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Paul talks with John Nguyen and Luca Bandinelli about the developer story for Viva Connections.
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Call Summary:
Topics covered in this month’s community call include 3 demos – COE in Dataverse for Teams in the Power Platform, Planner Gantt chart in Power Apps, and Create a digital escape room with Power Apps. Also, Recent Power Apps News and Community Contributions and Latest on PnP Power Platform Samples Contributions. Demo Extravaganza 2021. Entries accepted now, Finalist voting starts – June 1st, Finalist voting ends – June 30th, Finals / Winner(s) to be Announced – July 21, 2021 at 08:00 PT. This session included Q&A in chat. The call was hosted by Todd Baginski (Canviz). Demo presenters are Krishna Vandanapu, Terho Antila and May Alhajri. This call was recorded on June 16, 2021. Thank for attending the call or viewing it on demand.
Demos:
COE in Dataverse for Teams in the Power Platform – tips on configuring and using the Center of Excellence (CoE) Management/Governance tool that runs on top of Dataverse for Teams and is used for maintaining and supporting the Power Platform. Hear about and see the 5 major components in CoE Dataverse for Teams followed by the presenter’s favorite apps & flows and the advantages and limitations of the tool.
Planner Gantt chart in Power Apps – a Power Apps canvas app that builds a Gantt chart out of the tasks stored in Microsoft Planner. Use in Microsoft 365 environment with Planner connectors and no premium licensing required. Hear about lessons learned in development and capabilities yet to implement. UI display’s all Planner Plans available to it, multiple plans may be viewed on Gantt chart at one time.
Create a digital escape room with Power Apps – the user experience: Participants need to solve problems cast about the digital room to get out of the room – open the door. Presenter defines process for app design – create story, clues, images (build the room), locks, and then build app. Experience the app then go behind scenes to step through components used (button, label, pop up message, collections) for the app.
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In this episode with Rajesh Setlem, learn about the new integrated assessment and migration experience for Azure SQL from Azure Data Studio as well as how easy it is to get started.
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Final Update: Thursday, 17 June 2021 15:43 UTC
We’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal with no customer impact as of 06/17, 14:10 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 06/17, 11:55 UTC and that during the 2 hours & 15 minutes that it took to resolve the issue, some customers may have experienced issues ingesting telemetry in Log Analytics Workspace and may have experienced intermittent data latency, data gaps and incorrect alert activation in UK South region.
- Root Cause: The failure was due to an issue with our dependent service.
- Incident Timeline: 2 Hours & 15 minutes – 06/17, 11:55 UTC through 06/17, 14:10 UTC
We understand that customers rely on Azure Log Analytics as a critical service and apologize for any impact this incident caused.
-Rahul
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In today’s fast-evolving global economy, organizations are increasingly pressed to find ways to accelerate their time to market and unlock value to achieve a significant return of investment (ROI) on their technological investments.
Companies worldwide are fast realizing the costly consequences of not having robust business continuity plans and remote-capable tools especially in times of crisis and uncertain macroeconomic conditions such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
With enterprise-ready mixed reality solutions like Dynamics 365 Remote Assist for HoloLens 2, not only can companies survive these tough times, but many organizations spanning across a multitude of industries including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing have discovered that they were able to even thrive and accelerate their time to market when they embraced mixed reality technologies that enabled teams across geographic borders to collaborate seamlessly with 3D annotations and anchor critical work resources right within their real-world work environment.
In the manufacturing industry, we are also seeing a groundswell of interest in mixed reality technologies because of the tangible benefits that can be achieved in a short amount of time. Based on the Microsoft-commissioned Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) report for Dynamics 365 Remote Assist, organizations have reported numerous quantified benefits gained from using mixed reality technologies to empower frontline workers on production floors.
Some of these benefits (as detailed in the report) include:
- Customers typically resolving throughput-impacted issues five days earlier, saving an estimated $20,052 per issue. For each production hour saved, the composite avoids $950 in wasted labor, $2,500 in lost operating income, and $1,563 in direct costs such as rush shipping, waste, and fees. Mixed reality technologies have helped organizations to adopt practices that are kinder to the environment by avoiding travel and improving first-time fix rates to reduce wastage and the need for additional re-work.
- Experts avoid approximately 17 trips per year, saving $53,550 in travel costs and 384 hours per expert. When remote experts can help support frontline workers in real-time with 3D annotations right in their real-world work environment, companies now have the ability to develop business continuity plans by leveraging remote collaboration tools to ensure that the right expertise is accessible anytime, anywhere.
