Microsoft Ignite 2019 Highlights
http://ranku.site
Agenda
What’s new and what’s
coming
Power Virtual Agents
Power Automate - UI Flow
Project Cortex: leveraging
what you have & what
your people know
Microsoft Teams
• Private Channels*
• Multiwindow
(early 2020)
/sites/Alpha/Shared Documents/ProjectA
/sites/Alpha/Shared Documents/General
??/sites/Alpha-ProjectB/Shared Documents/ProjectB
Microsoft Teams
• Pinned Channel • New messaging extensions - Polls and Surveys
Microsoft Teams
• New integration between Outlook and Teams (early 2020)
Microsoft Teams
• Tasks in Teams - Consolidates tasks across Microsoft To Do, Teams channels, Planner
and Outlook. (early 2020)
Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Whiteboard
• Yammer app for Teams
• Live Captions in Teams Meetings
• New presenter and attendee controls
• Firstline Workers easier access to Teams
• SMS Sign-In, Global Sign-Out, Delegated User
Management
• Cisco and Zoom to enable a direct guest join capabilities
• Industry-specific scenarios in healthcare and other industries
• New planning and administration tools
Intelligent Intranet
• New hub capabilities - Hub permissions, Hub analytics, Associated
hubs, SharePoint Home site
• Additional branding abilities - Additional site footer/header, mobile
app- custom branding, SharePoint look book
• Audience Targeting - Navigation, Azure Active Directory groups
• Page, news, and web parts - News and Page scheduling, News filtering,
Image resizing, New stock images, Page difference visualization and
version history, Yammer conversations
• Multilingual capabilities, Convert classic site to modern, Root site swap
• Microsoft acquires Mover- admin-led and self-service offerings
• 100GB file uploads, Save for later, Automatic expiration of external
users’ access
What’s coming soon to Microsoft 365
• The Office mobile app - Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—into a single
app
• Fluid Framework - multi-person co-authoring on web and document
content at industry-leading speed and scale
• Cortana - play emails in Outlook for iOS
• AI in Office - entering data into Excel with a digital pen, audio
transcription in Word, Presenter Coach in PowerPoint, Excel supports
on natural language queries
• Microsoft Project - redesigned user experience
• Yammer - has been completely redesigned
What’s coming soon to Microsoft 365
• Microsoft Search - advanced people search using attributes and skills, video search,
acronym search, and semantic search. ServiceNow, Salesforce, 100+ connectors.
• Microsoft Stream - meeting recordings, automatic transcription, voice enhance feature,
noise reduction
• Office Scripts - record your actions inside a workbook and save it to a script
• Passwordless - access to both Microsoft and non-Microsoft apps
• Compliance - Compliance Score, Insider Risk Management, Auto classification with
sensitivity labels
• Modern term store, terms analytics dashboard, 1M terms
• Power Platform - workflows, custom apps and data insights - Publish and Pin Power
Apps to Teams, Teams-centric actions & triggers
Power Virtual Agents
Empower your people to drive more business value
through easy to create natural, conversational AI
Power BI
Business analytics
Power Apps
Application development
Power Automate
Process automation
Power Virtual Agents
Intelligent virtual agents
The low-code platform that spans Office 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, and standalone applications
Innovation anywhere. Unlocks value everywhere.
Microsoft Power Platform
Common
Data Service
Data
connectors
AI BuilderPortals
Engage with your customers and employees conversationally.
Resolve routine issues easily, freeing up staff to focus on complex
matters
Empower your subject matter experts to easily create powerful
bots using a guided, no-code graphical interface. No need for
developers or data scientists.
Point the AI to your website, and automatically build topics to get
started with a few clicks. As the bot gets used, powerful metrics
and insights help tell you what topics to build next
Connect to your backend systems with a few clicks using the
hundreds of connectors that come with Power Platform – or call
APIs and custom workflows using Power Automate. The full
power of the Microsoft Bot Framework is only a few clicks away.
