hello again and welcome to Microsoft Mechanics live so coming up we're gonna
take a look at the latest updates to accelerate modern teamwork using
Microsoft 365 starting with the work that we're doing to empower different
kinds of workers across different industries the completion of Skype for
business capabilities coming into Microsoft Teams to deliver it completes
medium and calling solution deeper teamwork experiences to transform
collaboration and for IT my favorite part I'm going to show you new controls
for security compliance the team management and more before we get
started please everybody give a warm welcome to Lori Wright general manager
for Microsoft 365 welcome Thank You Jeremy great to be here so we're seeing
some really big shifts in the way that people are actually getting work done
today today and working together what is your team to need to address
these shifts well we recognize that the way that people work around the world is
truly changing people work on more teams than ever before their work is more
distributed than ever before and so we built Microsoft teams less than two
years ago as the hub for T work in Microsoft 365 and what we're doing now
is we're expanding this across a whole new set of scenarios so that it truly is
for every worker out there great so can you tell us about some of the recent
announcements that we've made this week yes we had a lot of announcements
hopefully some of you got to see the general session we did yesterday but
I'll start with one of the more exciting areas we announced which was for first
line workers and when you think about first line workers there are 2.5 billion
of these people in the workforce and they actually represent 80% of the
global workforce right and these are the factory workers and the retail clerks
and the people who don't traditionally have dedicated offices or dedicated pcs
and they work in shifts and they typically just have a move
phone and so you know what we are doing now is we want to give them the same
advantages that traditionally have been given to knowledge workers where the
capabilities the technology technological advantages that they can
take advantage of as well right this really helps us then to customize and
extend teams capabilities even more broadly the other great thing is that
we're also infused in some AI some intelligence pretty much across all of
Microsoft services and teams is is also doing this but what are we doing to
translate all the intelligence work into teamwork well so we're investing in AI
scenarios across Microsoft 365 one example of how this comes to life is in
chat translation I'm sure many of you out there have seen and we're able to
translate a chat in real time into 40 languages this really breaks down
communication barriers for people who are working in different parts of the
world and you know have speak different native tongues and so this is the the
benefit of AI another strong example of this is in our cloud meeting recording
that we announced went GA this week as well
and what this does is it takes meeting content sends it up to the cloud unlocks
all of it and breaks it down so that meeting can be transcribed and
searchable after the after the fact and it also includes facial detection so
it's really cool to be able to jump to different points of different speakers
in the time line and so this is all again an AI capability lots of other
examples as well but there's a real differentiators and teams and I know a
lot of people are probably used to using email or share point maybe Yammer how do
we support those different modalities really as we think about introducing new
ways of working together well we're bringing our collaboration
experiences closer together across the Microsoft 365 portfolio one of the
examples of this we announced this week also was we're going to take Yammer and
bring that into teams as a tab and we're also doing that with SharePoint pages so
that will also be a tab and so these are ways that we're bringing the portfolio
closer and of course everything's underpinned by secure
right here did we get through sharepoint and everything else in Microsoft 365 yes
so all of this is enterprise-grade you know security compliance and
manageability ok so let's dive a bit deeper on the
work that we're doing to deliver teams to workers in different different
professions great ministers all right so since the earliest days of Microsoft
teams many of you all of you raised your hands in the audience you're using teams
one of the strongest verticals that we have seen is for education teams is
being used very very widely in education for classroom coordination and for
assignments and so one of as we look to broaden now one of the areas that we're
going into as I mentioned is first line workers and so what we're doing there is
that if you think about there's two different views there's a manager view
and an employee view and for managers they often need to create shift
schedules and they need to share these schedules out with their teams and then
these first-line workers need to be able to communicate back with their manager
and to be able to say yes or no on a shift and so we're making teams easily
customizable where it can be work to manage shifts both for the manager and
for the employee all right so what does it look like then for the employee to
start using some of these things let me show you pictures yes okay so I'm gonna
pick up a phone here which is the primary device for most first line
workers you see here I have a shifts icon I can click this shifts icon and I
can see all of the shifts that I have been assigned to work that day well the
