Interesting. Exchange Online got an update and its my favorite app of 2011

So after some months time we can already see that features are coming to the cloud versions before the on prem version. An update to OWA in Exchange Online now integrates the Office Web Apps into the attachment previewing experience for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files! Along with continued PDF support, this means Exchange Online users get high-fidelity previews of Office documents on the web, in exactly the same format they were created.

Introducing Office Web App Integration with Outlook Web App in Exchange Online!

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/10/31/introducing-office-web-app-integration-with-outlook-web-app-in-exchange-online.aspx

FUTURE VISION

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See more at http://www.office.com/vision

The coolest thing about this is that everything you see in the video are real projects that Microsoft and partners are working on right now. And its a lot of communications in it so maybe we just got to see some of what’s coming in Windows Phone, Lync or Skype.

Update: The future right now.
Microsoft just released a follow up explaining the technologies that is shown in the vision video and what works already today.

Forefront UAG now supports publishing #Lync web services

The following is provided by Forefront UAG Update 1:
Lync web services publishing—Forefront UAG now supports publishing Lync web services
Dynamics CRM 2011 publishing—Forefront UAG now supports publishing Dynamics CRM 2011
SharePoint 2010 with Office Web Apps—Forefront UAG now supports publishing SharePoint 2010 with Office Web Apps
Improved browser support—Forefront UAG now supports more web browsers than in previous releases

 

Download Details – Microsoft Download Center – Forefront UAG Service Pack 1 (SP1) Update 1

Windows PowerShell Command Builder – #Office365

The Windows PowerShell Command Builder is a new? neat tool for visually build PowerShell commands.

The Silverlight application is designed to help IT professionals and power users to learn how to use PowerShell. It enables IT professionals and power users to visually assemble commands related to SharePoint 2010 Products and Office 365 in the browser and take those commands to their respective products.

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http://www.microsoft.com/resources/TechNet/en-us/Office/media/WindowsPowerShell/WindowsPowerShellCommandBuilder.html