Microsoft Teams Doorway to the Microsoft Modern Workplace Infographic

Microsoft Teams is the Doorway to the the Modern Workplace. It’s amazing how Microsoft Teams really pulls through SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange/Outlook, Azure, Planner, Stream, Bots, Office Web Applications, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and easy integration with Yammer, Dynamics, so much more.

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Tuesday, June 25th, 2019 at 2PM ET/11AM PT
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One of the most powerful things is getting your head around Microsoft Teams and the power of the rich integration and modern workplace.

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It shouldn’t surprise you that Microsoft is putting a lot of emphasis on Microsoft Teams. Microsoft announced that 90% of the Fortune 100 are using Microsoft Teams. What have they figured out? I know there are thousands of companies still using Skype for Business and the pending migrations are at a critical time. Many of you are wondering what’s in teams for you… I’m hoping this webinar helps you understand the vision of Microsoft Teams, the vision of Microsoft 365 and the Modern Workplace.

Working with Roger Taylor and Dionne Taylor from SkyeNets we put together this infographic to help simplify what’s happening in the interface and behind the scenes. Microsoft Teams is your doorway to the Modern Workplace: An overview of Microsoft Teams dependencies.

Microsoft Teams
Doorway to The Modern Workplace
A Complete Group Collaboration Solution

Join us as we journey into the heart of Microsoft Teams and discover why Teams has become Microsoft’s fastest growing product to date. Microsoft Teams brings it all together in a single workspace within Office 365, with SharePoint lists and libraries, meetings, chat, document sharing and a host of other features – everything you need for the modern workforce.
Tuesday, June 25th, 2019 at 2PM ET/11AM PT
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In this session we will discuss:
– The Modern Workplace: From Traditional to Modern
– Teams Architecture: Doorway to the Workspace
– MS Teams: Under the Hood – Key features to help increase your organizations productivity
– Business Value of MS Teams
– User adoption best practices and how to manage the risks of team sprawl
– DEMO: MS Teams – Overview Current State
– Introducing VALO Teamwork 2.0
– DEMO: VALO Teamwork – Future State
– Questions & Answers

Featured Speakers

Roger Taylor,

Enterprise Cloud & Office 365 Architect

Joel Oleson,

Microsoft MVP – Office Apps & Services

Jeff Collins,

SharePoint & Office 365 Adoption Expert

Vlad Catrinescu,

Product Evangelist at Valo Intranet & Microsoft MVP

Microsoft Teams
Doorway to The Modern Workplace

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Time: 2:00PM – 3:00PM EST

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June 3, 2019June 4, 2019

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Hey Jealousy, Top 10 Announcements you might have Missed at the SharePoint Conference! Experts Panel #SPC19

Wow! I’m still recovering from #SPC19. In fact it was just yesterday I was speaking at SharePoint Conference, but I wanted to get this blog post out there for those who may have missed the nuggets.

Join me and 6 experts on the Best of SPC Experts Panel When: Wednesday May 29th 11 AM Eastern / 3 PM GMT Featuring 5 MVPs 2 RDs and Microsoft Product Manager.

Joel Oleson MVP & RD – Microsoft Search, OneDrive, Governance, Content Services, Mixed Reality
Eric Overfield MVP & RD – UX, SharePoint Framework
Erica Toelle MVP – Content Services & Records Management
Ryan Schouten MVP- SPFx, Developer, Power Pack and Business Apps
Bill Baer MS Product Manager & MCM Instructor – SharePoint 2019, Geo, Search and Mixed Reality
Paul Swider – Business Apps, Power Pack

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we’ll discuss the announcements and all the announcements, have a fun discussion about the impact and discuss silly or crazy things that happened at SPC.

