Slide deck by Simon Hudson and Simon Doy. Provides the key announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2019 on Power Platform, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, One Drive, Azure and other things that we thought the user group would be interested in.

1. Leeds
Tuesday 12th November 2019

2. PowerPlatform
User Group -
Leeds
Mission To inform, educate, to share insight and
expertise around the PPUG and wider
cloud platform
For the technologists, for the citizen
developer, for the business
To engage potential users
To develop the next wave of talent

3. PowerPlatform User Group -
Leeds
Team Simon Doy
Paul Gallagher
Simon Hudson
Garry Trinder

4. Keeping in the
PPUG loop
• www.powerplatformUG.com/leeds
PowerPlatform:
• https://www.meetup.com/Yorkshire-
Office-365-User-Group/
Meetup
• @PPUG_Leeds
• #PPUGLeeds
Twitter

5. Tonight
Ignite News
Garry, Paul and the Simons
Microsoft Ignite was last
week! This session is to talk
about the latest and greatest
announcements from Ignite
relating to the PowerPlatform
and Office 365.
Real-world solutions with Cognitive
Solution and Power Automate
Dylan Hayes
This session is aimed at those
who are interested in Azure
Cognitive Services and how it
can be applied to solve real
world problems using Microsoft
Power Automate and Office 365.

6. Xmas Drinks
<14th December
2019

7. Next
Leeds
PowerApps and
Flow, Office
365 User
Group
7th January 2020

8. Solving Real-world
problems with
Cognitive Services
and Power
AutomateDylan Hayes

9. Ignite 2019
Announcements
Garry, Paul and the Simons

10. Download all sessions
and slides - Powershell
http://bit.ly/
36JZNsk

11. Top
Announcements
Azure Arc – manage cloud multiple data centres,
including AWS!
Azure Synapse – mind-blowingly large and fast
analytics in Azure
Azure Quantum – simulate quantum computers on
Azure
Fluid Framework – OLE DB for the modern, cloud age
Project Cortex – A new intelligent way of converting
data into knowledge
OneNote 2016 – It’s back (until 2023)

12. Digital Workspace

13. Project Cortex

14. Project Cortex
Knowledge Management Portal
AI builds Topics
People
Resources
Sites
Topics
Q&A

15. Project Cortex
Highlight Topics in Outlook,
Teams, SharePoint and Word
Topics powered by Managed
Metadata Service
Private Preview and resources
https://resources.techcommunit
y.microsoft.com/project-cortex-
microsoft-365/

16. Intelligent Intranet

17. List and Libraries

18. SharePoint
Document Library with dynamic
cards
Supports column formatting
Drag and drop column headings
Available: now

19. SharePoint Business Processes and Lists

20. SharePoint
Power Apps in Document
Libraries
Available: Dec 2019

21. SharePoint
Connect modern web parts
Supported:
Document Library web part
SharePoint List web part
Available: now

22. SharePoint
Conditional Formatting Rule
Builder
Available: Dec 2019

23. Lookbook
MS have updated their Lookbook showcasing
what can be done in modern SPO.
https://lookbook.microsoft.com

24. SPFx
•SPFx is now the default base for building
Office extensions ( add-ons) as well as the tool
for SPO.
•MS Marketing may rename it in future
(almost certainly stupidly) to decouple it
from SharePoint.

25. OneDrive

26. SPO and OneDrive Admin

27. Security and Compliance in SharePoint and
OneDrive
Available soon
• Sensitivity Labels
• Sites and Groups
(Preview)
• Protection for Files
(Preview)
• Auto-classification
(Preview)
• Policies
• Auto expire external
access
• DLP Block external users
• Compliance
• Information barriers
(Preview)
Top of mind
• DLP Block
anonymous access
for sensitive files
(GA)
• Sensitivity Labels for
Sites and Groups
(GA)
• Auto-classification
(GA)
Early next year
• Granular conditional
access at site level
with MFA
• O365 unified instant
revocation of access

29. SharePoint + Teams
Teamify an existing SharePoint site
Convert to Team
Select resources to be tabs
- Pages etc.
- Individual Documents
List and Library full feature UI in Teams
Private Channels

30. Yammer

35. Power Platform
Flow > Power Automate
PowerApps > Power
Apps
Power Platform and
Power BI are happy as
they are
2.5 million citizen
developers using
Power Platform

36. Ignite News: Power Platform

37. Power Automate - UI
Flow
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
UI automation, playback actions on desktop
and web applications.
Fills gap where application does not have an
API to integrate with.
Release: Public Preview

38. Power Virtual
Agents
Build Bot Agents
No code / low code
Visual designer
Design conversation flows
Interface with Power Platform
connector framework
Analytics
Release: Now

39. Power Apps
• Power Platform Admin Centre
• Data loss prevention
• AI Builder integration
• Pro dev extension points
• Component Framework GA
• Dev Ops options for PowerApps

