Introducing the Bing Enterprise Homepage
We're happy to announce a new experience just for Microsoft Search in Bing users: the Bing enterprise homepage. Now you'll see the same Bing homepage you love, enhanced with the work info you need, including popular bookmarks, meetings, recent files, and news. And with automatic sign in, you can get to the info even faster. What are the benefits of the Bing enterprise homepage? Customized branding: You'll see your company's logo and name right on the Bing homepage. Enterprise admins can configure the brand logo by customizing the Microsoft 365 theme for your organization. (Your logo will be changed across Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Search.) Fast access to popular and timely info: If your organization has added bookmarks in the Microsoft 365 admin center, you'll see popular bookmarks to help you get to important internal resources even faster. You'll also see your upcoming meetings—and who's invited. (And for an even fuller picture of your day, just click the see more link.) To help you pick up where you left off, you'll see recent files you and co-workers have collaborated on. News that impacts your work: Read the latest headlines and stories that matter to you and your industry. Enterprise admins can choose the industries for your enterprise, as well as topics important to your company, in your Microsoft 365 admin center settings (Org settings > Services > News). Search suggestions designed for work: Just like you see web suggestions when you start a search, now you'll see work suggestions too. Start typing a work-related search, like your manager's name, in the search box to see it in action. Highlight your news: Soon you'll be able to showcase your company's top internal news stories on the Bing homepage. Check out the image below for an early preview. When will I see the new enterprise homepage? The enterprise homepage updates started rolling out during the end of July. The admin controls for Industry news and internal news from your organization will roll out across tenants in August. Coming soon: More controls The right homepage for your business: We're working on features that will let enterprise admins customize the homepage for your organization, including turning off the homepage image by default. (Your users will still be able to turn it back on.) And for organizations that prefer the 'classic' Bing homepage, Enterprise admins will have the option to turn off the enterprise homepage features. Frequently asked questions Who can see work info on the enterprise homepage? Only you can see your work info. And your enterprise homepage is customized just for you. To help protect your privacy, you must sign in with a valid work or school account to see info from your organization. To learn more about privacy and Microsoft Search, see How Microsoft Search in Bing helps keep your info secure. How can I hide enterprise info on the homepage? To temporarily hide this info, minimize it by clicking the chevron control just above the enterprise section. Or, on the homepage menu (upper-right corner), turn off the Show news & work info toggle. Is this available outside the US? Currently, the Bing enterprise homepage is available in eight locations: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Spain and the US. The Industry news carousel is only rolling out in the US. We hope you enjoy the new Bing enterprise homepage as much as we loved building it for you.Microsoft Search Updates - July 2020
Have you ever misplaced something? Maybe it was your car keys, your favorite jewelry, or something else… The typical process you go through is probably something like this – you ask yourself the question, “where did I put my keys” and then walk backward from where you last went, which rooms you were last in… That process is synonymous with a traditional search experience, a query and continuous refining of the query until you find what you were looking for – while this process may work for you on one occasion, it’s not consistent enough to be valuable in the future, and what if the keys you’re looking for, aren’t the ones you misplaced, but those of a roommate, partner, or someone else? This is why search needs to evolve, to become more personal, more context aware, and more available so wherever you are, whatever it is, you can find it the first time, with minimal effort, and precision. Microsoft Search is the evolution of search, smarter search to help you stay in touch with what’s important and trending around you in Microsoft 365 and your connected systems. New Search Locations Contextual Search in Microsoft Teams Find information faster with contextual search in Microsoft Teams. Users will now have the ability to search for content in a specific channel or chat by pressing CTRL + F. Search results will only contain messages and files found in the selected chat or channel. Learn more on searching for messages and more in Microsoft Teams at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/search-for-messages-and-more-in-teams-4a351520-33f4-42ab-a5ee-5fc0ab88b263. New Search Answers Acronym search in SharePoint and Office.com Did you know that 2-3% of search queries entered by employees are related to acronyms? The new Acronyms feature in Microsoft Search helps users navigate their company’s often-confusing alphabet soup. Then, when users come across an acronym they may not recognize, a simple search in SharePoint, Office.com, or Bing will reveal common definitions from your organization’s unique definitions in addition to AI mined suggestions from files and conversations. Learn more about creating and curating acronym answers at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftsearch/manage-acronyms. Customization & Extensibility Enrich Profile Cards in Office 365 The hundreds of millions of users of Microsoft 365 cloud services form part of the core of Microsoft Graph. The users' data is carefully managed, protected, and with proper authorization, made available by Microsoft Graph services to drive productivity and creativity in businesses. People are the heart and soul of intelligent insights in the Microsoft Graph, but more importantly of your company - but finding the right people at the right time isn’t always easy. Sometimes you’re looking for more than just a name and face, maybe it’s a skill, location, or something else. Now via the Microsoft Graph you can add any of the existing or 15 custom attributes to an individual’s profile card. Learn more about enriching Office 365 profile cards at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-search-blog/add-additional-properties-to-the-profile-card-using-the-profile/ba-p/1496467. PnP