Making Bots Easy
Easily make your bots better
Power Automate - UI Flow
Power Automate to empower its own employees to do
more
Bridging Automation Across API and non-API based apps
Non-API apps Power Automate bridges
automation across systems
Modern Systems
Introducing RPA with Power Automate:
Automate Apps with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Capabilities
Record the Task Automate the Task Execute the Task
Introducing the UI flows Connector for RPA
UI flows
Connector
The User Can Edit the Recorded Actions
Power Automate With Attended and Unattended RPA
Automation whether you’re at your logged in or not
*Public Preview Nov 4 2019
Human initiated
Logged in
Runs automatically
Can log into system or machine
High volume back-end processes
Attended Unattended
Interactive acceleration
*Private Preview Nov 4 2019
aka.ms/UIflowsPreview
Project Cortex
Intelligent content services in Microsoft 365 to connect
and manage all organization’s content, powering
findability and reuse
Knowledge Management
The process of capturing,
distributing, and effectively using
knowledge, over time.
Capture – Create, Collect, Classify
Distribute – Retrieve, Share, Manage
Use it – Consume, Reuse, Enhance
Challenges
Disconnected silos of information, including physical
documents
Search challenges degrade individual productivity and team
effectiveness
Tacit knowledge and expertise of individuals and
communities is untapped
Knowledge drain from people leaving your team or
organization
Project Cortex
Empower people with knowledge
and expertise
Apply AI to organize and classify
Manage and protect
What is Project Cortex?
Smart process ingestion
Proposal management
Contracts & agreements
Invoice processing
Save money, save time Learn to learn faster
Information Learning
Knowledge
Insights and
analytics knowledge
summarization |
Accelerate org best practices
in processes and people
Expertise development
Corporate learning
Auto-extract | Teach AI | Curate
Collective knowledge
Get and keep up to speed
Content generation
Your knowledge network in Microsoft 365
Project Cortex
Empower people with
knowledge and expertise
Automatically connect
and organize knowledge
Manage and protect
content with AI
Extract & classify unstructured content
(e.g. forms, documents, images & videos)
Train models to recognize your business data
Content center as hero destination, with
reusable web parts for retrieval, organization &
management
Mine across Microsoft 365 and connected data
and curate organizational topics
Automate extraction of metadata,
map to your taxonomies
Knowledge center as hero destination, with
reusable web parts for expertise contribution,
learning
Highlight topics including projects and
acronyms in the flow of work & search –
topics cards & pages
Simplify human moderation & management
Suggest expertise areas for your profile
Controls to support adoption, better managed
metadata services & enterprise content types
Demo
Unstructured content
Semi-structured
Topic mining
BRK3005: Introducing new content capture and process automation services with Project Cortex
Extract
Topic mining
Group
Topic mining
Extract
Group
Topic mining
Extract
Topic mining
ClusterGroupExtract
Topic mining
FilterClusterGroupExtract
Topic mining
FilterClusterGroupExtract
Knowledge network
interested
SME authoritative
File
Meeting
Communications
Q&A
Person
Site
Acronym, definition
Non-digital knowledge
Knowledge network
Knowledge network
Person
Meeting
File
Person
File
Securely crowd-sourced through light-weight editing
Discovery Candidate Active Archived Deleted
AI mines for topics from
unstructured content like files,
emails and other
communications.
AI has identified a topic and has
supporting connections and
definition. Or, human has identified
a topic.
Human or AI has confirmed the topic. Mining and
human-curation continues to enrich the topic, increasing
its connections. In this stage the knowledge is structured.
The topic no longer has new activity
or active contributions, but it is still
worth maintaining.
The topic is no
longer needed, is
not valid, or has to
be removed.
Automate forms ingestion using AI Builder
Integrated option to create
forms understanding
models directly from any
SharePoint library
Read, extract, and process
data from PDF, JPG, or .png
Securely crowd-sourced through light-weight editing
Discovery Candidate Active Archived Deleted
AI mines for topics from
unstructured content like files,
emails and other
communications.
AI has identified a topic and has
supporting connections and
definition. Or, human has identified
a topic.
Human or AI has confirmed the topic. Mining and
human-curation continues to enrich the topic, increasing
its connections. In this stage the knowledge is structured.
