May Webinars & Remote Work Resources

Adam_Schau · ‎Apr 30 2020

May Edition Sections:

Highlighted (new remote working resources & blog posts)
Upcoming Reston MTC Events
Microsoft Teams - IT Admins & Planning
Microsoft Teams - End Users & Champions
Business Application
Security & Azure AD
Windows 10 & Office ProPlus
Blogs of Interest

Highlighted

The Microsoft Federal team has been working hard to provide remote working skilling and instruction to our customers working remote on the following topics:

Getting Started with Teams: 101 training
Doing More with Teams: Intermediate Teams features
Smart Meetings: Using meetings in Teams to their full potential
Live Events: Hosting events up to 10K+
Apps: Microsoft & 3^rd Party apps that be utilized in GCC

Below is a schedule of upcoming events. Join Virtually at https://aka.ms/workremoteFED (we will use the same links daily to host the sessions). Feedback will be available during each session.

Date	Time (EST)	Topic
Tuesday, May 12, 2020	1:00-2:30 PM	Getting Started with Teams
Wednesday, May 13, 2020	1:00-2:30 PM	Doing More with Teams
Thursday, May 14, 2020	10:00-11:30 AM	Smart Meetings
Tuesday, May 19, 2020	1:00-2:30 PM	Getting Started with Teams
Wednesday, May 20, 2020	1:00-2:30 PM	Doing More with Teams
Thursday, May 21, 2020	10:00-11:30 AM	App Integration
Tuesday, May 26, 2020	1:00-2:30 PM	Getting Started with Teams
Wednesday, May 27, 2020	1:00-2:30 PM	Doing More with Teams
Thursday, May 28, 2020	10:00-11:30 AM	Live Events

Government Specific Teams Resources (aka.ms/teamsgovernment)

Consolidated Public Sector Teams Resources will continue to be updated and posted here.

Transform Collaboration in Government with Microsoft Teams

On-Demand (watch anytime!): Watch the on-demand Transform collaboration in government with Microsoft Teams, and learn how Teams for Office 365 Government GCC can facilitate more efficient work for public sector teams and organizations.

Microsoft Teams: Master working from home

Working from home offers the opportunity to maintain your workflow while allowing flexibility in how and where you get your work done. Shifting to a remote worker status can be an adjustment as you look for ways to balance home and work life, maintain focus and be fully productive. Microsoft Teams can help you stay connected to your team while providing access to all of the tools and resources you need to get your work done. Join us to learn tips that can help set you up for success as you transition into a 'work from home' scenario. During this session, we'll share: (1) Guidance for setting up your home environment for work, (2) Best practices for maintaining your workflow while working at home, (3) Tips for staying connected to your team while remote, and (4) Insights for effectively supporting a remote team.

Microsoft Teams: Staying connected with your team while remote

Your business needs to control how sensitive data is managed. Join us and explore how to assess your compliance risk, protect sensitive and business critical data, and respond efficiently to data discovery requests. During this 2-hour interactive session, you will explore how to: (1) Simplify assessment of compliance risk, (2) Integrate protection and governance of data, and (3) Intelligently respond to data discovery requests. Each session is limited to 12 participants, reserve your seat now.

Upcoming Reston MTC Events

The Reston MTC is open for business! For the time being they will be delivering virtual customer engagements. Feel free to reach out to me in email, teams or through http://aka.ms/mtcrequest.

Microsoft Teams – IT Admins & Planning

Microsoft Teams: Plan your upgrade (Start here!)

Discover everything you need to facilitate a successful upgrade to Teams. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: (1) Understand why a formal plan is crucial for upgrade success, (2) Identify the steps to the upgrade success framework, (3) Recognize common attributes of successful customers, and (4) Create and implement their own upgrade plan. The audience for this session is All (Business Sponsors, IT Admins, User Readiness/Change Manager, Project Lead).

Microsoft Teams: Identify your upgrade approach

Determine the most suitable approach based on your current Skype for Business implementation and upgrade goals. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: (1) Understand common scenarios and upgrade approaches, (2) Visualize the user experience for each approach, and (3) Determine the optimal upgrade approach for your organization. IT Admins are the primary audience for this session.

