Updates and Top Announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2017
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Teams is overlapping Skype for Business! Teams has gone from strength to strength in the last year, becoming a core communications client for Microsoft. Because of this, Teams will be rolling out new features to slowly migrate Skype for Business users, over to Teams. Features include call transferring, calling to and from existing external phone numbers, along with the ability to leave and receive voicemail messages. Skype for Business will still be supported, with a new upgrade scheduled for next year. However, organisations are being encouraged to assess the functionality available in Microsoft Teams.__________________________________________________________________________


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Microsoft Graph will now enable users to search for sites, files, docs, emails and people. The main focus of this being that Microsoft want business users to be able to search from wherever they are. Senior Project Manager for SharePoint, OneDrive and Yammer – Naomi Moneypenny – stated that ‘the vision for enterprise search is personal, contextual and boundary-less.’ If users are in SharePoint, search will be enabled directly from there, if users are on the web, they can use Bing for business etc.
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Microsoft put together bundle packages for different types of business, and at Microsoft Ignite, two more bundles were added to the list. 365 Education and 365 F1. Microsoft Office 365 F1 (formerly known as K1 for kiosk workers) is a package put together for ‘firstline’ support and customer service workers. This package consists of Windows 10, Office 365 F1, enterprise mobility and security and Microsoft StaffHub which helps workers manage and schedule their shifts and time. New Office 365 Education is a simple solution built for schools and education. It provides students and staff with safe and secure tools to create and collaborate. 365 Education includes both OS
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Business Process Service Integration If you are a first release tester, Microsoft will be releasing a varied range of capabilities in October, to further integrate SharePoint and OneDrive with its business process services – PowerApps, Flow, etc. Some of these capabilities include:- Custom forms using PowerApps
- Ability to launch Flows in OneDrive
- A new Flow “launch panel” to prompt users for input
- A Flow-based “custom approval action” for libraries that requires “formal check-in and approval”
- WebParts for Power BI and Microsoft Forms
- Column formatting in SharePoint Lists and Libraries
- A Flow capability to prompt for document reviews
- A WebPart to add PowerApps to a SharePoint page
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