The SharePoint Conference – Microsoft Search in Real Life #SPC19

I’m excited to be speaking at the upcoming SharePoint Conference.  Be sure to block out my session on your calendar!  If you haven’t time is running out!  Register now for next week’s SPC2019 in Las Vegas use OLESON for discount.

Session Title: Microsoft Search in Real Life

Microsoft Search is poised to change enterprise search by featuring search across Windows, Office, and SharePoint Online in addition to various other services. In this session, I’ll dive into the vision, the features, and the reality.  Search is a huge undertaking, but it is confusing to know where to invest to take advantage of the greatest of what Microsoft has built.  Out of this session you’ll know what has already shipped that you can go back to work to take advantage of in Microsoft Search.  You’ll also see examples of what is possible today.

Key Takeaways:

1. Understand the Vision and Promises of Microsoft Search
2. How to get started today on your search strategy with Microsoft Search
3. Get started with Search and get value immediately with simple configuration and a plan for integration

Read more

Welcome to Microsoft Search Intelligent Search for the Modern Workplace

Microsoft Search Cohesive and Intelligent Command and Navigate

Read the article I wrote for CMSWire and get a good look at Microsoft Search

Microsoft Search… Vision of Next Generation Command and Discover

Microsoft introduces us to a new tool combining the Artificial Intelligence of Bing’s search engine, as well as the insights provided by Microsoft Graph. Microsoft Search gives you the ability to discover your inquiries across a myriad of Microsoft’s various platforms such as Office, SharePoint, Outlook, OneDrive, Windows, and of course Bing.

Microsoft Search is not just for links and search inquiries like bing, but also enhances your ability within a program such as in word where you can search for the tools like spelling and grammar checks in the task completion features. The task completion feature also assists by searching for tools relevant to the task you wish to complete such as rotating an image as you search for tools when selecting an image.

With Microsoft Search you can also search for relevant information and apps with instant query predictions that allow you to quickly re-access your various documents, applications, and even contacts. Microsoft Search understands contextual information from your recent behavior and search through its incredibly advanced AI features that enable it to become a personal assistant to you and your network of capabilities. You can easily search for contacts in Yammer, Microsoft Teams and more. As you search for colleagues and team members you’ll be provided with relevant contact information, files you share, conversations, and events. “You can even start a Microsoft Teams conversation, place a phone call, send an email or get a map to their office location right from an adaptive card, accelerating productivity and reducing the time you spend searching for the right answer.”

Since Microsoft Search is not an asset for one set application, it works across all your connected apps providing a framework for accessibility from any point. This is evident from Microsoft’s quote giving the example of “if you’re working in Word and want to reuse information from a presentation that a colleague shared from OneDrive, there’s no need to switch to OneDrive and search for that presentation, you can simply search from Word” allowing you easier and faster access to your files and contacts, blending your various assets and tools into one seamlessly connected arcology of information databases.

With Microsoft’s recent design changes to SharePoint including a focus on the simplistic and chic, Microsoft Search is conveniently placed in every Microsoft Office application and in Windows 10 and all of the online Office apps, and even allowing you to access relevant information and contacts directly from Bing’s search engine.  It’s quite extensive the vision for Microsoft Search.  Personalization in all of these interfaces with corporate access that’s security trimmed is the design from the beginning.

Microsoft Search is an exciting tool that consolidates the best parts of each application into easily reachable places, saving priceless time and releasing you from the headache that comes from searching through thousands of files and documents to find one specific piece of information. Gone are the days where you stand at the speaker podium in awkward silence for five minutes as you search for your powerpoint presentation. At this point, wherever you are, just enter the keywords into the search bar and let Microsoft Search do the work for you.

I encourage you to join me in Las Vegas for Microsoft Search in Real Life