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- Hello and welcome back to What's New with Microsoft 365.
I am here today with Vivian.
- And this is the amazing Candace.
(Candace laughs)
So, why don't we just get started
with updates for this month?
- Cool, so we're gonna start with the GA update in Excel.
This is called Sheet View.
Sheet View lets you sort and filter data
and then select an option to make those changes
just for yourself or viewable
to everyone else in the spreadsheet.
If you choose the option
to make the change just for yourself,
you can also save the results
to view again as a separate view.
This is really great if you want to collaborate
in realtime with others but don't want to disrupt
their workflow in a shared workbook.
All you need to do here is click the View tab in Excel
and find the sheet view you want
from the drop down list on the left side of the ribbon.
Support for Excel for the web
will come by the end of the year.
You might remember that I talked
a little bit about Dark Mode for OneNote for Mac previously,
but now it's available for OneNote 2016.
So, we're gonna throw it over to Arthur
to give us a little more information on the subject there.
- With me right now is software engineer Bella Smith,
and she's going to talk to us
about Dark Mode for OneNote 2016.
Bella, how are you?
- I'm good. How are you?
- So, let's talk about Dark Mode for OneNote 2016.
Why were customers wanting this feature?
- So, we saw that Dark Mode has been
one of our most loved features on our other endpoints,
such as OneNote for Windows 10,
OneNote for iPhone, and OneNote for Mac,
so whenever we decided to maintain
the mainstream support for OneNote 2016,
bringing Dark Mode to this platform
was just an obvious choice.
- And how do you turn on Dark Mode in the app?
- So, to turn on this feature,
you'll got to the Options panel in OneNote 2016
and toggle your Office Theme to Black.
This is the same way that you toggle on Dark Mode
for our other Office apps, such as Word and Excel,
so if you have Dark Mode turned on
for one of your Office apps,
it'll automatically turn it on for OneNote 2016 as well.
- And who is this available for?
- So, this is available to all Office 365 subscribers.
- Well, than you very much, Bella, for your time.
- Thank you.
- The November update for Windows 10 is now here.
- Woo! - This update,
also known as Windows 10, version 1909,
offers new things like Windows
Search Experience in Explorer
and a ton of other updates you should check out.
If you're ready to install the update
on your personal device,
search for and open your Windows Update Settings,
and select Check for updates.
Once the update appears
or if you've already checked for updates,
select Download and install now.
If you're an IT admin, you can initiate targeted deployments
through Windows Server Update Services
and Windows Update for Business.
We have a bunch of new Microsoft Security updates,
and Arthur's gonna tell us a lot more about that.
- With me right now is Adam Barron,
and Adam is a director of product marketing,
and he's gonna talk to us about Microsoft Security.
Adam, how are you?
- I'm great, Arthur.
Thanks for having me out. - Great, so talk to us
about Microsoft Security.
What's new this month?
- Yeah, you know, as you know,
security's really, really important for our customers.
There's so many threats out today
and so many attacks on customers
that they really have to stay ahead
and not just for our commercial customers,
but also our government customers
are really, really interested in security.
And so, we're really excited that we're announcing
actually two new services
that are available for our GCC High customers,
and that's Microsoft Cloud App Security
and Azure Advanced Threat Protection.
- And how does Microsoft Cloud App Security help customers?
- Yeah, Microsoft Cloud App Security
is all about securing access
and information inside cloud apps,
so government agencies still want to use cloud applications,
but they want to secure it and protect it.
So, Microsoft Cloud App Security
helps give visibility and control
to who's accessing the cloud apps
and what data's stored inside them.
- And what about Azure ATP?
- Yeah, Azure Advanced Threat Protection's
all about protecting against identity threats.
We know that 90% of breaches can actually be traced back
to some kind of identity compromise,
so protecting identities is really, really important,
and that's what Azure ATP does for our customers.
- And how do customers get started using these services?
- Yeah, it's a great question.
So, these services are now available
in the GCC High environment,
so they can contact their partner
or their Microsoft representative
to get access to these solutions.
- Oh, well, thank you very much, Adam, for your time.
- And now for an update that I personally
am very excited about.
Microsoft Forms now supports a new question type
that lets respondents add files to their survey responses.
This will save owners from needing
to follow up with respondents separately from the survey.
All uploaded files will automatically be saved
to a OneDrive for Business folder
for easy access and tracking.
