Koenigsbauer noted that the new click-to-run deployment feature for Office 365 customers introduces Microsoft's new Background Intelligence Transfer Service (BITS), which Koenigsbauer said aims to prevent network congestion on the network. "With these new capabilities, IT admins can centrally create, manage and enforce polices for content authoring and document sharing - and end users will see policy tips or sharing restrictions when the apps detect a potential policy violation." "Now we're bringing these same classification and policy features to Word, Excel and PowerPoint," he said. The new DLP support builds on what Microsoft now offers with Exchange, Outlook, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint. The Office 2016 preview doesn't include all of the features that Microsoft is planning for the new release, Koenigsbauer noted. Search: Improved reliability, performance and usability of Outlook search and FAST-based search engine has been integrated into Exchange.
Smaller storage footprint: New settings let users better manage storage by only retaining one, three, seven, 14 or 30 days of mail on the device.
"So I don't have to send a physical attachment and deal with versioning." Users can link up to the same document in the cloud, continued White. "When I hit send, it looks like an attachment, it feels like an attachment and, when I send it, it actually sends the access to the file," White said. When a user attaches a file, the most recently accessed documents appear and are added as a link to the sender's OneDrive for Business account. In the demo, she played up Outlook's ability to handle content linked with OneDrive for Business. Julia White, general manager of Microsoft's Office division, demonstrated the new Outlook 2016 during Monday's opening Convergence keynote. The Office 2016 preview release for IT pros and developers has new features that include click-to-run-deployment, extended data-loss prevention (DLP) support and the new Outlook 2016 client.
It is not to be confused with Office for Windows 10, the suite of touch-based Office apps for the forthcoming Windows 10 operating system those apps became available in preview form in early February.
Office 2016 is the first major upgrade of Microsoft's Office desktop productivity suite since 2013. The releases were among several product announcements made by Microsoft at its 2015 Convergence conference, taking place this week in Atlanta, Ga. Microsoft on Monday released the preview of Office 2016 for IT Pros and Developers, as well as the technical preview of the new Skype for Business (previously named Lync Server). News Microsoft Launches Previews of Office 2016, Skype for Business