for scoped conversations with specific team members
in a team.
Plus, improved integration with Microsoft 365 apps
like OneDrive, Outlook, and much more.
So, here to join us and show us how,
I'm joined by Aya Tange from Teams.
(audience applauds)
Big round of applause.
- It's great to be back on the show, Jeremy.
- Thank you.
So, we've seen huge momentum with Microsoft Teams
over the last year.
But, for those that are new to Teams
why don't we recap the core experiences.
- Sure.
So the uptake has been amazing.
We now have over 500,000 organizations using Teams
and 13 million daily active users.
But the real appeal here is
as you work with your Teams,
you have everything that you need
in a single and secure location.
So you have your chat so you can communicate quickly
with your teams.
You have meetings so you can connect seamlessly
with video and screen sharing.
You have callings, you can unify everything into one place.
And, of course, we give you
those integrative app experiences,
not just with the familiar office apps,
but with your line of business apps,
third party apps, and services as well.
And, of course, with all this
comes your enterprise great security and compliance
that you'd expect with the Microsoft 365 suite.
- And of course, if you wanted deeper primer
on all of this using Microsoft Teams,
you're gonna wanna check out Aya's previous show
at aka.ms/GuideToTeams.
Also, before we show all the newest updates
just to bring everyone up to speed,
in the past few weeks, we've entered into
some really cool stuff,
like chat translation.
So, you could actually chat into multiple languages
and translate to those chats from multiple languages.
Customized backgrounds.
This is one of the things I recorded earlier this week
during video calls, I can pretend I'm in different places.
Also, industry specific features.
So, we've got things like shifts for first-line workers
that we can use for scheduling
and getting all of that work done.
Also, priority notifications.
This is great for things like healthcare,
where you'd often have kinda these priority notifications
land on your mobile device.
And these are just a couple of my favorite things.
- And those are actually great ones to call out
because they truly reflect your feedback.
So thank you so much to everyone who's been
on this journey with us,
it's been quite an exciting time.
- All right, but think now is the time
to walk through the brand new stuff.
It's been pretty consistent on the left rail,
for example, on Microsoft Teams.
- [Aya] Sure.
- [Jeremy] But, I can see you've got a couple
of new items here that no one else probably,
including myself have.
- Yes, so let's start from the top.
So we've got Activity Chat, Teams, Calendar, Calls,
Files, and now Yammer and even a PowerApp pinned
to the left rail, which I'll talk about in a little bit.
But let's start with Chat
as this is one of our core experiences.
The first capability speaks to the work
that we're doing to make it easier for you
to communicate with others.
So, I know you're probably all talking
to a lot of different people
and you have many chats coming in,
and in the past, you have to go into each chat
and engage one-to-one.
But now, with our new multi-window functionality
I can pop out the chats and work across multiple
at the same time.
- [Jeremy] All right, you can clap for that.
(audience applauds)
I've been wanting that as well.
- [Aya] That's an exciting one.
- [Jeremy] All right, so that's a feature
I know a lot of people have been waiting to see
'cause I can hear it from the applause alone.
There's a lot more though, right?
- [Aya] Yes, let me show you a couple of other.
So, soon you'll actually
be able to notify specific subset of people
right within a team or channel.
So let me go into my Launch Event channel
and I'm gonna @mention the Logistics team
and those who have the Logistics tag
will get the notification.
Of course, anyone can see that post in my team
but only those with the tag will get that @mention.
So, let me show you where you can see all these tags.
I can click on the ellipsis,
hit Manage Teams, and owners can create the tags
while members can actually use them.
And all the tags are on the right-hand side.
- And it's a great way in terms of scoping
those communications, especially in larger teams
so you don't have to tag everybody individually
like you would have had to do last week.
- Exactly, it's a lot more efficient.
But another time saver we're introducing
is the ability to actually share the same post
in multiple teams and channels,
and this is what we call cross channel posting.
- [Jeremy] Right.
- [Aya] So, I can click on this button here
and select the channels I want this to go into.
So I want to include General.
And now when I send this off,
it'll go to both locations.
But, I also wanna make sure that these posts stand out
more than the rest without having to resort
to font treatment or using all caps.
- [Jeremy] And nobody likes all caps when it comes lock key.
- [Aya] No, we don't like those.
So let's use the new announcement capability.
So now I have a headline.
So I'll say, "Event time change".
So, I have this headline,
I've got the colored background.
I even can put an image behind it as well.
But this is all to catch people's eyes.
