Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1 to arrive in early 2014

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Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1 to arrive in early 2014

Microsoft is planning to deliver Service Pack (SP) 1 for Office 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2013 in early 2014, company officials said on November 20.

Microsoft shared a partial list of some of the updates that will be part of the SP1 via blog posts on the Office and Exchange Team blogs. On that list:

• Improved compatibility with Windows 8.1
  
• Support for Windows Server 2012 R2 for Exchange and SharePoint
  
• Support for S/MIME in OWA will be brought back in SP1. With SP1 customers will have S/MIME support across Outlook, Exchange ActiveSync clients, and OWA
  
• Inclusion of the Edge Transport server role for Exchange Server 2013
  
• General performance enhancements and feature updates for all the Office 2013 products