Microsoft Search (GA) Launch a *massive* UX investment across Bing, Windows, Edge, Office, SharePoint, Office 365, powered by Graph plus AI and Machine learning and personalization and Unified Administration and way more is Shipping – in the words of Jeff Teper the biggest “One Microsoft” project or initiative he’s ever been part of. Personally I spent more time in Search sessions since I didn’t want to miss anything that might impact my “Real Life” Microsoft Search session where I drilled down into things you could do today with Microsoft Search in preparation for more that will be coming out later this year. Microsoft Searches biggest release is now available to targeted release tenants. A ton more investments in image text extraction, video speech to text, and audio speech to text extraction also contribute to the investments.
Download my Microsoft Search Strategy deck that I delivered at SPC.
- Bookmarks, PowerApps, Q&A, Locations all configurable in a new Unified Administration (Targeted release). The new enhanced recommendations will come from the behavior of the people using search. The more it is used the better it will get.
- Windows 10 updates and integration coming later this year
- Search in Office will provide the ability to search for a document and the ability to take parts from those documents and automatically include them in the document, spreadsheet or PowerPoint. (Demo in the keynote showed adding a slide from PowerPoint into a word doc without ever leaving word)
- Announced Public API for search including the extensibility of custom search refiners, connectors, verticals, and filters.
- The best place to start with the new GA “General Availability” of Microsoft Search: http://www.bing.com/business/explore
- An enterprise-wide Microsoft Search experience, from the search box in the suite bar.
- More resources on Microsoft Search
SharePoint Home Sites New Announcement – “SharePoint home sites, a dynamic, engaging, and personalized employee experience for your organization.” Jeff Teper’s keynote had us on the edge of our seats and home sites definitely got a warm intro. You can read more about them on the SharePoint blog post “The intelligent intranet featuring SharePoint home sites” and read more at SharePoint home sites: a landing for your organization on the intelligent intranet
Yammer enhancements announced including Answer Bot and Best Answer and Microsoft Stream Transcription and other enhancements for employee engagement and communications. Read more at Yammer investments add engagement and compliance capabilities
- Yammer built in bot auto-responses for FAQ & Best Answer feature, you can ask a question and then the person asking the question or a group admin can mark the best answer—making the knowledge easier to share and reuse in the future. Additionally, a group can feature intelligent, bot-like responses to frequently asked questions. Record, upload, and share video with updated Microsoft Stream mobile app. Embed a quiz, poll, or survey in a video with Microsoft Stream.
- New Microsoft Stream mobile features, interactivity and more announced at SharePoint Conference 2019
Differential sync announced for all file types! The keynote featured a 1GB bmp file where only text was added in MS Paint and instead of the entire file syncing only the changes or about 1-2MB was synced… it was done in seconds.
Many new OneDrive, SharePoint File enhancements announced for sharing a file quickly, securely and in a compliant way has improved immensely – add a link to an email or teams chat and change the permissions on the fly. Love the new “Request Files” feature. You can create an RFP folder and send it out as a place where people can put documents… it has a built in ability to make it easy to collect files from others. The new “easy-to-read links” will reduce the long ugly URLs we live with and “Popular around me” in the Shared with me section of OneDrive will simplify and enhance discovery. See recent files, your files, frequent shared libraries when attaching a file or sharing a link from Outlook mobile. In addition to updates to annotation options when marking up PDFs you can annotate the PDF to circle items or add notes for you and others. Microsoft Teams Tabs in mobile experiences. In addition, Link to this Slide will allow you to send links to an individual PowerPoint slide. Control sharing settings on groups of sites at once including the ability to expire sharing links across not only the whole site but many.Document compliance enhancements including… SharePoint Online service supports Azure Information Protection encryption on document upload, understands label policies applied to the document, and applies label permissions to document open when the document is in SharePoint or OneDrive. Updated content services white paper, and guidelines for GxP compliance, providing the blueprint for organizations that comply with regulatory regimes like FDA 21 CFR Part 11
Site rename got the biggest clap during the keynote. There’s also more compliance with DLP restricted sharing. Don’t miss the new Adoption kits across Office 365.
Performance enhancements on storage, sharing, and more. Jeff explained SharePoint is the biggest consumer of Azure storage. Data from Microsoft 365 is ten times faster than it was just two years ago. Your user experience has improved in Office 365 is three times faster than a year ago, with investments across our architecture that accelerate your experience even when you are working far from your own data center. After you upload a file, you should be able to search for it in no time. Including now up to 320 previews and new ability to add comments on all file types (not just MS Office). You’ve heard of Machine Learning… Announcing Machine Teaching. Here you can teach the AI what parts of a document are and how to perform otherwise manual tasks for tagging or using document parts. updates to Supervision including new out of the box machine learning models to harness intelligence and identify questionable content
New Architectures from SharePoint 2019 in Azure and SQL Azure to Multi Geo GA 1) In SharePoint Server 2019 we’re providing more flexible deployment options to include support for Azure Stack and SQL Managed Instances. 2) New managed instance support for SharePoint Server 2019 allows you to leverage the benefits of managed instances with SharePoint environments hosted in Azure. Multi Geo Capabilities has released as Generally available what was in preview.
New Developer experiences: New APIs and File Developer Experiences more comprehensive site collection enumeration API, will be coming soon in beta. SharePoint Framework 1.8.2, released two weeks ago, updates compatibility to support Node.js 10. SharePoint Framework 1.9 coming soon, there’s enhancements coming to Microsoft Graph connected controls. In addition to the Windows Community Toolkit which features controls for working with Microsoft Graph and Files, we’re also adding a new Microsoft Graph Toolkit for the web. Fluid Framework – Improvements to development efforts “revolutionary new capabilities for real-time, intelligence-assisted collaboration” announced at build, but demonstrated during the keynote. The keynote demo we saw showed many browser windows at once showing what it could be like with a seamless editing experience. Many low level protocols and experiences have been optimized to make multi user editing better.
Business Apps PowerApps and Flow Improvements – Starting in summer 2019, you’ll be able to use PowerApps to build custom forms for document libraries, building metadata-enriched experiences through SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. Bulk Approvals, New Actions for SharePoint Lists and Libraries in Flow, new document templates and improvements to backstage. You’ll be able to use PowerApps to build custom forms for document libraries, building metadata-enriched experiences through SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.

