Microsoft Office for Mac 2016 Official Release Date - 8/1

8/1's not far away now. Time to start prepping for it. Thanks for posting this Emily!

As for SFB, I would hope MS will eventually release that for the Mac, as its available on Windows, so of course the org wants to move to it for unified comms, even though we're barely through our Lync release into the environment.

Time to start prepping!

I also want to be able to make calls using my Polycom cx 600 phone. Whenever I use Lync to make or answer a call, it crashes. Hopefully Skpye for Business fixes this.

Those bullet points feel so 1998...

Yeah, its lovely isn't it? And just look at those underlines AND italics used on the same line! So... classy.

Hence the "beautiful" comment from @emilykausalik I think :)

Unfortunately my sarcasm does not translate well on internet forums. @mm2270 caught what I was throwing, though.

Skype For Business is coming this fall.

@chriscollins

How good is your source? : )

I was under the impression that Mac Skype For Business, was significantly far away than this year.

C

PS and there was no promise that it wouldn't be Lync rebrand for a second time...

Preeeeety good.

: )

Has anyone been able to find official release notes on this yet?

I think Emily's humor was lost on some folks. ;-)

Microsoft may make some general announcements to a few media sources to help get the word out when the time really comes, but the best place to check will be their Office Blogs site. You can pretty much count on any announcements to be made there and they'll be official.

Just confirmed with my reseller that the above was sent to her directly from Microsoft. So yeah.

@emilykausalik am I crazy or is that a Saturday? Odd day to release software.

My guess would be is that is when MS is making it available through their Volume License Servers, so in that case it doesn't really matter much what day it is.

I haven't been able to verify the date with other resources. I wonder if your vendor is simply creating SKU's for the new products.

I would like to be silly and point out that screen shot shows "8/1" but it doesn't indicate which year. :)

Yeah when I met with our account rep yesterday she said it came to her in an email directly from Microsoft. I haven't heard anything from anywhere else either.

Or it's available now: https://blogs.office.com/2015/07/09/office-2016-for-mac-is-here/

Seems like that release is only for Office 365 customers. Not the regular non-365 version yet. From the information on that blog, we're looking at September for that version.

Just downloaded it from Office 365 .Waiting for the regular, volume download to appear.

Edit: Alrighty... There has to be a way to suppress all these Keychain requests.

Doesn't happen in Word surprisingly. Hopefully the non Office 365 version doesn't have these prompts (i'm doubting this).

Example:

That looks like its trying to access the JAMF Device Certificate. Is that what that is? @Abdiaziz can you look in your Keychain Access application for that identity and confirm what that is? Is it Lync related or is that the identity from the JSS?

@mm2270

I don't think it's related to JAMF since it also showed up on my personal machine (never touched by Casper). It's an application password called "Microsoft Office Identities Settings 2".

I remember seeing that one a machine I was testing… I think it was a managed machine.

Meanwhile, the new apps won't auth to our ADFS. Hooray.

It's not playing nice with SAML authentication..

I can't wait to install software from my favourite convicted monopolist!