- Welcome to Microsoft Mechanics.
In the next few minutes, I'm going to walk you through
the work that we've been doing to deliver secure
and enterprise-grade productivity experiences from anywhere.
We are in an unprecedented time for workplace mobility
and ensuring that everyone can safely access the tools
and resources that they need to be productive
is more important than ever,
whether you're working from home or in the office.
IT's at the forefront of enabling these experiences
and it's been humbling to hear many of you
talk about the work that you've done
to satisfy the increased demand on mobility
over these past few weeks.
Microsoft Teams is our secure hub for teamwork
and innovated online meetings, group chat,
file sharing, and more.
It lets you stay productive while working remotely.
In March, to help with the impact of COVID-19,
we announced that Office 365 E1,
which includes Microsoft Teams,
can be used for six months, free of charge.
More and more of you now use Teams
as your collaborative foundation.
We have seen unprecedented growth in Teams active usage
over the world over the past few weeks
as more of us have had to work from home.
And if you haven't started your Teams deployment yet
or need more help, we've published extensive guides
for getting Teams deployed at scale
that you can check out at aka.ms/MicrosoftTeamsforIT.
Now of course enabling your users to work from anywhere,
regardless of the industry you're in,
requires a level of confidence and control
over how your users access information
across different endpoints and different networks.
To ease that burden for you in IT,
today I'm excited to announce a number of new capabilities.
These new capabilities include:
a unified access control plan for device
and access management with Microsoft Endpoint Manager
and Azure Active Directory, to help ensure all endpoints
connecting to corporate resources are safe;
a new management experience for Windows Virtual Desktop,
to quickly provision and manage remote desktops
and applications, as well as the ability to get insights
you need to know to measure how your organization is working
and the quality of the experience
you're delivering to your users
through the Microsoft 365 Productivity Score.
Now let's start with Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
We've done a lot of work to ensure
that you can enable your users to use their device of choice
while ensuring secure and tailored access
to your corporate information and services.
Strong authentication is critical
as more and more people log in
from different networks on different devices.
We've now made multi-factor authentication
a security default for all new Microsoft 365 tenants.
Enabling MFA decreases the likelihood of being compromised
by more than 99.9%, and this is now enabled by default.
For broader endpoint management
across your apps and devices,
we've improved the integration between Configuration Manager
and the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center
in the Microsoft 365 console.
You can try the new Endpoint Manager portal yourself
at endpoint.microsoft.com.
Now let me update you on a few more highlights.
First, what we call Tenant Attached.
Starting with the 2002 release of Configuration Manager,
you can now attach an Intune tenant
to your Configuration Manager deployment
and what that does is it automatically uploads
all of your Configuration Manager devices
up into the Intune service and allows you
to take actions like policy and device sync,
directly from that single administrative console
called the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center.
This will help speed up common actions
you might take across all your devices,
and your Help Desk will now be able to see
all the devices managed by Microsoft Endpoint Manager
in one single web-based experience.
We've also worked to bring the richness of Software Center
from Configuration Manager and My Apps
from Azure Active Directory, into the Intune company portal,
for a unified app delivery, so all people can get
all the apps they need across all their endpoints.
Now don't worry if you're using Software Center
or My Apps as download portals.
They're not going away and we'll continue to invest in them.
A few months back, we also released
the new Microsoft Edge browser.
We think about Edge in the same way we think
about the security of our Office apps,
so we've built all of that manageability and security
that we built into Office 365 also into Microsoft Edge.
Now Edge gives you unmatched security capabilities
along with personal privacy and the highest level
of compatibility for both your modern web
and your existing app investments.
Edge is now the Microsoft 365 managed browser
across all your device platforms.
Our Endpoint Management experience
has natively-integrated the app
and package deployment process for Edge on the PC,
on Mac OS, and the Managed Mobile Edge for IOS Android,
directly from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
We also have a security baseline now dedicated to Edge.
As Microsoft Endpoint Manager is a unified platform
for all your endpoints,
I'm really excited to talk about what the team has built
specifically for Mac OS management.
We're introducing the Intune MDM Agent for Mac OS
which goes beyond the native x
built-in management controls of Mac OS.
For example, with shell scripting,
admins can now leverage the agent to automate
all their repetitive tasks.
And this is just the beginning of the new capabilities
that we're bringing.
We are well on our way of giving you admins
a first-class Mac OS management experience
in Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
Now our partnership with Jamf continues
and you can continue to use the incredible breadth
and depth of management in access controls from Jamf
in connection with Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
Next, let's talk about Endpoint virtualization.
Over the past few months, we've seen unprecedented growth
in the use of Windows Virtual Desktop,
as more and more people are working from home.
Windows Virtual Desktop is our complete desktop
and app virtualization service running on Azure.
As a part of Azure's global footprint and network,
you can provision virtual Windows sessions
anywhere in the world.
Since the initial release in September,
we've made some significant updates.
First, we've expanded the service instances
to additional geographies, including Europe, Asia,
Australia, and South America, in addition to the coverage
we already had in North America.
Second, we've released the new updated
Windows Virtual Desktop admin center,
which dramatically simplifies getting WVD
running for your users.
Now third, for managing user experience and VM utilization,
we've improved our auto-scaling.
Now it's integrated with Azure automation and Logic Apps
with prebuilt templates to help you spin up
and drain your virtual machines with robust automation.
Now additionally, we've improved the remote meeting
and collaboration experience when using Microsoft Teams
from WVD-hosted machines
with AV redirection for video calling.
This creates a direct path between your endpoints
when sharing video, helping increase video and audio quality
while reducing latency.
Now finally, let's talk about our focus
on helping you deliver the best experience possible
for your end users.
More than at any time in the past,
the experience that you deliver for your users
has a direct impact on employee sentiment and culture.
This is why we are introducing
the Microsoft Productivity Score.
Productivity Score will take what we learn
at our cloud scale, and give you specific
and actionable insights and recommendations
of your current user experience
and the best next action to improve it.
We'll also show you which teams and which users
in your organizations are working in modern ways
and how well you're doing
in comparison to other organizations.
And beyond providing just tenant-level information,
we're now going to be able to give you
specific user-level insights in areas
such as content collaboration, so you can understand
which people are reading, authoring,
co-authoring, and collaborating
on content through OneDrive and SharePoint.
Here under mobility, you can see how users are able to work
from any device by using the web and mobile apps
in addition to the desktop versions of the Office apps.
Then in communication, we help you understand
how people communicate via email, chat, or Yammer posts,
but you get to see that holistic view of what they're using.
We're also adding information
around how your endpoint experience and network
contribute to the end-user experience and productivity.
Here in the connectivity area,
we're going to help you understand which office locations
have performance challenges
in connecting and using Office 365.
In endpoint analytics, we're going to help you understand
one of my favorite things,
what we call time to productivity.
For example, your PC should boot quickly.
I use cold boot as the example here
because it is one of these things
that every user experiences.
I've shown you before that my personal PC,
I could actually boot this in under 15 seconds,
and that's with all of the security controls
that Microsoft puts on my corporate device.
Now to learn more about what's new about Productivity Score,
check out aka.ms/ProductivityScoreBlog.
So that was a quick tour of the work that we've been doing
to help you bring more mobile and collaborative experiences
to your users while ensuring your information is protected,
in a time when many of us are working remotely.
To go even deeper on these topics and more,
check out aka.ms/AprilITnews
and keep watching Microsoft Mechanics
for the latest tech news from Microsoft.
Thanks for watching.
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