soluzione42 News
Release 2.5.0.0
We’ve got something really special in store for you this update!
We’re proud to present:
soluzione42 Web with a brand new look and feel!
In addition to a revamped user interface with a modern design, there are a bunch of new features that you won’t want to miss. Join us on a tour and experience first-hand all these changes, designed with your needs in mind.
But that’s not all: in this release, we have: three completely new courses; an additional language (Dutch); over 30 new Microsoft Teams units; and fresh „What’s New?“ learning content.
Table of Contents
- Our updates at-a-glance
- soluzione42 Web: New design and features
- Important technical innovations
- Some of our Microsoft 365 highlights in this release
- NEW: FindTime is here
- NEW: Windows and Office accessibility is here
- NEW: Switching from Skype to Teams is here
- New English learning units at a glance
- A topic is missing?
- All learning contents at-a-glance
- Contact
Our updates at-a-glance
- NEW: 1616 completely new learning units, e.g.:
- Office 365 (2108; Dutch: 2102)
- FindTime in English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch
- Migration from Skype to Teams in English, German, and Spanish
- Windows and Office workplace accessibility in German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French
- Microsoft Teams
- What's New for Teams, cross-office topics, Excel and Outlook in German, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch
- NEW COURSES:
- FindTime
- Switching from Skype to Teams
- Windows and Office workplace accessibility
- NEW LANGUAGE: Dutch
- UPDATES: 793 updated learning units, e.g.:
- Office 365 (2108)
- Microsoft Teams
- Scenarios
- Migration help for switching to Office 365 (2108) in German and English
- NEW DESIGNfor soluzione42 Web
- NEW FEATURES in soluzione42 Web
- My Favorites and My History
- Sharing with colleagues
- New introduction concept
- NEW INTRODUCTORY FILM for soluzione42 Web
For a detailed overview of all learning modules in all available languages, please click here.
soluzione42 Web: New design and features
Together, we’ve tinkered, hammered and assembled—and it was worth it! Discover soluzione42 Web’s intuitive and modern new user interface—for everyone, everywhere:
- The heart of our new design is the personalizable homepage:
- With clean lines, vibrant colors and clever accents, we've implemented a modern, well-structured design.
- Course and click path navigation has been simplified. Decluttered and newly conceptualized sections makes interactive lookup even easier and faster.
- The soluzione42 Web introductory tour will show you around—follow the pop-up tour, watch the video, read our PDF guide, or save it for later. We offer options for beginners and experts alike.
- Marvin, our robot avatar, will guide you through an introduction to the new user interface.
- Our redesigned video player and quick referenceclick path integrates seamlessly with the new user interface.
- Here are some of the new functions that make learning and searching even more attractive:
- Improve collaboration with colleagues: You can now easily share learning and support contents with others, making it quick and easy to pass along helpful tips.
- Save favorites and access your personal history of previously opened learning units: This will save you valuable time when you need to return to helpful learning and support content.
- soluzione42 App Innovations:
- Sharing and visited features and new video player & click path design in the soluzione42 app.
- A floating search bar so the app is always at hand, without taking up too much space on your screen.
- Further optimizations can be found under technical innovations.
In this short teaser film we’ll introduce you to the new soluzione42 Web:
For more information, please contact us at soluzione@support.de.
Important technical innovations
- Update of all used server components (Apache, PHP, MySQL)
- Use of a patched version of the search component “Solr“ that was affected by the Log4j security gap. For older releases, a workaround is available.
- Search optimization for better search results
- Support of soluzione42 Web for most tablets operating on Android or iPadOS.
Some of our Microsoft 365 highlights in this release
- Microsoft Teams offers exciting new ways to optimize collaboration and self-organization, e.g.:
- Create a task from a message
- Create subgroups in a team using tags to simplify targeted communication
- Organize Webinars with different roles, registration, and participant data analysis
- Outlook 365 offers some new helpful features:
- Automatically schedule buffer time between two appointments
- Display automatic translations of foreign language email content
- Insert shortened file link into an email and set access permissions directly on the link
For a quick overview, we recommend „What’s New in Outlook 365“.
NEW: FindTime is here
Look forward to our new FindTime course. In 14 learning units we’ll introduce you to FindTime’s most important functions. So you can easily plan and create appointments within and outside your company. FindTime’s organizer dashboard lets you keep track of all your appointment scheduling.
NEW: Windows and Office accessibility is here
With soluzione42 you’ll learn how to use Windows and Office to make your workplace more accessible. This course will give you insights into how Microsoft’s accessibility features can accommodate users‘ various needs and make your everyday work easier, too.
NEW: Switching from Skype to Teams is here
Microsoft is retiring Skype for Business Online and on-premise. Learn how you and your employees can switch from Skype to Teams in this new course. You can still communicate and collaborate effectively using Teams. And collaboration is supported by many helpful features and interfaces to other apps. But Teams can do even more: calls, conferencing, chat, document collaboration—now, everything is in one place.
Take a look at Skype to Teams here.
