Microsoft Ignite is Microsoft’s largest annual event. It attracts on average about 25,000 attendees a year and takes place across several locations around the world, including Orlando and Barcelona. In this article we will summarise 4 of the top key announcements from this year’s event.
Many organisations need to be able to send forms, surveys and questionnaires to external parties in order to collect information. It’s important when dealing with data Microsoft 365 security and compliance is considered, this is often why having a Microsoft Partner manage all Microsoft 365 IT Services can be so valuable and efficient for a business.
Valto hosted an enlightenment hour webinar aimed at providing non-profits, charities and SMBs with the knowledge of all Microsoft 365 tools they already have but might not be aware of. Perhaps your organisation is already using Microsoft 365 for emails or using Microsoft Teams to enable remote working. However, there is likely a number of products in Microsoft 365 you have not yet heard of that could be improving efficiency, digitally transforming processes, or even saving you money by providing functionality you currently have to pay for from a third-party application.
Our Microsoft 365 Masterclass Series is a new webinar series from Valto. Our series aims to help organisations get the most out of their subscriptions including developing a strategy, adoption the platform, improving security and a dive into key technologies. Our webinar will walk your organisation through handling internal communications and engaging employees effectively using Microsoft 365.
Skype for Business will officially be retiring on the 31st of July 2021. It will be replaced by Microsoft Teams. Skype was launched in 2015 and quickly became a popular application for both personal and business use. Two years after the launch of Skype for Business, Microsoft launched Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams is used by more than 500,000 organizations globally and has over 115 million daily active users. Read more about the stats with Microsoft.
What are the top 5 features of Microsoft Teams in 2021? As more people are working from home, apps such as Microsoft Teams have gained popularity during the global pandemic. Since its release in 2017, Microsoft announced that as of October 2020, Microsoft Teams had reached 115 million daily active users. Whether you are new to Microsoft teams or an active user, this post outlines the best features of Microsoft Teams to help you get the most out of the app.
Video Guide for Microsoft 365 Adoption
Learn best practices, tips, and tricks from Microsoft 365 specialists Valto as part of our Microsoft 365 Masterclass: Adopting Microsoft 365.
About this Video – Training for Microsoft 365
Our Microsoft 365 Masterclass Series is a new webinar series from Valto. Our series aims to help organisations get the most out of their subscriptions including developing a strategy, adoption the platform, improving security and a dive into key technologies.
Our second event covers off how your organisation can go about adopting Microsoft 365 and get the most value out of their Microsoft 365 Investment
During the webinar we will cover off the following key topics:
- Vision Planning
- Change Management & Communication
- Champions
- Resources
- Certifications
During the webinar we’ll be focusing on key processes you can implement and demonstrating the following key Microsoft 365 technologies:
- Exchange
- OneDrive
- SharePoint Online
- Microsoft Teams
- The Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate & Power BI
- Other Services including Forms, Planner, Yammer
Who is this video for?
This video is aimed at organisations that have Microsoft 365 and would like to get more out of their investment. We’ll cover off best practices, tips and tricks to help your organisation and users adopt the Microsoft 365 platform.
Example Adoption Strategy Vision
Office 365 Vision
Office365 will provide a centralised environment where all activities, documents and policies are stored in an intuitive manner. The platform will enable users to collaborate more effectively and find information with ease.
Microsoft Teams Vision
Microsoft Teams will be used as our primary communication channel and replace all internal emails. The platform will be used to improve communications and collaboration across departments, projects, and companywide engagements.
Resources
- Download the presentation – Click Here
- Microsoft Service Adoption Course
- Learning Pathways
Contact Us
Valto are here to help with your Adoption projects. Get in touch via 03335 779 009 or Contact Us.
Microsoft SharePoint in 2021
SharePoint Success Site
The SharePoint Success site is a new look book template from Microsoft that builds upon other sites such as the Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways. It is designed to help organisations that are looking to rollout SharePoint improve the quality and impact of the sites they are designing.
