July 2021 Edition Sections:
- Highlighted
- Microsoft Teams - IT Admins & Planning
- Microsoft Teams - End Users & Champions
- Security & Compliance
- Blogs & Articles of Interest
Highlighted:
Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA): Microsoft Viva
When: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 from 9:00am – 10:00am PT | Join this Microsoft Viva 'Ask Microsoft Anything' on Wednesday, June 23, 2021, 9:00-10:00 AM PT! Microsoft Viva - the first Employee Experience Platform (EXP) built for the digital era - brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources and insights into an integrated employee experience that empowers people and teams to be their best, from anywhere. Post questions and feedback about Microsoft Viva, and the four Viva Modules (Viva Learning, Viva Connections, Viva Topics and Viva Insights) during this AMA. Members of the Viva team will be on hand to respond. An AMA is a one-hour online forum similar to “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. There is not an audio or video component included. To post a question or comment, click on 'Start a New Discussion' in the Microsoft Viva AMA Space. Be sure to add this event to your calendar - we hope to see you there!
Microsoft Teams – IT Admins & Planning
Teams Chalk Talk: Get to Teams - Zero to Production
Microsoft Teams can help your employees stay connected and collaborate with each other, especially in the current unprecedented time where remote work is a reality of employees around the world. Being able to chat, do video meetings and collaborate on Office documents within Teams can help companies stay productive. Whether you are a small business, a non-profit or a large organization, you can get started with Teams within Microsoft 365 or Office 365 suite - even before deploying any other Office app or service. Join Microsoft Teams experts as we review Teams implementation for collaboration, chat and meetings. We’ll share key configurations, considerations, best practices, and resources to get your users up and running quickly. After this session, you will be able to: (1) Recognize key success factors for technical and user readiness, (2) Identify pre-requisites and tenant setup for your environment, (3) Install the Teams clients appropriate for your organization, (4) Configure policies that enable your preferred user experiences, and (5) Leverage collaboration features to enhance remote work scenarios.
Teams Chalk Talk: Apps in Teams Fundamentals
Join Microsoft Teams experts as we review how you can deploy commonly-used applications directly within Teams, enabling your users to work more efficiently and effectively by accessing everything they need in a single interface. This foundational workshop covers basic capabilities across app management and security. With over 400 out-of-the-box applications available (and growing), you're sure to find an app, or two, that your team can begin using today in Teams. After this session, you will be able to: (1) Identify suitable apps to meet the needs for your organization, (2) Recognize common attributes of successful app deployment, (3) Navigate security and compliance considerations for Teams’ apps, and (4) Determine the next steps to deploy an app to your environment.
Microsoft 365 Virtual Training Day: Enable Remote Work with Microsoft Teams
To be productive in a remote environment, your employees need to be able to safely collaborate from anywhere. Microsoft 365 Virtual Training Day: Enabling Remote Work with Microsoft Teams helps you provide a remote workforce with the tools, resources and solutions they need to stay connected and productive. Join us to learn how to get the most out of Microsoft Teams online meetings, calling, video and chat, and empower your workforce to work from any location on any device. During this two-part training event, you will explore how to: (1) Enable your people to meet and collaborate from home, (2) Make productivity applications available on any device, and (3) Deliver the best remote user experience.
- Part 1: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 from 10:00am – 1:45pm PT
- Part 2: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 from 10:00am – 1:30pm PT
- Part 1: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 from 10:00am – 1:45pm PT
- Part 2: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:30pm PT
Customer Immersion Experience: Integrate Your Business into Microsoft Teams
The workforce relies on Microsoft Teams to chat, meet, and collaborate. But that’s just the beginning. Microsoft Teams can bring the applications and tools you’re already using, into one universal hub your workforce needs to get things done. During this interactive session, you will explore how to: (1) Integrate ready-to-use apps into the Teams experience, (2) Maintain control over which apps are accessible for your organization, (3) Create an App that embeds modern SharePoint pages in Teams using App Studio, (4) Manage permission and set up policies through the Admin Center, and (5) Scale business critical apps to your organization. Each session is limited to 15 participants, reserve your seat now.
