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- Hello everyone and welcome to Microsoft Mechanics Live.
Coming up, we are joined by the Father of SharePoint
Jeff Teper, to hear about the latest updates to SharePoint,
OneDrive and Office,
we're gonna give you a tour of the new capabilities
to modernize your internet with SharePoint,
major updates to expand OneDrive Sync
and sharing capabilities,
deeper integration within SharePoint and Microsoft Teams
and enhancements across the collaboration experience
for the Office apps.
Everyone, please give a warm welcome
to Mr. Jeff Teper.
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- Thank you.
Thanks Jeremy, it's great to be back.
- Thank you.
You got a big crowd today also.
- Yeah, it's awesome.
- So it's really great to have you on the show and
there's been a lot of updates announced this week.
It was crazy to see how long the blog was
from Jared actually.
What's behind all these recent round of updates?
- Yeah, we made a bunch of exciting announcements yesterday.
Our sort of, first we started in the internet.
The things we're doing around making great websites
easier than ever to create in the web and inside Teams,
around fluent design language, branding,
a bunch of new parts.
Then we talked about collaboration
with OneDrive and Office,
we're gonna talk about some new capabilities there.
A lot of integration for a variety of scenarios
with Microsoft Teams.
Again OneDrive and SharePoint plugging in to Teams
as well as being standalone destinations
and then lastly, we made a big announcement
at Satya's keynote with Project Cortex,
how we're bringing AI to help companies
conquer the skills gap.
- And of course we're gonna get to Project Cortex
but before we start there,
we want you to take us on a tour,
something that's known for you especially SharePoint,
so what's new on the SharePoint side?
- Yeah, our goal at SharePoint is just making it better
and making it easier.
So we've got here the new SharePoint home site.
This is an out-of-box internet experience
we are rolling out this week
and I'm gonna take you on a tour through that
and you can see we've got in this site,
not only top level branding for Contoso
but branding for the Internet Home, The Landing
with their color scheme
- [Jeremy] Okay.
- [Jeff] And so this is coming out this week
but we're gonna show you something that's coming out next
'cause it's Ignite and that's what we do.
- [Jeremy] Okay.
- [Jeff] And over here we see on the right,
we'd see Your Feed.
We're using the graph to personalize your internet for you,
showing documents that are trending
that you might be interested in,
SharePoint news, videos.
We even take internet news that might be referenced
and email around you
and put it in the graph and present it to you in Your Feed
to make it more relevant.
- [Jeremy] Very cool.
- [Jeff] If we keep scrolling down of course,
we've got more of the curated news,
we've got stream video.
We're making Internets even more engaging with video
whether it's Top Down or Ad Hoc Video production
that's put on your site
and then social with Yammer.
Hopefully people have seen this week
that we've got a brand new experience with Yammer
as both a standalone destination
and connected inside Teams and SharePoint.
Here we're using this for Q & A on this internet
for people's feedback on the company meeting.
- [Jeremy] Awesome.
- [Jeff] And then lastly, as part of finishing the job
and making it easy to just create the internet
that people want,
we've got a new footer support
where people can create and customize these footers
that they want in their internet
and require them across all their pages.
So that's a quick tour - Right.
- Of Home sites.
We also have an update for that on the phone
and we're excited about it.
- Cool, so I have something that I'm really excited about
actually is just the fact that we can do site renames
and also swap site roots.
I know - Yeah, they got the biggest
- I know it's kind of pluming and pride out of sexy
as some of the demos
but I think a lot of people are gonna enjoy that,
that capability.
- That was clearly a delight or the ability to go
to the root of your internet
and replace it with one of these sites.
Let me show you a couple of other things
that people have been asking us for
that we're excited to have announced this week.
One is multilingual.
So here's a site where the content,
both overall and page and inside this here a web part
is in English
and I'm gonna go ahead and switch the language
for this site to Spanish
and you'll see the page will refresh
with all the content in Spanish.
We've done some work to complete the workflows
so that you'll get notified if a page changes
so you can go ahead and translate it.
