Celebrating Women's History Month

An image of a collage of women working at Microsoft. In honor of Women's History Month, we decided to interview a few of the women who are a part of our Modern Work Supportability Women's group. A few years later, the Women at Microsoft group in Charlotte was created and I began to attend their events. In March 2020, I attended the annual WAM conference in New York, which was a fun and enriching experience to meet many women in different roles across Microsoft. RossS leads the worldwide Modern Work Supportability team in the Customer Service & Support organization at Microsoft. JessicaDarby is a Supportability Program Manager on the CSS Modern Work Supportability team focused on commercial accounts, billing, purchase, and subscription management with Microsoft 365. The CSS Modern Work Supportability team delivers innovative self-help solutions and diagnostics, in-service enhancements, and support programs to help customers get maximum value from their Microsoft 365 commercial subscriptions and create an easy-to-use, connected support experience. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3nqB4pO Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft 365 Conference event guide to keynotes, AMA, sessions, and more

The Microsoft 365 Conference returns to Las Vegas, NV, May 2-4, 2023 - with two pre-event and one post-event workshop days. It's a wonderful event dedicated to AI, SharePoint, Teams, Viva, Syntex, Power Platform, and related Microsoft 365 apps and services. Our new AI track will focus on Copilot across Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and more. Microsoft keynotes and AMA. Hear from Microsoft leadership revealing the latest innovations shaping the flexible, innovative, and secure business environments of the future. Take a deep dive into technology to help refine your practices and bring learnings back to your team and organization to extend the application and use of your Microsoft 365 investment. All Microsoft 365 Conference workshops either take place pre-event on Sunday or Monday or post-event on Friday. Remember, Microsoft customers can use the discount code MSCUST150 for $150 off your conference registration. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3FVTdC8 Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

What's Next for SharePoint Join us at the Microsoft 365 Conference in Las Vegas on May 2-4, 2023

This event defined the product visuals we know today as modern SharePoint, introduced the SharePoint Framework as a durable way of extending SharePoint and Microsoft 365 UX, integrated SharePoint and the Power Platform, and ushered in multiple years of product delivery and community-fueled inspiration as SharePoint matured and new products like Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Search, Microsoft Viva, and Microsoft Syntex emerged - all powered by the flexible SharePoint platform. The SharePoint product team catching up with the community at The Future of SharePoint event in 2016. Our ambitions for the next era of SharePoint are as bold as they were in 2016. Every new employee on the SharePoint product team learns about the power of our community. It gives us purpose when we enable the success of so many who bet their careers on SharePoint and Microsoft 365. We can't wait for you to join us! We'll be there May 2-4 in Las Vegas for the Microsoft 365 Conference - you'll learn best practices you can apply to your current projects, get a peek at the future of SharePoint at a critical moment in its product history, and make connections with the best community in tech. SharePoint can't wait to see you in Las Vegas and to share the news. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3nkRjVa Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Big protection for small businesses-the latest in Microsoft security innovation

Microsoft continues to develop a comprehensive set of security solutions that are easy to use, cost-effective, and specifically designed for small businesses including Microsoft 365 Business Premium, and Microsoft Defender for Business. Simplified security for iOS and Android without device management or add-ons - in preview. Detect malicious Android apps that could disrupt the device or steal data with App Security. Now with Microsoft Defender for Business, data can be kept secure on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices, no matter where employees are. Adding Mobile security without device management in Defender for Business standalone gives you comprehensive device security for Windows, MacOS, and now iOS and Android devices which goes far beyond the capabilities of traditional antivirus solutions that typically only protect a fraction of your business needs. Better understand status of security and identify areas for improvement across devices. These updates will help you to protect mobile devices from cyber-attacks, gain insights into your investments, and enable IT partners to manage security for customers more efficiently. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3K3Rrlc Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Learn how to enable the Microsoft Loop app, now in Public Preview

An image of the Microsoft Loop app on a desktop device. We are excited to announce that Microsoft Loop is now in Public Preview! The Loop app is opt-in during our Public Preview, so as an IT Admin, you need to follow the steps below for your users to experience it, otherwise it is disabled. With Loop, you can create and share Loop components-portable pieces of content that sync across all the places they have been shared including, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word for the web, Whiteboard, and the Loop app. Learn more about the end-user value of the Loop app here in our announcement blog. Create a security group that will contain all the users in your organization who you want to grant access to the Loop app during Public Preview. Create a Cloud Policy, scoped to the security group you created above, to enable the Loop app. In the image example below, we used the previously created Loop app Security Group. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3LHy2aE Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Reinventing collaboration with AI in Microsoft Loop

An image of the Experiments tab within the Loop app settings providing toggles to enable or disable Copilot and Jumpstart Workspace. Participants in our initial feedback sessions love that they can continue to work with Copilot even after it generates initial text - and we think you will too. While we guide you towards writing requests with our examples, these should not limit how you use Copilot in Loop. Spin up new content and tweak it - Copilot can help you draft a newsletter or come up with a list of ideas to get the ball rolling. If you need to explore some options before getting more eyes on a draft - just use Copilot to sample different tones and help you rephrase content based on your intent. Copilot in Loop builds on our existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise. Copilot automatically inherits your organization's security, compliance, and privacy policies for Microsoft 365. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/42oyn8a Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

The SharePoint storage platform supports the Loop app

Today marks the start of the Microsoft Loop app journey. The Loop app is now available in public preview! Loop is about people - people who want to create together with ease, no matter where they are or what tools they use. SharePoint provides the underlying storage and collaboration technology for Loop. Enabling products like Loop to build and innovate quickly on the SharePoint platform requires significant planning and work. Leveraging B-Tree graph nodes allows us to unlock powerful collaboration capabilities and unmatched flexibility in a data structure that works for existing file types but also natively supports Fluid Framework, the underlying tech for Microsoft Loop. Security and Compliance - By building on the core SharePoint platform, Loop components, pages, and workspaces inherit all of SharePoint's industry-leading work on compliance and security. Congratulations and thank you to our Loop colleagues! We love being in the Loop. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/42AHbI7 Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Upcoming March 2023 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

Join us for a special topic in our next community call on March 28! Based on feedback from our last call, we will be starting at 5 minutes past the hour instead. We apologize for the disjointed experience last time and are always trying to improve. The meeting will still end at 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM PT, respectively. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3LC5Ypj Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog