Upcoming May 2023 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

‎May 14 2024 02:57 PM. Join our next community call on May 28 to deep dive into the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Success Kit. We will be starting the call at 5 minutes past the hour for both of our sessions, and it will still end at the top of the hour. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3K0C3oD Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Elevate Your Small Business with Video: Inspiring Ways to Boost Visibility and Engagement with Microsoft 365

Using video to communicate messaging and content from your small business is an innovative way to capture attention and drive engagement. This helpful list will highlight a variety of video use cases where video and Microsoft Clipchamp can assist with boosting your online visibility and effectively connect with your audience. Five video types that can propel your small business forward 1. Social Media Videos: Boost engagement and visibility. A small business that has highly engaged employees is a small business that strengthens brand love. To purchase Microsoft 365 for your business, take a look at the Microsoft 365 Plans. Find the right Microsoft 365 business plan for your business. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3UPxweW Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Standardize your customer configurations in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse

We're excited to continue enhancing our default baseline in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse to provide a set of tasks that help Managed Service Providers secure users, devices, and data in their customer tenants to ensure customers remain secure and productive in a scalable way. This post introduces tasks we added to our default baseline that are focused on several key areas, including new areas like user education and Microsoft Teams. To learn more about the benefits of using baselines, check out the webinar on May 22, 2024: Unlock efficiency and scale with Microsoft 365 Lighthouse. We've also added several tasks focused on Microsoft Teams. From configuration of an attack surface reduction policy, to enabling cloud updates for Microsoft 365 apps to ensure apps are on the latest security and feature updates, we've made it even easier to ensure all your managed endpoints are protected and in a consistent state across your customer tenants. These tasks are just a sampling of the deployment tasks available as part of the Microsoft 365 Lighthouse default baseline. Check out default baselines in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3JOtuxj Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Introducing the section backgrounds in SharePoint Pages and News

We are excited to share that we're updating the section background feature in SharePoint Pages and News. SharePoint now lets you add an image or gradient color to the page sections from a new set of options. Lets you personalize the sections backgrounds with your own images. A see-through overlay has been automatically added to make the text easier to read when you set an image or gradient color as section background. The first version of Section background is in 100% production already. With this update, SharePoint Page and News authors can set section background color or image to make it an appealing experience. Site theme colors will be used in place of section backgrounds that aren't supported in email when you send a news post or a page as an email. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3UwhuW3 Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Most widely used SharePoint Framework ISVs from the Store

We are excited to see the continuous growth on the submissions of the SharePoint Framework solutions to the app source and on the usage of the SharePoint store for extending experiences for SharePoint and Microsoft Viva. It enables the same code to be used easily across the Microsoft 365 with this widely adopted tooling which uses industry standard tech with easy and automatic SSO and hosting. Deprecation of SharePoint add-in and Azure ACS authentication models - UX powered extensibility should be transformed to us SharePoint Framework powered implementations. This deprecation does not impact SharePoint Framework solutions. Additional capabilities and features for SharePoint Framework solutions in Microsoft 365 as part of the SPFx 1.18 release. We are looking forward to more great solutions that enable innovation, and help our customers get more done with Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and more. Please see following resources around getting started on building extensibility for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint using SharePoint Framework. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4ae8Lxs Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Introducing organizational messages in the Microsoft 365 admin center

To support your organization's communication efforts, we're excited to announce the public preview of organizational messages in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Within the experience in Microsoft 365 admin center, you will be able to manage your organization's organizational messages made within various admin experiences as well as create new fully customized messages. To ensure the right message is sent, your organization will also be able to go into the organizational messages experience in Microsoft 365 admin center to review and approve customized messages submitted by authors in your organization. Admins and comms professionals alike can use organizational messages in Microsoft 365 admin center to inform and enable their organizations. Organizational messages works well alongside other Microsoft 365 admin center features (e.g., Usage reports, Adoption Score and Experience insights (Preview , giving admins an easy mechanism for showing their organization features that are available to try and enjoy, such as Copilot in Teams. An image showing the Microsoft 365 admin center organizational messages message management console. To begin using organizational messages in Microsoft 365 admin center, ensure your team satisfies the setup requirements, including the necessary admin roles and policy configurations. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3WnJZaS Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft SharePoint Roadmap Update

This year at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference we had the special opportunity to update our customers on our journey to making SharePoint the best platform for compelling and engaging intranet sites. News in Outlook helps your SharePoint news posts reach their audience in email and we're expanding its capability by making email-ready news the default experience for all SharePoint news posts. The recently released Graph API for SharePoint Pages allows developers to programmatically interact with SharePoint Pages and News posts, offering capabilities such as listing, getting, creating, editing, publishing, and deleting pages. Announced in November, SharePoint Embedded is a headless, API only way of building file and document centric applications that deliver great Microsoft 365 experiences as part of your app. SharePoint Embedded introduces a new concept, File Storage Containers, that are logically isolated from your main SharePoint Online content, but still include the SharePoint features you know and love in their own dedicated partition. Graph API for SharePoint Pages: The new API allows developers to programmatically interact with SharePoint Pages and News posts, offering capabilities such as listing, getting, creating, editing, publishing, and deleting pages. We'll be in Orlando at M365 Community Conference showcasing all of this great innovation, and best of all meeting with customers and partners to learn about how their needs can be met with Microsoft 365 and SharePoint. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3y73g6h Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Unveiling the Newest OneDrive Capabilities

