Office 365 New Feature - Delve

Delve is a new offering in Office 365. Delve is like My Site – for each user, it shows a personalized view of content from any location in Office 365 including yammer, recently modified documents from OneDrive for Business, files from SharePoint sites.
Delve prioritizes and displays the content in Delve based on last modified data and last viewed date and shows the documents in the form of Card like style.
To get started with Delve, you need to turn on the functionality from SharePoint Admin Center.
Delve is based on Office Graph. To enable Delve, make sure Office Graph functionality is enabled.
To verify Office Graph is accessible:

1. Login in to Office 365 Admin Center
2. Select Admin from App Launcher
3. From Office 365 Admin Center, select SharePoint from left navigation
4. This will launch SharePoint Admin Center, select Settings and then select the radio button - Allow access to the Office Graph

Once Office Graph is enabled, Delve link will be available in the Office 365 app launcher.
To launch Delve, from Office 365 App Launcher, click on Delve.

This will take you to Delve page.

Delve has the following features:

1. Search
2. Home
3. Me – Includes Activity and Profile
4. People
5. Boards

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How to Use Delve

Search – Use the search box to search for a person or file. When you search for a person, it will take you to their profile page.

This will give information about persons Activity, Organization structure, Blog, contact information as shown below:

Home – When you first click on Delve, it will take you to Delve Home Page. It gives a message to user “Give Delve more to work with” and a link “Learn More” which will take you to Delve help.


Me – The Me tab Shows the files recently modified by user. Me tab has the following two sections.

1. Activity – Lists all the recently modified files
2. Profile – The profile page gives profile information along with organizational structure

Activity

Profile

Profile contains a new section called Blog, new way to create blogs. These are not similar to SharePoint blogs. When you click on blog, you will get the following screen. Click on Start Writing to start a new blog.

It will show the following screen:

Click on New Post to create a new post. You will create post canvas.

Here, you can add a background image, Title, and Body. You can attach a document or image or Video also in the blog post.

Once you are done writing content, you can publish your post. This will be available in Activity section of your Delve.

People – Displays the list of people user collaborated recently. This depends on email conversations.
Click on any person’s name in the people list, it will take you to that person's profile page and display the content related to that user.

Boards – is a way to group related documents. Boards contain cards. Cards are nothing but documents. They contain information about document in the form of card like layout.


Users can create new Boards. When a new board is created, it will be empty. You can add files to these boards by clicking on + Add to Board button displayed in the card view.
Clicking on the title of the document will open the document in browser.
Card will also display the location where the document is stored. Clicking on the link will take you to the document location.

Clicking on Email icon will allow you to share the document in email, clicking on Share icon will allow you to see information with whom this document is shared and Yammer icon to discuss about the document in yammer.
Users can follow boards and share boards with others.
Boards respect data security, meaning users will be able to see files in boards only if they have permission to view the files. Boards don’t change permissions.
Mobile App – Delve can also be accessed from Android and iPhone mobile devices via Delve app. The apps can be downloaded from the stores. Delve app for Windows phone is not available.

Source: http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/1028264/Office-New-Feature-Delve

How to Turn on/off Tablet Mode in Windows 10

Windows 10’s Tablet Mode provides a more touch-friendly experience by making all applications run full screen and giving you a start screen instead of a start menu. When you switch Windows 10 to Tablet Mode you witness manifold choices like whether you want to automatically go to desktop or tablet mode or allow system to remember what you have used last or pass through confirmation every time and few more.
If you want to turn on Tablet Mode follow the below steps.

Step 1
Go to the start menu and click on settings. 

   

 Setting

Step 2
Clicking on settings opens a new window with many options. Click on System.

 

 

System Category

Step 3
 On the left side bar you can see many options, click on Tablet mode.

 

 

 Tablet mode under System category

Step 4
This will open up the settings for Tablet mode in this tab. Now, you can see a slider to turn on or off the tablet mode. 

