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- Hey, I'm Vivian and welcome to What's New
with Microsoft 365 this month.
Joining Arthur and myself today is Candace Lowry,
and she works in public affairs here at Microsoft.
Candace, do you want to share
a little bit about yourself with our viewers?
- Sure, so I work at Microsoft in public affairs,
and I manage all of the social strategy that we do.
I also am working on the social strategy
of an upcoming book, called "Tools and Weapons,"
by Microsoft president Brad Smith.
So I'm gonna shamelessly plug that as we talk.
- Yeah, do it!
Well thanks so much for being able to join us today.
We're really happy to have you here.
One thing we wanted to do before we got started
with updates today is go over
some feedback from last month's episode.
Thank you so much again to everyone who chimed in.
We really appreciate it, and we read all of your comments.
One thing we really want to do this month
is to add more links so you guys can learn
about more additional information
about the updates we'll be giving today.
So you can look out for them throughout the episode,
and you'll also find links in the description of the video.
So check that out once you're done watching this.
First up, we have a new Office feature to bring out
more creativity in your work.
Sketched Shapes is now available
in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
So how this works is you take standard shapes,
and you can transform them into rough outlines
that make your shapes look more hand drawn.
It kind of gives you that in progress look,
which is really great if you want to build wire frames,
draft designs, or just kind of add
an artsy touch to your work.
And it's really easy to move
between sketched and standard shapes.
If you are an Insider, it's available
on Windows and Mac now, and to get started
just insert a shape into your document
and choose the sketched outline that you want.
And there's a downloadable tool kit available.
If you want to check it out today,
just check out the description of this video
when you're done watching.
- So there's a new feature available
in PowerPoint for the web to make
adding equations and symbols easier.
Before, users had to use PowerPoint on the desktop
to add subscript, superscript,
and change text casing in their slides.
This was really hard to do on PowerPoint for the web.
Now we're rolling this out for the Web app.
So all you do is select your text,
then select home to find the subscript, superscript,
and change case buttons on the ribbon.
It's really great for anyone who's a professor,
student, or if you just use a lot of equations.
- For Excel, we're introducing XLOOKUP
to help you find data quickly,
and visualize data sets.
XLOOKUP addresses the shortcomings of VLOOKUP,
like how it required sorted data,
how you couldn't get results on the left hand columns,
and how it took wild cards by default.
So XLOOKUP is going to replace
the VLOOKUP and the HLOOKUP formulas.
It also addresses common user feedback
and improves overall calculation time.
It's available today to Office 365 Insiders,
and general availability will be coming out later this year.
- Awesome!
- Next up we have new features about OneNote.
To learn more about that, let's check in with Arthur.
- So I'm here with Ayuba,
who is a program manager for OneNote, how are you?
- I'm doing well, how about yourself?
- Great, so talk to us about
what's new with OneNote on the iPad.
- Okay, so a couple of things we're excited about,
one of which to start with
is the ability to actually insert shapes,
but also more importantly the thing
people really have been asking us for
for a really long time is the ability
to just draw a straight line.
So we're bringing that to people on the iPad today.
- And where do you find that feature?
- [Ayuba] In the app you just go in the little draw tab
that we have, it's right there in the ribbon
it's a shape, you hit that,
you have access to a whole bunch of shapes,
and a straight line.
- Oh that's great.
So I heard something about adding meetings to OneNote.
- Yes. - Can you talk to us
about that?
- Absolutely.
So we know as part of the modern workplace,
and just workflows, a lot of people
run their lives through their calendar.
I certainly do, and so there's now this notion
of as I'm going meeting to meeting,
I need the ability to just quickly
put in the details of that.
What's the name of the meeting,
who are the people there, so on and so forth
so that I can quickly take notes that are relevant to that,
and so we're bringing that to the iPad today
'cause we know that's a companion
for a lot of people that go to meetings today.
- Okay, so we talked about the iPad.
Now let's move on to OneNote for the iPhone.
Can you tell us about what's new there?
- Yes, so the thing we're bringing to the iPhone today
for people is the ability to actually ink on the iPhone.
So specifically we're really looking at that
as a focus for annotation,
and so you can imagine a thing
where we see something really quick, want to take a picture,
soon as you pull that in you want to just
circle something and say hey, X marks the spot.
And have that there for referring to later,
and so we're bringing that to the iPhone.
- Okay, but so how do people find that feature?
- And so for the iPhone just on any page you're in,
top right you'll just see a little squiggly.
Go ahead and hit that, and you'll be presented
with a bunch of options for you to annotate with ink.
- Well thank you very much, Ayuba for your time.
- Right, thank you.
- Appreciate it.
- Thanks for the update, Arthur.
Candace, what's new with Yammer?
- There's a new update for the Yammer mobile experience
that helps you stay even more connected to your team.
There's an updated newsfeed that reduces visual clutter
and enhances readability.
Live events like Q&As and town halls with business leaders
can be viewed on the go.
There's also seen counts,
which let you see who's viewed your post and comments.
And now there's group search that cuts down on search time.
All of these updates will roll out in the next few months
for iOS and Android devices.
- Cool. - Yeah.
- For IT management, we have updates about new tools
to streamline Windows 10 migrations
and meet your data residency needs.
Let's find out more from Arthur and the FastTrack team.
- So I'm here with the FastTrack team, Lee and Brian.
So Lee, what's happening with FastTrack this month?
- Well, this month we're really excited.
We introduced the ability for customers and partners
to ask for help from our team on Windows 10.
- And Brian, what does FastTrack do?
- Yeah, FastTrack team with this expansion
can help customers move from their existing
Windows 7 implements to Windows 10,
and along the way pulling through Office 365 Pro Plus
is part of that implement,
and delivering that through a configuration manager.
- And who would benefit from using FastTrack?
- Ah, good question.
The benefit is similar to all the other FastTrack benefits.
If you have 150 seeds or more,
on an eligible skew we can get you help.
- And how can customers get started using FastTrack?
- Well, real easy.
Just go to our website, microsoft.com/FastTrack,
sign in, and you'll get help from our team.
- Well thank you both for your time.
- Thanks, Arthur.
So, what's new with data centers?
- Yeah!
So now new Microsoft teams customers in South Korea
will have their data stored in an in country data center.
Team's customer data residency in South Korea
helps organizations with data residency requirements
to onboard teams in Office 365.
- Additionally, Multi-Geo is now available
for customers in South Africa and the UAE
if they have a minimum of 500 Office 365
service subscriptions.
Multi-Geo lets you move users and data
between Microsoft Cloud-Geos
to address your data residency needs.
For more information,
contact your Microsoft rep for details.
- Cool, so to close for this month
we have a few quick updates.
A new simplified Office activation experience
is now available for Office 365 Pro Plus,
Office 365 home, personal, and solo users.
This experience is rolling out in the coming months.
- Microsoft Intune now supports FileVault disc encryption.
This is available on Apple, Mac, OS,
and with FileVault support,
Intune administrators can make sure
there's no unauthorized access to information
on Mac OS startup disks.
Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection
is now generally available for Office 365
US government GCC high customers.
Well, that's all the updates we have for this month,
and on behalf of both of us and Arthur,
thank you so much for watching.
Please leave your comments below,
and we love hearing your feedback
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We'll see you guys next time.
- Bye.
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