Quick Tip: How to enroll in the Office 365 Insider Fast Ring

Richard Hay, Senior Content Producer

September 9, 2016

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Quick Tip: How to enroll in the Office 365 Insider Fast Ring

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Last week Microsoft shared a huge list of updates that arrived for Office 365 in the month of August including new inking, Windows Information Protection and improvements for Outlook on the Web.

Among those announcements was also news that Microsoft was planning to open up a Fast Ring for Office Insiders that would give testers access to the same builds that Microsoft employees were using each week.

That new Fast Ring is now rolling out to anyone who wants to get in on the leading edge of testing the programs included in Office 365. 

There are a couple of requirements to gain access to the Office 365 Fast Ring:

  1. You must be an Office 365 subscriber.

  2. You must be enrolled in the Office Insider Program and at least have your device enrolled in the Slow Ring with Build 16.0.7341.2021 installed.

If you have those steps sorted out then you can easily enroll in the Fast Ring and start gaining access to these new builds a couple of times each week.

This gallery will walk you through that process of getting into the Fast Ring for Office 365 and then updating to the latest Fast Ring build.

 

About the Author

Richard Hay

Senior Content Producer, IT Pro Today (Informa Tech)

I served for 29 plus years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer in November 2011. My work background in the Navy was telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well with what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena.

My first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and WindowsObserver.com is the result of the work I have done on that site since 1995.

In January 2010 my community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when I received my first Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the Windows Operating System. Since then I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP each subsequent year since that initial award. I am also a member of the inaugural group of Windows Insider MVPs which began in 2016.

I previously hosted the Observed Tech PODCAST for 10 years and 317 episodes and now host a new podcast called Faith, Tech, and Space. 

I began contributing to Penton Technology websites in January 2015 and in April 2017 I was hired as the Senior Content Producer for Penton Technology which is now Informa Tech. In that role, I contribute to ITPro Today and cover operating systems, enterprise technology, and productivity.

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