 

 

Tablet Mode

Step 5
Now, I will point out some other settings with different headings. First option is "When I Sign in", which has three options

1. Automatically switch to tablet mode: Your system will automatically switch to the Tablet mode.
   
2. Go to the desktop: This always takes you to the desktop mode whenever you sign in.
   
3. Remember what I used last: Depends on your last usage.  

 

 

 Sign In Option

Select any one option as per your requirement.
Step 6
In Tablet Mode second option is when this device automatically switches tablet mode on or off, there are also three options

1. Don’t ask me and don’t switch.
   
2. Always ask me before switching: Every time you will get a pop up whenever the system senses the detachment of keyboard from the device.
   
3. Don’t ask me and always switch: Whenever the keyboard is moved from the device, the tablet mode will turn on without your confirmation.  

 

 

 Switching Option

Here you can choose any one as per your requirement.

If you don't want to see apps in tablet mode, you can turn on the last option "hide app icons on the taskbar in tablet mode". 

 

  Display or hide the app icons on the taskbar in tablet mode

How to remove unwanted Apps from Windows 10

Windows 10 has many new and interesting features. Previous versions of Windows required the Control Panel to uninstall a desktop program. You can now use the Start menu or the settings app to uninstall unnecessary Apps. Whenever we want to remove unnecessary apps installed in our system, we move to the Control Panel but Windows 10 provides an alternative for removing apps directly from the Apps and features tab in the system section.
The following is the procedure to show how to remove unnecessary apps from Windows 10.
There are the following two ways to remove unnecessary apps:

1. With the Start Menu
2. With Setting App

With the Start Menu

The simplest way to remove apps is from the Start Screen. Press the Windows key on your keyboard or click the icon on the system's screen. At the Start Screen, go to the app that you want to remove and click the right button of your mouse or track pad and look at the lower-right corner, the third option will be uninstall, click on it. Some apps can't be removed (like Notepad), so you might not see the uninstall option.

 

 

 

Figure: Start Menu

 

With Setting App

Step 1

 

At first click on the Windows icon and the Settings option will open the Settings tab.

 

Figure: Settings

Step 2

In the Settings tab there is a System icon. Click on it.

 

Figure: System category symbol

Step 3

After clicking on the system category icon a new window of the system will be shown on the screen. On the left side bar you can see many options, click on Apps and features.

 

 

Figure: Apps and features window

 

Step 4

 

This will open the Apps and features tab. In this tab you can look for for any app. All you must do is to type its name and it will appear on the screen by choosing the first option. You can also sort various apps by their name, size and date using the second option.

 

 

Figure: Search Sort and Filter the Apps

Step 5

Now, scroll down to the bottom to see all the apps running in your system. You can directly uninstall these apps just by clicking on them and then pressing Uninstall. The apps in your system by default cannot be uninstalled.

 

 

Figure: Uninstall the apps in the system window

This is the easiest way to remove unnecessary apps from Windows 10 and boost your system's speed.

New study shows more people love Windows 10 than hate it

We're closing in on a month since the official launch of Windows 10. Millions of people have had a good amount of time to react to it, and it looks like overall impressions are positive. According to a study done by Brandwatch, which measured the response to Windows 10 on social media, the number of people who love Windows 10 far outnumbers those who hate it.
In all, 92% of responses have been positive, but Brandwatch does note that hostility is growing slightly, with 100 people expressing negative reactions for every 500 the profess a positive experience.


BrandWatch also took a look at which features were the most popular according to positive and negative mentions. Cortana is in the lead, with just over 80% of people expressing love for the digital assistant. Following behind Cortana (in order) are Edge, Xbox integration, Start Menu, Multiple Desktops, Action Center, and the taskbar.
At the bottom of the list is the Office Suite, with right around 40% of people in the study expressing a positive experience.

Keep in mind that this study comes from a relatively small sample size of just 7,000 persons, and is by no means definitive given there are many millions of Windows 10 users out in the wild now. However, the study does provide an interesting look at how Windows 10's features are doing, as well as the OS overall.