- Wednesday, June 23, 2021 from 9am – 11am PT
- Wednesday, June 23, 2021 from 12pm – 2pm PT
- Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from 9am -11am PT
- Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from 12pm – 2pm PT
Teams Chalk Talk: Taking charge of AV quality experiences
Are you looking to ensure users have optimal experiences with meetings and voice capabilities in Teams? During this session, we’ll discuss tools, reporting and best practices to help you manage service quality -- from establishing a proactive strategy to resolving common quality issues as they arise. We’ll build upon best practices from Teams experts and make it real with examples of common scenarios that may arise as your organization embraces meetings and voice capabilities in Teams. Join us for an expert-led workshop for guidance on key resources and actionable insights to manage audio and video quality with Microsoft Teams. Your users will thank you for it! After this session, you will be able to: (1) Define key service metrics and user experience factors for quality, (2) Recognize concepts and metrics in core tools and resources that help you assess usage and quality, (3) Identify key indicators of poor experience in common scenarios and relevant actions to address, and (4) Establish a proactive quality management strategy to ensure optimal user experience.
Teams Chalk Talk: So...you want to make calls with Microsoft Teams?
Are you ready to add PSTN calling capabilities to Microsoft Teams? Join Microsoft Teams Engineering subject-matter-experts as they demystify the options for adding PSTN calling to Teams, provide you with best practices for configuring calling options and show you how to monitor call quality. After this session, you will be able to: (1) Understand the history of voice services in Microsoft products, (2) Identify what calling options in Microsoft Teams are right for you, (3) Configure your calling options in the Teams admin portal, and (4) Monitor and use call quality tools in Teams.
Empower your Frontline workforce to do more with Teams
Do you need to rapidly onboard a large number of Frontline users to Microsoft Teams and configure a streamlined experience for them? Are you struggling with where and how to start? If yes, this is the clinic for you! Join Microsoft Teams customer engineering experts as we review how Microsoft Teams can accelerate your Frontline worker deployment. Featuring examples from manufacturing, retail, hospitality, and transportation industries, we'll explore how Microsoft Teams provides a single experience for productive conversations, smooth flow of information, simplified schedule management in a compliant and secure environment for your Frontline workers. You'll leave this highly interactive session with tangible next steps to accelerate your planning. After this session, you will be able to: (1) Identify scenarios that matter to your Frontline workers and the best approach to implementing Teams from pilot to scale across your entire organization, (2) Map scenarios to Microsoft Teams use cases, and (3) Craft the right experience for your Frontline workers in Teams by configuring 1P apps and policies.
- Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 11:00am PT
- Tuesday, June 29, 2021 at 11:00am PT
- Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 11:00am PT
- Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 3:30am PT
- Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 11:00am PT
- Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at 3:30am PT
- Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at 11:00am PT
- Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 3:30am PT
Teams Chalk Talk: Energize your Live Events with Microsoft Teams
This 1-hour session will provide an opportunity to learn practical guidance about conducting engaging and energizing large, online virtual events using Microsoft Teams. This session is designed for anyone wishing to organize, produce or speak at a large, virtual event and is open to anyone. During this session, you will: (1) Understand best practices to ensure your large, online virtual event is successful using Microsoft Teams or Teams Live Events, (2) Gain practical, technical production knowledge to ensure your event is engaging, (3) Understand the Attendee experience, (4) Learn before-during-after tactics to build & continue your large, online event momentum with Webinar features, and (5) Leverage and understand step by step virtual event resources as found at aka.ms/virtualeventplaybook.
- Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at 11:30pm PT
- Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 9:00am PT
- Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 11:30pm PT
Microsoft Teams – End User & Champions
Get Started with Microsoft Teams
Join us to learn how to accomplish the fundamental tasks in Teams. Learn how to easily communicate with your co-workers, save time while working and collaborating, and see how teamwork and projects can be managed in a central space. In this training you will learn how to: (1) Set up your profile and notifications, (2) Use chat and calling for 1:1 and group conversations, sharing and collaboration in Microsoft Teams, (3) Schedule and attend meetings, (4) Align your workgroup and projects, and (5) Collaborate on files and tools.