Microsoft Teams: Implement your upgrade approach

Execute your defined upgrade approach as part of your formal upgrade plan. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: (1) Recognize the upgrade settings in your O365 tenant admin portal, (2) Understand technical tips and considerations for a successful upgrade, and (3) Apply the appropriate settings in the Portal to execute your upgrade. The primary audience for this session is IT Admins.

Microsoft Teams: Ready your end users

Design a user readiness strategy to help your users love and adopt Teams. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: (1) Recognize factors that influence user acceptance and adoption, (2) Define core value messaging for Teams in your organization, and (3) Outline your awareness, training and support activities. The audience for this session is: User Readiness/Change Manager.

Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA): Upcoming changes to Office support

When: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 9:00am PT | On October 13, 2020, Office 2016 for Mac and Office 2010 reach their end of support. After that date, Microsoft will no longer provide technical support, bug fixes, or security updates for either version. Also, as previously announced, after October 13, 2020, customers will need to be using Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, Office 2019, or Office 2016 in order to connect to Office 365 services. Microsoft will not take any active measures to block older versions of the Office client from connecting to Office 365 services, but these legacy clients may encounter performance and/or reliability issues over time. This AMA provides an opportunity to ask questions about these upcoming changes. Please join in the Office End of Support AMA space. While we’ll only be answering questions in real-time from 9:00-10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, you can post your questions for the AMA to the Office End of Support AMA space in the Office End of Support Tech Community up to 24 hours in advance.

Microsoft 365 Training Day: Journey to Teams | Virtual Event

When: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 from 10:00am – 2:00pm PT | See how Microsoft Teams meets the requirements of a connected workforce with a cloud-based communication solution that combines chat, video meetings, file storage, and app integration. Learn to deploy, configure, and administer Microsoft Teams to optimize your company’s collaboration strategy. Sessions include: (1) What’s new in Microsoft Teams, (2) Intelligent communication in Microsoft Teams, (3) Path from Skype for Business to Teams, (4) Managing Microsoft Teams effectively, and (5) Streamline business processes with the Teams development platform.

Do more with apps in Microsoft Teams

Many organizations leverage a variety of apps and tools to get their work done. Often installed and managed separately, this requires a user to continually switch context/applications as they navigate their daily activities. Join Microsoft Teams experts as we review how you can deploy commonly-used applications directly within Teams, enabling your users to work more efficiently and effectively by accessing everything they need from a single interface. With over 300 out-of-the-box applications available (and growing), you're sure to find an app, or two, you can begin using today in Teams.

eDiscovery for Microsoft Teams

While eDiscovery provides a range of search, hold, and export functionality, advanced eDiscovery gives compliance administrators more tools to identify data sources and analyze their contents. Need to conduct an internal investigation of Teams content? We've got you covered. Join us to learn how to complete common eDiscovery processes on Teams content.

US: Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 12:00 PT

Teams Advanced for IT Pros

When: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 8:00am PT | Learn how IT can enable Microsoft Teams capabilities for users while maintaining the necessary configurations to align with required organizational business and security requirements. Agenda: (1) Automated team and policy provisioning strategies, (2) School Data Sync, and (3) Programmatically interacting with Teams. Note: You can also find this session, and more, on-demand here.

Microsoft Teams – End User and Champions

Get Started with Microsoft Teams

Whether you are switching from Skype for Business or brand new, join us to learn the basics of how to use Teams to chat with your colleagues and collaborate on projects. Through a series of live demonstrations and best practices, you’ll leave this session with everything you need to start using Teams. After this session, you will be able to: (1) Set up your profile and notifications in Microsoft Teams, (2) Use chat and calling for 1:1 and group conversations, sharing and collaboration in Microsoft Teams, (3) Schedule and conduct meetings in Microsoft Teams, and (4) Align your team and teamwork in Microsoft Teams.

Learn Tips for Taking Teams to the Next Level: Part 1 - Effective Workspaces

Designed for those who are already familiar with Microsoft Teams, our Tips & Tricks sessions offer insights and best practices. Learn how Teams can help organize your workday and make it easier to stay connected with colleagues. In Part 1 - Effective Workspaces, you will explore ways to determine the best approach for creating workspaces for projects and workgroups. After this session, you will be able to: (1) Decide if your team is best served by a team and channels or a group chat and meetings, (2) Create a workspace for your team to provide the best collaboration experience, (3) Use a personal team to simplify your productivity, and (4) Determine best practices for Teams.