So huge source of customer feedback
and excitement this week
on multilingual. - And another thing
- That's awesome I think is the analytics capabilities.
Wanna show what that looks like.
- Yeah, no exactly.
People have had to sort of grovel through the logs
for years in SharePoint and struggle with this
and we're doing more to build in analytics for the site
and hubs and your internet overall.
Here we're showing just a couple of slices
of the new things we're announcing.
You can see obviously By Device type
and then here's a heat map that shows
when is the peak time for traffic on your internet.
What day, what hour
and this helps companies schedule their content
and figure out communications
via Teams and social and email
about when to drive traffic to your internet.
- Awesome.
So it's really great to see all these updates
to SharePoint itself
but something else that you're very near and dear to,
OneDrive.
I know you've got a lot of updates to share
in this, so - Yeah.
- Why don't you show us what's new in OneDrive?
- So we announced some big news this week for OneDrive.
Well how big, well this big.
100 Gigabyte files stored in Microsoft 365
synced through OneDrive and of course
that's support in SharePoint and Teams.
So really excited about being able to support
your largest files, ZIP files, PSTs, video files et cetera.
- But it gets even better because
- Yes With large files
- Comes a lot of synchronization typically
but we've got some updates there as well.
- Yeah, exactly.
So Delta synchronization,
we've had this for years as you know
with Open XML in Office,
where if you made changes in Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
only those bytes that had changed
get updated to the service.
But we support hundreds of other file types
in Microsoft 365
and we want to bring Delta Sync to those as well.
So we're gonna go ahead and take this gigantic video file
and change the copyright to Microsoft.
Go ahead and save the metadata for that
and what's gonna happen is only those bytes
are patched up on the service.
And so I'm gonna bring up the OneDrive Sync Client
so you can see
and we've got about a 100K of this 100 Meg file
and before I finish talking,
that 100 Meg file was synced back to the service
cause we only sync the deltas.
- That's awesome.
It would have taken a long, long time.
Now it's a syncing that little tiny delta there
but I know you've we've got a little bit more to show
in the web experience for OneDrive as well, right?
- Yeah, exactly.
So OneDrive, one-stop shopping for all your files
wherever they are.
This is the OneDrive web experience.
You can see we've got Shared Libraries.
These may have been created in SharePoint and Teams,
wherever you can find all of them inside OneDrive
but my favorite new feature
is what we've done with this Hover Card.
So I'm gonna select this document
and you can see that right here,
we've got conversations
and we seem to be missing the icons for 'em
but you'll have to trust me
because this is still in preview.
- Right. that these are
- the conversations that are related to this document
in both Outlook and Teams.
So for years you'd been able to go on Outlook
and search for a document
but you've never been able to do the reverse
where I'm in a document
and I wanna see all the mails flowing around around that
and so you can now use in this File Card
to see all the conversations whenever they've happened
so that you can update the document for the changes
that people have asked you for.
- Awesome, so lots of great, really really big updates
here on the OneDrive side.
Big in terms of file size as well.
- Yup.
- But I know a lot of people, some
a lot of people love Dark Mode
and I think something that's cool here,
we've added Dark Mode to Outlook
but now, even on the OneDrive side,
we have also have Dark Mode on the phone.
So you can see it matches the new IOS
dark theme capabilities
- [Jeff] Aha.
- All very, you know very nice and now available
in OneDrive as well
as Outlook - Yeah we've seen
- Their early stats that a about a quarter
of our IOS 13 users are using OneDrive in Dark Mode
so it's really great that we're able to get it to out
to there in front of 'em.
- Very cool stuff, so
why don't we talk about Microsoft Teams.
I think this, a lot of people are kind on their way
to adopting Microsoft Teams.
It's really got that foundation underneath it
using SharePoint and OneDrive
kind of as part of the files experience for the
the main hero I should say of the files experience.
Can you tell us what's new there?
- Yeah, it's...
Two weeks ago we had a major milestone
where we finished rolling out to production
the updated shared Microsoft 365s files experience.
