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Published February 13, 2015

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Microsoft Announces FIDO Support Coming to Windows 10

Today, Microsoft was a participant at the United States White House Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection Summit at Stanford University where industry leaders gathered to discuss collaborative opportunities and new developments that will bolster cybersecurity.

Published May 13, 2014

12 min read

Choosing a sign-in model for Office 365

We get a lot of questions about which of the three identity models to choose with Office 365. Which of these models you choose will impact where you manage your user accounts for Office 365 and how those user sign-in passwords are verified.

Published April 15, 2014

8 min read

Synchronizing your directory with Office 365 is easy

Paul Andrew is technical product manager for Identity Management on the Office 365 team. If you’re just getting started with Office 365, you’re probably considering how to extend the user directory that you use for accessing internal resources for connecting to cloud resources.

Published September 3, 2013

4 min read

Works with Office 365 – Identity program

To help organizations adopt Office 365 easier and integrate with their existing Identity solutions we wanted to tell customers about the Works with Office 365-Identity program, which provides testing and qualification of third-party identity providers with Office 365. Office 365 uses Windows Azure Active Directory for identity management and through this includes directory synchronization and federation.

Published August 28, 2012

4 min read

Comments and Revisions in Word 2013

Following on our introductory post to Word 2013 by Tristan Davis, here we discuss how we’ve polished the scenarios around reviewing documents using comments and tracked changes. We’ve improved how we display comments and revisions, and added some nifty features to make your scenarios easier. Read on to see what it’s all about.

Published April 8, 2011

9 min read

Power Tip: Improve the security of database connections

When linking to external tables using Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), Access offers to set up a Data Source Name (DSN). The DSN is quite convenient, giving us a graphic method to quickly build and specify an ODBC connection string without having to remember all of the syntax and parameters.

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