Microsoft Mechanics takes a deep and hands-on look at updates to Yammer for enterprise-social, from enhanced security and compliance to greater team productivity. Angus Florance from the Yammer team demonstrates new integrated experiences, including Office 365 Video and Delve. And for admins, we'll show you new controls for analytics, merging networks, and managing users.
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A look at the compliance side of the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center, the central place to view and manage your data - even beyond the Microsoft ecosystem. Watch and you'll see how the experience is improved by centralized security controls, the ability to view and manage security and compliance for all your cloud services. Insights and intelligence that offer recommendations based on your Office 365 environment. Also, the experience for security and compliance based on your role.
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A look at the physics behind the Surface pen and display interaction. From pressure sensitivity to parallax and latency.
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An exploration of how you can use the hyper-scale of Azure to run and manage Red Hat solutions in your IT environment. We'll also go over pre-built Red Hat Enterprise Linux images in the Azure marketplace, integrated support to help you troubleshoot issues and get access to Red Hat resources. Also, how you can take your on-premises apps and run them on top of the Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure running on Azure.
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Today, we take a deeper look at Microsoft Planner—a new experience in Office 365 to organize work, manage and assign tasks and collaborate within your teams. We go hands-on and show you how to use Planner—including integrated experiences across Office 365. This show demonstrates how to get started with creating plans, assigning tasks and the things you can do while working through a plan. We walk through the integrated experiences with Office 365 Groups, board and chart views to visualize tasks and monitor progress—and finally what the team is building in the coming months. To learn more and see this in action, watch the video and keep giving us your feedback at our UserVoice site (planner....
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If you are an existing Azure user, we take a look at the new migration feature to help you move your IaaS resources from Classic to Azure Resource Manager without ANY downtime. We'll refresh you on the awesome power of the Azure Resource Manager, look at how the PowerShell and CLI tools work to prepare and commit migration and we'll answer some common migration questions.
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This week we catch up with Sri Srinivasan from the Dynamics AX team for an update on Microsoft Dynamics AX. From modern user experiences, to new ways for developing custom solution, we go hands on to show what's new and what's possible.
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Microsoft Azure Information Protection is a new solution that makes it simpler to classify and protect information, even as it travels outside of your organization. You'll see the new options that let you define how your users can classify their documents and emails during the normal course of their work. Find out how you can define the labels, protections, and visual markings appropriate for your organization. And finally, track where sensitive documents are traveling and how to stop them in their tracks.
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In a continuation of our engineering focus, we take a brief but revealing tour of the ergonomic design and performance of the latest Surface Pen with Director of Program Management, Vineet Thuvara. Vineet explains, how the new Surface Pen is designed to deliver a natural and comfortable experience for writing and drawing in the digital domain while also offering a clickable and convenient way for you to interact with your applications.
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On today's demo bench, we are joined by Xbox Engineer, and member of Microsoft's Accessibility Community, Steven Liss. Steven walks through why High Contrast mode is so important for people such as himself with a visual impairment and highlights the latest enhancements in Office 365 applications to support High Contrast themes in PCs. To learn more, visit https://blogs.office.com/2016/05/19/accessibility-enhancements-in-office-365-for-people-with-vision-impairments/
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Lead engineer, Astrid McClean demonstrates Office 365 Advanced Security Management. A new capability added to the service which gives you enhanced visibility and control into your Office 365 tenant by: identifying high-risk and abnormal usage; assigning a risk score and alerting you when a policy gets triggered; enabling you to investigate alerts, set your own custom policies and take further actions to remediate suspicious activity. If you have E5 you can turn on Advanced Security Management now or try it here: Aka.ms/E5Trial
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Take a guided tour of the design and engineering behind the Surface Book, Microsoft's first laptop. Jeff Stewart, Director of Program Management for Surface devices, demos and details this redefining laptop.
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A walk through of the Security and Compliance Center; enabling search and investigation in the Office 365 service. These new capabilities give you transparency into the actions taken against your data and allow you to investigate and respond to potential issues.