29th is my birthday and so I don't want to work on my birthday so I'm gonna
click that and I am going to ask to swap that shift with a click of a button I
can say swap and see the different team members who are available to work that
day and so I'll go ahead here and let me pick Adele she looks great all right so
Adele the request has been sent off to my manager and hopefully Adele can pick
up that shift for me so that's an example of chefs now another great new
first line cape of we have here if I go back home is that I
can see when messages have been sent to me by either the company or by my
manager and in this case you know I'm a grocery clerk and I can see that there's
been a an outbreak of e.coli in romaine lettuce no I need to super important
lead up to action and really make sure that everybody gets that message yeah I
mean equal I probably not a lot of fun for anyone so so we'll get the lettuce
off the shelves and we need to have it done by noon today okay so that's an
example of being able to communicate in a you know very important way out to the
staff now one last thing I'm going to show you here on first Lane workers is I
can go up to the clock and with a simple click of a button I can hold it down and
I have now started my shift so I'm officially on the clock and then if I
wanted to I can stop my shift or I can take a break at any point in time that's
good but you're on the clock now just so you know so let's keep going so you
mentioned that teams is now a complete meeting and calling solution as well
we've been on this journey to really incorporate all of the Skype for
business capabilities into teams how's that worked out then what are the
additional capabilities that we can look forward to as we upgrade to Microsoft
teams well last year as many of you know we announced our vision for intelligent
communications and since that time we have seen really really great momentum
and in fact yesterday we announced that teams is the fastest growing business
app in the history of Microsoft today we have over three hundred thousand three
hundred twenty nine thousand to be precise organizations who are using
teams it is used by eighty seven of the Fortune 100 and we had Accenture
recently crossed the mark of our first customer that has over a hundred
thousand monthly active users right and he's done a lot in terms of all the
updates as well right yes we have okay so with our intelligent communications
vision we knew the first thing we needed to do was publish a road map and say to
get from Skype for business two teams we needed to do these things and we've
delivered all of the features that we put out on that roadmap that was over 90
feature and then we also innovated on top of
that with features like blur and translation and things of that sort
today teams is ready for messaging calling meeting needs for customers
around the world we are helping customers we're providing assistance to
customers who want to upgrade now through fast-track and we're also
starting for companies that don't traditionally have IT departments
pushing out automatic migrations if you will to help those companies get over to
T's great great so this is really impressive in terms of all the updates
even since our last show we had we had on Michaels showing some things and
we've also had Dan Stevenson recently on but I know that a few months back we've
added a lot more since then can we take a look at some of the recent recent
updates that we've made to teams yes yes ok so let's do it I'll do
another demo here I'm gonna start out a lot of people here familiar with the the
basics of teams but I can go up here into my teams to see teams and channels
and so I'm gonna start here in the business review channel and scrolling
here my colleague Praveen has sent me a message in a language I don't
necessarily understand can you speak Mandarin in German but that's not one of
those two that look like Mandarin or German okay so what I can do Microsoft
teams can help and with a simple click of a button just like that
and that's works for 40 languages 40 languages around the world not bad so
that's that is a feature the next thing I just love to point out is across the
top here you see all of the different tabs that are built in well a lot of
these like OneNote very commonly used application is integrated right here
into teams and so I can be able to see the shared notebook of everything that's
going on within this team I can also go over straight into power bi and have all
the features the power bi right here within teams where I can drill into this
content or the data you know move the data around do what I need to do to
understand the analytics yeah I can also go over here to stream and see you know
all the different videos that to this team and these are just a couple
of examples tabs across yeah that's one of my favorite features and teams
because all these tabs are customizable so regardless of how your team works you
can customize what people see and what the team needs effectively therefore you
can have different views for any different type of team and you can just
add tabs with the with the plus sign there and completely customize your
experience that's right and then you know if you don't if you want to go
shopping we have a Microsoft store here you can go down to the store and you can
see the hundreds of third-party applications that we have right here
that you can add in as a tab into team this is an integration ok so that's a
little bit around everything around tabs so now let me show you one of the things
let me go back into this team and I'm going to show you a meeting recording