- Awesome.
So this is gonna save the Shift keys,
the Control C and Control V keys as well.
Really great seeing all that integration,
but I know that we've also
got some Yammer integration that we've built in
for broader cross sort communications so,
in addition to the all caps
or some of the formatting we saw there,
letting you announce things from the rooftops
using Yammer.
- Yes, we do.
We have a complete Yammer experience right within Teams.
So now I can share an idea,
ask a question, like things, comment things,
just like I would do in Yammer.
But what I love about this is,
I can now keep a pulse on what's happening
in the organization without toggling between apps.
- And these are really great ways
to kind of keep everyone up to date.
But why don't we switch gears though
and talk about the other side of the spectrum
or maybe you don't want everybody
to be up to date with all the things
that you're talking about
and not communicate quite as broadly.
- Sure.
We have a much requested capability
that I'm excited to announce
is generally available this week
and that is private channels.
(audience applauds)
- [Jeremy] All right.
- [Aya] So, private channels are actually indicated
by a lock that you see right here.
But they're really easy to create.
So I can add a channel here,
and now I have two privacy settings.
I've got standard, so accessible to everyone on the team
or private, accessible to a specific group,
let's say you're a leadership team.
- This is great.
You don't have to create additional teams
and also when you got a team with a lot of people in it
you can have these parallel conversations,
like you mentioned, on a leadership team,
maybe a project team to where not everyone
needs to be privy to it.
- Exactly, and to keep you organized
just like you do in Chat,
you can now pin channels to the top of your teams.
So, I work out of this Launch Event channel frequently,
so I'm gonna click on the ellipsis
and hit pin and now it'll be easily accessible
right at the top.
- Awesome.
So, we got Files here.
Is there anything new on the Files side?
- [Aya] Yes, so Yammer isn't the only integrated experience
that we have.
I know a lot of you are coming from the SharePoint world,
and so we've improved that integration
so you have that rich, familiar SharePoint Files experience
right within Teams.
We also have the Sync button here, up at the top,
where you can sync your files back to your desktop.
But we also want to make sure
that sharing is easy as well.
So, I wanna share this Word document right here.
I'm gonna go ahead and copy that link.
Now, when I go into Chat,
I want to paste it.
When I paste it, you'll see
that I have a sharing dialogue inline.
Now I can share with people currently in this chat
and decide if they get editing or viewing access.
- [Jeremy] This is great.
This is something I personally
was asking the SharePoint team
and the Teams Engineering teams for.
Great to see it in the problem.
- Yes, you got it.
And now coming soon, we will also have Tasks in Teams.
So now, I have my personal tasks here.
You can see things that I need to get done
and this is for my eyes only.
I can see those that are assigned to me
as well as teams tasks which are created at a channel level
and I've got a couple other views too.
So, I've got my Boards so I can see what's coming up,
what I need to get done.
I have my Charts, so I can see my progress
and my status, as well as a schedule
so I can see everything in a calendar view.
And this is all powered by To Do in Planner.
- Great to see that integration.
You can clap for that one.
That's awesome.
(audience applauds)
I know a ton of people are big fans of Planner
and To Do.
Great to see that new integration.
- Yes, and let me show you one more thing
'cause I know this one will be exciting.
So, a lot of you are probably toggling between Outlook
and Teams on a regular basis,
and we wanna make sure
that you can easily flow conversations between the two.
So let me go to my Outlook here.
And, I wanna share this email into Teams.
Now, in the top right-hand corner
you have a Share to Teams button.
I can click on that
and I wanna share this to my Design team
and I can hit share.
So, let's see what this looks like in Teams.
Now my manager has actually sent in a couple emails already
that we've been working on.
It even includes attachments,
so I can hit that with just one touch.
But you can see we're already collaborating
on those action items that we need to get done.
- Very cool.
Full fidelity with attachments
in the Teams file experience there,
but can I also send it the other way around
from Teams back into Outlook?
- [Aya] Yes you can.
So now, let's say I wanna share this post here.
I'm gonna click on the ellipsis,
share to Outlook, and now I can send
that to a broader audience.
- Nice, it's great to see the bridging of the two worlds
of Outlook, in this case, and Teams
but, now we've covered quite a few things.
We've covered Chat, Teams channels, Apps, Files.
Also the integration, we saw there with Outlook,
what about Meetings?
I think we've done a bit there as well, right?
- Yes, I know we all spend a lot of time in meetings
so let's start with creating a new meeting.
