<p>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.</p><p>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 8.1Support for Windows Server 2012 R2 for Exchange and SharePointSupport 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 OWAInclusion of the Edge Transport server role for Exchange Server 2013 General performance enhancements and feature updates for all the Office 2013 products</p><p>In Exchange 2013's case, SP1 is "essentially" the same as Cumulative Update 4, officials said, meaning SP1 will include all fixes included in previously released cumulative updates for Exchange 2013. SP1 will require customers to update their Active Directory schema, Exchange officials also noted.</p><p>Microsoft's guidance to customers is those who want regular, frequent updates to their Office products should be using Office 365. Microsoft is making near-monthly feature updates to Office 365 at this point.</p><p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-office-2013-service-pack-1-to-arrive-in-early-2014-7000023505/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/11/22/starting-early-2014-you-can-send-encrypted-emails-in-microsoft-office-365-to-anyone/">Microsoft&#039;s Office 365 Gets Encrypted Emails From Early 2014</a> (The Next Web)</p><p><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57613422-75/encrypted-messaging-coming-to-microsofts-office-365-next-year/">Encrypted messaging coming to Microsoft&#039;s Office 365 next year</a> (CNET)</p><p><a href="http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-office-365-message-encryption-coming-in-early-2014">Microsoft: Office 365 Message Encryption coming in early 2014</a> (Neowin)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=d4_LtwmJgjtviCM58IC8eJPMrY1SM&ned=us">46 additional articles.</a></p>