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- Hi everyone, I'm Candace.
- And I'm Arthur.
- And I'm Vivian, and welcome to What's New
with Microsoft 365 in September.
- With Ignite happening last week,
we wanted to do something different this month
and recap some of the biggest news
to come out of the conference.
- We have so many great things to share with you all
like the general availability and tasks in Microsoft Teams.
- [Vivian] What's new with Microsoft Endpoint Manager
and the general availability of Endpoint Analytics.
- [Candace] Security updates for Microsoft Defender
and Compliance Manager.
- And so much more.
Let's get started.
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- This first update is one that we know
you've all been waiting for.
And so that's why we're really excited
to announce that Task in Teams
is now generally available in the desktop app.
This new task experience gives you one place
to manage your plans and individual tasks.
- The way this works is,
the tasks app in teams shows both planner and to do.
Tasks also appears as a tab,
which is added to a team's channel
and only shows planner tasks.
- Some of the additions you'll find in this app
include task publishing
which lets companies create tasks at a corporate level
and push those to targeted teams
across their first line workforce.
- [Vivian] As well as full views of your tasks
including the List view as well as the Board Charts
and Schedule views from Planner.
- And for IT admins in particular,
there are now a few ways to manage the app
for your organization.
Including, the ability to enable
or disable tasks in teams for either your entire org
or specific users.
Set a policy to automatically pin the tasks app
to the left side of Teams
and hiding the My tasks lists for users.
- To learn more about other features available
for Task in Teams,
check out the link in the description.
We've also included a support page
that goes into more detail about how IT admins
can manage the app for their org.
- With so many of us working from home
these last few months,
it's more important than ever to make sure
that we can connect as organically as we can.
- [Candace] Together mode is a new meeting experience
in teams that uses AI segmentation technology
to digitally place participants in a shared background.
- [Arthur] This makes meetings feel more engaging
because you can see participants' faces and body language,
making it easier to pick up on non-verbal cues
that you don't always get from remote calls.
- To make Together mode even more exciting
there'll soon be new Together mode scenes
which will include an auditorium,
a conference room and a coffee shop background.
- Presenters will be able to select a scene
from the gallery as the default background
for all meeting attendees.
Together mode scenes will be available later this year.
- This next feature is another one
that we're all excited to talk about.
And that's Breakout rooms.
One of the most requested Teams features this year.
- [Vivian] With Breakout rooms,
meeting organizers we'll be able to split up participants
into smaller groups.
Which will make it easier to hold brainstorming sessions
or work group discussions
without cross interference from other groups.
- Presenters can then hop between
and make announcements to all the Breakout rooms
and then close the rooms to return everyone
to the main meeting.
Breakout rooms will be coming soon.
- We've talked about customization
with the Together mode scenes earlier
and soon Teams users will be able
to further customize their meetings
with teams Meeting extensions.
- [Vivian] With these new Meeting extensions,
users can now integrate their apps
and create even more customized meeting experiences
in teams.
- Meeting organizers can access the new extension
from either AppSource or from apps and Teams.
And add them as they schedule meeting.
These new extensions will move to general availability
in October.
- Later this year IT admins will be able
to customize their team's line of business app catalog,
using their organization's branding.
This will enhance the experience for users
and increase organic discovery
and the use of an organization's line of business apps.
- For admins deploying new teams features,
you may be happy to hear that Bulk policy assignment
is now available.
- While policies allow admins
to control the teams features available,
now admins can apply policies in batches
of up to 50,000 users.
We've added a docs.com Support Page below
to help you learn more on how to get started.
- And in the last of our Team's admin news,
we've improved the Team's admin center
which includes updates for device app and policy management.
To explore more about what's new in the Teams admin center
we've added additional reading down below.
Next step,
we're lucky to bring on senior product marketing manager.
Mayunk Jain on the show today.
- Mayunk's here to talk to us about some exciting news
with Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
Mayunk, thanks so much for joining us on the show today.
It's great to have you on again.
- Thanks for having me Vivian,
it's so great to be back again.
- There's so much happening
with Endpoint Manager at Ignite this year.
So let's start off with Microsoft Tunnel.
What is it?
And how's it gonna help our admins?
- So the tunnel is something that's been in private preview
and we've seen tremendous customer feedback on it.