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Lead engineer and Principal Program Manager for enterprise Cloud mobility, Dilip Radhakrishnan, offers a demo-rich overview of the latest Mobile Application Management capabilities in Microsoft Intune, including: How to define policies to stop data leakage; How you can manage your apps without needing device enrollment and how to setup this protection for your users' most valuable Office Apps. You can try these capabilities for yourself and learn more today at: AKA.MS/TryEMS
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Lead engineer and Principal Program Manager for enterprise Cloud mobility, Dilip Radhakrishnan, offers a demo-rich overview of the latest Mobile Application Management capabilities in Microsoft Intune, including: How to define policies to stop data leakage; How you can manage your apps without needing device enrollment and how to setup this protection for your users' most valuable Office Apps. You can try these capabilities for yourself and learn more today at: AKA.MS/TryEMS
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Microsoft's Principal Program Manager, Dean Wells offers a demo-rich look at Shielded Virtual Machines (VMs), new with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V. Watch as he demonstrates the types of attacks that are possible today and then walks you through how things change with Shielded VMs. This includes the protection of Virtual Machines against malicious Hyper-V admins and malware attacks in both the public and private Cloud. Dean also describes how the tech works to help you to ensure that the Hyper-V fabric that's running your Shielded VMs is healthy. He also shows you how you can build an infrastructure that runs Shielded VMs to achieve a guarded fabric.
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Whether you are a 1st or 3rd party SharePoint developer, the new SharePoint Framework offers a modern new client side approach that allows you to extend and customize SharePoint with high-trust code in ways that were previously unavailable in the Cloud. Watch, as program manager Daniel Kogan, provides an overview and demonstrates how the SharePoint Framework helps you to create beautiful, responsive solutions that you can customize to your own needs. Stay to the end to see how you can build and test SharePoint Web Parts locally with the new workbench, without having SharePoint running in your own environment. As part the Future of SharePoint event, we created exclusive demos from the engine...
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SharePoint Server 2016 represents a new generation of SharePoint, that brings our experience running SharePoint at scale in Office 365 to your datacenter. This allows us to bring innovation to you at a more rapid pace and on your terms; improve performance, reliability and scale, and provide a foundation for future innovation. Watch as SharePoint veteran, Bill Baer provides an overview of the key elements that make this possible including the new feature pack model; converged code base; the standard min-role topology and zero down-time patching. As part the Future of SharePoint event, we created exclusive demos from the engineers behind new and upcoming capabilities. Check out the list belo...
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Whether you have a long-term commitment to keep the bulk of your company's assets on-premises, or you are planning a full transition to cloud in the future, SharePoint Server 2016 allows you to extend your on-premises investment to the cloud today. Principal engineer Michael Connolly explores the easiest ways for you to get value out of the Cloud now via a hybrid solution that doesn't require full migration of content from your existing on-premises deployment. You can learn more by checking out our resources at: hybrid.office.com OR aka.ms/sphybrid As part the Future of SharePoint event, we created exclusive demos from the engineers behind new and upcoming capabilities. Check out the list ...
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Trust is a key principle of our ambition to reinvent business productivity. As we deliver SharePoint and OneDrive our commitment to security, privacy and compliance is unwavering. Learn from principal engineer Navjot Virk as she both explains and demonstrates Microsoft's approach and upcoming capabilities for differentiated access, the prevention of unwanted data sharing and more, giving you better control over the security of your data. As part the Future of SharePoint event, we created exclusive demos from the engineers behind new and upcoming capabilities. Check out the list below for all the videos related to the event. The Mobile and Intelligent Intranet: SharePoint Sites and PowerApps...
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OneDrive for Business as part of Office 365, is designed to provide effortless, powerful file sharing and collaboration across all your devices with integrated security, privacy and compliance controls. Watch as OneDrive Director, Reuben Krippner, gives you a tour of the new and upcoming capabilities that make OneDrive the window to all your files in Office 365 regardless of whether they are in OneDrive, Office 365 Groups or SharePoint. Also, don't miss a first look at new intelligent experiences for trending and suggested content as well as insights into the impact and reach of your work. As part the Future of SharePoint event, we created exclusive demos from the engineers behind new and u...
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See a demo-rich overview of the new SharePoint mobile app to access and stay connected to the content that matters most to you across your intranet while you're on the go; and how this translates to the new SharePoint home. Watch as principal engineer, Andy Haon walks you through the key elements that bring your Intranet into the cloud first, mobile first world, so that you can: navigate your sites and portals, and access important content, information and people. As part the Future of SharePoint event, we created exclusive demos from the engineers behind new and upcoming capabilities. Check out the list below for all the videos related to the event. The Mobile and Intelligent Intranet: Sha...
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Take a demo-rich, first look tour of how the SharePoint team plans to transform your intranet into a mobile and intelligence powered experience. One that combines the productivity of SharePoint team sites, the broadcast reach of publishing sites and portals, and the seamless integration of business apps, so that you can find and access content wherever you are and on any device. As part the Future of SharePoint event, we created exclusive demos from the engineers behind new and upcoming capabilities. Check out the list below for all the videos related to the event. The Mobile and Intelligent Intranet: SharePoint Sites and PowerAppsYour Intranet in Your Pocket: The SharePoint mobile appEffor...