The topic no longer has new activity
or active contributions, but it is still
worth maintaining.
The topic is no
longer needed, is
not valid, or has to
be removed.
CORE
Extracted definition
Scope
CORE
Confirm Definition
Summary
Images
Start Date: 1/1/19
End Date: 6/1/20
Securely crowd-sourced
AI mines for topics from
unstructured content like files,
emails and other
communications.
Securely crowd-sourced
Active
AI mines for topics from
unstructured content like files,
emails and other
communications.
Human or AI has confirmed the topic. Mining and
human-curation continues to enrich the topic, increasing
its connections. In this stage the knowledge is structured.
CORE
Confirm Definition
Summary
Images
Start Date: 1/1/19
End Date: 6/1/20
Securely crowd-sourced
AI mines for topics from
unstructured content like files,
emails and other
communications.
Project Cortex Analytics
AI mines for topics from
unstructured content like files,
emails and other
communications.
Control – Getting started and management
Mining
What should be mined
(allow/disallow)
Seed with Taxonomy
term sets, acronyms
Seed with list of terms
Search settings are
observed (NoIndex, NoCrawl)
Topic management
What are the topics
Confirm – require or not
Reject/Delete
Create
Merge
Curate – crowd-source,
with approvals, restricted
Topic discovery
Exclude topics
Ignore topics with HBI
labels
Show candidate topics
and/or human-
confirmed topics
Roadmap: 'Knowledge' inc. Project Cortex
Microsoft Search in
SharePoint & OneDrive
Content Connectors
Public previews of search connectors
Search extensibility
Custom search results page, query alterations
Modern Managed Metadata
Termsets increased to 1 million
Microsoft 365 suite wide experiences for
taxonomy management, improved end user
controls, term store usage analytics. Improved
enterprise content type creation & management
Available soon Early next year Top of mind
Resources
https://aka.ms/ProjectCortex
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | Ignite 2019
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/What-s-New-in-Microsoft-Teams-
Ignite-2019/ba-p/937025
Here’s what’s coming soon to Microsoft 365
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/11/04/from-new-microsoft-teams-
experiences-to-the-all-new-project-cortex-heres-whats-coming-soon-to-microsoft-365/
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/The-intelligent-intranet-
powered-by-Microsoft-365-Microsoft/ba-p/975037
Sessions on Demand
Thank you
Anupam Ranku

Microsoft ignite 2019 highlights

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    Microsoft Ignite 2019Highlights http://ranku.site
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    Agenda What’s new andwhat’s coming Power Virtual Agents Power Automate - UI Flow Project Cortex: leveraging what you have & what your people know
  • 3.
    Microsoft Teams • PrivateChannels* • Multiwindow (early 2020) /sites/Alpha/Shared Documents/ProjectA /sites/Alpha/Shared Documents/General ??/sites/Alpha-ProjectB/Shared Documents/ProjectB
  • 4.
    Microsoft Teams • PinnedChannel • New messaging extensions - Polls and Surveys
  • 5.
    Microsoft Teams • Newintegration between Outlook and Teams (early 2020)
  • 6.
    Microsoft Teams • Tasksin Teams - Consolidates tasks across Microsoft To Do, Teams channels, Planner and Outlook. (early 2020)
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    Microsoft Teams • MicrosoftWhiteboard • Yammer app for Teams • Live Captions in Teams Meetings • New presenter and attendee controls • Firstline Workers easier access to Teams • SMS Sign-In, Global Sign-Out, Delegated User Management • Cisco and Zoom to enable a direct guest join capabilities • Industry-specific scenarios in healthcare and other industries • New planning and administration tools
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    Intelligent Intranet • Newhub capabilities - Hub permissions, Hub analytics, Associated hubs, SharePoint Home site • Additional branding abilities - Additional site footer/header, mobile app- custom branding, SharePoint look book • Audience Targeting - Navigation, Azure Active Directory groups • Page, news, and web parts - News and Page scheduling, News filtering, Image resizing, New stock images, Page difference visualization and version history, Yammer conversations • Multilingual capabilities, Convert classic site to modern, Root site swap • Microsoft acquires Mover- admin-led and self-service offerings • 100GB file uploads, Save for later, Automatic expiration of external users’ access
  • 9.