What I'm excited to announce today is
the public preview for Tunnel.
And what actually allows you to do is give your iOS
and Android users a way to access on-prem resources
and apps.
So this is very important now that they're working remotely,
it allows them to take advantage of single sign on
with Azure Active Directory and then conditional access.
In fact we feel that conditional access
with the Azure Active Directory is a key part
of your zero trust security
and the Tunnel is integrated with that solution.
The tunnel for the end users is going to be like an app
that appears on the App Store for the iOS
or the Play Store for the Google ecosystem.
And then you can onboard it
from the Endpoint Manager Admin Center.
So the IT can do that, they can do all the settings.
So the onboarding is really seamless
and easy for the end users.
- That sounds like such an important feature,
just given how remote our workforce is these days.
Now, what can you tell us
about being able to manage Virtual Endpoints?
- Again we come back to the whole remote work
and how virtual desktops or Windows virtual desktop
have saved us, in the last six to eight months.
And the new thing that you'll be able to do now is
manage those virtual machines,
using Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
So as long as those machines are hybrid
as you already joined, you can manage them
through the Endpoint Manager admin center,
just the same way as you would do any physical device.
So from an IT person's point of view,
it gives them an easier way to deploy,
it gives them a better way to secure
and then to really scale their management
across the entire device estate.
You know whether it's mobile or physical or virtual
it's all going to be in one place,
making their lives really simple.
So this is going to be available
for Windows 10 Enterprise desktops right away
and then support or public preview
for windows 10 Enterprise multi-session
will be coming later this year.
- And for our Mac admins, what's new in that space?
- Some of the new capabilities include
the ability to deploy scripts to devices
or a new enrollment experience
with single sign on across apps.
And then a new managed app life cycle feature
which is coming from Apple.
So this is a new managed apps feature coming
in the next release of Mac OS that ensures not only ease
of management but also security.
So for example, if a user un-enrolls their Mac OS
and it used to be managed by Microsoft
all the apps that are deployed using
the Microsoft Endpoint Manager will also be removed.
You know, when the user leaves that ecosystem.
In addition to that we previously
announced something called shared iPad support.
So this is something that Apple has introduced
and we support.
Which is useful for people
like in healthcare industry where people can come
in on different shifts, they can sign in, use the device
and then they sign out all their profile
all their data is removed or wiped clean
to make the device ready for the next user.
So again it's super secure
and the manageability becomes easier.
So you can find information on our product docs for it.
- So I know you spoke a little bit to this already
but just for clarity can you talk about what's the timeline
and availability for all of these features?
- So a lot of these features like I said are going to be
in public review in this portal.
So you can find out the details in our blogs
which are at aka.ms/MSEndpointBlog.
So that's where we post the latest and the greatest.
Being a cloud service you can imagine
that we don't have these yearly releases anymore.
We're pretty much releasing something every every two weeks.
So we've got, the website where we post
these changes as they come around at aka.ms/intunenew
And, you know on the top it says how many minutes
it takes you to read?
I think currently something like 59 minutes or something,
so you can imagine how many new things are there
and there're just going to be happening this this quarter.
- And finally, we hear that Endpoint Analytics
and Productivity Score has now moved
to general availability.
Can you speak to that a bit?
- Absolutely, it's one of my favorite features
and I'm really happy that Endpoint Analytics is
now generally available.
Again going back to that notion of us all working remotely
one thing that IT admins really need right now is
visibility into the end users device health,
and just issues or troubleshooting issues
that they may be having, before they have them.
Because in any help desk ticket is really expensive
and we want to minimize the number of help desk tickets
especially remote ones that are being generated, right?
People can just walk up to a help desk anymore.
So Endpoint Analytics is a feature
of Microsoft Endpoint Manager that identifies policies
and hardware issues that may be slowing down devices
and then allows IT to take advantage
or to take action proactively,
before users experienced those issues themselves
or have a jobs to raise those tickets.
So this is something that I'm really excited
about obviously and it's something that's available
to most up Endpoint Manager customers, Right now.
They can just go into to the Endpoint Manager, Admin center,
go to Reports, Endpoint Analytics, and pick a start button.
And it will start collecting information
on the cloud devices immediately.