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Skype for Business Mac Public Preview is rolling out in stages over the coming months. You can request an invite to test the Mac client at www.SkypePreview.com. This this demonstration, Madhuri Tondepu, program manager from the Skype engineering team, provides a comprehensive overview of the current preview experience. She demonstrates the updated user experience, discovering, joining and participating in Skype meetings, and the work the team has done to modernize the client from the ground up .
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Want to know what's new with System Center 2016? In this episode, we share the latest support for Windows Server 2016 with updates for Shielded VMs and Nano Server; building Hyper-converged clusters with Storage Spaces Direct; Tuned alerting and better discoverability of Management Packs with Operations Manager and what's coming for hybrid management across your data center and the Cloud. You can try System Center 2016 for yourself at: aka.ms/trysystemcenter2016.
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Sr. Product Manager, Javier Nino from Microsoft, offers a quick overview of the new free Microsoft IT Pro Cloud Essentials program and its benefits including: access to professional training; extended Cloud services trials; free credit for Microsoft Azure; career guidance and prioritized expert level support. If you are an IT Professional, you can subscribe at Itprocloudessentials.com
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David Spillers (Sr. Program Manager, Surface Devices) will take you through a short tour of the key aspects of the Surface Dock design and what you can connect to it. Additionally, he'll run through setup for using multiple monitors. Continue watching, check out these other Microsoft Mechanics shows on Surface Simplifying Surface imaging with the Surface Deployment AcceleratorAn Engineer Guided Tour of Surface Pro 4Troubleshooting Surface power management during modern standbyUnderstanding Surface Power Management with Modern Standby in Windows 10Migrating your Surface to Windows 10, with Windows in-place upgradeHow to manage and update your drivers and firmware for Surface
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Learn about what's new within Office 365 Education, including Microsoft Classroom, a homepage where teachers and students can manage all of their classes and assignments online. The new Classroom has built-in Class Notebooks, Sway for interactive presentations, quizzes with the new Microsoft Forms, and new Learning Tools to help all students. Keep watching to see how School Data Sync makes this Classroom experience better by connecting Office 365 Education to your existing student information system to enable automatic group creation and single sign on.
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FastTrack engineer, Mike Graham, offers a quick overview of how FastTrack can help you as an IT Professional, to achieve more with Office 365 within your organization. From access to documented best practices to ensure that the right stakeholders are on-board with training geared toward how people in your organization need to use Office 365 to get their jobs done; to the tools and materials to help you build and execute a great success plan and how you can get more help from the FastTrack team through the FastTrack Center.
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Demonstration of the new Surface Deployment Accelerator (SDA). SDA is designed to simplify Surface image creation and deployment to save you time and ensure you have the latest Surface firmware and drivers. Milad Aslaner, program manager on the Surface deployment team, demonstrates how the SDA wizard-based design guides you through the steps of creating and deploying Windows images to Surface devices in your organization with automated install of the latest drivers and firmware. Continue watching, check out these other Microsoft Mechanics shows on Surface Tour of the New Microsoft Surface DockAn Engineer Guided Tour of Surface Pro 4Troubleshooting Surface power management during modern stan...
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If you've ever wondered how much time you've spent in meetings, email or focusing on deliverables, Delve Analytics can help. In this week's show, Ryan Fuller explains and demonstrates how Delve Analytics provides you the insights to improve your personal productivity. How much time are you spending working afterhours or where are you losing touch with key contacts? We explain how activity data is used to create personal reports of where you're spending time. Keep watching as Ryan explains where this is going and tells the story of one 300,000 man hour meeting that was discovered and removed from the collective calendar.
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A look at how you can gain deeper visibility, stronger controls and enhance security for your cloud applications with Microsoft Cloud App Security. You'll see how to can discover all SaaS Apps used and get a risk assessment for them. See policy violations and how to take actions on a file level. Also you'll find out how you can detect anomalies and mitigate threats.
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Heading into the last day of Build 2016, we take a look at what the updates to the Office extensibility model and Office Add-ins mean for IT admins. Jeremy Thake highlights new capabilities announced at Build for both developers and users while demonstrating new deployment options to get add-ins to users directly from the Office 365 admin portal.
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Learn more about the latest innovations for Office 365 Video. Mark Kashman, senior product manager for the Office 365 team, provides a tour with demo of numerous features and capabilities ranging from the new, improved upload experience, accessibility with closed-caption support, analytics per video to provide aggregate trending patterns, choose your own thumbnail, offline access, new admin and management capabilities and more.
