Collaboration highlights from Ignite - what's in it for you?

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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