So it exists in SharePoint and OneDrive
and now Microsoft Teams
and so let me go in and get in a little more focus mode
on Teams on this
and you can see a Rich Files view
served by SharePoint that's backing this,
Microsoft Team, where we've got
you know color coded conditional formatting on Status.
We've got bar charts.
We've got different kinds of metadata
and we've even got of course, the Sync button
that would allow you to sync files down to your machine
and keep them offline.
So that's just one thing we're doing.
Another which is a huge source of feedback
is the ability to Copy and Paste a URL
and you see just like that,
Teams calls into SharePoint
and uses the common dialogue - It's a miracle.
- that we've done across OneDrive and SharePoint,
Outlook and now Teams,
so that you can set the permissions on that link
so that we can give,
just keep it the way it is,
people with existing access
or have it be more broadly shareable.
Maybe I want Irvin to be able to share that link
with other people after the fact
and so it's this common experience
on any platform, on any app.
And then - Now if we open files,
it even gets better, right?
- Yup, yup.
Let's go back to that Team
and we will go ahead and click on this Annual Report
and we've done work some work
between the Office team and the Teams team
to streamline the user experience
when the Office apps are hosted in Microsoft Teams
to make the performance great,
to get rid of multiple layers of menus,
to clean, streamline or commenting
are anchored in document commenting
so you can have that office collaboration
right in Teams without leaving the context.
- Right and beyond SharePoint,
it's great to see all the integrated experiences.
A lot of integration here.
I think everybody will agree.
Now in Microsoft Teams,
the integration also extends to Office but
why don't you show us a few updates that we've made
in the Office collaboration side
cause that just keeps getting better.
- Great, yeah.
I'm gonna enlist your help there because
it's hard to collaborate with yourself.
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- So in this case, I'm Allan.
You're Adele. - Right.
- Your singing's quite good.
I love your words. - Thank you.
- And so you can see at the top here,
I Allan have made a comment anchored on this document
where I've @ Mentioned you Adele,
- Okay. And a new thing
- We've introduced is something we call
Replies to @ Mention,
so why don't you show this that on the phone.
- All right, so I'm on my phone here.
I'm gonna go ahead and this time I'll open Outlook for real.
Okay and I can see,
I've got a few different things that have come through.
I've had look at the message from you as Allan,
I can see that it's here.
Nice thing is, I can actually see the document.
It's linked on top.
I can see the context around the content.
It's actually highlighted in purple
so I know exactly what it's in reference to,
January 2020.
We need to be ramped up up to 400 units per day
and inside of my phone,
I can say "Got it."
I could reply with ach if I wanted to,
whatever I wanna do here.
I'll say "Got it."
Do an Insert and now that's gonna be sent
into the thread of conversation on the doc.
- Yeah, that's right.
If we switch back to my machine,
just to sort of go through carefully
what's going on there is
we didn't have you on the phone leave the context
about looking, jump to Word.
Your comment is going into Microsoft 365,
Exchange is letting SharePoint know
we've got that comment.
SharePoint's opening up Word
and putting that comment in the body of the document.
So whether you're in Outlook or in Word,
you can see those conversations going on.
And it should come up here in a second
and while we're waiting for that,
let me show you one of the other new capabilities
we're introducing this week,
the ability to assign tasks within
each of the Office applications in these comments.
- Okay. So you can see
- This second comment here,
I've @ Mentioned you Adele.
But this one, I've marked as special.
I've assigned it as a task.
In that way, if we've got a workflow where
multiple things have to be tracked within the document,
I can use the document as a view
on the source of truth
and you can see by the way Adele, there's your got it
that came in.
- [Jeffrey] Yup.
- But these tasks, because they're tasked
in the Microsoft graph,
you within your Task Management tools and Teams
and To Do in Outlook, in Planner we're working on as well,
you'll be able to see all in one place, all your tasks.
So the same data, a document with tasks in the graph,
you can see that in the Word view
as well as you can see that in your holistic task view.
So I'm really excited about that.
I think what's the most comprehensive view of Tasks
in collaboration in the industry.