this is the feature that we have called meeting recording and I can start here
and I've missed this meeting but I want to catch up on it and understand
everything that I need to know that happened in the meeting but I really
don't have time to watch the whole thing so what I can do here by starting it is
one if for accessibility reasons as well as if I'm just in a noisy place I can
turn on closed captioning and have yeah boy still text correct correct so voice
detect cognitive services happening here I can also go and search and say just
you know what's important what did I miss where where did I get action items
to sign so I can type my name and looks like here's the two points where my name
was mentioned in the meeting and so I can go and check that out and see what I
need to go do very cool imagine all the hours we'd save just by fast forwarding
to those action items with our names on them in a caption meeting like this
awesome that's right so that's a little bit about meeting recording now let's go
down and take a look at a meeting that's already been scheduled this is a meeting
that my colleague Ferran has scheduled with me and so let me go ahead and join
this meeting directly within teams I hit the join button and what I have here now
is the pre join screen and so I can turn my video on or off I can turn my mic on
or off I can choose different devices but this is the new feature that we also
just made generally available this week where you see two of me in the
background here what's up yeah all right let me let me get rid of that okay
so I've now turned on background blur and with that my background disappears
and they're told and so this is about eliminating just drag on all the
distractions all the mess that we might have behind us in our offices the cat
that does acrobatics behind you or all the machines that were maybe we imaging
behind this look at that and there's the one and only Ferran Roper all right so
Ferran could do the same thing he can blur on his end as well and you see how
blur works very good stuff yeah so that's blur and then one other
thing that's worth a brief mention here is calling so full calling capabilities
are now built into teams as well you see all of my contacts here that I could you
know call any of these individuals but I also just have the standard dial pad
that we all knows I can go out here I can dial any phone number in the world
and I do this through either a Microsoft calling plan or through direct routing
and direct routing lets you basically bring your own calling plan with your
existing telco and connect things up now I see I can click over to voicemail as
well and you see I have a voicemail from Angela Donahue well instead of playing
it out loud right now all I can do is take a quick look and
see that it's been transcribed for me I know what Angela wants I don't have to
play it so transcription is there now as well and I know that Angela's a real
device buff so one of the other things that I love about teams is using who ah
who is truly one of my favorite parts of teams I'm so I go up here and I do a
slash command and you see all the slash commands that are available it's a short
way to navigate around in the app if you just do slash you can see everything
that's there so I'm gonna say who and then I'm gonna say who knows about
devices because I need to find the devices expert in the organization well
it comes back and it looks at all the different activity that's happening and
it tells me that Angela and Christian are the two people who are
having the most conversation around devices and so I'm gonna pick Angela and
go ahead and send her a chat and when I do that here I see Angela's very
prescient and has already read my mind and knows that I'm using that predictive
chat technology coming alpha and so here I can open up and see this presentation
that Angela has sent me on our new devices partners and these are now we
announced a new certification program for third-party devices where each of
these partners are building so that teams you can run great reliable teams
experiences across all of these different partners right I know a lot of
people are maybe they've outfitted their meeting rooms with custom hardware from
other providers they've designed their rooms around them how are we supporting
those types of devices well one way we're doing this is by helping connect
the existing video endpoints that are out there and we're doing this through a
set of cloud video Interop partners Polycom is the first they announced
their ga in market with their CBI solution this week and then blue jeans
and peck sub will also be announcing GA here in the next couple of weeks and
where would I go then to find more information about this I've got one of
these rooms well we just launched a new website also another exciting step Ford
this week you can go to office.com slash teams and you'll be able to see all of
the devices that are available across our third parties and you can even buy
these devices directly from the store as well great stuff so Lori let's switch
gears here I think there are a few system admins and Microsoft 365 admin is
among us so let me talk about some of the security compliance capabilities and
for that I'm gonna take over and I'm going to show a couple of things here
first one of my favorite capabilities across SharePoint and office 365 of
Microsoft 365 is data loss prevention so here we're seeing an early look at DLP
working inside of teams you know I've got I've got some some information here
that I probably shouldn't be sharing like a social security number credit