- On-Demand Session
- Monday, June 28, 2021 at 8:00am PT
- Tuesday, June 29, 2021 at 9:00am PT
- Friday, July 2, 2021 at 8:00am PT
Customer Immersion Experience: Getting Started with Microsoft Teams
Whether you are switching from Skype for Business or brand new, join us to learn the basics of how to use Teams to chat with your colleagues and collaborate on projects. Join us for this session and leave this with everything you need to start using Teams. During this 2-hour interactive session, you will explore how to: (1) Set up your profile and notifications in Microsoft Teams, (2) Use chat and calling for 1:1 and group conversations, sharing and collaboration in Microsoft Teams, (3) Schedule and conduct meetings in Microsoft Teams, and (4) Align your team and teamwork in Microsoft Teams. Each session is limited to 15 participants, reserve your seat now.
Explore teams and channels in Microsoft Teams
Do you need to regularly collaborate with your workgroup where you need to access shared files, apps, and conversation threads? Join us to learn how to extend collaboration, provide visibility, and manage teamwork from a central space. Microsoft Teams is a robust collaboration tool, providing you anywhere, anytime access to your group projects, daily operations, knowledgebase resources, and large scope initiatives. Use teams and channels to collaborate in virtual workspaces with your entire group. In this 1-hour training, you will learn how to: (1) Join and organize your teams and channels, (2) Use channels to streamline projects and operations, (3) Collaborate with your team members, and (4) Create and manage teams as an owner.
Microsoft Teams: Master working from home
Working from home offers the opportunity to maintain your workflow while allowing flexibility in how and where you get your work done. Shifting to a remote worker status can be an adjustment as you look for ways to balance home and work life, maintain focus and be fully productive. Microsoft Teams can help you stay connected to your team while providing access to all of the tools and resources you need to get your work done. Join us to learn tips that can help set you up for success as you transition into a 'work from home' scenario. During this session, we'll share: (1) Guidance for setting up your home environment for work, (2) Best practices for maintaining your workflow while working at home, (3) Tips for staying connected to your team while remote, and (4) Insights for effectively supporting a remote team.
Microsoft Teams: Staying connected with your team while remote
We designed Microsoft Teams to be a virtual office you can take anywhere you go. Work seamlessly and transparently with your remote team and discover greater collaboration and productivity. Join us for this session and explore how to avoid communication sinkholes and do more together, no matter where you are. Each session is limited to 15 participants, reserve your seat now. During this interactive session, you will explore how to: (1) Work together as a team from anywhere and with more flexibility, (2) Connect instantly with team members for fast-paced decision making, (3) Meet with anyone, anywhere through audio, video, and web conferences, and (4) Boost team culture with the digital equivalent of an open office space.
Use chat and calling features in Microsoft Teams
Join us to learn how to extend your circle of communication and collaboration with Microsoft Teams. Easily connect with your colleagues anywhere, anytime and manage all your conversations from one central platform. In this 1-hour training you will learn how to: (1) Send and reply to chat messages, (2) Use messaging tools to enhance your conversations, (3) Manage your chat conversations, and (4) Use calling features.
Run Effective Meetings with Microsoft Teams
Have you spent significant time and resources to prepare for a meeting and felt it wasn’t productive and not much was accomplished? Join us to learn how to make your meetings engaging, productive, and meaningful. Use Microsoft Teams for your entire meeting experience. In this training, you will learn how to: (1) Schedule and join meetings and initiate calls, (2) Use collaborative tools such as sharing, whiteboards, meeting notes, recording, and more, (3) Easily access important meetings and related content at any time, and (4) Assess which audio and video devices are best for your meeting needs.
- On-Demand Session
- Monday, June 21, 2021 at 12:00pm PT
- Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at 8:00am PT
- Friday, June 25, 2021 at 11:00am PT
Build collaborative workspaces in Microsoft Teams
Do you need an online, collaborative workspace for your project or workgroup? Join us to explore effective, virtual workspaces for projects and workgroups. Microsoft Teams offer the flexibility to set up a workspace that suits your needs. In this training, you will learn how to: (1) Determine the best approach for your collaboration needs, (2) Create workspaces for your team to provide the best teamwork experience, and (3) Determine best practices in Microsoft Teams to enhance productivity.