When coupled with Dynamics 365 Field Service, organizations can transform their entire service delivery experience, right from issue ticket creation to issue resolution. While Dynamics 365 Remote Assist enables field technicians to remotely triage issues before determining whether an onsite visit is required, Dynamics 365 Field Service further supports field technicians by optimizing the service management process. It enables organizations to optimize resource management to ensure that technicians with the right expertise are dispatched in a timely manner to the customer’s site. Once onsite, field technicians can then seamlessly access relevant work order information anchored right in the context of their real-world environment to get a comprehensive understanding of the issue. They can also create, edit, and save work orders while onsite, and include relevant image assets from their field visits for future reference. This wealth of service-related information ultimately enables customers to swiftly move from reactive to proactive service, and eventually even leverage predictive capabilities powered by AI to anticipate issues even before they occur.
Companies have also found innovative uses for mixed reality technology, including using Dynamics 365 Remote Assist to conduct remote site visits of their production facilities and to conduct remote training to help onboard new employees. Read this inspiring story about EcoLab to learn how they successfully tested virtual service delivery at their pharmaceutical drug production facilitiesmore information is also available in their EcoLab press release.
Learn more
If you’re considering ways to infuse mixed reality technologies to accelerate your organization’s time to market and help build robust business continuity plans with mixed reality, learn more about Dynamics 365 Remote Assist via our free Dynamics 365 Remote Assist learning path.
Want to truly transform your customers’ end-to-end service experience? Learn more about using Dynamics 365 Remote Assist with Dynamics 365 Field Service to equip your field technicians with critical tools, resources, and access to remote experts while on the job.
Register for the Bringing Mixed Reality to BioTech webinar, available on-demand, to hear from Ian Curtinsmith, Chief Information Officer of Medlab Clinical, an ASX-listed biotechnology company to learn how mixed reality business applications has helped MedLab Clinical overcome global travel restrictions and accelerate their products’ time to market now that experts can remotely collaborate seamlessly in real-time from around the world. You can also read MedLab Clinical’s story.
Sources: The Total Economic Impact
Of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Remote Assist, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, June 2020
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At the annual Microsoft Build 2021 Developer Conference, we announced two new products that are based on blockchain technology. Azure Confidential Ledger, now in preview, offers a fully managed service for customers who need to store sensitive data with high integrity and confidentiality. Azure SQL Database ledger, also in preview, enables storage of sensitive relational data in a tamper-evident way.
In this blog post, we’ll introduce you to both of these new products as well as help you understand when it makes sense to use them individually, together, and even with an existing blockchain system.
Azure Confidential Ledger
Enterprises running sensitive workloads need a secure way to store their logs and important metadata while collaborating with other parties. The Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF) is a Microsoft-created open framework for building confidential permissioned blockchain services. By running a confidential blockchain network of nodes in secure enclaves, data remains append-only with immutability guarantees and the data from the client goes straight to the ledger’s enclaves.
Building on the CCF framework, Azure Confidential Ledger (preview) provides the ability to store sensitive data records with integrity and confidentiality guarantees, all in a highly available and performant manner. Stored data remains immutable and tamper-proof in the append-only ledger with the benefits of a fully managed solution that provides infrastructure and operations so customers can get started quickly. The service provides these assurances by harnessing the power of Confidential Computing‘s secure enclaves when setting up the decentralized blockchain network. Microsoft’s access is limited to setting up and managing the network, and this specialized design means that only the customer has access to transaction data in the Confidential Ledger.
Asking yourself the following questions can help you decide if Azure Confidential Ledger is right for you:
- Do you need to store unstructured data (i.e. files, digests) that must remain intact for recordkeeping purposes?
- Are you working with sensitive workflows where confidentiality must be maintained?
- Are you in need of a service that has high integrity and security with a minimalistic trusted computing base?
- Are you working with parties that need irrefutable evidence that tampering did not occur to the stored data?
If you said yes to one or more of these, Azure Confidential Ledger is right for you. Customers have been using Azure Confidential Ledger in various ways. Novaworks, an e-parliamentary software solution, is using Azure Confidential Ledger to securely log votes in a tamper-proof ledger for a high-fidelity voting process.