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Lots of growth!

Check out the following 12 New blog posts that all went out right at the keynote.

May 24, 2019

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SharePoint Migrations just got easier with Microsoft SMAT

Microsoft recently released an innovative new tool that allows us to transport all our creations, content, information, and assets from old platforms such as SharePoint Server 2013 to either SharePoint or OneDrive in Office 365. This tool greatly negates the growing pains associated with moving your personal or company’s information assets to a new server or medium and streamlining the entire process into a much-needed simpler form.

SMAT (SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool) allows you to move local files such as from your internal file shares, as well as from a myriad of sources from SharePoint 2013. When selecting a tool to migrate, SMAT ensures the destination that you requested the file to be migrated to is authenticated, providing the necessary layer of security and privacy, and minimizes the risk of mistakes to be made. The file is then scanned, packaged, and uploaded. This is done universally through every source to be migrated.

The most important step when migrating a file, is authenticating and authorizing its provided destination. The following forms of authorization are supported: NTLM, Kerberos, Forms, ADFS, Multi-factor authentication, SAML based claims, and Client certificate authentication. Microsoft also provides this statement regarding the mediums of authorization; “If multiple authentication methods including NTLM or Kerberos, are enabled in the on-premises SharePoint Web Application, NTLM and Kerberos authentication are not supported by the SharePoint Migration Tool. Please use a secondary form of authentication or convert the Web Application to use NTLM and/or Kerberos authentication only.”

After you selected the file for migration, and after you have authorized the file’s destination, a scan will commence. The scan is vital for checking the file for potential corruptions, and verifies you have access to both the source as well as the destination. The file is then packaged with a manifest, where it then is uploaded to Azure with the said manifest. Each file is encrypted and secured with Microsoft’s advanced security procedures and includes a lock and key system that only the authorizer can obtain. All files that are packaged are inaccessible to Microsoft and is deleted from their servers after the passing of a set time, ensuring the safety and privacy required for your files.

SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool will finally easily transport our projects and creations to the updated software in an easy and seamless way that is safely secure and with professional help will make a difference. Small simple migrations this might work, but it is recommended you consult with a professional before taking on a big migration. SMAT can help simplify the entire migration process and allows our organizations to update and adapt with Microsoft’s software, providing a foundation for further collaboration and consolidation that comes with our creations.

To date this is the best we’ve got from Microsoft, but honestly there are a variety of powerful tools that should be considered when doing a migration.