- On-Demand Session
- Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 1:00pm PT
- Monday, June 28, 2021 at 11:00am PT
- Friday, July 2, 2021 at 11:00am PT
Leverage pro tips and tricks for Microsoft Teams
Do you use Microsoft Teams on a regular basis and want to learn more? Are you looking for ways to increase your efficiency and productivity in Teams? Join us to discover ways to enhance communication and increase your efficiency and productivity within Teams. Learn how Teams can help organize your workday and make it easier to stay connected with colleagues. In this training, you will learn how to: (1) Leverage formatting best practices to help get your messages noticed and responded to, (2) Integrate tools and best practices to streamline and collaboration process, and (3) Implement strategies to manage and organize your work.
- On-Demand Session
- Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 12:00pm PT
- Friday, June 25, 2021 at 9:00am PT
- Monday, June 28, 2021 at 1:00pm PT
- Tuesday, June 29, 2021 at 12:00pm PT
Integrate apps to do more in Microsoft Teams
Do you want to get more done in Teams? Receive targeted and timely updates? Access services directly through Teams? Apps let you complete tasks, receive updates and communicate. This session introduces you to the key activities needed to get started with adding applications, bots and connectors in Microsoft Teams today. Through a series of live demonstrations and best practices, you'll leave this session with everything you need to start using apps in Teams. After this session, you will be able to: (1) See how applications, bots and connectors can help you be more efficient while working in Teams, (2) Select an application, bot or connector for your workspace, (3) Install an application, bot or connector, and (4) Use an application, bot or connector in your workspace.
Microsoft 365 Virtual Training Day: Building Microsoft Teams Integrations and Workflows
Remote work requires smarter workflows. Microsoft 365 Virtual Training Day: Building Microsoft Teams Integrations and Workflows shows you how the Microsoft Teams developer platform makes it easy to integrate your apps and services to improve productivity, make decisions faster and create collaboration around existing content and workflows. Join us to learn how to build apps for Teams and create integrated, people-centered solutions that can transform productivity in your organization, whether you’re on-site or working remotely. During this two-part training event, you will explore how to: (1) Build modern enterprise-grade collaboration solutions with Microsoft Teams, (2) Transform everyday business processes with Microsoft 365 platform integrations for Power Platform, SharePoint and Microsoft Office, and (3) Use the wealth of data in Microsoft Graph to extend Microsoft 365 experiences and build unique intelligent applications.
- Part 1: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 from 10:00am – 12:30pm PT
- Part 2: Thursday, June 24, 2021 from 10:00am – 1:45pm PT
- Part 1: Thursday, July 29, 2021 from 10:00am – 12:30pm PT
- Part 2: Friday, July 30, 2021 from 10:00am – 1:45pm PT
- Part 1: Thursday, August 26, 2021 from 10:00am – 12:30pm PT
- Part 2: Friday, August 27, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:45pm PT
Security & Compliance
Customer Immersion Experience: Protecting Identity, Apps, Data and Devices
Identity is at the center of security: don’t compromise when it comes to your company’s valuable information. Join us to explore how to use secure authentication, govern access, get comprehensive protection and set the right identity foundation. During this 2-hour interactive session, you will explore how to: (1) Enable password protection, (2) Bring multi-factor authentication to your Windows 10 users, (3) Protect your users and data through Office 365 multi-factor authentication, and (4) Use conditional access to protect across devices, locations and apps. Each session is limited to 15 participants, reserve your seat now.
Microsoft 365 Virtual Training Day: Secure and Protect Your Organization
When employees are confident in their ability to collaborate remotely and securely, they are free to achieve more without worry. Learn how to protect data, devices, and applications while simplifying IT and minimizing the impact on employees at Microsoft Security Virtual Training Day: Secure and Protect Your Organization. During this free two-part learning event and accompanying Q&A, you’ll form the foundations to safeguard your company’s digital footprint. During this training event, you will explore how to: (1) Craft identity synchronization, protection, and management, (2) Utilize security in Microsoft 365, and (3) Integrate cloud app security and device management plans.