Learn Tips for Taking Teams to the Next Level: Part 2 - Get More from Teams

Designed for those who are already familiar with Microsoft Teams, our Tips & Tricks sessions offer insights and best practices. Learn how Teams can help organize your workday and make it easier to stay connected with colleagues. In Part 2 - Get More from Teams, you will learn tips and tricks for managing and organizing work and communications in Teams. After this session, you will be able to: (1) Implement strategies to manage and organize your work, (2) Leverage formatting best practices to help get your messages noticed (and responded to), (3) Easily find files, chats and projects, and (4) Simplify your workday.

Run Effective Meetings with Microsoft Teams

Have you spent significant time and resources to prepare for a meeting and still felt it wasn't productive? Have you attended a meeting only to leave feeling like not much was accomplished? Join this class to learn how to make your meetings engaging, productive and effective. Microsoft Teams can help make your meetings worth showing up for. After this session, you will be able to: (1) Use Teams for your entire meeting experience, (2) Record your meeting, making it easy for those who couldn't attend to get caught up, (3) Keep important meetings at your fingertips by pinning them for easy access, and (4) Assess which audio and video devices are best for your meeting needs.

Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA): Meetings and Live Events in Microsoft Teams

When: Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 9:00am PT | We are very excited to announce a Microsoft Teams ‘Ask Microsoft Anything' (AMA) for meetings and live events in Microsoft Teams! An AMA is a live online event similar to a “YamJam” on Yammer or an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. This AMA gives you the opportunity to connect with members of the product engineering teams who will be on hand to answer your questions and listen to feedback. Join in the Microsoft Teams AMA space, and be sure to add the event to your calendar. We look forward to seeing you there!

Microsoft Teams: Enabling Real-time Collaboration for Cross-functional Teams

How do you bring various stakeholders together across multiple teams to achieve your goal? Do you wish you could reduce the number of meetings or e-mails while still being able to solicit feedback, keep everyone informed, and get consensus? Join us to explore how to bring everything together in a shared workspace with Microsoft Teams. Learn how to chat, meet, share files, and work with other business applications to effectively engage others. This interactive 2-hour session will give you the opportunity to try it for yourself and test drive Microsoft Teams in a live cloud environment. A trained facilitator will guide you as you apply these tools to your own business scenarios and experience how they can work for you. Each session is limited to 12 participants, reserve your seat now.

Microsoft Teams: Seamless Collaboration with Microsoft 365

Are you still sending an e-mail with an attachment to your teammates when you want to collaborate on a file? How fast do they respond? How do you know if they are working on the file? How do you manage version control? With Microsoft 365 tools for teamwork, you can seamlessly collaborate on files with your team members. Using Microsoft Teams, you can invite your teammates into an environment where they can effectively collaborate and engage in a persistent conversation. Join us for this session and explore how to avoid productivity sinkholes and increase productivity. This interactive 2-hour session will give you the opportunity to test drive Microsoft Teams in a live cloud environment. A trained facilitator will guide you as you apply these tools to your own business scenarios and experience how they can work for you. Each session is limited to 12 participants, reserve your seat now.

Microsoft Teams: Learn to use apps

This session introduces you to the key activities needed to get started with adding applications, bots and connectors in Microsoft Teams today. Through a series of live demonstrations and best practices, you'll leave this session with everything you need to start using apps in Teams. After this session, you will be able to: (1) See how applications, bots and connectors can help you be more efficient while working in Teams, (2) Select an application, bot or connector for your workspace, (3) Install an application, bot or connector, and (4) Use an application, bot or connector in your workspace.

Do more with apps in Microsoft Teams

Many organizations leverage a variety of apps and tools to get their work done. Often installed and managed separately, this requires a user to continually switch context/applications as they navigate their daily activities. Join Microsoft Teams experts as we review how you can deploy commonly-used applications directly within Teams, enabling your users to work more efficiently and effectively by accessing everything they need from a single interface. With over 300 out-of-the-box applications available (and growing), you're sure to find an app, or two, you can begin using today in Teams.

