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Zachary-Cavanell
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VIDEO: Office 365 Admin Updates - 5/22/17
New Adoption content pack allows you to track user adoption of Office 365 services. You can track Licensed versus Active users of the service, apps that are used most for communication and usage trends for collaboration services such as OneDrive and SharePoint. Also, updates to the Office 365 Service health dashboard.
Overview of Microsoft Learning Tools in Office Lens, Word Desktop and Word Online
Microsoft Mechanics had lead accessibility engineer, Jeff Petty demonstrate Learning Tools and Editor. These tools offer the capability to personalize reading and proofing experiences and are useful if you have a learning difference such as dyslexia. Capabilities demonstrated here start becoming available in November 2016, and more are coming to applications such as OneNote Online. You can learn more about these features and the latest accessibility updates for Office 365 applications on http://aka.ms/A11yInO365
Detailed video overview of Azure Active Directory B2B collaboration
Lead engineer for Microsoft Identity Services Sarat Subramaniam, goes over Azure Active Directory B2B collaboration, which as of 4/12/ 17 is now generally available. If you are unfamiliar with Azure AD B2B: It is service that simplifies the secure sharing of your Apps and services with your external business partners and colleagues. It allows users to easily share common Apps and services to collaborate with their peers and IT to add and manage these external users without having to add them to the corporate directory or requiring partners to have Azure Active Directory in place. Further, conditional access authorization policies - including Multi-factor authentication enabled by Azure Active Directory keep data safe. More information can be found here: aka.ms/AddB2Busers
Video overview and demo of Office 365 Advanced Data Governance
5-minute overview and demonstration of Office 365 Advanced Data Governance presented by Principal Engineer Kamal Janardhan. Highlights include: Cloud intelligence for proactive policy recommendations based on your industry, geography and other criteria. Determine the data that you need to keep and the redundant and obsolete data to delete. See how default alerts can help monitor data management on your behalf.
Improve local server utilization. Enable on-demand scaling from local Azure Stack to Azure. VIDEO
Dynamically scale applications between your data center and the public cloud while keeping all of your data on premises and handling massive, unexpected increases in traffic. Senior Program Manager of Azure Stack, Anjay Ajodha, gives you an overview on how Azure Stack is Microsoft's hybrid cloud platform that gives you the flexibility to run some or all of your Azure-based infrastructure within your data center.
Azure Bot Service - Build your own bots
This video shows the practical use of bots using the Azure Bot Service to infuse artificial intelligence within your customer relationship management. You'll see how bots work and how to build your own. Details: Intelligent interactions with natural language and the ability to detect customer sentiment and intent, triaging and transacting the customer engagement process to make opportunistic and personalized recommendations, and even how you can quickly get bots up and running for yourself with the Azure Bot Service.
VIDEO: Collaboration updates across Office apps
Daniel Escapa from Office engineering walks through the latest connected services to help collaborate, find your files quickly and even revert to previous versions. Demonstrations on: Real-time collaboration in Word and PowerPoint New built-in chat capabilities Visibility into activity on your files "while you were away" Improved access to content from recent folders, files shared with you or stored within sites and groups, and recent files list.
Demo on how powerful the Surface Book with Performance Base really is.
Jeff Stewart, Sr. Director of Program Management for Surface Devices, demos what 1.9 teraflops of GPU power can do for you. He also reviews what goes into building this Surface to have 30% longer battery life and only weighing 3.69 pounds.
Demo video: updates to Microsoft Intune on Azure - 4/19/17
Lead engineer, Craig Marl and Simon May demonstrate Microsoft Intune updates. New admin experience in the Azure Portal with new Role Based Access Controls, Tighter integration with Azure Active Directory with Groups; Reporting and automation capabilities leveraging the Microsoft Graph API
How to video: Deploy Azure VMs for less using the Azure Hybrid Use Benefit
Chris Van Wesep, shows how you can use your on-premises Windows Server licenses with Software Assurance to deploy Azure virtual machines for your workloads, using the Azure Hybrid Use Benefit. For every 100 Window server licenses, you can run up to 200 virtual Machines with a potential savings of over $300,000 a year based on the popular D3-V2 VM size. More information on this can be found here: aka.ms/HybridUseBenefits
Using Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection for Windows 10
Senior Windows Product Manager, Heike Ritter goes over Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection for Windows 10. This includes new capabilities with the Windows Creators Update for detecting, investigating and containing breaches such as in-memory attacks and Kernel exploits.
Shifting from BIOS to UEFI with the Windows 10 Creators Update MBR2GPT disk conversion tool
Comprehensive yet quick video overview that explains how you can safely and non-destructively convert a Windows 10 machine from legacy BIOS to UEFI disk partitioning; and how you can automate the conversion as part of your in-place upgrade process from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
VIDEO: Azure Monitor overview
Azure Monitor (released to GA 3/31/17), is a built-in platform monitor for all-up visibility into the performance, health and state of your Azure Resources. In the video you'll see how it works; how to create alerts and enable deeper insights and analytics with your preferred monitoring system to inform troubleshooting. Lead Azure engineer, Ashwin Kamath provides the overview.
SharePoint Security and Compliance Updates [VIDEO]
Principal engineer and SharePoint security expert, Navjot Virk to demonstrate security and compliance updates in SharePoint. Conditional access controls to safeguard against insecure networks and devices. Data governance capabilities for site classification. Unified auditing within hybrid environments.
Video demo of Software Defined Networking capabilities in Windows Server 2016
Windows Server engineer Greg Cusanza, joins Matt McSpirit to demonstrate and explain the technology underpinnings and how to use SDN to: dynamically create, secure and connect your network to meet the evolving needs of your apps; speed up the deployment of your workloads and contain security vulnerabilities from spreading across your network, all while reducing your overall infrastructure costs.