To get started with this,
when you're creating a question in the survey,
click the three dots in the right-hand corner
and select File Upload.
And there you have it.
- Sounds easy enough. (Candace laughs)
If you haven't already heard,
we've now combined Configuration Manager and Intune
into a single product called Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
In addition to that, the licensing for Endpoint Manager
has been simplified to make Intune user licenses
available to Configuration Manager customers
that are co-managing Windows 10 devices.
This simplified licensing removes barriers
for Configuration Manager to connect to the cloud
and lets customers get immediate value
from Endpoint Manager.
If you want to manage other workloads,
including Android or even Apple devices,
you'll just need additional Intune licenses.
Microsoft Endpoint Manager
with the new co-management licensing
will be available in early December.
- And here's an update new for Insiders.
There's now Sticky Notes integration in Outlook on the web.
You can now easily view and create Sticky Notes
directly in Outlook on the web,
making it easier than ever to gather and keep
all your ideas, thoughts, and notes in one place,
which is kind of nice for me 'cause I'm all over the place.
(both laugh)
But Sticky Notes integration will be rolling out next month.
So, let's throw it on over, back to Arthur,
for a little more information
about Microsoft Productivity Score.
- With me right now is Senior Product
Marketing Manager A.J. Smith,
and A.J. is going to talk
about Microsoft Productivity Score.
A.J., how are you?
- Great! Thanks for having me.
- Yeah, so, A.J., what is Microsoft Productivity Score?
- So, we've talked with a lot of organizations,
and we found that over the past few years,
the way people work is changing dramatically.
They collaborate a lot more, they form a lot more teams,
and of course, they want to work from anywhere and anytime.
So, we built Microsoft Productivity Score
to help organizations understand how they could better work.
We do this through providing insights
that transform how people actually work.
And how does Productivity Score help organizations?
- Well, we do this through focusing on three things.
First is we want to give people visibility
into how the organization actually works,
and we do that by focusing on areas
like how are people meeting, how are people communicating,
how are people collaborating on content,
and how people can work from anywhere.
And then we also look at the technology side of this.
So, how does your technology enable people
to be productive and get into their best work?
We also, of course, focus on the recommendations
because just because we give you that visibility,
you probably want us to give you some idea
of what you could be doing better.
So, we give you insights
into how you can provide these improved experiences.
And the last but not least,
we want to give you the actions that you can take
so you can update people's skills and systems
so that everyone can do their best work.
- And can you give us a concrete example
on how Microsoft Productivity Score works?
- Yeah, so in the Collaborating with Content section,
one great way that we do, is we want to give you visibility
into how people are actually collaborating.
And one that we see that most organizations do
is they share content over email,
and there's really two ways to do that:
through attachments and links.
And attachments are a great way to collaborate,
but the problem is that if I send out an attachment
to a bunch of people, they're gonna send me
that document back with all their comments and changes,
and I've gotta mash all that together
and figure out which ones I want to take.
But if I do links, we're all working
from that one version of the truth,
and it's a lot easier to collaborate.
So, we share the significant information
with an organization, and say,
"Well, how many people are doing links versus attachments?"
And then we also give you the actions that you can take,
like the training, that you can send to people to say,
"Hey, there might be a better way
"for you to actually share that information through links,
"and this is how you do it."
- And what is your favorite feature?
- My favorite feature is the Benchmarking feature
because when we talk with a lot of organizations,
they always want to understand
how they compare with their peers.
So, what it is, we looked at other organizations like them,
based on factors like the size of their organization,
the industry that they're in,
and of course things like how long you've been
in the Microsoft 365 or Office 365 Service
because it'd be a little weird
if we compared you with someone of like
who's been in the service for 15 years versus two.
- And how and where is this available?
- So, we've announced the private preview
for Productivity Score,
and it launches the first week of December.
So, if organizations will want to learn more,
they can go to aka.ms/productivityscoreblog
to learn more about the solution
and also to sign up for the preview.
- That's great.
Well, thank you very much, A.J., for your time.
- Thanks for having me.
- And that's all we have for today.
Thanks so much, everyone, for watching.
- Yes, and be sure to comment, like, and subscribe.
We love seeing your feedback. (hands clap)
And I think we're gonna head out
and get some holiday prep going.
So (laughs) - Oh, yeah.
- We'll see you next time.
- Bye! - Bye!
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- So now that you've watched this video,
don't forget to check out the Microsoft 365 blog
that has a little more detail about what we went over today.