Azure SQL Database ledger
Azure SQL Database ledger (preview) is a tamper-evident solution for your databases that provides cryptographic proof of your database’s integrity. Using a blockchain data structure implemented as system tables in your database, the ledger feature ensures that any transaction which modifies relational data in your database can be tracked, and any potential tampering detected and easily remediated. Providing proof that your data has not been tampered with is as simple as running a stored procedure that compares the calculated cryptographic hashes in your database against a database digest, which is published automatically in a secure location, such as Azure Confidential Ledger.
Ledger is a feature of Azure SQL Database, meaning there is no additional cost to add tamper-evidence capabilities. You don’t have to migrate data from your existing SQL databases to add tamper-evidence capabilities and no changes are needed to your applications as ledger is an extension of existing SQL table functionality.
Asking yourself the following questions can help you decide if Azure SQL Database ledger is right for you.
- Do you have business-critical data in Azure SQL Database where you must ensure data integrity is intact?
- Can 3rd parties who interact with your data accept a “trust, but verify” model rather than each party having a copy of the ledger?
- Do you need to prove to auditors or regulators that your data has not been tampered with?
- Do you have a need for queryability and strong data management capabilities, such as streaming data from a blockchain to an off-chain store while maintaining integrity from on-chain to off-chain?
If you can answer “yes” to any of these questions, then Azure SQL Database ledger is right for you. Customers like RTGS.global, who provide a global liquidity network for banks, are already using this capability to provide a ledger of transactions to regulators to prove that global banking transactions have not been tampered. Read our blog to learn more.
Putting it all together
Trust is foundational in any business process that spans organizational boundaries. Microsoft goes beyond traditional blockchains, using the building blocks of this technology as the underpinning for the distributed ledger of Azure Confidential Ledger and the consolidated data store of Azure SQL Database ledger. These solutions empower our customers to apply the power of blockchain to sensitive data, simplifying solution development, reducing cost and providing a new level of digital trust to transactions.
Deciding which technology is best for your needs ultimately depends on the level of trust between parties transacting with the data, and the type of data being protected. In addition to the points mentioned above, consider the following when deciding whether Azure SQL Database ledger or Azure Confidential Ledger is right for you.
Learn more
- Read the Azure Confidential Ledger announcement blog and documentation to learn more about how this new service is empowering our customers and securing their work.
- Read the Azure SQL Database ledger documentation and whitepaper to learn more about how the ledger feature works and how to use it with your Azure SQL Database.
by Contributed | Jun 17, 2021 | Technology
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At the annual Microsoft Build 2021 Developer Conference, we announced two new products that are based on blockchain technology. Azure Confidential Ledger, now in preview, offers a fully managed service for customers who need to store sensitive data with high integrity and confidentiality. Azure SQL Database ledger, also in preview, enables storage of sensitive relational data in a tamper-evident way.
In this blog post, we’ll introduce you to both of these new products as well help you understand when it makes sense to use them individually, together, and even with an existing blockchain system.
Azure Confidential Ledger
Enterprises running sensitive workloads need a secure way to store their logs and important metadata while collaborating with other parties. The Confidential Consortium Framework is a Microsoft-created open SDK framework for building confidential permissioned blockchain services. By running a confidential blockchain network of nodes in secure enclaves, data remains append-only and the data from the client goes straight to the ledger’s enclaves.
Building on that framework, Azure Confidential Ledger (preview) provides the ability to store sensitive data records with integrity and confidentiality guarantees, all in a highly available and performant manner. Stored data remains immutable and tamper-proof in the append-only ledger with the benefits of a fully-managed solution that provides infrastructure and operations so customers can get started quickly. The service provides these assurances by harnessing the power of Confidential Computing‘s secure enclaves when setting up the decentralized blockchain network. Microsoft’s access is limited to setting up and managing the network, and this specialized design means that only the customer has access to transaction data in the Confidential Ledger.
Asking yourself the following questions can help you decide if Azure Confidential Ledger is right for you:
- Do you need to store unstructured data (i.e. files, digests) that must remain intact for recordkeeping purposes?
- Are you working with sensitive workflows where confidentiality must be maintained?
- Are you in need of a service that has high integrity and security with a minimalistic trusted computing base?
- Are you working with parties that need irrefutable evidence that tampering did not occur to the stored data?
If you said yes to one or more of these, Azure Confidential Ledger is right for you. Customers have been using Azure Confidential Ledger in various ways. Novaworks, an e-parliamentary software solution, is using Azure Confidential Ledger to securely log votes in a tamper-proof ledger for a high fidelity voting process.