    What’s coming soonto Microsoft 365 • The Office mobile app - Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—into a single app • Fluid Framework - multi-person co-authoring on web and document content at industry-leading speed and scale • Cortana - play emails in Outlook for iOS • AI in Office - entering data into Excel with a digital pen, audio transcription in Word, Presenter Coach in PowerPoint, Excel supports on natural language queries • Microsoft Project - redesigned user experience • Yammer - has been completely redesigned
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    What’s coming soonto Microsoft 365 • Microsoft Search - advanced people search using attributes and skills, video search, acronym search, and semantic search. ServiceNow, Salesforce, 100+ connectors. • Microsoft Stream - meeting recordings, automatic transcription, voice enhance feature, noise reduction • Office Scripts - record your actions inside a workbook and save it to a script • Passwordless - access to both Microsoft and non-Microsoft apps • Compliance - Compliance Score, Insider Risk Management, Auto classification with sensitivity labels • Modern term store, terms analytics dashboard, 1M terms • Power Platform - workflows, custom apps and data insights - Publish and Pin Power Apps to Teams, Teams-centric actions & triggers
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    Power Virtual Agents Empoweryour people to drive more business value through easy to create natural, conversational AI
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    Power BI Business analytics PowerApps Application development Power Automate Process automation Power Virtual Agents Intelligent virtual agents The low-code platform that spans Office 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, and standalone applications Innovation anywhere. Unlocks value everywhere. Microsoft Power Platform Common Data Service Data connectors AI BuilderPortals
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    Engage with yourcustomers and employees conversationally. Resolve routine issues easily, freeing up staff to focus on complex matters Empower your subject matter experts to easily create powerful bots using a guided, no-code graphical interface. No need for developers or data scientists. Point the AI to your website, and automatically build topics to get started with a few clicks. As the bot gets used, powerful metrics and insights help tell you what topics to build next Connect to your backend systems with a few clicks using the hundreds of connectors that come with Power Platform – or call APIs and custom workflows using Power Automate. The full power of the Microsoft Bot Framework is only a few clicks away.
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    Easily make yourbots better
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    Power Automate -UI Flow Power Automate to empower its own employees to do more
  • 17.
    Bridging Automation AcrossAPI and non-API based apps Non-API apps Power Automate bridges automation across systems Modern Systems
  • 18.
    Introducing RPA withPower Automate: Automate Apps with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Capabilities Record the Task Automate the Task Execute the Task
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    Introducing the UIflows Connector for RPA UI flows Connector
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    The User CanEdit the Recorded Actions
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    Power Automate WithAttended and Unattended RPA Automation whether you’re at your logged in or not *Public Preview Nov 4 2019 Human initiated Logged in Runs automatically Can log into system or machine High volume back-end processes Attended Unattended Interactive acceleration *Private Preview Nov 4 2019 aka.ms/UIflowsPreview
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    Project Cortex Intelligent contentservices in Microsoft 365 to connect and manage all organization’s content, powering findability and reuse
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    Knowledge Management The processof capturing, distributing, and effectively using knowledge, over time. Capture – Create, Collect, Classify Distribute – Retrieve, Share, Manage Use it – Consume, Reuse, Enhance
  • 24.
    Challenges Disconnected silos ofinformation, including physical documents Search challenges degrade individual productivity and team effectiveness Tacit knowledge and expertise of individuals and communities is untapped Knowledge drain from people leaving your team or organization
  • 25.
    Project Cortex Empower peoplewith knowledge and expertise Apply AI to organize and classify Manage and protect
  • 26.
