Most months at the Victoria Office 365 User Group, we share what's new (changed, added or removed) that may be of interest to our followers. Focus is always on the business in Victoria, and often emphasis is on what users are interested in most - SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Power Automate, PowerBI, etc.
After Microsoft Ignite, we share our favourite announcements from the event.
23. OneDrive
Request Files
Outlook on the Web, iOS, and Android
Play My Emails, Share to Teams, Up Next
Microsoft Teams
Files, Private Channels, Tags, Google Guest Access
Azure AD
MFA Announcement
SharePoint Online
Home Sites, Lists Update
These are some high-up people from Warner Bros
1978 Superman – film reels on left, glass on right
HoloLens 2
Mixed reality device
Practical uses, like overlaying build plans at a construction site – we will be seeing more and more of it
You can preorder right now
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/hardware
Combines different tools into one place to manage stuff
Microsoft is going to be giving ConfigMgr users a license to Intune to make the transition easier
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-endpoint-manager
- deployment of Azure services anywhere and extends Azure management to any infrastructure
- Interesting for people who have legacy systems – for SaaS we don’t need to do this
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/services/azure-arc/
Like if Teams and Delve had a baby
Project Cortex uses AI to reason over content across teams and systems, recognizing content types, extracting important information, and automatically organizing content into shared topics like projects, products, processes and customers. Cortex then creates a knowledge network based on relationships among topics, content, and people.
New topic pages and knowledge centers—created and updated by AI—enable experts to curate and share knowledge with wiki-like simplicity. And topic cards deliver knowledge just-in-time to people in Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and Office.
Advanced cognitive services capture content, extract information, and automatically tag content
- Web-based version of Visual Studio released.
- Not a replacement but an easier way to make changes to code that lives in GitHub without having to set up a local IDE.
- Microsoft owns GitHub, remember?
Flow renamed to Power Automate to encompass RPA
Virtual agents: low-code/no-code tool for chatbots that leverages Azure with a visual UI but you can bypass it to actually edit the code
Like PowerApps for chatbots
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Initially a feature of O365 – preview may initially be for browser-based only
Syncs quickly enough to feel instant, scales to hundreds of concurrent authors
Simultaneous translation into multiple languages is an example
Componentized document model – table is edited the same in PowerPoint as Teams as Outlook
If multi-authoring documents at scale sounds like a recipe for chaos, it is mitigated by comprehensive change tracking
Siri/Alexa for business
"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed earlier this year that the company no longer sees Cortana as a competitor to other digital assistants like Alexa or Google Assistant. Cortana is going to be far more conversational when answering queries by voice or text and more integrated into Office.“
New Scheduler feature that works like how you'd CC and assistant - tell Cortana location, timing and duration or ask it to "find a time for us" and Cortana will book a room or call and respond via email. Cortana will look at calendars to find free time for everyone and then email participants a few meeting times before working out the best time and sending a calendar invite to everyone.
Working on getting it into Teams
Partnered with Amazon to enable Cortana/Alexa integration
- Like MyAnalytics but for managers
- Business leaders will get at-a-glance insights to quickly understand and improve meeting culture, manager practices, organizational networks, and customer relationships.
Industry benchmarks help contextualize common patterns that influence productivity, such as focus time and the ability to unplug outside of working hours. We also enriched the analyst toolset.
AI-driven process analysis uses key words like “quarterly business review” to shed light on time and resources invested in specific business activities, enabling improvement over time.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Workplace-Analytics-MyAnalytics/Microsoft-Ignite-2019-Upcoming-features-for-richer-more/ba-p/969667
Collections allows you to save webpages and snippets of information inside of a Collection tab on the right-hand rail.
If you’re planning a trip or researching a new purchase, Collections may be for you.
What makes it different, though, is that you can export your Collection to Word or Excel, and Microsoft will add a bit of intelligence to make it even more useful: citations within Word, or automated formatting within Excel.
- New Enterprise Homepage in Microsoft Search in Bing
Enterprise News in Microsoft Search in Bing in the admin center, you’ll find new settings to help set up a company profile and manage services.
You can also generate an industry updates newsletter to notify others about the latest news about a company, industry and personal interests. You can also check out the industry news carousel on Microsoft Search on the Bing homepage to read the latest industry news.
- Microsoft Search - redirect the suite bar search box to a page of your choosing- Allowing you to process the query using SharePoint Framework (SPFx) web part via third party and open source web parts, such as the SharePoint Patterns and Practices Modern Search web parts (https://github.com/microsoft-search).- On your custom search result page, you will have the option to hide the suite bar search box, and use your own search box instead, to avoid multiple search boxes in the interface. - Next year we will, through a new SharePoint Framework extension, allow you to augment the existing suite bar search box directly with your own web parts, ensuring the suite bar search box being a constant across all experiences.
Office mobile app combines popular Office apps into one
Faster, easier to get the job done
- New Actions pane for common on-the-go tasks, such as creating and signing PDFs and sharing files between devices
“Free to migrate data to O365 – straight from someone at Mover.io and works really well!”
-Steph
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These are the things I’m presenting
- MFA is now free for all Azure AD plans - including free plans.
- Customers with 150+ seats can ask MSFT to setup via FastTrack
After the recipient clicks on the invitation link, she selects her files to upload.
The original requestor will be able to see all the collected files, but recipients will only be able to upload files.
They won’t be able to access any contents within the selected folder and won’t be able to modify their own uploads once the upload is submitted.
The original requestor will get an email when recipients submit files to the folder
Brings power of SP into Teams
Brings power of SP into Teams
Brings power of SP into Teams
Once enabled, new users who are invited to your tenant with a Gmail email address will be able to redeem the invitation and sign in to Teams without creating a personal Microsoft account. Guest users who try to sign in to Teams directly, instead of following a tenanted link, may be asked to first roundtrip a code to their Gmail address and then sign-in to your tenant with their Google account credentials.
There is no impact to existing Guest users who had already been invited to your organization with a Gmail and created a personal Microsoft account at the time.
There is also no impact if your organization has not enabled the Azure AD feature.To allow future Guests users to access your organization’s Teams content with their Google account credentials, your organization needs to enable Google as an Identity Provider for Guest access for your tenant.
Rolling out right now
A Home site is the top landing page for your organization’s intranet. You can designate any communication site to be the home site with a simple PowerShell cmdlet.
If you would like to enable a home site on a new or existing SharePoint communication site, execute this PowerShell command in the latest version of the SharePoint Online Management Shell:
New Admin Center goodies – swap root site, and see owners/members/visitors
Rolling out right now
With Play My Emails set up and turned on, Cortana will intelligently read your emails and share changes to your day when you start Play My Emails by tapping the play button in the menu sidebar.
When you’re connected to a Bluetooth or audio device or the native iOS device speaker, start Play My Emails by tapping the play button at the bottom of your inbox or in the menu sidebar.
it’s just a rename lol
We're rolling out a new feature for Outlook mobile that brings information from your calendar directly to the top of your inbox.