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If you are wondering about the difference between Surface Pro 3 versus Surface Pro 4, the difference is in what's inside. The lead engineer behind Surface Pro 4, Dave Mitchell, shares the details behind performance design enhancements and available processor configurations for this major new edition to the Surface family. He also reviews the best-in class screen; Windows 10 optimizations, and improvements made to the type cover and pen.
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If you are wondering about the difference between Surface Pro 3 versus Surface Pro 4, the difference is in what's inside. The lead engineer behind Surface Pro 4, Dave Mitchell, shares the details behind performance design enhancements and available processor configurations for this major new edition to the Surface family. He also reviews the best-in class screen; Windows 10 optimizations, and improvements made to the type cover and pen.
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If you are wondering about the difference between Surface Pro 3 versus Surface Pro 4, the difference is in what's inside. The lead engineer behind Surface Pro 4, Dave Mitchell, shares the details behind performance design enhancements and available processor configurations for this major new edition to the Surface family. He also reviews the best-in class screen; Windows 10 optimizations, and improvements made to the type cover and pen.
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In this demo, we walk through the process of copying user files located in user-dedicated file shares to Office 365 and OneDrive for Business. Thomas Wicker from the Office 365 team demonstrates the new data migration service as part of FastTrack included with Office 365 for organizations with 150 or more users. FastTrack provides guidance and tools to migrate files from on premises files shares or Google Drive to OneDrive for Business in Office 365 and SharePoint team sites. FastTrack helps you assess and automate your data migration process at scale with one-on-one support from a Microsoft engineer via phone and online.
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In this demo, we walk through the process of copying user files located in user-dedicated file shares to Office 365 and OneDrive for Business. Thomas Wicker from the Office 365 team demonstrates the new data migration service as part of FastTrack included with Office 365 for organizations with 150 or more users. FastTrack provides guidance and tools to migrate files from on premises files shares or Google Drive to OneDrive for Business in Office 365 and SharePoint team sites. FastTrack helps you assess and automate your data migration process at scale with one-on-one support from a Microsoft engineer via phone and online.
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We demonstrate what's new in SharePoint Server 2016. If you've been testing the Release Candidate or Preview releases of SharePoint Server 2016, you'll be aware of the foundational updates we've made. Bill Baer shows what's been recently added - durable links, new admin experiences and updated hybrid capabilities when connecting to Office 365 services.
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This week Microsoft Mechanics goes hands-on with the latest updates to Dynamics CRM to highlight Office 365 integration for sellers, admins and developers. Eric Boocock from the Dynamics team demonstrates how CRM creates Office 365 Groups to improve collaboration how you can access CRM data in the context of email with the Outlook Add-in. The updated experiences can also leverage Azure Machine Learning to create cross-sell recommendations and Cortana to report interactive insights from Windows 10.
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This week Microsoft Mechanics goes hands-on with the latest updates to Dynamics CRM to highlight Office 365 integration for sellers, admins and developers. Eric Boocock from the Dynamics team demonstrates how CRM creates Office 365 Groups to improve collaboration how you can access CRM data in the context of email with the Outlook Add-in. The updated experiences can also leverage Azure Machine Learning to create cross-sell recommendations and Cortana to report interactive insights from Windows 10.
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Office 365 clients (including Office 365 ProPlus, Visio Pro, and Project Pro) can now receive updates using a new servicing capability. Now you can leverage ConfigMgr's built-in workflow engine to natively distribute software updates. You'll learn how to enable it, see how it works and we'll also review your options.
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Office 365 clients (including Office 365 ProPlus, Visio Pro, and Project Pro) can now receive updates using a new servicing capability. Now you can leverage ConfigMgr's built-in workflow engine to natively distribute software updates. You'll learn how to enable it, see how it works and we'll also review your options.
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Covering all the new features of System Center Configuration Manager. Including, updates to help you quickly deploy upgrade and configure Windows 10.And how the new config manager servicing model keeps you up-to-date with continuous innovations delivered through Windows as a service as well as Android and IOS innovations through MDM when integrated with Intune.
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Covering all the new features of System Center Configuration Manager. Including, updates to help you quickly deploy upgrade and configure Windows 10.And how the new config manager servicing model keeps you up-to-date with continuous innovations delivered through Windows as a service as well as Android and IOS innovations through MDM when integrated with Intune.
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This week Microsoft Mechanics goes hands-on to demonstrate the most recent updates for Office app experiences on tables, including Sway, Word Mobile, Excel Mobile and PowerPoint Mobile apps for Windows tablets. Ben Walters also demonstrates what's new with Office on the iPad Pro.