Are you considering Migration? Join me for the upcoming free migration webinar this Thursday.

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Webinar Title: Migrate to Office 365 and SharePoint Online or OneDrive or Upgrade to SharePoint 2019?

Guest Speaker: Joel Oleson, Microsoft RD, Office Server & Services MVP

Decisions, decisions, decisions! You’re not alone if you’re running SharePoint 2010, 2013, 2016 and wondering… Is it time to upgrade to 2019 or should I take the plunge and migrate to Office 365. In this session we’ll dive into the decision matrix of the benefits of both SharePoint 2019 and Office 365 SharePoint Online. First we’ll cover the benefits of both, then help you understand the key differences and help you better understand the business value. The session will focus on user experience, technical features, and business value with the goal of helping customers be able to make a clear distinction or decision between one or the other or both… looking at hybrid SharePoint 2019 and Office 365.

Date/Time: May 16, 10:00-11:00AM PDT, 1:00-2:00PM EDT

More details at: https://gennet.com/2019-or-online-sp-migration/

Have you seen the SharePoint migration infographic?

Read more about or download the SMAT SharePoint and Assessment Tool:

Introducing the SharePoint Migration Tool | Microsoft Docs

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May 13, 2019May 12, 2019

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Evolution of ECM with Microsoft Modern Content Services

Evolution of Content Services – Microsoft Modern Content Services Infographic is shared with creative commons share alike. You can share this infographic with your company, use it in your slides or in your blogs or post it on LinkedIn or in a Facebook group. Have fun.

Gartner declared ECM dead in early 2017 with the post “The Death of ECM and Birth of Content Services” and born out of its ashes is born Modern Content Services. Microsoft has fully embraced and embodied it. Personally I saw it first hand while at Konica Minolta. The entire space has been a push to the cloud and business processes realigned to cloud based content services. The file, scan and print business has turned dial tone and subscriptions and much of what was growing moved to the cloud with the legacy monolithic ECM systems. That’s not to say you can’t find legacy file cabinets and legacy datacenters. It’s definitely time to wake up and recognize the business has moved on and they’ve embraced usability and user experience…

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Evolution of Content Services: SharePoint 2019, Office 365 and Beyond

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When: Thu, Jun 6, 2019 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM PDT

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Description: Join Microsoft MVP Joel Oleson and Microsoft Gold Partner, HELUX, as we explore the evolution of traditional ECM into Content Services. Microsoft has been leading the charge in SharePoint and Office 365 with a rich ecosystem of applications, and components and rich integration into other content services platforms. In this webinar we’ll explore how ECM has truly evolved from being an unrealized dream of consolidation which never fully arrived, to modern Content Services as a focus of coordination where users see value in the creation, the storage and coordination flow. Additional value is realized in the harvesting and extraction, designed with intelligent security in mind. ECM is evolving. Content Services is core to Office 365, OneDrive and SharePoint.

• ECM evolution to content services needs to embrace a holistic approach to managing the entire lifecycle of document creation, sharing, consumption, reuse, knowledge, and records management, archiving and disposal.

• By building a great information architecture, content moves through an organization gracefully and gains value as it accelerates information discovery. • Content Services is people-centric – allowing for personal management (copy/move, hashtags) and organizational management (knowledge management, retention and records management, information lifecycle management).

• Policy and security: intelligent, simple, and automated – protect content at all phases of its life

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For the second year in a row, Microsoft has been recognized as the leader in Content Services Platforms by the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Microsoft’s exceptional execution of its products and services. SharePoint’s role in content services for Office 365 is self dubbed “people-centric,” focusing on the use of documents, videos, designs, scans, pages, and other useful applications. This offers industries such as the medical field to efficiently share medical scans within their intranet system and properly collaborate with other medical professionals through the ease of sharing their documents from one doctor to another instantaneously, saving time, money, and energy as one example. These innovations have changed the way companies interact with one another as well as how they operate as a single system. This earns Microsoft their well-deserved recognition as a leader in both Content Collaboration Platforms and Content Services Platforms, the only company to do so in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

Download the Enterprise Content Management ECM Evolution of Content Services Infographic

According to Microsoft’s recently published White Paper “Modernizing Enterprise Content Management with Microsoft Content Services,” Microsoft is revitalizing and modernizing their approach to their content services. Microsoft is making changes to their services by reflecting how modern content is created and shared by giving more freedom to personal management organizational management through their tools like “copy, move, tag with metadata [and] knowledge management, record retention, information lifecycle management” providing a more user friendly experience. This provides creators and collaborators even more tools to improve their businesses and a more accessible reach their targeted markets.

