Coming up
I'll give you a tour of Microsoft Teams and some reason updates
including public teams and how you can find and join them
integrations with email and other new cloud services
and improvements to calendar and meetings
And for IT admins
I'll show you compliant search and eDiscovery
Microsoft Teams the new chat based workspace in Office 365
Since our November preview
more than 50,000 organizations have tried it out
Today we're announcing general availability with a lot of updates
we're also turning Teams on by default
for Office 365 commercial customers
As you can see in the app launcher here
So to get started go ahead and click on the Team's icon
and it launches straight
into our web app
I can download the desktop app by clicking here
I've actually already got it installed so let's hop over there
and you can see that I'm on a few different teams already
these teams are organized into channels
which is really just an easy way to organize chat and files by topic
now one of these teams is called Project Redstone
looks like it's got some secret confidential information on it
Let's keep that in mind for later
If I want to join or create another team
I just got down here and click on add team
and I get this really nice gallery of teams presented to me
new for GA
we have these public teams
which are teams that anybody in the company can join
and this list of suggested teams
come straight from the Microsoft Graph
which is kind of cool
I can also search up here
and find other teams if I want
Let's go ahead and join this one here
click join team
it's kind of interesting
and we'll hop over to the general channel and see what's going on
ok so we have a pretty rich chat conversation going on here
we've got people talking about documents
you can see here we've got some threaded conversations
we've got some stickers
we've got a custom sticker
we got emojis
Hey what is this? Let's take a look here
This is some rich formatted text
but there's something really special about this
all of this was done straight from the keyboard using our new support for markdown
the bullet is created just with the star
code is created with the back quotes
and there's a bunch of other markdown syntax that we support as well
it's pretty cool
Sometimes the information that you want to get into your team
doesn't always come from chat
could come from email or any other source
well new for GA
we have support for sending email straight into your team
Let me show you how that works
So I'm over here in Outlook
and I got a message from Jeremy
with the market research report that he wants me to share
I guess it's his account on outlook.com
that he wants me to share with my team
so go back over to my team
maybe I'll drop it into the general channel
So let me do get email address for this channel
and then I go and copy that
go to Outlook
here's that email that I want to send in
go to forward
put the email in here
maybe put a little note to my team
and then I go and click send
I'll hop back over to Teams
and there it is
I've got the importance of course
I've got my rich formatting coming through
and that attachment was on the email
that's uploaded into my team's SharePoint site
where every other file that my team has access to is also stored
There's another big update for GA that is very important to us
and that's our investment in screen reader support
high -contrast and keyboard navigation
which reflect Microsoft strong accountability to universal design and accessibility
across our products
So we've seen the chat stream here
now let's listen to how it sounds to visually impaired user
I've got the JAWS screen reader installed
and my insertion point is here replying to this message
I'll go ahead and type a message and send and you'll hear what JAWS says
[JAWS READER] H I space J E R E M Y exclaim enter
[JAWS READER] Message sent
you can navigate through the product using the common Office shortcuts
like control F6, tab and shift tab
making this a very accessible experience
before I move on
I want to call out one more new feature for GA
that's the ability to follow a channel
now if you've been using Teams
you already know you can get a notification anytime someone @ mentions you
plus see when somebody likes or replies to your messages
Now with follow a channel
you can also get notified when anybody posts in a specific channel
go to the channel click " . . . " and click follow a channel
Ok so that's the heart of Teams chat
then around that
we have all these other capabilities
really everything else a team needs in one place
a big part of that story is tabs
which are great way to customize your team environment
we start with files of course straight from SharePoint
new for GA
we have a wiki with built-in support for @ mentions and chat threads
Microsoft Stream
is an enterprise video portal
that you can integrate directly into your team
When i click on the + here
you see a big gallery of tabs that we have available
Microsoft services and plenty of third-party companies integrating with us as well
another way of adding other apps and services into your team
is via the Office 365 connectors
connectors let me integrate with a wide range of services
that feed content straight into messages that post into my team's channel
personally I like the generic webhook
which was when we combine Microsoft Flow
with anything else to push almost anything you can imagine into a team
and of course another way of getting apps and services into Teams is through bots
Click over here and I can bring up a list
of the bots that are available in Teams at GA
You can not only chat with these bots one-on-one
but several of them also work within the team context
my favorite is Growbot
which is a great way to share kudos and give praise to other people on your team
Alright so let's switch gears here
and go over to private chat
You can see I have a few private chats here as well
and new for GA
I can take a group chat
and give it a name to make it easy to come back and find it later
now something else going on here
we've invested a lot in calling and meetings
down here at the bottom of the private chat
I've got a meetings button
I click on that and I bring up a meeting scheduling form
where I can choose who I want to meet with
I can specify the time
i have a scheduling assistant so I can see free/busy across everybody's calendar
and I can also set a recurrence pattern
and then schedule that meeting
it shows up and Outlook
is ready for everybody to join online
So we've had calling built into Microsoft Teams since preview
but now we're extending that to our mobile clients
initially iOS and Android
and on iOS we have native CallKit support
let me show you how that works
So I've got Jeremy's phone here
let me go ahead and give him a call
and you'll see when the call comes in
it looks just like getting a call from anybody else over the cellular network
our iOS and Android clients
are also now covered by the device management policies in Microsoft Intune
so those are some of the end-user updates we made to Microsoft Teams
around chat
accessibility
and meetings and calling
now for IT users we focused on a few other things
First
Teams is now on by default for our licensed users
you can see here within the licensing UI
I can simply turn on and off, on a per-user basis
or go in through powershell
all the other settings are exactly where they were before
under settings services and add-ins
and then Microsoft Teams
Now I've probably saved our most important update for last
Let's take a look at security and compliance
a few minutes ago
we saw the term Redstone mentioned in the private team
that's a confidential term
and I want to make sure nobody is using it in the wrong place
Here i am in the Office 365 security and compliance center
I have a compliance content search role
looking for that specific term, Redstone
So let's click on one of these results
so here are the results
showing me where that term has been mentioned
now it looks like
all the places it's been covered are the teams where I'm expecting it to be covered
so don't think we have any risk here
in addition to compliance search
for GA
we also have eDiscovery
event auditing and legal hold
a full set of enterprise security features
built into Office 365
That was a quick overview of the latest updates to Microsoft Teams
which is now generally available
We'll continue rolling out new capabilities in the coming weeks and months
along with a lot more integrations from our partners
also check out our earlier show in Microsoft Teams
for an overview of other core functionality
Try for yourself
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