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This week Microsoft Mechanics goes hands-on to demonstrate the most recent updates for Office app experiences on tables, including Sway, Word Mobile, Excel Mobile and PowerPoint Mobile apps for Windows tablets. Ben Walters also demonstrates what's new with Office on the iPad Pro.
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If you experience unexpected power consumption issues, it's likely that your Surface device will have been interrupted from its' lowest power state, DRIPS, more than usual. On today's demo bench Senior Program Manager from the Surface engineering team, Joao Botto, returns to show you how to troubleshoot and pinpoint issues by running and reading available sleep-study and energy reports for the affected device. For additional information, see our blog on TechNet: http://blogs.technet.com/b/surface/archive/2016/03/01/troubleshooting-power-management-for-your-surface-during-modern-standby.aspx
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If you experience unexpected power consumption issues, it's likely that your Surface device will have been interrupted from its' lowest power state, DRIPS, more than usual. On today's demo bench Senior Program Manager from the Surface engineering team, Joao Botto, returns to show you how to troubleshoot and pinpoint issues by running and reading available sleep-study and energy reports for the affected device. For additional information, see our blog on TechNet: http://blogs.technet.com/b/surface/archive/2016/03/01/troubleshooting-power-management-for-your-surface-during-modern-standby.aspx
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A look at the new Azure service that uses Microsoft's real-time intelligence to protect your deployments from outside/inside threats. Watch to learn more about: • Centralized security monitoring• Setting policy and deployment security controls for your Azure Resources• And....advanced threat detection through machine learning
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A look at the new Azure service that uses Microsoft's real-time intelligence to protect your deployments from outside/inside threats. Watch to learn more about: • Centralized security monitoring• Setting policy and deployment security controls for your Azure Resources• And....advanced threat detection through machine learning
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Surface is in a class of devices that uses Modern Standby rather than traditional S3 Sleep. This allows us to manage power consumption right down to the individual hardware components. The net effect is near instant resume times and more efficient power consumption. In today's demo bench with Program Manager Joao Botto, we walk through the two Modern Standby modes and how to switch between them:• Connected Standby, also known as InstantGo, for always-on computing• And Disconnected Standby for longer battery life
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Surface is in a class of devices that uses Modern Standby rather than traditional S3 Sleep. This allows us to manage power consumption right down to the individual hardware components. The net effect is near instant resume times and more efficient power consumption. In today's demo bench with Program Manager Joao Botto, we walk through the two Modern Standby modes and how to switch between them:• Connected Standby, also known as InstantGo, for always-on computing• And Disconnected Standby for longer battery life
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In this demonstration, you'll discover how Learning Tools for OneNote helps you author content if you have difficulty spelling or using a keyboard. Jeff Petty, from the accessibility engineering team, shows how Learning Tools for OneNote can also help people with low vision or a learning differences like dyslexia, as it can provide high contrast reading views, narrate text and break complex words and sentences into smaller parts.
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In this demonstration, you'll discover how Learning Tools for OneNote helps you author content if you have difficulty spelling or using a keyboard. Jeff Petty, from the accessibility engineering team, shows how Learning Tools for OneNote can also help people with low vision or a learning differences like dyslexia, as it can provide high contrast reading views, narrate text and break complex words and sentences into smaller parts.
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Using the principles of inclusive design, we're making improvements to Outlook to keep you productive if you have a visual impairment. This demo highlights some of the work the Outlook team is doing to make mail and calendar accessible in our desktop, mobile and browser experiences. With a combination of a screen reader, keyboard, and touch; David Gorelik from the Outlook engineering team walks through reading and composing an email, scheduling a meeting and accepting it on the go.
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Using the principles of inclusive design, we're making improvements to Outlook to keep you productive if you have a visual impairment. This demo highlights some of the work the Outlook team is doing to make mail and calendar accessible in our desktop, mobile and browser experiences. With a combination of a screen reader, keyboard, and touch; David Gorelik from the Outlook engineering team walks through reading and composing an email, scheduling a meeting and accepting it on the go.
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Learn about file access and sharing improvements in OneDrive for Business on the web if you have low vision. In this demonstration, Melissa Torres from the OneDrive engineering team highlights enhanced experiences when using a screen reader and keyboard to navigate through files in OneDrive for Business on the web.
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Learn about file access and sharing improvements in OneDrive for Business on the web if you have low vision. In this demonstration, Melissa Torres from the OneDrive engineering team highlights enhanced experiences when using a screen reader and keyboard to navigate through files in OneDrive for Business on the web.
