Empowering Small Businesses to Understand AI

In recognition of National Small Business Week, we have curated a list of those resources that may be helpful for small business professionals who want to get started with AI. Establish an AI foundation. Start your AI journey by visiting the Microsoft WorkLab and examining a rich collection of content that addresses the real-world scenarios of how AI is impacting work today. New articles are regularly added that will help you understand not just AI's high-level capabilities, but also the nuances of AI and how to directly apply AI to your day-to-day work. This study provides insights into how employees feel about AI and how long it takes most employees to build effective AI habits. In-depth guides that detail how AI can help the different parts of your business, such as How Sellers Can Use AI to Better Engage with Customers and How Marketers Can Use AI to Unlock Breakthrough Creativity. If you're an IT professional, look at the learning journey for IT Professionals, which provides a thorough grounding on the particulars of AI adoption, deployment, and small business concerns, like data classification and regulatory considerations. You can come here anytime to ask questions, get help, keep up with the latest AI news specific to small and medium-sized businesses and find out about upcoming online or local events. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3UiEnfu Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

OneDrive Adds New Offline Capabilities

Continuing with our ambition to give you simple and fast access to your files, we're now launching offline mode, which brings both significant speed improvements and offline capabilities when using OneDrive in your favorite browser. One of the primary benefits of this local cache is that it significantly improves load-times for OneDrive in your browser and speeds up viewing and interacting with your OneDrive files in your browser or OneDrive app in Microsoft Teams and Outlook. Once you've set up offline mode, if your internet connection drops or if you decide to access your OneDrive without internet whether you are on plane, in the park, or somewhere else, you will find that you can still access OneDrive and browse, organize, move, copy, and rename your files. With offline mode in OneDrive you can rename, copy, or move files without an internet connection and those changes will sync to OneDrive once you reconnect to the internet. The OneDrive feature Files On-Demand helps you access all the files in your OneDrive through Windows File Explorer or Finder on Mac without having to download them and use storage space on your computer. When offline mode is enabled, you can make files available for offline access from OneDrive for web. Offline mode enables new file states and icons in OneDrive. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3JCvhVQ Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

Multi-tenant organization capabilities now available in Microsoft 365

Today we're thrilled to announce a robust set of multi-tenant organization capabilities within Microsoft 365, now generally available to enhance your organization's collaboration, communication, and administration across multiple tenants. These capabilities span Microsoft 365 People Search, Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage and Microsoft Defender XDR, which can be enabled via the Microsoft 365 admin center or Microsoft Entra admin center. This segmentation can cause frustration when users need to communicate and collaborate across tenant boundaries, whilst IT admins need to perform the same set of administrative tasks per tenant to maintain their organization. An image showing a synchronized user profile from another tenant in Microsoft 365. Enable Microsoft 365 multi-tenant capabilities with Microsoft Entra ID. Multi-tenant organization platform capabilities are now rolling out to standard production tenants in Microsoft 365. To deliver the above capabilities, administrators can enable multi-tenant capabilities in the Microsoft 365 admin center and configure which users in the organization can take advantage of multi-tenant capabilities using either Microsoft 365 admin center or Microsoft Entra admin center. For a simplified experience, stay in the Microsoft 365 admin center to sync users into multiple tenants in your multi-tenant organization. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3UxhSoi Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft at TechCon365 and PWRCON

Graphic: A collage of all the Microsoft speakers presenting in Seattle, WA. At TechCon365 & PWRCON Seattle, a Microsoft 365 Conference & Power Platform Conference, the subject matter is divided into tracks and each session is designated for beginner, intermediate, advanced or expert. With 2 optional days of workshops and a 3-day conference, you can choose from over 130 sessions in multiple tracks and 25 workshops presented by Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power Platform, Microsoft Teams, Viva, Azure, Copilot & AI's top experts! Whether you are new to Microsoft 365, Power Platform and SharePoint or an experienced power user, admin or developer, TechCon365 has content designed to fit your experience level and area of interest. See how the Microsoft 365, SharePoint Power Platform, Azure, and AI ecosystem is growing and evolving by speaking with technical experts from the local Microsoft field and diverse channels within the Microsoft Partner Network - all in our exhibit hall. Microsoft keynotes and AMA. Hear from Microsoft leadership revealing the latest innovations shaping the flexible, innovative, and secure business environments of the future. Find us in the Community Lounge - A place to connect with Microsoft MVPs, MCM, Microsoft Regional Directors, and user group leaders via Ask the Experts tables and in the Community Lounge when you can pick up some laptop stickers and learn more about community programs in the Exhibit Hall. It is crucial to ensure your organization is technically ready for the full potential of Copilot for Microsoft 365. I hope you will join us in Seattle, WA for what will be a fantastic week in the PNW! We're looking forward to the action alongside the community, MVPs, and Microsoft product members from Copilot, Teams, Office, SharePoint, OneDrive, Loop, Viva, Power Platform, Lists, Planner, and more. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3vW46lZ Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