Here you can get a free SharePoint Success template.
We can help deploy this as part of our SharePoint Intranet and Consulting Services.
SharePoint Home Site App – Teams
This will provide organisations greater integration with SharePoint from Microsoft Teams. This will also remove the issue with the global navigation not appearing within Teams which has been a major limitation. This will involve promoting a communication site to a home site for this functionality to work.
More details on this announcement can be found on the Microsoft Tech Community Blog.
SharePoint Spaces
Launched at the end of 2020 but will be improved over the coming year. This platform will provide organisations the opportunity to provide mixed reality experiences in Modern SharePoint Sites. This could be for virtual tours, training, classroom or providing a creative way to demonstrate products and services.
Get more details on SharePoint Spaces.
SharePoint Syntex
This new product set is an enterprise product set designed to provide Machine Learning and AI to assist with automated classification and protection of content within SharePoint.
This product set will streamline organisations that are manually manipulating and classifying data and metadata or using a third-party product to achieve this.
SharePoint Syntex | Microsoft 365
SharePoint News Improvements
News / Publishing
Improvements to the News & SharePoint panel asking users to complete missing fields prior to publishing and allowing for further automations with Power Automate once complete.
New template functionality is also being included with the ability to set a new default news/page template for sites.
News Digest Improvements
Auto News Digest – Building upon the manual News Digest functionality this feature will automatically email organisations with updates to the news articles that have been posted within SharePoint.
News Banner and Logo improvements are also being added to the News Digest functionality to allow further customisation to this. Much simpler than emailing yourself the News Digest and editing it first! See User Voice on this subject.
OneDrive
Mac Improvements
A host of new features are coming for Macs on OneDrive including:
- SSO & Conditional Access for OneDrive on Mac
- Files on Demand is coming out of beta and becoming GA
Differential Sync
This feature will streamline the amount of data that is being synced and will allow for differential sync for all file types.
Comments on non-office documents
Within SharePoint & Teams web application you can now provide comments to non-Office files from OneDrive. This is already launched and you can read more on how to use this.
Microsoft Teams in 2021
There is a host of new features coming to Microsoft Teams this coming year as Microsoft invests heavily into the new platform. Just a selection of these include:
Teams Custom Layouts
This will build on the blur and change background features to allow users to create more immersive presentations with themselves transposed into the scene.
Meeting Recap
A very exciting feature that will provide a lot of productivity gains allowing a summary of the meeting, who attended, who did not and shared files, recordings and chat. This will also include automated actions in the future too.
Enhanced Integrations
Enhanced integrations with the PowerApps Power Platform and SharePoint:
- Approvals
- Power Automate App
- Power BI
More Details
You can see What’s New in Microsoft Teams from Microsoft’s announcement page.
EndPoint
Microsoft Defender provides New Features for centralised management of Microsoft Defender included with your Microsoft 365 Business Premium plan.
Get in Touch – We can help with your 2021 Projects.
Valto are here to help with your 2021 projects. Get in touch via 03335 779 009, [email protected] or Contact Us.
Microsoft 365 has a number of tools available that can be used for storing information, files and collaborating on. A common decision for organisations when building their Microsoft 365 strategy is identifying the best use case for each of the products. Our blog article covers off the key products and use cases for each one.
SharePoint, OneDrive & Microsoft Teams are key components of Microsoft 365 and are included in your Microsoft 365 Business Premium licenses.
Which tool should I be using?
Microsoft 365Services
Valto provide a range of SharePoint, OneDrive & Microsoft Teams services including:
- Migration
- Governance Planning
- Managed Support
- SharePoint Intranet Development
- Adoption
Blog Series
This blog post is part of a series of blog posts outlining Microsoft Teams best practices including:
Get in Touch
Valto are here to help with your Microsoft Teams platform. Get in touch via 03335 779 009, [email protected] or Contact Us.
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