40. Power Apps
POWER APPS
MONITOR
POWER APPS TEST
FRAMEWORK
ADD POWER APP TO
MICROSOFT TEAMS
NATIVE SUPPORT FOR
FILE AND IMAGES

41. Power Apps -
Portals
Released to General Availability
Low code website build on
Power Platform
Available to guest users
Authenticated or
unauthenticated access

42. Power Apps
Design
Links and Resources
• For design inspiration, look at
• UImovement.com
• Microsoft Employee Experience Starter Kit
• https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powerapps-employee-
experience-starter-kit/
and
https://www.peterdehaas.net/2019/10/microsoft-thrive-employee-
experience-starter-kit.html
• BRK2097 — Microsoft PowerApps Makeover: Basic to Beautiful
• Component Examples: https://bit.ly/33s5iJU
• Free GIFS & SVGS: https://loading.io
• Design Inspiration: https://uimovement.com
• April's Github with PowerApps Samples:
• https://github.com/aprildunnam/PowerApps
• April's YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/aprildunnam
• April's Blog: https://www.aprildunnam.com

43. Power BI
• Seven new data connectors in Power Query Online Get Data
• PDF Files– This connector allows users to extract tables from PDF documents.
• Folder– Use this connector in order to ingest data from files in local (or network-based) file systems, or to query and analyze
files’ metadata.
• SharePoint Folder– Similar scenarios as the previous item, but available on top of a SharePoint folder (either on-prem or
SharePoint Online).
• Google BigQuery– Ingest data from Google BigQuery databases, transform, filter and reshape this data as part of your
dataflow.
• HDInsight Spark– Read tables from HDInsight Spark databases.
• Apache Spark– Read tables from any Apache Spark distribution database, either on-prem or cloud-based.
• Generic ODBC– Plug in any ODBC driver, specify a connection string or DSN and connect from your dataflows to import and
transform data from many different sources.
• Data Transformation and Power Query Enhancements
• 40 new capabilities under the following categories:
• Combine Files UX
• Merge Queries – Visual join kind selection
• Additional Number/Date/DateTime/Duration transformations UX
• List transformations: Statistics, Sort, Keep/Remove/Reverse items
• Fill Up/Down
• Move Columns left/right/beginning/end
• Replace Errors
• Power Query authoring improvements:
• Data Profiling
• Query Parameters UX
• Function Authoring UX
• M Intellisense support in Advanced Query Editor & Formula Bar
• Select Related Tables as part of Get Data UX
50+ Power BI Additions
official blog

44. Azure Synapse
• Massively fast analytics stack on Azure
• Supports relational and non-relational data, integrated data lake etc.
• Power BI enabled with advanced predictive analytics based on ML
etc.
• 75 times faster than the Google BigQuery equivalent
• Tested with 10,000 concurrent users against 1 petabyte data sets

45. AI Builder
• Form Processing - Build AI
model for form processing
• Machine Teaching
• Capture and map form
fields to data within
Power Platform
• Use models in Power
Automate and Power
Apps

46. AI experiences in O365
Play my emails (iOS)
• New feature to play emails as
audio when mobile is connected
to Bluetooth
• Smart enough to not read long
URLs, to recognise long emails,
advise on attachments
• understands management lines
etc. and travel commitments
• Can interact, provide replies,
skip, archive etc.
• https://www.androidpolice.com/
2019/11/05/cortana-play-my-
emails-outlook-ios-android/
Cortana stuff
Meeting Scheduler
• Copy Cortana into
meeting. Cortana
negotiates availability
• Suggested Tasks
will identify potential
tasks you promise to
do in emails, then
remind you.
Misc
Daily Briefing email
An email at the start of the day
with what you have coming up,
tasks that are outstanding etc.
Presentation Coach
Rehearse a presentation live
with the system. It provides
critical review to let you
improve the session. Online
version
Book focus time
Prompt and book Focus time to
complete tasks etc. based on
your diary

47. And finally…
For anyone thinking of going to
Ignite

48. Meetup
Yorkshire Office 365 User Group Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/Yorkshire-Office-365-User-Group

49. Leeds
PowerApps
and Flow User
group
Leeds PowerApps and Flow User group
https://www.powerplatformug.com/leeds

50. Ignite
Resources
and Links
• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-365-
Blog/bg-p/microsoft_365blog
Microsoft Blog
• https://blog.eardley.org.uk/2019/11/ignite-2019-day-1/
Alan Eardley day by day blog
• https://news.microsoft.com/wp-
content/uploads/prod/sites/563/2019/11/Ignite-2019-Book-
of-News.pdf
Ignite Book of News
• 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/
Ignite News

51. Later in the year
Winter 2019
Thrive (Postojna, Slovenia): 12-13th November
2019 - https://www.thriveconf.com/
UK PowerApps & Flow usergroup (Strelley,
Nottingham): 14th November 2019
SPS Leicester: 16th November 2019
UK PowerApps & Flow usergroup
(Reactor, London): 21st November 2019

52. Next
Leeds
PowerApps and
Flow, Office
365 User
Group
7th January 2020