Azure SQL Database ledger
Azure SQL Database ledger (preview) is a tamper-evident solution for your databases that provides cryptographic proof of your database’s integrity. Using a blockchain data structure implemented as system tables in your database, the ledger feature ensures that any transaction which modifies relational data in your database can be tracked, and any potential tampering detected and easily remediated. Providing proof that your data has not been tampered with is as simple as running a stored procedure that compares the calculated cryptographic hashes in your database against a database digest, which is published automatically in a secure location, such as Azure Confidential Ledger.
Ledger is a feature of Azure SQL Database, meaning there is no additional cost to add tamper-evidence capabilities. You don’t have to migrate data from your existing SQL databases to add tamper-evidence capabilities and no changes are needed to your applications as ledger is an extension of existing SQL table functionality.
Asking yourself the following questions can help you decide if Azure SQL Database ledger is right for you.
- Do you have business-critical data in Azure SQL Database where you must ensure data integrity is intact?
- Can 3rd parties who interact with your data accept a “trust, but verify” model rather than each party having a copy of the ledger?
- Do you need to prove to auditors or regulators that your data has not been tampered with?
- Do you have a need for queryability and strong data management capabilities, such as streaming data from a blockchain to an off-chain store while maintaining integrity from on-chain to off-chain?
If you can answer “yes” to any of these questions, then Azure SQL Database ledger is right for you. Customers like RTGS.global, who provide a global liquidity network for banks, are already using this capability to provide a ledger of transactions to regulators to prove that global banking transactions have not been tampered. Read our blog to learn more.
Putting it all together
Trust is foundational in any business process that spans organizational boundaries. Microsoft goes beyond traditional blockchains, using the building blocks of this technology as the underpinning for the distributed ledger of Azure Confidential Ledger and the consolidated data store of Azure SQL Database ledger. These solutions empower our customers to apply the power of blockchain to sensitive data, simplifying solution development, reducing cost and providing a new level of digital trust to transactions.
Deciding which technology is best for your needs ultimately depends on the level of trust between parties transacting with the data, and the type of data being protected. In addition to the points mentioned above, consider the following when deciding whether Azure SQL Database ledger or Azure Confidential Ledger is right for you.
Learn more
- Read the Azure Confidential Ledger announcement blog and documentation to learn more about how this new service is empowering our customers and securing their work.
- Read the Azure SQL Database ledger documentation and whitepaper to learn more about how the ledger feature works and how to use it with your Azure SQL Database.
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As a critical mass of companies and organizations embrace some form of a hybrid work environment, many customers are looking for the best technology to build or maintain their competitive position. That’s why I’m pleased to announce the latest Surface Hub innovations to help customers thrive in this new “boundaryless” workspace — from new Microsoft Teams features and a new Edge browser experience to improved management and admin capabilities.
Microsoft Teams Rooms on Surface Hub
Coming soon to the Windows Insider Program: The new Microsoft Teams Rooms on Surface Hub experience, designed to enable boundaryless collaboration on a device purpose-built for teams to meet and co-create, wherever they work. For a sneak peek and how to join the Windows Insider program, check out this video:
This next generation of Teams on Surface Hub has been redesigned to bring your favorite features from the desktop and Microsoft Teams Rooms into the meeting space. With a new meeting stage, a robust set of meeting controls, and popular features including Together Mode scenes, background noise suppression, chat bubbles, and live reactions, Teams Rooms on Surface Hub enriches collaboration for the hybrid workplace. You can easily access your Microsoft 365 files and confidently present using features like PowerPoint Live in Teams, letting you see slides, notes, and your audience all in one view.
Simply put, Teams is evolving to provide more “presence” so instead of just looking at a wall of faces, you can create personal spaces like a dining room table or a coffee shop.
This public preview will be available starting next week via the Windows Insider Program for Surface Hub, and we will add exciting features like Coordinated Meeting and Proximity based meeting joins over the course of the preview.
If you’re not already familiar with the Windows Insider program, when the public preview concludes later this year, these features will become available to all Surface Hubs. For terms and conditions, refer to the Microsoft Windows Insider Program Agreement.
Coming soon
New Microsoft Edge experience on Surface Hub
With the Surface Hub Windows 10 Team 2020 Update, we provided a way for our customers to experience the new Microsoft Edge on Surface Hub. Also coming with this Insiders update, we’re making the new Microsoft Edge the default browser. on Surface Hub. With this, you can now experience the same desktop Microsoft Edge Chromium browser that our customers love on the Surface Hub.