In addition, Microsoft is focusing on “Content Velocity” where modern user content is more often created, edited, shared, and edited again in a cycle of unending development with constant revitalization and collaboration. Microsoft considers this as “an evergreen cycle of authoring, collaboration, control, and reuse” allowing creators, editors, and presenters the luxury of direct communication and distribution of thought in true practice. To simplify this experience, Microsoft presents this new focus into 4 pillars.

The first pillar is dubbed ‘Harvest’ as they state content is not meant to be created then stored in some archive filling up vital storage space never to be seen again. Instead content is meant to be continually updated and added on to provide constant relevant use as information and inspiration for future content. This makes every document into a vital document to a business.

The second pillar is ‘Create’ where Microsoft products allow businesses and creators to use SharePoint and OneDrive tools like Office Lens and Office 365 to share their creations to their targeted audiences. These tools are supplemented by their unique and useful set of templates and policies that inform creators and aid them in their creative processes.

The third pillar is ‘Coordinate’ where Metadata is consolidated into organized systems that allow easy management and direction of content through tools such as Microsoft Flow and PowerApps, limiting the amount of clicks needed through their tagging and library search tools.

The fourth and final pillar is ‘Protect.‘ Microsoft provides the ability to set up “information architecture, auditing, rights management, records and retention labels, and eDiscovery” to efficiently protect your business and its content so you can rest easy knowing your company’s content is securely faceted into your company’s files without the threat of 3rd party invaders.

Hope to see you on the webinar!

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High Recommended Resources we’ll be discussing during the webinar:

Download Microsoft’s Whitepaper: Modernizing Enterprise Content Management with Microsoft Content Services

This is a great read. It will also help you appreciate how Microsoft is doing and what they are doing right. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms (blog from Microsoft)

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019

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Migrate to Office 365 or Upgrade to SharePoint 2019?

One of the biggest questions people have been asking with the release of SharePoint 2019 is what should I do now. There are still approximately 30-40% of SharePoint customers who are in either a partial cloud with hybrid scenario or are fully on premises running a variety of legacy SharePoint 2010, 2013, 2016 or earlier. Many customers have been toying with the idea of migrating to Office 365 and a significant portion who are on premises and plan to stay on premises have been asking… so tell me what the most compelling reasons are to upgrade or migrate? Can you give me a top 10 on each? Wouldn’t it be great if we had an infographic that had both in the same place so you could decide? Sure! Why not both and a webinar to discuss it!

Download the Upgrade or Migrate SharePoint Infographic from slideshare in PDF or download the png format of Migrate to SharePoint Online or Upgrade to SharePoint 2019 infographic

This infographic is shared creative commons share alike. Feel free to include it in your presentations inside or outside your company or feel free to blog about it and share it in social media.

Why Migrate to Office 365 or Upgrade to SharePoint 2019 – There are a dozen great reasons to upgrade to SharePoint 2019 if you are running any older legacy versions of SharePoint. The number of reasons go up if you’re running SharePoint 2013 or 2010 or heaven forbid 2007 or 2003. As an example the browser compatibility gets a huge boost between 2010 and 2013 and even better with 2016, but 2019 is the most significant upgrade since 2010 to 2013. While SharePoint 2013 to 2016 wasn’t very significant the upgrade from SharePoint 2016 to SharePoint 2019 is much more significant due to a lot of investments in on premises OneDrive, hybrid integration with Flow, Forms, PowerBI, Power Apps. Those looking to reduce or remove their dependency on legacy InfoPath and SharePoint Designer will be much more happy with SharePoint 2019 due to this new integration. Those customers who are using some SharePoint Online and some on premises will find a significant upgrade to the UX in SharePoint 2019 with the modern UX updates.