Source:  http://www.windowscentral.com/new-study-shows-more-people-love-windows-10-hate-it

Leaked document reveals Office 2016 release date

Microsoft Office 2016

Microsoft's internal memo to employees has revealed that the company will be launching Office 2016 on September 22.
Last month, Microsoft launched the Mac version of Office 2016 leaving Windows users waiting for their turn. Now it seems the productivity suite is almost ready to ship as the company is preparing to launch it in a month's time.

According to a leaked memo acquired by WinFuture.de, the company has asked its employees to start using the public preview of Office 2016 and keep track of readiness, training and marketing material related to the product prior to the release on the 22nd of September.
Various applications that will be part of the release include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Skype for Business, Project, Visio and Publisher, while updates to Office 365 and on-premise servers such as SharePoint Server will be made available later in the second quarter.
Office 2016 is expected to retail at a starting price of about €130 for the basic Home and Student version. We'll know more about it after Microsoft officially makes an announcement next month.

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/leaked-document-reveals-office-2016-release-date

Vint Cerf: 'Sometimes I'm terrified' by the IoT

Vint Cerf is known as a "father of the Internet," and like any good parent, he worries about his offspring -- most recently, the IoT.
"Sometimes I'm terrified by it," he said in a news briefing Monday at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany. "It's a combination of appliances and software, and I'm always nervous about software -- software has bugs."
The Internet of Things will offer the ability to manage many of the appliances we depend on, acknowledged Cerf, who won the Turing Award in 2004. With its ability to continuously monitor such devices, it also promises new insight into our use of resources, he said.

Devices such as Google's Nest thermostat, for instance, can "help me decide how well or poorly I've chosen my lifestyle to minimize cost and my use of resources -- it can be an important tool," he said.

As with so many technological tools, however, there are plenty of potential downsides. Safety is one of them.
Cerf is now vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google, but you won't find him enjoying any of the massage chairs the company provides for its employees. "I know they're run by software -- I worry they will fold up on me," he quipped.
As more such appliances are run by software, people will be increasingly reliant on programmers' ability to write good code, he pointed out.
"It's fraught with issues, some technical and some legislative," he said. "Who is liable when an appliance doesn't work the way it should, and what if that's a software question?"

Then, too, there's the possibility that information from the IoT will fall into the wrong hands.
Even data from a device like Nest could be used for nefarious purposes by would-be burglars, Cerf said, such as to learn how many people live in a house and figure out when they're not home.
Strong authentication protocols will be essential to keeping data safe, he said, but it will also be important to give users the flexibility to share access if they wish, such as with providers of security systems.
Access must be under the user's control, but it won't always be easy to distinguish the "right" from the "wrong" hands.
"Say the house is on fire," Cerf said. "It would be helpful if the fire department could figure out how many people are in the house and what rooms they're in."
Standards will be another essential component in the Internet of Things, Cerf added.
"If everything is separate and there's no standardization, we'll need different control and monitoring systems for everything," he explained. "I don't want seven different hubs and systems to control all the pieces in my house."

Source: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2975735/internet-of-things/vint-cerf-sometimes-im-terrified-by-the-iot.html

Samsung and MIT have found a way to make your battery last forever

Samsung just might have the holy grail of batteries on their hands. The company, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has figured out a way to make batteries last 'indefinitely'.
How do they perform magical feat, you ask? Batteries usually use a liquid as the electrolyte - the solution through which electricity is conducted - but Samsung and MIT believe that replacing this with a solid could increase the life of a battery exponentially.
Usually, when a battery is charged, it gradually starts degrading and this is why you need replace the battery in most electronics after a few years. By changing the electrolyte to a solid, however, this degradation is stemmed and would allow the battery to potentially undergo "hundreds of thousands of cycles" of recharging and discharging.
Not only that, but MIT also claims that the discovery “solves most of the remaining issues in battery lifetime, safety, and cost," and argues that it's a "game changer". These batteries would also not catch fire because, as MIT so elegantly puts it,

You could throw it against the wall, drive a nail through it. There’s nothing there to burn

Samsung has been working incessantly on improving battery tech for the past few years and, with this innovation, it might just have found the holy grail.
 Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/samsung-and-mit-have-found-a-way-to-make-your-battery-last-forever