New English learning units at a glance
- Dark mode
- Share with Teams: share emails with channels or people
- Set up time buffers between meetings
- Make all appointments Teams meetings
- Translate foreign language emails
- Send link to a file by email and set permissions
- Linked data types automatically provide statistics about e.g. stocks, geography, etc.
- Create a webinar
- Create a task from a message
- Use tags to @-mention subgroups
- View chat messages in bubbles during meetings
- Display your own video feed as a moderator during your presentation
- Use live subtitles in meetings, e.g. when background noise disturbs the audio feed
- Spontaneously add a survey to your ongoing meeting using the Forms app
- Reply directly to a message with a quote so that related content stays together
- Learn about new apps like Insights and Workhub
- Use templates for the Approvals app
- Open files online by default
- Lower all hands
- Lock a meeting that has already started
- Audio and video management before and during a meeting
- Live translation of presentation slides
- Moderator mode
- Reply to a message by quoting it
- Set a time limit on breakout rooms
- Set up out of office message in Teams
- Templates for the Approvals app
- Meeting follow-up
- More new options for breakout rooms
- Make your own scene for together mode
- Dynamic view
- Meeting options: automatically record
- New option: only invited participants can bypass the lobby
- Quick response directly via pop-up
- Laser pointer, pens and erasers for presentations
- Edit SharePoint pages directly in Teams
- Activity feed filter
- Set microphone sensitivity
- New tools for whiteboard: insert images, reactions, shapes, and templates
- Add other participants in a meeting or an instant meeting
- Recordings are also possible for two-person meetings.
- Place several video feeds in the spotlight
- Pin video feeds
- Switch the focus between shared content and video feed
A topic is missing?
Suggest topics that would be relevant for you.
Here’s the link to the anonymous survey (Microsoft Forms survey).
All Learning Units:
| DE | EN | ES | PT | FR | NL | JA | ZH | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook 2016 (O365 1808) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ______ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook 2019 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||
| Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook 365 (semi-annual channel) Release 1908 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||
| Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook 365 (semi-annual channel) Release 2002 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook 365 (semi-annual channel) Release 2008 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||
| Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook 365 (semi-annual channel) Release 2102 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook 365 (semi-annual channel) Release 2108 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook 365 (semi-annual channel) Release 2202 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | ||
| Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook Online | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| OneNote | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Teams | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Planner | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| OneDrive | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| SharePoint Online | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Yammer | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Windows 10 1809 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Windows 10 20H2 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Windows 10 and Office 365 accessibility | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Windows 11 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | ||
| Windows 11 and Office 365 accessibility | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | ||
| Skype for Business | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Switching from Skype to Teams | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Whiteboard | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Teams EDU | ✔ | |||||||
| soluzione scenarios | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Forms | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| FindTime | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| To Do | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | ||
| 2-Factor-Authentication | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 | July 22 |
All available Migration Tools:
| Switching from... | ...nach | DE | EN | FR | ES | PT | ZH | JA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Word 2007 | Word2016 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Word 2010 | Word2016 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Word 2013 | Word 2016 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Excel 2007 | Excel 2016 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Excel 2010 | Excel 2016 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Excel 2013 | Excel 2016 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Powerpoint 2007 | Powerpoint 2016 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Powerpoint 2010 | Powerpoint 2016 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Powerpoint 2013 | Powerpoint 2016 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Outlook 2007 | Outlook 2016 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Outlook 2010 | Outlook 2016 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Outlook 2013 | Outlook 2016 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Lotus Notes 8.5 | Outlook 2016 | ✔ | ||||||
| Lotus Notes 9 | Outlook 2016 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| GroupWise 7 | Outlook 2016 | ✔ | ||||||
| Word 2010 | Word 2019 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Word 2013 | Word 2019 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Excel 2010 | Excel 2019 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Excel 2013 | Excel 2019 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Powerpoint 2010 | Powerpoint 2019 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Powerpoint 2013 | Powerpoint 2019 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Outlook 2010 | Outlook 2019 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Outlook 2013 | Outlook 2019 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Lotus Notes 8.5 | Outlook 2019 | ✔ | ||||||
| Lotus Notes 9 | Outlook 2019 | ✔ | ||||||
| GroupWise 7 | Outlook 2019 | ✔ | ||||||
| Word 2010 | Word 365 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Word 2013 | Word 365 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Word 2016 | Word 365 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Excel 2010 | Excel 365 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Excel 2013 | Excel 365 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Excel 2016 | Excel 365 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Powerpoint 2010 | Powerpoint 365 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Powerpoint 2013 | Powerpoint 365 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Powerpoint 2016 | Powerpoint 365 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Outlook 2010 | Outlook 365 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Outlook 2013 | Outlook 365 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Outlook 2016 | Outlook 365 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Lotus Notes 8.5 | Outlook 365 | ✔ | ||||||
| Lotus Notes 9 | Outlook 365 | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| GroupWise 7 | Outlook 365 | ✔ | ||||||
| Windows 7 | Windows 10 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Contact Options:
soluzione support:
Would you like an update? Then just contact our support team and we’ll discuss how we can help.
Email: support@soluzione.de
soluzione service:
Do you have questions, suggestions, or another request? Then please contact our Customer Success Team.
Email: service@soluzione.de
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