Microsoft Ignite 2019 Highlight Notes
|
Published
Not sure the value to others of this, but I've been using these tidbits in a number of interviews and talks I've been doing coming out of Microsoft Ignite 2019 in Orlando last week. Sorry about the lack of links, but it at least gives you some sound bits to search on and learn more about.
Stats and Sounds Bits
- 100M MAU in the cloud
- 100 GB files
- Delta file sync for all files
- Microsoft is the top right leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for collaboration
- Groups usage more than doubled in the last year
- 9M guests provisioned through groups
- Actionable emails cut group approval response time from 21 to 2 hours
- Site URL rename
- Replace root site
- Flow is becoming Power Automate
Project Cortex
- Automatically organizes your content
- Delivers innovative experiences—topic cards, topic pages and knowledge centers—in Office, Outlook and Microsoft Teams
Search
- Acronym, semantic, and floor plan search
- Content connectors for external content
Intelligent Intranet
- Home sites GA
- Multi-lingual SharePoint pages
- Change tracking
- Page scheduling
- New https://lookbook.microsoft.com
- Royalty free stock photography - PowerPoint and SharePoint
- New SharePoint UX built on Fluent
Teams
- Native SharePoint document experience in Teams
- Background blur now also has background replace
- Voice enhancement powered by AI - also in Streams
- Task integration across Teams, Planner, and To-Do
- Move conversations between Teams and Outlook seamlessly
- Live captions - multilingual
- Interops to other vendors like Cisco WebEx
- Managed meeting rooms
- Pop out chats
- Support for physical whiteboards
Office App Updates
- Daily briefing emails
- Play My Emails - Commute mode
- Comments in Word
- @@tags to tag people
- Can assign a task
- Reply in Outlook to update the Word comment
- Sheet views in Excel
- Private view with filtering and sorting against the same sheet
- Office mobile app
- Combines Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Mobile content creations
- Take a picture of a table and convert to Excel
- Build a slide with design
- Edit and sign PDFs in OneDrive
- Common file picker in mobile Outlook
- Office scripts in Excel Online - JavaScript not VBA
- SPFx for Office add-ins
Document Collaboration
- Document library focus mode
- UI for conditional formatting
- Card view
- Custom PowerApps forms on document libraries
- Teamify from SharePoint - pick your tab resources
- Modern term store - includes analytics
Migration
- Microsoft just acquired Mover - cloud to cloud migration
- Making it a free service
- On prem migration - orchestration of multiple machines for large file share migrations
Yammer
- First new Fluent designed app
- Consistent coauthoring experience across all platforms
- Teams and Outlook integration
- AI driven conversation feed
Here are links to some of the items above, as well as the Ignite keynotes and sessions from which they were shared:
- Vision Keynote with Satya Nadella | Microsoft Ignite 2019 https://youtu.be/jnUiJi4hts4
- Microsoft 365: The World's Productivity Cloud with Jared Spataro https://youtu.be/I1BtbsiUFYg
- Highlights from Microsoft Ignite 2019 (EUM.co) https://youtu.be/BdT8SXGoclA
- From new Microsoft Teams experiences to the all-new Project Cortex—here's what's coming soon to Microsoft 365 (Jared Spataro) http://bit.ly/M365_Ignite
- Use the power of cloud intelligence to simplify and accelerate IT and the move to a modern workplace (Brad Anderson) http://bit.ly/Cloud_Ignite
- Project Cortex deep dive | Intelligent knowledge management built on SharePoint with Naomi Moneypenny on Microsoft Mechanics https://youtu.be/sWAaq2R6TtY
- SharePointTV Episode 3 - Guests Jeff Teper and Dan Holme - LIVE from Ignite https://youtu.be/3EtN3Br224E
- AI and Cortana in Microsoft 365 put people at the center (Andrew Shuman) http://bit.ly/AI_Ignite
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 Community Reporter Interview: Jared Spataro https://youtu.be/OXfSW-DvNik
Also check out these two Extranet User Manager Ignite 2019 recap sessions:
- Highlights from Microsoft Ignite 2019
- MVP Panel: What You Missed from Microsoft Ignite 2019
- What You Missed from Microsoft Ignite 2019