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Today we take a tour of all the recent updates to Office 365 Groups - spanning user, IT and developer experiences. Groups are pervasive in Office 365, providing self-service capabilities to accelerate collaboration - from conversations, calendar, files, to notes and planning. From an admin's perspective, this also means there is a need to create, modify and audit all activities; Groups in Azure AD provides these capabilities as well.
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Microsoft Chief Architect, Enterprise Cloud, Jeffrey Snover, takes a closer look at Nano server - the secure new headless deployment option for Windows Server 2016. He demonstrates how it gives you the lightest and fastest option with significantly fewer patches and reboots. Watch as he shows you how to customize Nano Server for your next generation apps and highlights your management options from PowerShell to remote management.
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Azure Stack gives you Microsoft Azure Services to run your datacenter just like a service provider. On this episode of Microsoft Mechanics, Jeffrey Snover takes an IT Pro perspective to show you how you can leverage the operational and resource management model of Azure for your datacenter on premises. Also, you'll see how this hybrid approach gives you the flexibility to deploy apps and resources where and when you need them.
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During race season, roughly 100 crew members support Lotus F1 Team on site around the world. On today's show, we learn from Mark Everest how Lotus F1 Team leveraged Office 365 APIs and extensibility to update their legacy travel application - complete with calendar and directory services integration. The team built new underpinnings with a flexible data model, a web front end for logistics planning and user management, a mobile app that worked across platforms and an Outlook Add-in to integrate race events directly into users' calendars. Learn how Visual Studio, Apache Cordova and integrated Office 365 APIs were used in the project, and get a glimpse of how the team uses the apps to manage ...
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With Office 365, we continue to invest in new protections against malicious email attacks. Today Shobhit Sahay from the Office 365 team walks through seven new Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) features that proactively identify and block the most dangerous email threats.
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If you struggle with identity management and the user sign-in experience for your consumer applications and websites Azure AD B2C is a new service to help you to reliably and securely maintain user accounts for your B2C apps. Watch the show as lead engineer Alex Simons walks through the tech behind the scenes that makes it all possible and how you can quickly: Connect your existing Web and mobile apps; allow your users to sign-in with social network accounts; configure the service and scale your app to reach millions of consumers globally. Get started here: http://azure.com/azuread-b2c
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Office Mechanics returns to Enstone this week to follow Lotus F1 Team's implementation of Power BI. The IT crew discusses the shift from SQL Server and SSRS to self-service BI while providing a step-by-step demonstration of what they did to get Power BI running. More exciting changes to come for the team at Enstone. Ahead of the 2016 championship, Renault's F1 program will be begin. Renault and Lotus F1 Team have known each other for 15 years and were world champions together in 2005 and 2006. Congratulations!
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In this episode of Office Mechanics, we return to Enstone and go hands-on with the IT crew from Lotus F1 Team as they show how OneDrive for Business was implemented. David Cadywould from the IT team demonstrates everything from how the team thought about and configured security settings in OneDrive, PowerShell controls to protect against oversharing, mobile device management policies and more. If you're an admin looking to lock down OneDrive for Business to allow securing file sharing and collaboration, you'll definitely get a few useful tips from the team at Enstone. More exciting changes to come for the team at Enstone. Ahead of the 2016 championship, Renault's F1 program will be begin. R...
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On today's Microsoft Mechanics show, we take a comprehensive look at Power BI—from recent updates with the Power BI desktop tool to a tour of brand new capabilities, including web-based editing, new options to create your own custom visualizations and how to automatically detect patterns in your data.
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On today's how, we take a closer look at the new Skype for Business services as part of today's Office 365 announcements. Cloud PBX, PSTN Calling and PSTN Conferencing bring phone calling and meeting dial-in capability to Skype for Business. We demonstrate how easy it is to get numbers and configure calling capabilities for your users with Cloud PBX. Plus, we set up dial-in access for Skype meetings and present the options you have to integrate your current infrastructure with Cloud PBX.
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If you've ever had to set up a test or production environment for something like SharePoint, you know there are several pieces to set up - like Active Directory, SQL for your backend data, and then your SharePoint servers. While it's possible to automate this with advanced scripting or level 400 task sequencer skills, imagine just choosing a template or manifest file and clicking go to spin up a dozen or so VMs all wired together and talking to each other. That is effectively what Azure Resource Manager templates do and what Corey Sanders lead engineer for Azure compute, demonstrates on the show. He also steps back to illustrate how they work as a unified resource automation model for both ...