Business Applications

The Power Platform Online Conference 2020 Recap

The Power Platform Online Conference was a crazy success - 9 Hours, 18 Sessions, 25k Live Attendees, and 48k Views in 48 hours. So many new skills acquired, so many new people inspired, this event was truly amazing because it was for the community, by the community and supported by Microsoft. All of the content is available on-demand! This post also has a link to the recording for each individual session.

Security & Azure AD

Customer Immersion Experience: Simplifying Your Privacy and Compliance Journey

Your business needs to control how sensitive data is managed. Join us and explore how to assess your compliance risk, protect sensitive and business critical data, and respond efficiently to data discovery requests. During this 2-hour interactive session, you will explore how to: (1) Simplify assessment of compliance risk, (2) Integrate protection and governance of data, and (3) Intelligently respond to data discovery requests. Each session is limited to 12 participants, reserve your seat now.

Customer Immersion Experience: Protecting Your Sensitive Information

Data needs to be protected wherever it’s stored and whenever it travels, and you need the tools to monitor policy violations and risky behavior. Join us to explore how to implement a comprehensive and integrated approach across devices, apps, cloud services, and on-premises. During this 2-hour interactive session, you will explore how to: (1) Identify, monitor and automatically protect sensitive information across Office 365, (2) Help classify and protect documents and email, and (3) Use policies to enable BYOD scenarios by protecting data at the app level. Each session is limited to 12 participants, reserve your seat now.

Customer Immersion Experience: Protecting Assets and Empowering Your Defenders

Today’s workforce can work from anywhere, on any device, and on any app. Security teams need to understand threat signals from disconnected products and optimize security with minimal complexity. During this 2-hour interactive session, you will explore how to: (1) Safeguard users from malware attacks such as phishing and spoofing with Office 365, (2) Use the Windows Defender ecosystem to proactively monitor and protect your users, (3) Utilize Office 365 ATP to help protect users from bad links and attachments, and (4) Let machine learning and automation protect users from threats. Each session is limited to 12 participants, reserve your seat now.

Blog: Alternative ways for security professionals and IT to achieve modern security controls in toda...

With the bulk of end users now working remotely, legacy network architectures that route all remote traffic through a central corporate network are suddenly under enormous strain. The result can be poorer performance, productivity, and user experience. Many organizations are now rethinking their network infrastructure design to address these issues, especially for applications like Microsoft Teams and Office 365. At Microsoft, for example, we adopted split tunneling as part of our VPN strategy. Our customers have asked us for guidance on how to manage security in this changing environment. An architecture that routes all remote traffic back to the corporate network was originally intended to provide the security team with the following: (1) Prevention of unauthorized access, (2) Control of authorized user access, (3) Network protections such as Intrusion Detection/Prevention (IDS/IPS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation, and (4) Data loss prevention (DLP). In this post, we’ll address alternative ways of achieving modern security controls, so security teams can manage risk in a more direct-to-internet network architecture. | Related: Microsoft IT Showcase: Running on VPN - How Microsoft is keeping its remote workforce connected

Webcast: Microsoft Teams Security

When: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 9:00am PT | Wherever you are in your Microsoft Teams journey, we want to be sure that your users have a secure environment to communicate and collaborate. On Wednesday, May 13th, at 12 noon eastern, Microsoft's Craig Eidelman and Pete Anello will walk us through securing Microsoft Teams. This webcast will include: (a) Ensuring that user identities are secure to access Teams, (b) Protecting the Teams Application, (c) Securing the data coming in and out of Teams, and (d) Security around Teams Meetings. Also, be sure to add the event to your calendar.

Windows 10 & Office ProPlus

Office hours: servicing Windows 10 in a remote world

To support your efforts to deliver and deploy updates to the Windows 10 devices being used by remote workers across your organization, we are kicking off a series of weekly "office hours" for IT professionals here on Tech Community. During office hours, we will have a broad group of product experts, servicing experts, and engineers monitoring the Windows 10 servicing space and standing by to provide guidance, discuss strategies and tactics, and, of course, answer any specific questions you may have. Office hours are text-based; there is no audio or virtual meeting component. To post a question, you just need to be a member of the Tech Community. Can’t attend at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time? Again, no problem. Post a question in the Windows 10 servicing space up to 24 hours in advance and we'll make sure we review it during office hours.

