- Hi, I'm Arthur.
- I'm Vivian.
- And I'm Candice and welcome to
"What's New with Microsoft 365 in August."
- This month we have updates,
including new features for Whiteboard and Microsoft Teams
and on the web.
- How to automate user provisioning to Azure AD
from SAP SuccessFactors.
- New Power Automate triggers and actions in Teams
and other great features.
- So let's get started.
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- With integration now available between Azure AD
and SAP SuccessFactors,
admins can now automate user provisioning
to applications and resources
to support HR and identity life cycle scenarios
like hiring a new employee.
- The ability to automate user provisioning
ensures that new employees are up and running
with all the necessary apps and resources
from day one
while also reducing possible dependencies on IT help desk
for onboarding and offboarding tasks.
To learn more about how to provision worker data
to Azure AD,
check out the support documentation in the description
after you're done watching this episode.
- Managing and overseeing a Team's administration
can be a complex task,
especially when supporting a large organization.
That's why these two new Power Automate features in Teams
should help streamline tests for admins.
The first of these updates
is that you can now automate an app mentioned in a flow.
For example, you can build a flow
to automatically at mention a newly added team member.
Then when the new member joins,
Power Automate sends a personalized message that at mentions
and alerts them in a team.
- There's also a new trigger available
for Power Automate in Teams.
With the for selected message action trigger,
users can now create customized actions
directly from a message.
For example, if a user built out a trigger
to automatically create a tasked planner,
this would help streamline
and initiate critical business processes for organizations.
And you'd be able to do all this from a conversation.
To get started, users can open
the Power Automate app in Teams
and start building out a flow
with these two new actions.
- With so many employees working remotely,
it's important to ensure everyone's devices are protected.
That's why a new experience in the Microsoft 365
admin center now makes it easier
for small and medium sized businesses
to deploy a lightweight security baseline policy.
This new policy applies to all Windows 10 devices
that are enrolled in Microsoft Intune
with a Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscription plan.
To learn more about the update,
we've added a blog post about it down below.
- And now we're really excited for this next segment.
For the first time
since we started doing this show remotely,
we're bringing back interviews.
- And this month we have senior product marketing manager
Andrea Eoanou, who's here to chat with us
about new features for Whiteboard on Teams and on the web.
Andrea, thanks so much for joining us today.
- Thanks so much for having me Vivian.
- To start things off,
for our viewers who may not be familiar with Whiteboard,
what is it and why is it so powerful for those of us
working from home right now?
- So Whiteboard is our free form digital infinite canvas.
So you can add as much content as you want.
And the canvas is infinite,
meaning that you can continue to add.
It keeps going.
You can zoom in, zoom out.
You can also add text, sticky notes
and drag and drop functionality to the Whiteboard.
With us being in this remote and hybrid environment
right now, it's even more important for all of our users
to feel more inclusive in their meetings,
especially when they're all virtual.
So now that we've added these three new features,
sticky note, text, and drag and drop functionality,
everybody is able to feel like they can contribute
to the board.
They won't need a pen or a stylus or a touch screen.
Simply, they can just start adding text
or sticky notes onto the Whiteboard to feel inclusive.
- Yeah, that's just one of the things
that's really difficult to replicate right now.
Just this whole notion of collaboration.
Could you tell us about the new feature is now available
in Whiteboard and where users can find them?
- They're just simply on the toolbar.
When you open up Whiteboard,
you'll see a sticky note,
a T for a text,
and then you can drag and drop anything
that you add into the whiteboard.
These features are super important
because I think, Vivian, we've all been in meetings before
where we're adding physical sticky notes to a board
or to the wall,
and then moving those objects around
to try to have our brainstorming and collaboration sessions.
So now with Microsoft Whiteboard
bringing this all virtually,
it's very important for us to continue that collaboration
in our new hybrid work environment.
- So how can our users actually get started
with these new features?
And is there anything in particular you wanna call out
to our admins?
- So with the new features,
we've made this really simple for users.
As long as they're deployed via Teams,
you can just open up the share tray
and start your whiteboard right away.
We also have full functionality in Whiteboard in the web
as well as in our Windows 10 app.
And we have support articles on our website
which you can find
which give a little bit more information to help you along
that journey.
- For our viewers,
you can find the support page and the website
that Andrea mentioned down in the description below,
as well as additional resources
to learn more about Whiteboard.
Andrea, thanks so much for joining us today.
We really appreciate it.
- Thanks so much for having me Vivian.
Hope to see you in the office at some point.
- You know, I actually love Whiteboard.
I doodle with it all the time (laughs).
- Oh, you do?
Oh, that's nice.
And this is such a great update.
You can collaborate, move around the sticky notes.
It's like working together in an office
but you're doing it virtually.
- Yeah, that's honestly,
one of the things that I miss about going in
is just being able to collaborate with my team in person.
- If your users are working on a Vizio diagram in Teams,
they can now add a diagram
as a tab to the top of the channel or chat for quick
and easy access.
To edit it, go to the diagram you want in teams.
Select the three dots and then select make this a tab.
The diagram then appears at the top of your chat or channel.
Although any Teams user can add a diagram as a tab,
to make edits to the diagram itself,
you must be a Vizio Plan one or Plan two subscriber.
To learn more about this update
we've added some additional reading in the description.
- And that's a wrap on all the updates
that we have for August.
- To check out additional resources
we called out in this episode,
like the support pages for Whiteboard
or how to provision user data to Azure AD,
make sure you check out the description below.
- We'd love to hear your feedback.
Do you have any thoughts about the structure
or content of this episode?
Let us know in the comments below.
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- Thank you so much for watching
and we'll see you in September.
- Bye. - Bye.
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