SharePoint Intranet Festival, May 22, 2024, promoted by SWOOP Analystics in collaboration with Microosft

The event is managed by our partner SWOOP Analytics and is packed with experts and content to help guide your broader employee engagement strategy and org-wide communications decision making. To help kick it off, members of the Microsoft SharePoint product team will kick off each time zone to provide additional product insights and engage in the live discussion. Learn how Microsoft is transforming the authoring experience, for you to create and consume content more easily. We've lots of demos to share, sample guidance and best practices, and recent customer examples - all to help you make the most of your SharePoint-Microsoft 365-based intranet investments. SharePoint powers more and more experience across Microsoft 365 including the latest innovations in OneDrive, Loop, Lists, Stream, SharePoint itself, and more. Join us and industry leaders as we unveil invaluable strategies and share experiences shaping the future of intranet content governance and development! Thank you to our partner SWOOP Analytics with special kudos to Cai Kjaer, Serena Pacifico, and team for organizing the event, wrangling all the content and speakers, and supporting the goodness and value of intranets today and going forward. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4aGTh6r Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Unleash the Power of Productivity: Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 Preview

We are pleased to announce that the commercial preview of Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 is now available for both Windows and Mac. Office LTSC 2024 will include features from past Office releases as well as a subset of new features already available in Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise. Because we know that many customers deploy Office LTSC on only a subset of their devices, we will continue to support the deployment of both Office LTSC and Microsoft 365 Apps to different machines within the same organization using a common set of deployment tools: Click-to-Run on Windows and Apple Package format on Mac, just like Office LTSC 2021. Microsoft 365 continues to deliver the most secure, productive, and cost-effective Office experience, and positions customers to unlock the transformative power of AI with Microsoft Copilot. LTSC 2024 will be a valuable upgrade for customers who need to keep their Office apps on-premises. For instructions on how to install and activate the previews of Office LTSC, Project, and Visio on a Windows device, visit Install Office LTSC Preview. For instructions on how to install and activate the Office LTSC for Mac Preview, visit Overview of Office LTSC for Mac Preview. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4d6epEL Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Tell us your thoughts at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference and earn a $20 gift card

The Microsoft User Researcher team is offering several group sessions that will focus on Copilot, Loop, Mesh, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, and Viva. These 60-75-minute sessions will give you an opportunity to learn about some of our product ideas and provide your own ideas and feedback. To participate, you must complete this survey and sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. The survey includes a brief description of the different session topics available and will take 10-15 minutes to complete. You can choose the sessions that interest you the most and fit your schedule. As a thank you, you will receive a $20 Starbucks card for each session you participate in! We hope to see you at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference and at the Microsoft User Research sessions. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3JqNkP0 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft at the European Collab and Cloud Summit in Wiesbaden, Germany

The European Collab Summit and European Cloud Summit are co-located in 2024 - converging on Wiesbaden, Germany, May 14-16, 2024 - with two pre-event and one post-event workshop days. With nearly 3,000 attendees, the European Collaboration Summit is a big opportunity to learn a lot and meet with Microsoft and MVP experts across numerous areas - your tech community peers included. You'll hear the latest product updates and guidance from over 45 Microsoft product makers - filled with real-world solutions across a combined general keynote, four general sessions, numerous breakout sessions, and pre/post event deep-dive workshops to build your expertise - presented alongside Microsoft MVPs and community experts. Hear from Microsoft leadership revealing the latest innovations shaping the flexible, innovative, and secure business environments of the future. Attendees can expect interactive demos, enlightening discussions, and a deep dive into Microsoft's strategic direction with advances in cloud. You can review each full agenda for Collab sessions and Cloud sessions. I hope you will join us in Germany for what will be a fantastic week! We're looking forward to the action alongside the community, MVPs, and Microsoft product members from Copilot, Teams, Office, SharePoint, OneDrive, Loop, Viva, Power Platform, Lists, Planner, and more. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4aXuJWj Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog