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Welcome to the Office 365 update for June 2018. In the next few minutes I'll be giving you
a quick rundown of the latest Office 365 updates, with goal of helping you get the most out
of the service. Newsflash! New capabilities in any product or service do nobody any good unless
people actually use them. For Office 365, one challenge to using new capabilities is knowing
they exist and what value they provide. That's the focus of in this video. Another hurdle,
and one I frequently hear from listeners, is training users on how to use Office 365 capabilities,
both new and existing, to get work done. While I've touched on some great training already
available in past videos, and provided links to training resources in the companion blog,
there is also news on that front. On May 21st, Microsoft announced Microsoft Training Services,
a digital, customized learning service for Office 365 and Windows 10.
The training is designed to help customers leverage learning to transform their organizations
without investing heavily in training and change management resources.
To date, 25 organizations have participated in the pre-pilot phase, helping to develop and
test the service, which includes: Customizable, always up-to-date content, experiences right-sized
to an organization's needs, and metrics on training materials users consume and the types
of custom playlists they create and share. Microsoft Training Services will be available as
a pilot in late July 2018. To be added to the pilot waitlist or to learn more, register at
https://aka.ms/mtspilot. New Outlook features across Windows, Mac, web, and mobile, help you
manage your time and keep what matters most front and center.
Adding a new meeting or a location for an event just got easier and faster in Outlook for
iOS. Even before you start typing, Outlook offers suggestions for your meeting location, including
recently used conference rooms and other common locations such as "my office."
Once you start to type in the location field, Outlook suggests options, powered by Bing,
and then autocompletes your meeting location with the necessary information, including the
full address for public locations. In iOS, Outlook will use your current location, your destination
address, and traffic updates to send you a notification to let you know when it is time to
leave for your next meeting. Note that this feature will be coming soon to Outlook for Windows.
Let's face it. Some meetings are more important than others. Don't tell my boss, but one criterion
I sometimes use to determine if I'm going to attend a meeting is who else is going to be there.
Up until recently, determining who would be attending a meeting could be challenging because
meeting invitation responses were only visible to the meeting organizer.
Now, Outlook allows you to see the tracked responses and RSVPs for the meetings you're invited
to, even when you're not the organizer. This insight enables you to better manage your time
and decide if you should attend based on the plans of others.
For example, if I'm invited to two meetings that overlap, and I can see that one of my colleagues
is attending one of the meetings, I could elect to attend the other meeting and then sync
with my colleague afterwards. If you are planning a meeting that requires tight control of
the attendee list, Outlook now gives you the option to allow or prevent the forwarding of
your calendar invitation. Do you collaborate with people in different time zones? I do, every
day. That's why I was thrilled when the Outlook team added more time zone functionality to
Outlook. This has become indispensable when I'm planning meetings and looking for "time zone
friendly" meeting times. In Windows, you can now display up to three time zones in your calendar
grid. Just click on File, then Options, then on the Calendar section. Under Time Zones, you
can add whichever Time Zones you would like to see. In Outlook for Mac, you can add one additional
Time Zone under Outlook Preferences. Now, at a glance, you can understand what's happening
and when around the globe with Outlook. The April 30th Office Blog post has additional details
on all these features, as well as a preview of new features coming soon to Outlook on iOS
and Android, including: The ability to sync your drafts folder from your desktop to your mobile
device, Office Lens functionality for adding captured whiteboards, documents, and photos directly
to new Outlook messages, and the ability to tag your favorite people to keep your key contacts
front and center in your mobile search experience, and more. I'll keep you posted on when
these new features become available in future videos. At the May SharePoint Conference in
Las Vegas, several exciting features were announced for both SharePoint and OneDrive.
Here are some of the highlights. First, improvements in the built-in scan feature in the OneDrive
mobile app for both iOS and Android. It's now accessed from the dedicated icon in the tab
bar making it easy to add images, multiple page files, and annotations right to your OneDrive.
There's also improved upload support in OneDrive for Business with automatic uploads for photos
and videos captured to your phone's camera roll. Another new feature is the ability to set
and require a password when you share a file or folder with other people.
This prevents others from accessing your files if your intended recipient accidentally forwards
or shares the link. Note that this feature is independent from the secure external sharing
controls managed by IT administrators. In addition, you now have the ability to prevent users
from downloading files shared via view-only links. This enables you to share Office documents
in the cloud while preventing people from downloading and keeping offline copies.
There are several feature enhancements specific to Office 365 Administrators, including the
ability to automatically connect and synchronize SharePoint team sites as part of a OneDrive
deployment or upgrade process. For all the details and additional news, read the OneDrive
blog post I link to in the transcript and resources document.
One news item that generated a lot of buzz at the SharePoint Conference was Microsoft's unveiling
SharePoint Spaces. Leveraging Microsoft's investment in artificial intelligence and mixed
reality, SharePoint Spaces are immersive, mixed reality experiences that enables users to
view and interact with content from every angle. They can also visualize and manipulate data
and product models in real-time. With this innovation, SharePoint will become the first unified
content collaboration and services solution to span files, websites, and soon, mixed reality
spaces. Customers and partners can apply to be part of an early, limited preview of SharePoint
spaces by clicking on the link in the May 21st Microsoft Blog post.
The Title Bar has been a fixture in the Windows interface since the first version
released to manufacturing 32 years ago.
I'm happy to report title bar functionality in Office 365 has taken a huge leap forward
in the name of productivity improvement. Click on the title bar and a new drop-down enables
you to take several actions, including: quickly re-name the current document, open the document's
location, share the document via an invitation or a link, and quickly access the document's
version history. Truth be told, I sort of stumbled across this hidden gem in the Windows version
of Office recently myself. But since doing so, I've particularly found the ability to open
the document's location to be a big productivity booster. Give it a try and I'm sure you'll
find how much it can speed up your work. On May 25th of this year, enforcement began on a
European privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation, better known as GDPR.
This law imposes new rules on companies, government agencies, non-profits, and other organizations
that offer goods and services to people in the European Union, or that collect and analyze
data tied to EU residents, regardless of where the organization is physically located.
GDPR is obviously a huge topic that we cannot adequately address in the time we have together,
but we can at least get you started. One essential step to meeting the GDPR obligations is
discovering and controlling what personal data the organization holds and where it resides.
Many Office 365 solutions can help you identify and manage access to personal data, including:
Data Loss Prevention, Advanced Data Governance, Office 365 eDiscovery, and Customer Lockbox.
A second core requirement of the GDPR is protecting personal data against security threats.
Current Office 365 features that safeguard data and identify when a data breach occurs include:
Advanced Threat Protection, Advanced Security Management, and Office 365 Audit logs.
I've provided links in the transcript and resources guide to pages in the Microsoft Trust
Center that address GDPR and what Microsoft is doing to safeguard individual privacy with
the Microsoft Cloud. That's all we have time for. Remember to send your feedback or success
stories to Office365UpdateSeries@microsoft.com. I'm Jim Naroski, thanks for watching,
and I'll see you again soon!
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