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The time it takes and costs involved with reviewing e-Discovery documents can be daunting. This demo bench features the new Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery (formerly Equivio Analytics) capability in Office 365 E5. This uses advanced text analytics and predictive coding to perform multi-dimensional analyses of data collections to save you time and money. Watch as lead engineer Kamal Janardhan, walks through how Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery works to identify and filter data; including training Machine Learning to search for relevant documents so that you can quickly identify the relevant documents you need.
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In this demo bench, lead engineer Sara Manning Dawson, demonstrates how to activate the new Customer Lockbox for Office 365 (E5), in your tenant. In the Office 365 service, no one at Microsoft has standing access to your data. In the extremely rare event that there is a problem that requires us to access your data for troubleshooting, we have a highly supervised process called Lock Box comprised of elevated permissions to allow for just-in time access to fix the issue.With Customer Lockbox, you now have the ability to approve or deny access by a Microsoft engineer to perform such service operations. Watch to see how it works.
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In this demo, Christopher Maloney from the PowerPoint engineering team highlights Designer and Morph, new intelligent tools that automate the creation of slides and presentations. Designer automatically provides layout and design suggestions when you add images to your slides and Morph, helps you create fluid, video-like slide transitions. To get started with Designer, Morph and upcoming prerelease capabilities in Office, join the Office Insider program today.
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Lead engineer Arvind Suthar, shows you how you can leverage Azure AD B2B collaboration to set up resource sharing externally for your organization exploring two main scenarios: sharing app resources with a partner that has Azure Active Directory and sharing app resources with a partner that does not have Azure Active Directory. We also take a moment to show you exactly how the technology works behind the scenes and what's coming. For more on this topic, check out the links below: Azure AD and Identity Show: Azure AD B2B CollaborationTry Azure AD as a part of the Enterprise Mobility Suite Learn AzureAD Core Skills
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Get the basics on migrating your Surface to Windows 10 with Windows in-place upgrade, including tips on automated in-place upgrade using existing deployment tools such as MDT, Configuration Manager, or scripts. We also cover, how to get the installation media and ensure that you have the right Surface drivers if you do not use Windows Update inside of your organization.
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On today's show, Jeremy Chapman is joined by Lawrence Chiu to take a tour and review Office 365 updates for admin. They take a look at the latest tool updates, including the new simplified portal design, an early look at upcoming reporting capabilities, updates to the Office 365 Admin app, and new PowerShell resources for managing Office 365 and Office 2016 deployment.
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In this short demo, Allen Filush from the Outlook team walks through updated Outlook experiences in the browser to view media while working in email and integrated Outlook 2016 experiences on the desktop.
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In this 3-minute demo, Jason Henderson from the Exchange engineering team highlights search enhancements to provide faster and more complete results - even when searching your calendar. He also walks through updates to the extensibility platform, including the add-ins marketplace that connects your inbox to 3rd party and in-house services to help you work more effectively.
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In this 3-minute demo, Rebecca Lawler from the Exchange engineering team shows how to easily attach files stored in SharePoint. She demonstrates new capabilities to edit documents and respond to the conversations from the same view in Outlook on the web. And she explains the two infrastructure options you can use to deploy document collaboration with Exchange Server 2016.
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Exchange Server 2016 takes what was learned running Exchange Online at scale to improve performance and reliability for on-premises Exchange infrastructure. In this short demo, Greg Taylor from Exchange engineering explains how the team has simplified the Exchange Server architecture and roles, what Exchange 2016 does to prevent and recover from data corruption and he provides an update on how Exchange can leverage cloud services for enhanced protection.
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If you are someone who waits several months before deploying a new version of Office or Windows, you'll want to know about changes to the Office servicing model aligned to Windows 10. In this demo, Jeremy Chapman explains changes to how Office receives updates with the release of Office 2016, including: - How the current update model works with Office, - New options for deferring feature updates while still receiving security updates, and - The controls you have for managing Office software updates
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Office 365 ProPlus now includes the 2016 apps, and if you are an Office 365 administrator you'll want to know how everything is getting rolled out and what you can do. In this short demo, Amesh Mansukhani from the Microsoft Office engineering team will show you the options for getting Office 2016, including: - Your options for downloading & deploying the 2016 Apps - Updates that you'll want to hear about with the servicing model, and - What your users will see and when.