card information and when I do that what's going to happen is it's going to
block the message and I can click in and see why it's been blocked in here I can
see obviously shouldn't be sharing credit cards or
social security numbers and the nice thing is beyond that this the person
that's receiving that message is gonna say that see that it was blocked because
it has the sensitive information in it so all of this is really using DLP and
that's that labeling and classification engine behind the scenes to be able to
make sure that sensitive information doesn't doesn't leak out one of my
favorite things here with well god a lot of my favorite things here with teams
are all the updates to the admin center so let me show you a couple of things
there so this is the new teams and sorry Microsoft teams Skype for business admin
Center a bit of a mouthful but a very powerful admin center just to show you a
couple of things here so there's a new manage teams note here that you can use
but I'm gonna click into users because what I want to show you is something
that you can do around user management that's brand new first we can see all
the different users that we have in our team if I click on a dell vance for
example i can use this to see what what adel what team she's on and i can also I
can also use the edit command here in the team's upgrade and I'll expose a
brand new brand new set of options here so typically as you make the transition
from Skype for business to Microsoft teams you have an islands mode that lets
users kind of use either one but now you've got the team's only option so you
can upgrade to teams and you can also will be producing group policy settings
that will also allow the client-side configurations to work there as well now
let me show you a couple other things here that are that are pretty cool so if
I go into manage teams you'll see that I have all my teams here enumerated nice
list of all the teams the membership everything in there and I can go and
edit the teams I can I can also do some things in terms of going in directly
into the team itself and what I want to do is maybe somebody leaves the company
I want to assign different ownership to the team go for a member to owner maybe
if the owner of previous owner of the team has left I can do all that right
here from this console so very very powerful stuff in terms of managing the
team's experience and one of my favorite things in a row
so we've got some others if you're using dynamic groups and as your ad and I
hopefully everybody is Niki's it for devices or users but let me show you
what that looks like on the user side it's a nice thing let's say I'm
operating a hospital you never know what can happen when
you're filming Microsoft Mechanics so you have to operate hospitals and use
some side gigs sometimes so here I'm gonna click into the Portland hospital
and you'll see that I've got this dynamic group and it's got dynamic
membership roles now when I click into those dynamic rules what I'll see here
is that any department that starts with Portland anybody that's got that in
there as your ID attribute is going to be joined to this team that means that
as I hire people as people leave my organization that teams going to
dynamically grow and contract with those new hires into teams so everybody's
provisioned directly into the teams they should actually be in and one last thing
is I know this is a request that we get from a lot of people is templating and
kind of doing work to make sure that we can provision teams and automated ways
using scripting maybe calling API through PowerShell whatever you want to
do and we've done a lot of work here in terms of building teams using scripted
automation so for example if you want to hook into HR systems or do other work
you can actually template eyes teams put in content personalize those teams this
is all brand-new stuff you can see it's in preview that we're adding to
Microsoft team so there's a few things a few of my favorite teams things but you
know we've done a lot more than this right we have I think you know one is a
great demo we might when I hire you on the demo team if you have some spare
time but otherwise like we're barely scratching the surface here in terms of
all these great features you know for both our users and for our admins it's
really awesome to see all that's happening here with teams very cool so
lots of really good updates really to help hopefully help bring teams together
Thank You Lori for the tour of all the different additions to teamwork but
what's next on the horizon well you know we're always working on the next thing
and I look forward to coming back for the next show and telling you all about
it but for now I'll tell you that the things that we're really really focused
on are continuing with the extensibility of teams and also making sure that
across Microsoft 365 it gets smarter and smarter and is really helping teams
around the work better together right I think I've
answered the question but for those of us who are looking to get started with
teams where do they go to learn more I think the easiest place is office comm /
teams here you can find anything that you need related to teams we have a free
version where you can get started or you can go ahead and start in the
full-featured paid versions as well so lots of options out there on office comm
/ teams thank you and also be sure to check out our recent shows on Microsoft
teams as well as stream on Microsoft Mechanics thanks for watching subscribe
to our channel we'll see you next time and good bye for now
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