Now if they happen to be configuration manager customers
and they're on premises they can take advantage of
Endpoint Analytics as well.
All they need to do is tenant attach
and follow a few steps that we've outlined
in our product documentation.
And they can then log into the Endpoint Manager console,
click start
and then get data on their on-premises managed devices.
And then finally this Endpoint Analytics data
feeds into a larger score that we call Productivity Score
that will provide a more comprehensive view
of the productivity within your organization.
- For our viewers,
you'll find the blog links that Mayunk referenced
in this interview down below in the description
for additional reading about Endpoint Manager.
Mayunk, thanks so much for chatting with us today.
- Thank you Vivian. It was nice to be here.
- Sounds like these updates are really helpful
for admins as they support a growing workforce.
- Yeah it's really been amazing to just
see how quickly these teams have
worked together to create the tools we need
while working from home and really help us from going crazy.
(chuckles) So I appreciate it.
- And like Mayunk just discussed in his interview,
Endpoint Analytics is now generally available
and it also works with Productivity Score to give
you a more comprehensive view,
of what productivity looks like in your organization.
- As a refresher Productivity Score focuses on two areas,
the employee experience and the technology one.
Now the product will introduce three new categories.
- [Vivian] First,
there are two new employee experience categories,
are meetings and teamwork, to help leaders understand
best practices and technologies
and find more inclusive ways for people to work together.
These two employee experience categories will be available
at the end of October when Productivity Score goes GA.
- [Candace] The third category is a technology experience
called Microsoft 365 Apps health,
which provides insights into performance
and currency to ensure critical apps are up to date,
secure and able to support employee workflows.
This category is now available.
- And finally, there's been a refresh
to the business continuity special report
in Productivity Score.
This special report helps customers measure
how the move to remote work has been in the last few months
and whether productivity has been affected in their org.
- The report now shows a 180 day view history,
which will give customers more granular insight
into their orgs productivity.
To learn more about Productivity Score,
while it's still in preview,
we've added a link below.
Productivity Score move to general availability
on October 29th.
- Next up we have a handful of security updates to share.
Microsoft Defender is now inclusive
of Microsoft 365 Defender for end user environments
and Azure Defender for cloud and hybrid infrastructures.
This new offering, prevents, detects
and responds to threats across Endpoints, applications,
cloud platforms, and more.
To help organizations keep up with
changing regulations around data protection,
we're excited to announce the general availability
of Compliance Manager.
- This helps businesses by translating
complex regulatory requirements into actions
that can be carried out to simplify compliance.
It also provides assessment templates
that organizations can use to measure and reduce risk.
Check out the description for additional reading
about the type of assessment templates available
and to learn more about Compliance Manager.
- And lastly to help you protect identities,
apps and services in the cloud and on premises,
we're announcing enhanced capabilities
for Azure AD Application Proxy.
So now in addition to configuring single sign on
to legacy on-premise apps,
you can now connect the apps
that use header-based authentication.
One of the most popular legacy authentication protocols.
- This update will be available in public preview at
the end of October.
To learn more about these updates,
as well as the many security compliance
and identity investments that came out
of Ignite check the blog post in the description.
And finally we're pleased to announce
the new outlook from Mac,
which features a redesigned user experience
and new updates to the mail,
search, calendar and people features.
- From thoughtful UI and UX elements
that have been specifically crafted for the Mac,
to my day integration
to surface your agenda right next to your inbox.
The latest Outlook
for Mac updates really emphasize intuitive design
and simplified tools to manage your email
and calendar experience.
These updates will be available for all users in October.
To learn more about the latest redesign,
go to aka.ms/OutlookforMac2020.
We definitely covered a lot of ground for Ignite,
but there's so much more
that we haven't had a chance to talk about.
- If you wanna learn even more about this year's news
and keynotes check out all the links in
the description below which includes, the book of news,
feature specific blog posts, support pages,
and so much more.
- And if you haven't done so already
you can also check out the other Ignite videos
on this channel that go into more detail
about some of the biggest news
to come out of the conference.
- So what's you're favorite feature to come
out of Ignite this year?
We wanna hear your thoughts down below
and don't forget to like this episode while you're at it.
Thank you so much for watching
and we'll see you all next month.
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