    What is ProjectCortex? Smart process ingestion Proposal management Contracts & agreements Invoice processing Save money, save time Learn to learn faster Information Learning Knowledge Insights and analytics knowledge summarization | Accelerate org best practices in processes and people Expertise development Corporate learning Auto-extract | Teach AI | Curate Collective knowledge Get and keep up to speed Content generation
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    Your knowledge networkin Microsoft 365 Project Cortex Empower people with knowledge and expertise Automatically connect and organize knowledge Manage and protect content with AI Extract & classify unstructured content (e.g. forms, documents, images & videos) Train models to recognize your business data Content center as hero destination, with reusable web parts for retrieval, organization & management Mine across Microsoft 365 and connected data and curate organizational topics Automate extraction of metadata, map to your taxonomies Knowledge center as hero destination, with reusable web parts for expertise contribution, learning Highlight topics including projects and acronyms in the flow of work & search – topics cards & pages Simplify human moderation & management Suggest expertise areas for your profile Controls to support adoption, better managed metadata services & enterprise content types
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    Unstructured content Semi-structured Topic mining BRK3005:Introducing new content capture and process automation services with Project Cortex
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    Securely crowd-sourced throughlight-weight editing Discovery Candidate Active Archived Deleted AI mines for topics from unstructured content like files, emails and other communications. AI has identified a topic and has supporting connections and definition. Or, human has identified a topic. Human or AI has confirmed the topic. Mining and human-curation continues to enrich the topic, increasing its connections. In this stage the knowledge is structured. The topic no longer has new activity or active contributions, but it is still worth maintaining. The topic is no longer needed, is not valid, or has to be removed.
  • 40.
    Automate forms ingestionusing AI Builder Integrated option to create forms understanding models directly from any SharePoint library Read, extract, and process data from PDF, JPG, or .png
  • 41.
    Securely crowd-sourced throughlight-weight editing Discovery Candidate Active Archived Deleted AI mines for topics from unstructured content like files, emails and other communications. AI has identified a topic and has supporting connections and definition. Or, human has identified a topic. Human or AI has confirmed the topic. Mining and human-curation continues to enrich the topic, increasing its connections. In this stage the knowledge is structured. The topic no longer has new activity or active contributions, but it is still worth maintaining. The topic is no longer needed, is not valid, or has to be removed. CORE Extracted definition Scope CORE Confirm Definition Summary Images Start Date: 1/1/19 End Date: 6/1/20
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    Securely crowd-sourced AI minesfor topics from unstructured content like files, emails and other communications.
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    Securely crowd-sourced Active AI minesfor topics from unstructured content like files, emails and other communications. Human or AI has confirmed the topic. Mining and human-curation continues to enrich the topic, increasing its connections. In this stage the knowledge is structured. CORE Confirm Definition Summary Images Start Date: 1/1/19 End Date: 6/1/20
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    Securely crowd-sourced AI minesfor topics from unstructured content like files, emails and other communications.
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    Project Cortex Analytics AImines for topics from unstructured content like files, emails and other communications.
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    Control – Gettingstarted and management Mining What should be mined (allow/disallow) Seed with Taxonomy term sets, acronyms Seed with list of terms Search settings are observed (NoIndex, NoCrawl) Topic management What are the topics Confirm – require or not Reject/Delete Create Merge Curate – crowd-source, with approvals, restricted Topic discovery Exclude topics Ignore topics with HBI labels Show candidate topics and/or human- confirmed topics
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    Roadmap: 'Knowledge' inc.Project Cortex Microsoft Search in SharePoint & OneDrive Content Connectors Public previews of search connectors Search extensibility Custom search results page, query alterations Modern Managed Metadata Termsets increased to 1 million Microsoft 365 suite wide experiences for taxonomy management, improved end user controls, term store usage analytics. Improved enterprise content type creation & management Available soon Early next year Top of mind
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    Resources https://aka.ms/ProjectCortex What’s New inMicrosoft Teams | Ignite 2019 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/What-s-New-in-Microsoft-Teams- Ignite-2019/ba-p/937025 Here’s what’s coming soon to Microsoft 365 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/11/04/from-new-microsoft-teams- experiences-to-the-all-new-project-cortex-heres-whats-coming-soon-to-microsoft-365/ https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/The-intelligent-intranet- powered-by-Microsoft-365-Microsoft/ba-p/975037 Sessions on Demand
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