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[Showcase] Deploying Viva Connections internally at Microsoft
A unified experience is at the core of Microsoft Viva Connections. We use it to consolidate resource access across a huge array of company resources and touchpoints, including SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, the Microsoft Graph, and other Microsoft 365 apps like Microsoft Viva Engage and Microsoft Stream. We want it to be the first place our employees go to get informed about the company and their work at Microsoft. Learn how Microsoft IT helped shape and deploy Viva Connections internally. Read the full story.[FREE ebook] Learn how to shape culture and communications with Microsoft Viva Connections
Microsoft Viva Connections is your digital gateway to creating a rich, modern employee experience to keep your entire organization engaged and informed, giving everyone access to the tools they need. Transform your company culture by creating an inclusive environment that seamlessly integrates Viva Connections and your company's communities, meaning everyone can connect and feel empowered to contribute their valuable thoughts and ideas. The experience is personalized and appears in the apps employees already use every day, like Microsoft Teams Learn how to get started with this Free ebook. https://adoption.microsoft.com/files/viva/connections/ebook.pdfAnalytics in Viva Engage
Analytics in Viva Engage help you understand how your content performs and how to improve engagement in the future. View your analytics dashboard by selecting the analytics icon from the top navigation of Viva Engage. Learn more: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/analytics-in-viva-engage-0d9f6fd5-6b0c-45a2-a0aa-0576ae1f6895#:~:text=A%3A%20Analytics%20can%20be%20accessed%20through%20the%20graph,side%20of%20your%20Storyline%20and%20in%20Viva%20Answers.Meet Viva Connections
Viva Connections is a customizable app in Microsoft Teams that turns your intranet into your new employee app. As such, it becomes the natural home for Viva and serves as the gateway to the other Viva apps. Viva Connections delivers different audiences in your organization a personalized destination to discover what's happening in Viva as well as a curated view of news, conversations, and the tools they need to succeed -- and the best part? You can rename it and brand it to reflect your own organization, and add in 3rd party apps and services that you use every day. Learn more and get started here.New usage reports for SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online are here!
Since the first rollout of the usage activity dashboard in March, we’ve continued our work to provide you with a better reporting experience. Many of the old usage reports have now been migrated to the new admin center. Today, we are happy to announce three new usage reports for SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online, which provide you with additional insights about how end users in your organization are using and adopting Office 365. Here’s a look at these new reports for SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online on the blog by Anne Michels.Azure AD B2C: How to enable consumer logins and access management for your B2C apps
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.How to simplify external resource sharing with Azure AD B2B collaboration
Azure Active Directory B2B collaboration is a new service that simplifies the sharing of App resources with your external users, such as partners and vendors. It removes the pain of setting up domain federation or maintaining partner users in your company directory. Lead engineer Arvind Suthar, shows you how you can leverage Azure AD B2B collaboration to set up App 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.Intelligent identity protection with Azure AD
The latest advances on how you can directly apply Microsoft security intelligence to protect your organization. Find out how you can use Azure AD Identity Protection for continuous and real-time risk assessment of logins and users to prevent against threats at the point of authentication. Learn how to reduce your attack surface by managing and restricting the exposure of privileged identities with Privileged Identity Management.Overview of new Azure AD options and Office 365 sign-in updates
Today we give a first look at extending Office 365 and Azure AD secure authentication into other SaaS services and internal applications. Nasos Kladakis joins Jeremy Chapman to demonstrate options for unified and secure login to thousands of cloud apps and services, setting up and using multi-factor authentication - even for consumer services like Facebook and Twitter. Nasos even shows how you can use tools to discover which SaaS services and local apps are being used in your organization as well as a few interesting reports.Visualize work in powerful new ways!
We're continuing to improve the ways your team creates diagrams and visualizes work with several recently released updates for Microsoft Visio Pro for Office 365 - including robust database reverse engineering capabilities and new third-party content that meets various industry standards. With these updates, you can visualize your work in exciting and meaningful ways, boosting efficiencies and helping your team make informed decisions with confidence. Learn about our latest enhancements geared towards databases, IT, software engineerings, education, and more in our latest blog.The Top 5 Tips for Information Protection
Watch as information security expert Dan Plastina from the Azure security team shares the top 5 tips for successfully accelerating information protection inside of your organization. Watch too as Dan also highlights key technology updates for Azure Information Protection, including: ‘scoped policies’ for scaling up and personalizing default information classification labels for specialized teams and next generation RMS-protected secure email.Beyond MDM—How to protect your data with BYOD and SaaS implemented
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
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