So, I need to meet with my colleague Allan here
for a one-to-one.
Now, at the top I have a scheduling assistant,
probably something you're familiar with with Outlook,
but we're bringing it into Teams
so that now you can easily find time with your colleagues.
So now I can send this off.
But your Outlook calendar and your Teams calendar
are identical, so any changes you make in Teams
will show up in Outlook and vice versa.
But why don't we go ahead and join this meeting here.
- [Jeremy] Okay, I've done that just a second ago.
- [Aya] There we go.
And so now we wanna make sure that meetings are inclusive
for everyone and so we've already added closed captions
and transcription services in our recorded meetings
and stream, but now while your in the meeting,
you can turn on live captions.
- Very cool and due to kind of the ambient noise
that we've got here,
it's a little bit difficult to show that,
so I'm gonna go back to my machine
and I'll show you what that looks like actually running.
So here we can see a transcribed meeting.
- [Aya] Yes, and we've actually built this feature
for those who are hard of hearing
or have different levels of language proficiency
but I've actually found myself turning this on
by default so that I can stay more engaged
in the conversation.
- So, it's really useful,
but beyond voice to text capabilities in meetings
for visual communications,
we've also added the Whiteboard as well.
- [Aya] Yes, so now when I open my share tray here,
I now have access to my Microsoft Whiteboard
and so we've added this so that regardless
of where you are, you have a virtual whiteboard
to collaborate on with your team.
And this now generally available.
- This is great.
I'm gonna use this I think, in all of my remote meetings,
especially when we're drawing out architectures and things.
- Yes.
But it gets even better.
You can now actually share
your analog meeting room whiteboards right within Teams.
So, in this video that you're about to see,
the room has a dedicated whiteboard camera,
where using AI, it finds a physical whiteboard,
brings the image into focus,
and even makes the ink more legible
for the people online.
But it also detects people and makes them transparent
so when someone walks in front of it,
the people online can see right through them.
- Awesome.
So, you can collaborate then even using analog whiteboards,
in this case.
It's gonna really make the meeting experience really cool.
But going back to that, can you,
you popped out chat earlier.
- Yes.
- And, I bet people wanna be able
to pop out their meeting windows as well.
Can we do that too?
- Yes you can.
So now, here, I have this button
that I can pop out the meeting,
and now it'll open up into another window
and I still have access to the rest of my Teams platform.
- Awesome.
(audience applauds)
- [Aya] I know that's one that people are gonna be using.
- So, a lot of updates to the core experiences
but last time you were on Mechanics
it shows something really cool.
You can build out these automated, custom experiences
for teams, like building approval workflows or apps.
Now, if you missed that,
you got to check that out at aka.ms/teamspower
on the Microsoft Mechanics channel.
Is there anything new in this space?
- Sure.
Any power app users in the room?
- [Jeremy] Power apps?
- Oh yeah, I see a couple.
That's awesome.
- [Jeremy] We need more of those.
- We need more. We need more.
So, for those who are new to PowerApps,
the low code development tool
that helps you create apps
to do things such as track and update budgets,
estimate costs, and even manage employee time-off.
So here, I'm in my PowerApp that I've recently created
that looks at process returns.
But I've actually used our new AI builder capabilities
where I can now take a picture of something
and it'll automatically detect it
and populate all the information that I need.
- [Jeremy] That's amazing,
'cause I would have guessed that was a Mark6
or maybe a seven.
- [Aya] I know, but it's a Mark8.
- [Jeremy] Yes, of course.
- (chuckles) But I didn't need to know any coding
or any machine learning models.
So, we also wanna make sure
that you have easy access to your PowerApp
so you can pin your apps to the left rail now,
so that regardless of where you are
you always know where to find them.
So, I know this all sounds really advance
but you can work up to it.
We have some great PowerApp templates
that I recommend you check out.
- So, lots of great updates to the core experiences.
I think for low code customization but,
for everything that we saw here with Microsoft Teams.
Where can people go to learn more?
- Sure.
So, we already have some great Team shows
on Microsoft Mechanics.
So you can visit aka.ms/TeamsMechanics,
but you can also go to our one-stop shop
at aka.ms/SuccessWithTeams
and this is our place where you can find
both technical and end user documentation.
- All right.
So, hopefully everyone here is as inspired as I am
to use Microsoft Teams in your daily work
and of course, keep watching Microsoft Mechanics
for the latest tech updates across Teams and much more.
Thanks for watching.
We'll see you next time.
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