Collaboration highlights from Ignite - what's in it for you?
There's a raft of blogs and articles out there about what's been announced at Ignite 2017, but I wanted to share a quick update with some exciting key highlights, links to videos, PPT's and articles that might be of interest to you. - yes there's a tonne I've missed.
Although we'd all love to have enough time to watch every session, sometimes we can't #firehose ;)
Here's my highlights specifically for productivity and collaboration:
Azure Information Protection Scanner https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/53453
- You can scan on premises File Servers and SharePoint to discover, label and protect your data! Coming Soon!
LinkedIn integration https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/55478
- Ability to use contact cards from within O365 (native experience)
- Used as static business card - makes these more intelligent
- People centric through Microsoft graph - learning and growth my network
- Centric way to find information about people - not going through emails, docs etc
- Show same card throughout o365
Overview on Security and Compliance https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Security-Privacy-and-Compliance/Bringing-deeper-integration-and-new-capabilities-to-Office-365/ba-p/109409
- ATP - Anti-Fishing. Internal Safe links for compromised internal accounts.
- Expansion of ATP - Across SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive
- Safe links updates - URL wrapping removed - original URL on hover over.
- Attack simulator - phish own employees - how secure the orgs security is.
- Threat Tracker / Explorer - targeted attacked and risky content activity.
- Compliance manager - Conduct Realtime risk assessment - intelligent score against GDPR.
- Advance eDiscovery - import non-office 365 data on premises such as legacy file shares - consistent tool for cases.
- Customer key BYOK - meet compliance needs, they use their own keys to encrypt mailboxes and files in Office 365
- Office 365 Message Encryption - easier to encrypt emails for end users apply encryption to "do not forward" emails or other custom templates.
- Non-Office 365 user can authenticate and read protected message user google or yahoo identities, in addition to the options like OTP or Microsoft account.
- More information: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Security-Privacy-Compliance/ct-p/SecurityPrivacyCompliance
Multi-Geo Capabilities for Office 365 https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/55160
- Exchange multi-geo - creating resource forest in other data centres - migrate mailboxes to those regions. You control where your users are located
https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/53873
- OneDrive and SharePoint Online
Yammer Roadmap https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/53798
- Deeper SharePoint integration - web part file storage
- In-app OneNote integration
- Messaging enhancements
- Mobile experience upgrades
- More with Office 365 groups
- Unified office 365 profile
- Bot framework integration
Teams guest access /en-us/microsoftteams/guest-access
- Intelligent communications - focus on voice
- Guest access in Microsoft Teams allows teams in your organization to collaborate with people outside your organization by granting them access to teams and channels.
Microsoft 365 F1 for first-line workers https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/53493
- User voices on the frontline - might have been considered too expense to provide services to all end users. Now they can be part of the company
OneDrive Files on Demand https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/53848
- Add 100 new features and functions since Ignite last year!
- October 17th - delivered (out now)
- Ability to choose files you don't want synced but still need access to.
- Support for IRM/DRM sync (SharePoint or OneDrive)
- Multi-geo
- Service level encryption with customer key - you own the master key, when and how it's available
- Auto account configuration with ADAL - simplify user setup (without asking for credentials multiple times).
- Self-service migration toolkit - available to customers
- On-premise and cloud viewing through one app
- Photo intelligence - receipts OCR on all photos - into meta data (easier to fill-out expenses)
- Zip file support - browse directly into Zips.
Microsoft Groups updates https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/53450
- More than just a SharePoint team site - conversations, files etc.
- Connect existing sites to Office 365 groups.
- Manage group creation enhancements for controlled self-service.
- Naming policy - ensure group names follow your org schema
- Updated licensing requirements
- Update distribution lists to group in Outlook. https://Aka.ms/whyupgradedls
- Roadmap - Multi-geo / connect existing site to a new group / manage group sites via SharePoint / Expiry policy - in app renewal and custom email notifications
Office 2019 -
- To be released 2018
https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2017/09/26/the-next-perpetual-release-of-office/?eu=true
SharePoint 2019 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/Connecting-the-modern-workplace-with-SharePoint-and-OneDrive/ba-p/110399
- SharePoint Unplugged - protecting data including roadmap:
- https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/55154