Modern Search We’ve updated PnP Modern Search at https://github.com/microsoft-search/pnp-modern-search. Check out the latest release for more news about this update. Connectors Microsoft Search increases productivity and saves time finding information, whether at work, at home, or on the go. In the workplace, Microsoft Search reaches across all enterprise content and across all entry points with a consistent and familiar user experience.; however, search is most powerful when it brings together information and insights across data sources… Last month we expanded availability Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search to Targeted Release – as we continue to enable organizations to connect their disparate systems to Microsoft Search through Microsoft and partner connectors, we’re looking for feedback on where we can improve and what connectors we should consider moving forward. Salesforce Connector Preview Program As we continue to develop native connectors for Microsoft Search, we'd like to invite you or your customers to participate in a private preview program for our upcoming Salesforce connector. We're excited to work with you to learn how you would use this connector and listen to your feedback. We'd love to have a range of customers and partners of different sizes and industries with a wide variety of business scenarios. Since we are still in very early stages, please use the form below to nominate your customer or organization for private preview inclusion and we will contact you if your organization is accepted. Nominate your organization at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-search-blog/nominate-your-organization-for-our-salesforce-connector-preview/ba-p/1513043. Connector Feedback Survey Are you using or planning to use content connectors to expand the types of content sources that appear in Microsoft Search results. If so, fill in this brief 10-question survey to tell us more about your interest in connectors – including building your own connectors. Other Updates and Announcements Recently, Microsoft commissioned Forrester Research to help quantify the benefits companies saw when they actively used and promoted using Microsoft Search through Bing. To do so, Forrester spoke with IT Pros at seven different organizations about how they functioned before and after using Bing as an entry point to the Microsoft Search experience. Learn more about the TEI study and view the results at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-search-blog/how-it-pros-saved-time-money-and-reduced-helpdesk-headaches-with/ba-p/1443490. Keep up to date with the latest on Microsoft Search by following us on Twitter @MicrosoftSearch or at the Microsoft Search Resource Center on the TechCommunity.Microsoft Search at Microsoft Ignite Resources and Recap
Microsoft Ignite may be over, but it’s not too late to get caught up on anything and everything Microsoft Search from Orlando. New Microsoft Search Adoption Resources The Microsoft Search adoption kit includes several ready to use templates for email, Teams, Yammer, and SharePoint to help your Office 365 users understand how Microsoft Search helps them be more productive every day. You'll be set up for a successful roll-out, no matter what your business challenges. Check out these resources at https://aka.ms/MicrosoftSearch. New Developer Resources Get access to APIs, SDKs and open source projects from Microsoft Search at https://github.com/microsoft-search. Download now at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2110644 and check out more useful resources, news and announcements at https://aka.ms/MicrosoftSearch. Recordings and PowerPoint Presentations SRCH10 What’s new and what’s next for Microsoft Search Get the latest updates on Microsoft Search. Come on the journey to learn how insights, actions, and answers are being built into your everyday experiences across Microsoft 365, Bing, and Edge. See the latest roadmap across all of your experiences, from SharePoint to Office and beyond. In addition, get insights on how to connect external third-party content connectors, customization, and extensibility. Recording > https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/HIGHMP4/IG19-SRCH10 PowerPoint Presentation > Coming soon SRCH20 Microsoft Search for the administrator: What you need to know Learn about the impact of Microsoft Search on you, the administrator. We’ll take you through the inner workings of Microsoft Search and pull back the curtains on the architecture. Then we’ll translate that into practical tasks for search administration that will help you and your organization get the most out of Microsoft Search. Recording > https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/HIGHMP4/IG19-SRCH20 PowerPoint Presentation > https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/PPT/IG19-SRCH20 SRCH30 Project Turing: AI-powered Search for Enterprise For human beings, reading comprehension is a basic task, performed daily. As early as in elementary school, we can read an article, and answer questions about its key ideas and details. But for AI, full reading comprehension is still an elusive goal—but a necessary one if we’re going to measure and achieve general intelligence AI. In search applications, machine comprehension will give a precise answer rather than a URL that contains the answer somewhere within a lengthy web page. Moreover, machine comprehension models can understand specific knowledge embedded in articles that usually cover narrow and specific domains, where the search data that algorithms depend upon is sparse. In this session, see and learn about the latest innovation with natural language and machine reading comprehension in Microsoft search. Recording > https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/HIGHMP4/IG19-SRCH30 PowerPoint Presentation > https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/PPT/IG19-SRCH30 SRCH40 Connect your world of information to Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Search: A sneak peek at Microsoft Graph Connectors Modern information workers need to find knowledge quickly and easily regardless of where the data resides. Come take a first look at Microsoft Graph Connectors, which will enable users in your enterprise to search over content sources beyond Microsoft 365. You will see how Microsoft and our partners are jointly making Microsoft Search more powerful to benefit your users. We will also show you a simple set of APIs that you can start using for your custom connector development. Recording > https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/PPT/IG19-SRCH40 