- Cool, I know you've done a lot of work also
to add to what we can do in terms of AI
and ideas inside of words.
Why don't you show us what's new there as well.
- Glad to.
So here's a fairly complicated document.
As you said we're using ideas to help people
analyze spreadsheets and create PowerPoints
and also now be better writers.
And so I'm gonna click on the Ideas button
and you're gonna see through AI and ML,
trained by users feedback,
we're refining this document
and you can see there's in this case
a few different things that it's highlighted for me.
The good thing about this document,
it looks pretty good.
But let go me in to their highlights on conciseness
and see the issues that it's found there
and I can go ahead and go and see what's
highlighted there for me.
- [Jeffrey] Okay, so really cool stuff.
It's also awesome in terms of the phone experience.
So I've found that we've got a brand new phone experience.
- [Jeff] Yes.
- Speaking of my phone here Can you show us
- [Jeff] how Office on the phone, yeah.
- So one thing I wanted to show,
so beyond all of the different AI
and all of the things we can help to become better writers,
we can also become better collaborators on our phones
with one Office app
so we're gonna go ahead and not send our feedback
in this case but we will show you what we can do.
So, through the One App I can actually view
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, everything here.
I see my most recently used documents or MRU,
all there and the common Actions,
some of my favorite stuff.
Being able to say take a picture of a table
and insert that into Excel,
sign or scan PDFs, all those different kind
of phone specific functions right here
built into One App.
So very cool stuff in the phone.
- Yeah, this, I've been using this app,
our internal version for the last few months.
It's indispensable because as you said,
it brings together Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
the full versions of those on the phone
in a single curated app
as well as having these Mobile-First actions
where we're leveraging things like voice, like scanning,
to do these common tasks I've showed yesterday
in our talk about the ability to create a survey,
Microsoft Forms using AI to author all the questions.
So it's a great three-in-one experience
for the apps you know
but also brings in a lot more of these Mobile-First tasks.
- All right, so lots of awesome updates
on the SharePoint side - Yup.
- Teams, the Office collaboration experiences.
We've got this Project Cortex screen
that we're seeing here - Yes.
- Why don't you tell us about that and what's next?
- Yeah, so this is
we're incredibly excited about this.
We're taking a set of AI technologies across Microsoft
and allowing you to apply that to capturing
and organizing and discovering information.
We've got tons of new content coming out on that.
I'm gonna give you a super quick tour.
I wanna show you three things.
First, here's a page.
I'm a new employee.
I'm trying to get up to speed about what's going on
and there's all these acronyms
and I don't understand what they mean.
They're project names.
And here I'll hover
on what's been automatically highlighted for me.
I don't have to author this page
and it sees I get a topic card.
We've magically used AI to generate
an Enterprise Wikipedia for you
of topics and pages and so forth
and here's one of these topics, Project Delta
where we've got to the experts and resources
associated with it.
And if I wanted to drill in to that more detailed page
that's behind that topic card,
we've authored that for you too.
But of course we know people are gonna use the AI
to augment their work
and they'll go ahead and edit this
and augment it with descriptions.
Here we've got people, resources
and a exciting visualization of the Topic Graph.
So you can see additional terms like Project Thor
and Geothermal that are related to it.
And then lastly,
from the topic card to the topic page,
we go to the Knowledge Center
where you see the aggregation of all the topics,
highlighting those that are trending or relevant for you,
information about contribution
and because Project Cortex is all built on SharePoint,
you can customize it.
We give you all sorts of web parts.
You can add your own.
So you really can curate this page
and Knowledge Center experience
exactly like you want to meet the needs of your organization
- Project Cortex is coming in the future
- Yup.
- But where will you tell people to go
in terms of being able to actually get their hands on this
or learn more about the all the different updates
that we announced today.
- Yeah, we announced an incredible amount yesterday
so two URLs that I would suggest
aka.ms/M365IgniteNews,
and that's where you can get the broad overview.
But we know from the excitement from yesterday
that people wanna learn more about Project Cortex,
and there you can go to aka.ms/PorjectCortex
- Also a set of updates, thanks so much again for
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