- Part 1: Wednesday, July 7, 2021 from 10:00am – 12:45pm PT
- Part 2: Thursday, July 8, 2021 from 10:00am – 1:00pm PT
- Part 1: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 from 10:00am – 12:45pm PT
- Part 2: Wednesday, August 4, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm PT
Microsoft 365 Virtual Training Day: Protect Sensitive Information and Manage Data Risk
As people increasingly shift to remote work, protecting your organization’s information and managing risk should be a top priority. Microsoft Security Virtual Training Day: Protect Sensitive Information and Manage Data Risk teaches you how to take advantage of Microsoft technologies that identify and remediate risks that arise from creating, storing, sharing, and using sensitive data. In addition, you’ll learn how to protect that data throughout its entire life cycle—on-premises and across devices, apps, and cloud services. During this two-part training event, you will explore how to: (1) Understand, identify, and protect your most sensitive data, (2) Identify and take action on insider risks and code-of-conduct violations, and (3) Utilize information protection and governance.
- Part 1: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 from 10:00am – 1:30pm PT
- Part 2: Thursday, July 22, 2021 from 10:00am – 12:30pm PT
- Part 1: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 from 10:00am – 1:30pm PT
- Part 2: Thursday, August 19, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:30pm PT
Customer Immersion Experience: Protecting Your Sensitive Information
Data needs to be protected wherever it’s stored and whenever it travels, and you need the tools to monitor policy violations and risky behavior. Join us to explore how to implement a comprehensive and integrated approach across devices, apps, cloud services, and on-premises. During this 2-hour interactive session, you will explore how to: (1) Identify, monitor and automatically protect sensitive information across Office 365, (2) Help classify and protect documents and email, and (3) Use policies to enable BYOD scenarios by protecting data at the app level. Each session is limited to 15 participants, reserve your seat now.
Customer Immersion Experience: Protecting Assets and Empowering Your Defenders
Today’s workforce can work from anywhere, on any device, and on any app. Security teams need to understand threat signals from disconnected products and optimize security with minimal complexity. During this 2-hour interactive session, you will explore how to: (1) Safeguard users from malware attacks such as phishing and spoofing with Office 365, (2) Use the Windows Defender ecosystem to proactively monitor and protect your users, (3) Utilize Office 365 ATP to help protect users from bad links and attachments, and (4) Let machine learning and automation protect users from threats. Each session is limited to 15 participants, reserve your seat now.
Blogs & Articles of Interest
Public Sector Blog Website | RSS Feed
- June 2021 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter - Microsoft Tech Community
- What's new for Power Platform in US Government Clouds - Microsoft Tech Community
- Records Management and Driving Compliance [M365 Meetup for Government] - Microsoft Tech Community
Featured Blog Roundup
Microsoft Teams Blog Website | RSS Feed
Office & Microsoft 365
- Microsoft 365 Business Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Microsoft 365 Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Office 365 Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Microsoft Teams Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Microsoft SharePoint Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Microsoft OneDrive Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Excel Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Planner Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Microsoft Forms Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Outlook Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Microsoft Visio Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Workplace Analytics MyAnalytics Website | RSS Feed
- Yammer Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Azure Active Directory Identity Blog Website | RSS Feed
Enterprise identity, mobility, and security
- Azure Active Directory Identity Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Azure Information Protection Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Core Infrastructure and Security Blog Website | RSS Feed
Microsoft Azure and Development
- Azure Customer Advisory Team (CAT) Website | RSS Feed
- Student Developer Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Azure Data Explorer Website | RSS Feed
- Azure Dev Community Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Azure Status Monitoring Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Hardware Dev Center Website | RSS Feed
- Internet of Things Website | RSS Feed
- Premier Developer Blog Website | RSS Feed
Windows, Operations, Management, and Deployment
Support and adoption
- Microsoft 365 Adoption Portal
- Driving Adoption Blog Website | RSS Feed
- IIS Support Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Intune Customer Success Website | RSS Feed
- Premier Field Engineering Blog Website | RSS Feed
- SharePoint Support Blog Website | RSS Feed
- SQL Server Support Blog Website | RSS Feed
- Tech Community Blog Website | RSS Feed
Misc
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