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It's not always easy to know the rules and policies for handling sensitive data at work. With Office 2016, we've been developing tools to protect information, inform you when sensitive information is found in your files and even take actions to help prevent data leaks. In this short demo, Mas Libman from the Microsoft Office engineering team provides an overview of updates to information protection in Office 2016, including: - Data Loss Prevention set up and what you'll see as an Office user, - secure authentication into Office 365 services like email and OneDrive with multi-factor authentication, and - new ways to securely share files via email using Outlook 2016
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So when you're working with others on files, it's often hard to distribute work and see what others are doing. We've had real-time co-authoring in Office Online for a while, and we have now worked to extend that capability to let people simultaneously work on the same file on the desktop. In this short demo, Michelle Keslin from the Microsoft Office engineering team gives you a tour of co-authoring in Office 2016: - real time co-authoring in Word on the desktop- co-authoring in other Office 2016 apps - like PowerPoint and OneNote, - and an explanation of how the services behind the scenes make this work
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Microsoft continually iterates on Surface, regularly releasing firmware and driver updates to optimize performance, security, and manageability as well as adding new enterprise features --- without you having to replace your device. In the next few minutes we'll show you how to discover and manage driver and firmware updates for Surface
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In this show, you'll learn from Mark Russinovich, about the design and architecture of containers and how you can use them. Including the new native container technology in Windows Server 2016 and how this extends to Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure.
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In this short demo, Reuben Krippner from the OneDrive team demonstrates updates to OneDrive for Business - from the new sync client to new for experiences in the browser and on mobile phones.
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In this 2-minute demo, Jason Moore from the OneDrive engineering team highlights the new OneDrive for Business file sync client Windows and Mac OSX - from controls for selective folder sync to setup and IT management options.
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In this 3-minute demo, Omar Shahine from the OneDrive engineering team highlights updates to OneDrive for Business mobile experiences on iOS and Android - from contextual controls and PDF annotation in iOS to offline file support in Android.
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In this 3-minute demo, Douglas Pearce from the OneDrive engineering team highlights the new web and sharing experiences in OneDrive for Business.
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In this 3-minute demo, Jeremy Mazner from the OneDrive engineering team highlights new IT controls using PowerShell to manage which domains are permitted or blocked for sharing, user permissions for external sharing and auditing sharing invitations.
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On this week's show, Nasos Kladakis from the enterprise mobility team provides a holistic view of how to protect corporate data—and what Microsoft is doing to simplify security and management oversight while maintaining a quality user experience and productivity. We'll cover tools from Office 365 and the Enterprise Mobility Suite, including Azure AD, MDM, Data Loss Prevention and Intune. office.com/mechanics
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On this week's show, we explain the process used to test and roll out changes and updates in Office 365. Arpan Shah explains how you can enroll for First Release access to updates for your entire organization - or now even just a subset of individuals within your organization. We also demonstrate the Office 365 Admin app for phones along with the public Office 365 Roadmap to help you stay ahead of change, the Success Center with resources to prepare your users for change and more. office.com/mechanics
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We announced the availability of both SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview and the new cloud hybrid search preview for SharePoint Server 2013 and 2016 recently. SharePoint Sr. Product Manager, Bill Baer, gives you an overview that includes; attention to trends in content management, team collaboration, user experiences across devices, and how the cloud can be blended into existing on-premises scenarios. office.com/mechanics
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The OneDrive for Business team has been working to deliver the most commonly requested controls by Office 365 admins. Today, we'll highlight the new management options you have to protect and control the flow of your information using OneDrive for Business. This week's Office Mechanics show walks through the controls and how to implement them as an Office 365 admin. office.com/mechanics
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On today's show we take a look at the new Skype Meeting Broadcast. Greg Baribault from the Skype team joins Jeremy Chapman to explore what it is, how it works, and demonstrate new producer capabilities for managing the broadcast experience. office.com/mechanics
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On this week's show, we catch up again with Mark Russinovich to explain the how security components in cloud services are managed. Mark discusses the shared responsibility from the IT and service provider perspectives. We also cover real customer examples of Microsoft working with customers to detect tenant breach, correct issues and patch any security vulnerabilities. We also discuss the upcoming customer lockbox process and how machine learning and data analytics can be used to detect anomalous patterns.
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On this week's show, we invite Michael Tejedor back to give us an update on Power BI. Michael explains the options for connecting Power BI to cloud and even on-premises data sources. We also share news for content packs allowing you to connect and gain insights into data from popular cloud services immediately. Finally, Michael demonstrates the new push APIs to allow Power BI to display data from IoT devices. This show was filmed at Microsoft Ignite
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The new Office Add-in extensibility platform gives you integrated Office experiences with your favorite apps and the apps you use to run your organization. On this week's show we explore Office extensibility updates and take a tour of solutions from Salesforce, SAP, Uber, Do and Smartsheet across Office applications, Office Online in the browser and even Office for iPad.
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