Last October, we unveiled the next generation of OneDrive which makes files easier to access with personalization, search, and new views - organized around people, meetings and shared files. As announced in February, Copilot is coming to OneDrive this summer! It helps you quickly retrieve information from your files and is accessible from OneDrive for web.1. Catch up on the files you care about by generating summaries for your Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF files, all with Copiloted in OneDrive. You'll be able to access Copilot in OneDrive right in file viewer to summarize a document, ask questions about its content, and even create a frequently asked questions form based on the file's information. Enhanced search capabilities make it easier than ever for you to find files in OneDrive. You can expect to see up to 3X faster loading times when viewing and interacting with your files in OneDrive in your browser and in the OneDrive app in Microsoft Teams and Outlook. OneDrive is more than just a file storage and collaboration app - it's a consistent, familiar file experience across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4bcISyU Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

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

Microsoft OneNote now available on Apple Vision Pro

Today, we are introducing the newest member of the OneNote family, on the Apple Vision Pro. We have worked closely with Apple for many years to bring these experiences to iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Now, with Apple Vision Pro, OneNote will make use of the infinite canvas of spatial computing and can appear side-by-side with other great Microsoft apps like Word, Excel, and Teams at any scale for incredible multitasking. You can plan trips, practice daily habits, and create/edit your task list, all in spatial reality - the OneNote experience on the Apple Vision Pro helps you stay productive, no matter where you are. To learn more about Apple Vision Pro, watch this video from Apple. From your Apple Vision Pro, go to the App Store and search for Microsoft OneNote. Enter your Apple ID and password, if prompted, to start the download. Once the app is installed, tap to launch it. OneNote for Apple Vision Pro only supports personal accounts and work accounts that are not managed by your organization. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3xyBKym Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

SharePoint content sessions to be delivered at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference in Orlando, Florida.

Microsoft is sending over 175 Microsoft product makers - to share and discuss innovation and real-world solutions across keynotes, sessions, and pre/post event deep-dive workshops to build your expertise. Expect clarity on what SharePoint is today AND directions content management and communications for the future. To see all that Microsoft is planning for the event, please review our Microsoft 365 Community Conference event guide. Join us to learn how AI-powered content management in Microsoft 365 enables content intelligence, optimizes critical business processes, improves governance, and prepares your content for Copilot. See the full list of 18 workshops available on the pre days and post day. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3PSJeCU Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Microsoft 365 Community Conference IT session spotlight

If you are an IT admin who is responsible for deploying, configuring, and securing Microsoft 365 in your organization, you don't want to miss this year's Microsoft 365 Community Conference in Orlando, Florida on April 30 - May 2. The conference will feature over 100 sessions covering several topics related to Microsoft 365 and Copilot, such as security, compliance, governance, collaboration, productivity, and more. A healthy, secure, and well-managed tenant significantly increases time to value for generative AI tools like Copilot for Microsoft 365. Whether or not you've purchased Copilot or other AI tools, this session covers best practices on how you can drive data security, privacy, and governance within Microsoft 365 so you can confidently deploy Copilot. Join us for an interactive and engaging conversation with other SMB leaders who are using Copilot for Microsoft 365 to boost their productivity and efficiency. We're excited to have you join us at this year's Microsoft 365 Community Conference! Continue the conversation or start your own in the Small and Medium Businesses community, Microsoft 365 community, or the Copilot for Microsoft 365 community! Make sure to Follow or Subscribe so you don't miss any updates! -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4atzUxs Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Apple Vision Productivity on The Intrazone Microsoft podcast

It's time to unveil the mysteries of productivity within the Apple Vision Pro. John takes us into the realm of spatial computing as it blends with the productivity stack of Microsoft 365. John is an enterprise architect at EY and Microsoft MVP who specializes in Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, Stream, and Virtual Events. Not only is John a great resource to understand the ins and outs of Microsoft 365-based communications and collaboration, but he recently invested in an Apple Vision Pro and started testing the pro'ductivity of Teams and Outlook from within the visionOS experience. We talked about some of the headset features, challenges, and benefits, John's experience using his persona during Teams meetings including the spatial audio experience, we centered on the visionOS experience of Microsoft Teams and Outlook apps, and last - we asked John what he wants to see next, both from Microsoft app integrations for the Vision Pro and what Apple can do to support better integration with other Apple devices. Fun meta fact: We recorded the interview via a normal 1:1 Teams meeting AND John joined in true Teams tech fashion using his Vision Pro + Teams to join. What John Moore saw when wearing the Vision Pro during our Teams meeting recording; you can see I was closing my eyes envisioning that I, too, was wearing a Vision Pro headset ;). John Moore's persona joins the Teams meeting to record The Intrazone with Mark Kashman. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3TWapxN Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog