Ignite 2019 - TMS10 - What's new with Microsoft Teams: The hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365

Presented by: Anne Michels, Marissa Salazar

Session summary:

Join us to learn how Microsoft Teams, the hub for collaboration and intelligent communications, is transforming the way people work at Contoso. We showcase some of the big feature innovations we’ve made in the last year and give you a sneak peek at some of the exciting new innovations coming to Microsoft Teams. This demo-rich session highlights the best Teams has to offer!

My Notes:

A recap of what has been done since last Ignite and a look at what is coming next.

Studies show that it takes 23 minutes for an average worker to get back on track again once disturbed by "something else".

A video about how L'Oreal is using Teams to connect people and assets globally was shown.

Next, came demos (in order of appearance)

• Priority notifications
• Multiple windows
• Announcement messages
• Post in multiple channels
• Pinning Teams
• Read receipt
• Sharing a conversation between Outlook and Teams
• Yammer app pinned to the left rail
• Tasks
• Custom backgrounds
• Message extension
• Screen sharing
• Meetings scheduling / Meet now
• Whiteboard
• App with Image recognition
• App for approvals
• Power BI in a tab
• FLW Off-shift access
• FLW Global sign-out
• FLW Delegated user management
• FLW SMS sign-in
• FLW Patient Coordination
• FLW Virtual Consults

 New message extensions coming to Teams.

Other news

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Ignite 2019 - BRK009 - Microsoft Teams

Presented by: Jared Spataro

Session summary

If you are tasked with transforming workplace collaboration, this session is for you! Jared Spataro, CVP Microsoft 365, focuses on how Microsoft Teams can help you, sharing new updates in Teams, demonstrating how your peers are integrating their business processes with Teams, and discussing how to lead a successful deployment of Teams in your organization.

My Notes:

There are two main takeaways from this session.

• How you can transform workplace collaboration.
• Teams is a platform for apps and business processes.

"Teams is to the new Microsoft what Windows was to the old."

Next, came demos of chat, files, teams with external users, tabs and continued with the seven top new features requested by customers.

• Private channels
• Multiwindow experience
• Tasks
• Yammer app pinned to the left rail
• Share a conversation between Outlook and Teams
• Custom backgrounds
• Live captions in meetings

Multiwindows are coming to Teams!

Four announcements on meetings

• New devices - collaboration bars
• Cloud Video Interoperability adding Cisco
• Direct guest join, Zoom and Webex
• Managed meeting rooms

Three management areas with improvements

• Deployment of Teams - Advisor for Teams - step by step guidance to move workloads
• Security & Compliance - ATP Safe Links in Teams, Audit log search, Information Barriers (ethical walls) also for filesharing, one-day retention policies
• Manageability - PowerShell, bulk updates with single commands. A certified app catalogue linked from the Admin center. MTR management in the Admin center. 

Teams as a platform, there are now engineering resources available to go out to customers to find opportunities to simplify with Teams.

First Line Workers

• Shift digitizes the classical work schedule board
• Taking pictures, annotate and the picture will not be stored on the device.
• Record and send an audio message.

New features coming in Shifts are

• Delegated user management
• SMS sign-in
• Global sign-out
• Off-shift access

Customer videos featuring KONE, Uniper, Wavemaker, Clifton, St Lukes, M&S and Fedex. Telstra from Australia came on stage and talked about how they are using Teams FLW solutions.

So much more news from the first day of Ignite...

• What’s New for Calling in Microsoft Teams (Ignite 2019 Edition)
• Exam MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams (beta)
• Managing Microsoft Teams - explained by Study guide Vlad
• Microsoft Teams Private Channels introduction - by Ståle Hansen
• Microsoft Teams Rooms in Zoom and Webex Meetings, and Zoom and Cisco Rooms in Microsoft Teams Meetings - by Tom Arbuthnot
• SharePoint and OneDrive Security, compliance, migration, admin and server – Ignite 2019 announcement
• The Future of Yammer: Microsoft Ignite 2019
• What’s new in Azure Active Directory at Microsoft Ignite 2019
• Enterprise network insights and network score in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center
• Microsoft Whiteboard now available for the web and integrated in Teams
• Microsoft announces general availability for Microsoft 365 learning pathways

Microsoft Ignite 2019 - Keynote

Satya Nadella started with welcoming and thanking the 30,000 people who made it to Ignite or was listening in remote. The keynote was about "Tech Intensity" = (Tech Adoption X Tech Capability)^trust. It started out with discussing the Intelligent cloud and Intelligent edge and how it "empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more".

Microsoft will start building 100% renewable energy, Zero-waste operations datacenters and is starting with the ones in Sweden!

 

The Swedish DCs will be great, and clean!

Satya went on in high speed talking about.

• News around Azure Stack hub, new packaging, Azure Synapse and Azure Arc which will bring multi cloud / multi edge.
• Democratizing AI - Autonomous systems
• Project Silica - storing information in glass
• Quantum computing - Azure quantum
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• Minecraft Earth - using Azure spatial anchors
   

63 minutes Microsoft Teams were first mentioned in the keynote

Teams is "The hub for teamwork" with Private Channels and Multiwindow coming now.

Project Cortex - takes data to knowledge and is used to enhance collaboration.

Introducing Project Cortex Project Cortex is Graph + AI + people + context that will build a knowledge network.

Demos of

• AI to block out background noise
• Eye gaze
• Custom backgrounds
• Intelligent content capture
• Natural language search in Outlook
• Image to table
• Fluid framework
• Surface laptop 3
• Surface Neo & Duo coming late 2020

Teams in healthcare

• Taking pictures that are not stored on the phone.
• Patient experience app
• Virtual consults

The future of the web - Edge and Bing - The new Edge browser built on Chromium and runs on iOS, Android, Mac and Windows 10 is faster, works with more webpages and have tracking prevention and inPrivate search. Demo of Bing searches that will not be stored in the engine and Searches in internal data using Graph API knowledge. The Release candidate of Edge is available now

And so much more news is sipping out of Ignite already…

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | Ignite 2019

Here are some of the news items mentioned in the article above.

• Private Channels
• Multiwindow
• Teams client for Linux
• New messaging extensions
• Pinned Channels
• New integration between Outlook and Teams
• Tasks in Teams
• Yammer app for Teams
• Microsoft Whiteboard
• Live Captions
• New presenter and attendee controls
• Citrix VDI
• Cloud Video Interop (CVI) partnership with Cisco
• MTR direct guest join capability to Cisco and Zoom
• SMS Sign-In for FLW
• FLW Off shift access
• Graph API enhancements
• New certified app catalogue
• Safe Links in Microsoft Teams
• Integrate Microsoft Teams and Power Platform
• Power BI interactive cards

 

So much more…

• Don't miss to download the 87-page Book Of News
• Microsoft & Cisco partner to simplify meetings and calling
• Content collaboration throughout Microsoft365 – Ignite 2019 announcements
• What's New in Microsoft Stream - Ignite2019
• Celebrating top OneDrive moments at Ignite2019
• Power Platform Ignite 2019 Announcements
• Project Cortex an Office 365knowledge-management service