PowerPoint Presentation > https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/HIGHMP4/IG19-SRCH40 SRCH50 What's new and next for Microsoft Search customization and development Microsoft Search is an intelligent, enterprise search experience from Microsoft that applies the artificial intelligence technology (AI) from Bing and deep personalized insights surfaced by the Microsoft Graph, to make search more effective for you. In this session, we demonstrate new Graph APIs and how Microsoft Search will let you create and customize rich search experiences around all of your enterprise content, regardless of where it resides. See our roadmap and examples of how to modernize your existing SharePoint-based enterprise search experiences to take full advantage of Microsoft Search. Recording > https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/HIGHMP4/IG19-SRCH50 PowerPoint Presentation > Coming soon BRK2022 Customer Perspectives: Unlocking Workplace Productivity with Microsoft Search in Bing Isn’t it time your enterprise search experience was as easy and convenient as searching the web? That time is now, thanks to the power of Microsoft Search in Bing, where your company information across the cloud, intranet, SharePoint and Office is just a few keystrokes away. We’ll demo the compelling new features now available to you, and we’ll share a sneak peek of what we’re working on for release in the months ahead. Then, hear directly from customers across multiple industries about how they’re using Microsoft Search in Bing, how it’s improved workplace productivity, and learn about their change management strategies, tips for rolling out Microsoft Search in Bing, and more. Recording > https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/HIGHMP4/IG19-BRK2022 PowerPoint Presentation > https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/PPT/IG19-BRK2022 THR3010 Getting started with Microsoft-built Graph Connectors for Microsoft Search Microsoft Graph Connectors let you connect to external data sources to make them searchable from Microsoft Search. Come take a look at how a search admin can easily set up some out-of-box connectors to popular data sources and enable information workers to search over them from various Microsoft Search endpoints. Recording > https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/HIGHMP4/IG19-THR3010 PowerPoint Presentation > https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/PPT/IG19-THR3010 THR4000 Hands on with the new Microsoft Search API in the Microsoft Graph Learn how to connect your world of information with Microsoft Search with the new Microsoft Search public API in the Microsoft Graph. In this session, learn how to integrate results from Microsoft Search into your own applications, programmatic access to search, and how to build a tailored search experience through guidance, demos, and more. Recording > https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/HIGHMP4/IG19-THR4000 PowerPoint Presentation > https://medius.studios.ms/video/asset/PPT/IG19-THR4000 Have questions? Check us out on Twitter @MicrosoftSearch.How a Search Editor can save IT admins time
The Search Editor role is essential to enable and support the deployment of Microsoft Search in Bing across your organization. This is a sub-role assigned within the Microsoft 365 Admin portal and has one essential function: to curate content. Most organizations have a limited number of Global Admins (we recommend at least two) and, as such, the Global Admins’ time is usually quite constrained. So, it makes sense for the Global Admin to identify other IT staff and/or technical end-users to handle the task of managing and curating content such as Microsoft Search bookmarks, Q&As, and locations. These tasks do not require full permissions to access all areas of the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Instead, Global Admins can assign Search Editors–for example, employees with expertise in PR, marketing, or sales–to share in creation, and management of relevant bookmarks, Q&As, and locations. Companies with global offices can also utilize Search Editors for the localization of content. This role doesn’t require technical skills. Anyone can learn the user-friendly interface and create, edit, publish, delete, and review suggested content. (Their access in the Admin Center is limited to these actions.) Who creates the Search Editor role? The Global Admin assigns the Search Editor role within the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Why is creating high-value enterprise bookmarks essential for your organization? Bookmarks help with publishing and the promotion of the best possible results for business-related queries. The more bookmarks there are, the more value for users. For more information on creating good bookmarks, refer to the series published on the Microsoft Search blog. Why is creating high-value enterprise Q&A relevant for your organization? Creating answers for the most frequently asked questions in your organization helps users save time by quickly surfacing the information they need. Just like bookmarks, customized answers can be created based on different criteria such as country, security groups, and operating system. Read about managing Q&As. Which data are available to Search Editors to help them create the most relevant content? Search Editors can see how users engage with their results by accessing data insights through the Admin Center: View how many bookmarks and Q&As have been published, scheduled, or suggested View impressions for top search queries that show work results Analyze impression distributions for bookmarks and Q&A Is it possible to have more than one Search Editor within the same organization? Yes, there can be many Search Editors. We recommend having one per area of expertise. What can a Search Editor do? The Search Editor has full access to Microsoft Search settings within the Microsoft 365 Admin Center and can publish, edit, save, schedule, and import/export bookmarks, Q&A, and locations. Does the Search Editor need to be very tech-savvy? No. Basic training on how to access the Microsoft 365 Admin Center Search Settings and perform these tasks is all that is required. What can’t a Search Editor do? A Search Editor cannot assign another user as an admin, assign another user as Search Editor, or access other operative areas of the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. For more information: https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftsearch/manage-bookmarks https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftsearch/make-content-easy-to-find
