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[How-to and Demo] See the updates to Office for Mac with Office 365
Get a complete look at the latest updates from tailored features for the Mac, like Touch Bar integration, new capabilities for real time co-authoring with integrative chat, and intelligent experiences for content creation. If you're an IT admin, we show you how advanced protection and Conditional Access also now extend to the Mac. Enjoy and if you haven't yet, you might want to subscribe to Microsoft Mechanics. -Jeremy
[How-to and Demo] Visio updates with online, web-based editing + integration in Power BI and Excel
The team has recently added online editing and viewing capabilities to Visio Online along with integration in Microsoft Teams, Power BI and Excel. Watch the how-to and demos: You can now add connected Visio diagrams to your Power BI reports and Excel spreadsheets can be used to create and populate your Visio diagrams. We even show how Visio can be integrated with mix reality to visualize real-time data feeds in a virtual environment. Mukul Kumar from the Microsoft Visio team demos how everything works and how to build Visio diagrams online, inside your Power BI reports and using Excel templates. Enjoy and if you haven't yet, you might want to subscribe to Microsoft Mechanics. -Jeremy
Ask us your questions for the Hybrid Cloud Virtual Event on March 28, 2019
Have technical questions about hybrid configurations? We want to hear from you! The Azure team is hosting a Hybrid Cloud Virtual Event on March 28 th and you could win one of 5 Azure Hybrid branded jackets by submitting a question you would like answered during the event. This is an IT event for teams and architects looking to migrate on-premises workloads and services to Azure - including directory services, compute, data, and more. Read more about it in this blog post.Ask us your questions for the Hybrid Cloud Virtual Event on March 28, 2019
Have technical questions about hybrid configurations? We want to hear from you! The Azure team is hosting a Hybrid Cloud Virtual Event on March 28 th and you could win one of 5 Azure Hybrid branded jackets by submitting a question you would like answered during the event. This is an IT event for teams and architects looking to migrate on-premises workloads and services to Azure - including directory services, compute, data, and more. Read more about it in this blog post.Welcome to the Microsoft Mechanics community!
Hello and welcome to Microsoft Mechanics on the Tech Community! If you haven't heard of Microsoft Mechanics, we are tech enthusiasts and former IT pros ourselves covering the latest announcements at Microsoft through video and our social channels. We like to go quite a bit deeper than the announcement blogs and meet the engineers and developers behind the tech to explain how things work, demonstrate user and admin experiences, and hopefully give you enough info to get started or try out whatever topic we're covering. Here on the Tech Community, we'll make sure we post all the announcements as we make them and answer your questions along the way. You'll also find us across the web on YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Subscribe to our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrosoftMechanicsSeries?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MSFTMechanics Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft-mechanics/ Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/microsoftmechanics/ See you soon! JeremyAsk us your questions for the Hybrid Cloud Virtual Event on March 28, 2019
Have technical questions about hybrid configurations? We want to hear from you! The Azure team is hosting a Hybrid Cloud Virtual Event on March 28 th and you could win one of 5 Azure Hybrid branded jackets by submitting a question you would like answered during the event. This is an IT event for teams and architects looking to migrate on-premises workloads and services to Azure - including directory services, compute, data, and more. Read more about it in this blog post.Re: When replacing PCs, how are you migrating files and settings from old to new PCs?
Thanks Oleg! If you were doing 30-50 per day/week/month, do you think you would hire more people or automate this process? I get that one device per week is pretty doable manually, but what if you had ~20k PCs and rolled ~4k of them to new devices per year? (Note: I'm still hearing a preference from some folks for manual state migration at this scale, hence my questions). Moving to disk cloning... do you have a finite number of device types and disk sizes? DO you need an image per device type? Are you using BIOS or UEFI?Re: When replacing PCs, how are you migrating files and settings from old to new PCs?
This sounds like it is the most common way - even for large enterprises - and some are using scripts or detailed command lines (copied from Notepad for example) that automatically copy desired locations and skip unwanted file types, etc. I'm kind of surprised that it scales to manually visit each desktop in PC replacement scenarios, since they might be 20-40% of PC's you'll move in the next 12-18 months. Would it save you time to have a sample script or command line(s) to repeat with physical desktop interaction, or would you still prefer manual copying?When replacing PCs, how are you migrating files and settings from old to new PCs?
Trying to get a feel for what people are using for migrating the file contents from users' old PCs to their new PCs in large scale deployments (can be to Windows 10 or other versions). What do you do now? 1. Use ConfigMgr OSD and its built-in USMT integration. 2. Use MDT with USMT 3. Use USMT standalone 4. Use PCMover 5. I've built a copy script 6. My users are expected to migrate their own data 7. Everyone is on OneDrive, Box, or Dropbox, so everything they want to keep is already in the cloudRe: GDPR dashboard
Just stumbled upon this request as I was looking through GDPR-related questions, so apologies for not writing sooner. The GDPR Dashboard began rolling out around the same time as the RSA Conference in April 2018. You should hopefully see it now in Security & Compliance > Data & Privacy > GDPR Dashboard. The video above is linked to the GDPR Dashboard at 1m32s into the video - so you can see what it has and does.
[How-to and demo] SAP HANA on Azure
Today we announced SAP certified VMs and large instances for running SAP HANA on Azure. You can read the announcement blog here. ...but if you're here in the Tech Community, you probably want to see it running and figure out how to do it in case you're thinking of moving to the cloud. So here's the video - and don't miss the demo of the Write Accelerator speed. Enjoy and if you haven't yet, you might want to subscribe to Microsoft Mechanics. -Jeremy
Early look at updates to MyAnalytics in Office 365 (DEMO)
We've just published an update to MyAnalytics on Microsoft Mechanics. It covers all the new views, including the trend view, groups view and time investments map. To learn and see more, check out this week's demo bench and let us know what you think! -Jeremy
First look at the design and internals of new Surface Pro with LTE Advanced announced today!
We've been working on this Microsoft Mechanics piece highlighting the new Surface Pro with LTE Advanced for a few weeks now and I had to share. Aside from LTE capable of 450 Mbps speeds, one of my personal favorite aspects of the device is that the engineering team was able to use an Intel Core i5 processor with passive cooling (no fan). To learn more about the design and internals of the Surface Pro line, check out this week's show and let us know what you think! -Jeremy
Binge watch all the new SharePoint deeper dive demos in our Microsoft Mechanics video playlist
If you want to binge watch all of what's new and coming to SharePoint, check out the Microsoft Mechanics SharePoint Virtual Summit 2017 demo playlist. We feature the engineers behind the technology updates across Communication Sites, OneDrive, mobile, Team Sites and more. First up: Communication Sites, but the rest will roll in automatically
Re: Usage scenario and other tricks
You can require a PIN to Connect wirelessly to Surface Hub. The setting can be triggered 3 ways: 1. Logged in as admin, you change this in the Windows Settings menu (this is best for configuring a handful of devices) 2. Using Windows Image Configuration and Designer you can add the same setting. Windows ICD builds a PPKG file and that can be installed within Settings while logged in as an Admin (this makes sense if you're bringing several into a build or imaging lab, then moving/shipping to conference rooms) 3. Using MDM tools (Intune, Airwatch or Mobile Iron) which effectively call the same components as Windows ICD and configurations are applied when the Surface Hub is enrolled in MDM. At the moment, the best information to learn about configuration options and tools is here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/surface-hub/surface-hub-administrators-guide We're also building more content for Microsoft Mechanics, which we'll publish in the coming months. Here's a great overview from Paul Barr on the Surface Hub team if you haven't already seen it:
