registration

Presentation info

About Hrvoje:

Hrvoje-Kusulja-3-PROSystem engineer by profession. Graduated Information Technologies from Polytechnic of Zagreb and worked in parallel in his own company on system engineering tasks such as IBM Enterprise Systems, Microsoft solutions – Windows Server, Exchange, System Center, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, Office 365, Azure Cloud solutions, etc. Earned numerous Microsoft and IBM certifications, as well as various awards and honors from his high school and faculty. Mostly devoted to Cloud technologies and perfecting himself in this field.

We Have Changed Our Domain

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As a result of our increasing focus on the foreign market we’ve decided to move from .hr to .eu as our primary top-level Internet domain. This change serves to emphasize our openness to business across the European Union and Worldwide.

Please update your contact address book by changing our e-mail addresses from @3pro.hr to @3pro.eu.

If you had us on your Skype for Business (formerly Lync) contact list, please remove the old contacts and re-add them using the @3pro.eu suffix.

www.3pro.eu provides information about the services we provide:

  • IT Infrastructure
    • Servers
    • Storage
    • Backup
    • Infrastructure Software
    • Licensing
    • IT Services
  • Business Solutions
    • Messaging
    • Communication
    • Collaboration
    • Customer Relationship Management
    • Custom Development
  • Cloud
    • Office 365
    • Social
    • Power BI
    • CRM Online
    • Device Management
    • IaaS
    • PaaS

We have also changed the URLs on our social network pages. Follow 3 PRO via social media to keep up-to-date with the latest company news:

Facebook

Twitter

LinkedIn

Google +

YouTube

Our Mission:

To follow the latest trends in the IT industry and enable our clients to take full advantage of what technology can offer for the betterment of their businesses, allowing them to become more competitive in the market.

Our Vision:

Continuous investment into knowledge, human resources and technology paves the way to our success.

Skype for Business Technical Preview Available for Office 365 Enterprise Users

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The Skype for Business client was officially launched this year on March 18th and, as from now, a free technical preview is available for all eligible Office 365 Enterprise users.

The technical preview provides early access to new features:

  • Skype Meeting Broadcast
    • Available for all Office 365 customers
    • Enables Skype for Business meeting up to 10 000 people
    • Suitable for public webinars
    • Integrated with Bing Plus for real-time polling and with Yammer for dialogue during the broadcast
  • PSTN Conferencing
    • Available for U.S. Office 365 users only
    • Allows people to join an online meeting via smartphone or tablet from locations with no Internet access
  • Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling
    • Also available for Office 365 U.S. users only
    • Provides traditional phone calls with the possibility of managing call features such as hold, forward and transfer

New features are not finalized yet. General availability will most likely be at the end of the year.

About Skype for Business

Skype for Business is an excellent solution if you want to bring communication and collaboration to a new level. It gives you everything you need: instant messaging, audio and video calls, online meetings and sharing – all in one app that works with Office.

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You can access it anywhere, from your favorite device or web browser. All you need is an Internet connection.

High-level security protects your conversations with strong authentication and encryption. Also, you control employee use by adding and removing subscriptions and assigning features according to their collaboration needs.

You’re not an Office 365 user yet? Contact us and feel free to ask anything you would like to know about its implementation.

Microsoft NetWork 5: Hrvoje Kusulja – Power BI and On-Premises Databases

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For the first time, Hrvoje Kusulja will be presenting on the Microsoft NetWork conference. It is the fifth edition of this event, and this year it will be held in Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The presentation will be about the possibilities of Office 365 Power BI solutions and their integration with on-premises SQL databases, including Microsoft SQL Server and other database engines like MySQL and IBM DB2.

It is a very useful presentation to those who have existing databases on which they’d like to apply various Business Intelligence scenarios.

Date and time: April 29th, 2015

Location: Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Register for the conference via the link below:

Conference registration

About Hrvoje:

System engineer by profession. Information Technologies Graduate from Polytechnic of Zagreb; worked in parallel in his own company on system engineering tasks such as IBM Enterprise Systems, Microsoft solutions – Windows Server, Exchange, System Center, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, Office 365, Azure Cloud solutions, etc. Earned numerous Microsoft and IBM certifications, as well as various awards and honors from his high school and faculty. Mostly devoted to Cloud technologies and constantly perfecting himself in this field.