Wednesday, May 6, 2020 from 8am - 9am PT

Microsoft IT Showcase: Keeping Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus up to date at Microsoft

When: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 10:00am PT | During this webinar, you’ll learn how Microsoft automated the upgrade to Office 365 ProPlus using System Center Configuration Manager. You’ll also hear our experts talk about how we used update channels in Office 365 to specify our cadence for delivering Office updates to users.

Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA): Windows Autopilot

When: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 9:00am PT | We are very excited to announce a Microsoft Teams ‘Ask Microsoft Anything' (AMA) for Windows Autopilot! An AMA is a live online event similar to a “YamJam” on Yammer or an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. The Microsoft Endpoint Manager team will answer questions and help you more easily set up and configure Windows 10 devices so end users can work productively (and securely) from anywhere. Questions about things like: (1) Using Windows Autopilot with user-owned devices, (2) Using Windows Autopilot to upgrade your Windows 7 devices to Windows 10, (3) Deploying applications with Windows Autopilot, and (4) your question here! Join in the Microsoft Endpoint Manager AMA space, and be sure to add the event to your calendar. We look forward to seeing you there!

Enabling Remote Work with Microsoft 365: Part 5 - Managing Windows 10

When: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 9:00am PT | Organizations everywhere are pivoting to a remote work environment, putting the needs of their employees, customers, and communities first. In an effort to continue supporting individuals and organizations each day, we’ve created a new three-part webcast series focusing on enabling remote work. As technology plays a vital role, now more than ever, we’ve paired the webcast series with helpful videos and guidance, to enable you to provide your employees with access to the right tools, resources, and expertise they need to become experts at working remotely. Join us for practical advice on managing Windows 10 devices, monthly updates, and user-owned devices for your remote workforce. Be sure to add the event to your calendar. Note: The recordings for previous parts of this series are available on the same page linked above.

Microsoft Blogs of Interest

Public Sector Blog Website | RSS Feed
Have you seen the “My” URLs of Azure Active Directory? - 24-Apr-2020
Microsoft 365 for Government user group recap - 22-Apr-2020
Key Insights on Adopting Microsoft 365 From Oak Ridge National Lab - 20-Apr-2020

Microsoft Teams Blog Website | RSS Feed
Design your remote work culture with Microsoft Teams apps - 20-Apr-2020

Office & Microsoft 365

Microsoft Teams Blog Website | RSS Feed
Microsoft SharePoint Blog Website | RSS Feed
Microsoft 365 Business Blog Website | RSS Feed
Office 365 Blog Website | RSS Feed
Excel Blog Website | RSS Feed
Planner Blog Website | RSS Feed
Microsoft Forms Blog Website | RSS Feed
Outlook Blog Website | RSS Feed
Microsoft Visio Blog Website | RSS Feed
Workplace Analytics MyAnalytics Website | RSS Feed
Yammer Blog Website | RSS Feed
Azure Active Directory Identity Blog Website | RSS Feed

Enterprise identity, mobility, and security

Azure Active Directory Identity Blog Website | RSS Feed
Azure Information Protection Blog Website | RSS Feed
Core Infrastructure and Security Blog Website | RSS Feed

Microsoft Azure and Development

Azure Customer Advisory Team (CAT) Website | RSS Feed
Student Developer Blog Website | RSS Feed
Azure Data Explorer Website | RSS Feed
Azure Dev Community Blog Website | RSS Feed
Azure Status Monitoring Blog Website | RSS Feed
Hardware Dev Center Website | RSS Feed
Internet of Things Website | RSS Feed
Premier Developer Blog Website | RSS Feed

Windows, Operations, Management, and Deployment

IT Operations Talk Blog Website | RSS Feed
Windows Kernel Internals Website | RSS Feed

Support and adoption

Driving Adoption Blog Website | RSS Feed
IIS Support Blog Website | RSS Feed
Intune Customer Success Website | RSS Feed
Premier Field Engineering Blog Website | RSS Feed
SharePoint Support Blog Website | RSS Feed
SQL Server Support Blog Website | RSS Feed
Tech Community Blog Website | RSS Feed

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