IT management of Surface Hub
Later this year we will also integrate Surface Hub into the Microsoft Managed Service and into Microsoft Teams Admin Center to make it even simpler to deploy and manage your devices on scale.
Productivity in the hybrid workplace
Building Surface Hub 85″
When we set out to build our our biggest Surface device ever, we could no longer rely on side by side, in person processes. To learn how we approached this challenge of retooling our processes for the remote and hybrid environment, check out the latest episode of Beneath the Surface.
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Azure Static Web Apps is a serverless web app hosting service offering streamlined full-stack development, with many built-in features designed to make your life easier. Because it’s always hard to get started with any new technology, we created a series of practical, short videos with all the tips and tricks you need to get your apps up and running in a blink.
We choose to cover all the basics you need to get started, and then focus on specific use-cases that may be useful in most situations. With these videos, you’ll get all the essential knowledge to move your project forward with Azure Static Web Apps!
The full video series is available for free here:
This series is made of 16 videos, organized in 4 modules each with a different focus. You can either follow all of them as a full course or pick some as you need to complete your skill set.
Azure Static Web Apps essentials
If you’ve never heard of Static Web Apps or if you’re just being curious, this is the place to start. You’ll discover the basics about it, install all the tools to work efficiently and see how fast you can get your website online. Then you’ll set up a full CI/CD pipeline and see how to use pre-production environments, and finally create your own personal blog with Gatsby.
Videos:
Building a shopping app
Now that you’re ready to code, we’ll cover the use case of building a shopping app progressively, configuring the routing, adding an API and securing your app with built-in authentication and authorization. And because as web developers we love to have nice looking URLs, we’ll also see how to configure your custom domain step by step.
Videos:
Using C# and Blazor to create full-stack web apps
With Blazor and Web Assembly you can use C# all the way to create full-stack web apps. This especially great if your’re well versed in C#, and want to use your skills to create a comple serverless web app and API entirely written in C# with .Net. You’ll start your journey here from the beginning, and see all the important aspects you need to care for while creating your Blazor app.
Videos:
Using Cosmos DB with MongoDB API and Mongoose with your Static Web Apps
Almost every web project will require client and server-side code, and ultimately, a database. With Static Web Apps you’ve seen how to create and deploy websites, and we’ll expand on that using tools you’re already familiar with, including MongoDB and Mongoose for managing data. You’ll save time learning how to create a complete app with a database from this starter kit, going through every steps you need to deploy your project and database.
Videos:
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Videos are great for visual learning, but having additional forms of content is always helpful.
Tell us your feedback!
Of course, we can’t cover every single thing there is to know about Static Web Apps in these videos. But we want to give you all the essential knowledge you need to get started on your project.
And more importantly, we’re also here to listen and help as much as we can! :)
Please tell us your experience, your difficulties and questions, and how we may improve this series in the comments.
On behalf of the whole team, THANK YOU for taking this journey with us! :folded_hands:
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As offices begin to open, there is great anticipation of reuniting and collaborating in person. But as people’s habits have changed over the past year, so have their expectations. Going forward, the workplace will be hybrid. This fluid experience will be realized across a continuum of spaces, where extreme flexibility allows you to choose where and when you work.
Now, more than ever people need collaboration experiences that put everyone on an equal footing, whether they join meetings from a conference room, home office, or on the go. In March, Microsoft unveiled our vision for the future of Teams Rooms, where connections feel natural and people feel included, represented, and can collaborate without boundaries. And today, Jared Spataro shared new innovations from Microsoft Teams and Teams Rooms designed to help you connect and engage, regardless of where you work.
Over the course of this year, we will deliver new experiences in Teams Rooms built to ensure everyone can be seen, heard, and fully participate from anywhere. Today we are announcing a new set of features, capabilities and devices that support the best hybrid meeting experience yet.
Front row, a new content layout for Teams Rooms, with a dual-monitor configuration, gives participants a greater sense of connection with remote attendees.
Participate on equal footing, no matter where you are
With so many people working from home this past year, we shared a more balanced meeting experience, where nearly all participants were joining remotely and on equal footing. As your organization plans for the hybrid work world, you have an opportunity to extend this equitable meeting experience across workspaces, ensuring everyone can collaborate without compromise.
To give people in the room a greater sense of connection to remote participants and support collaboration before, during, and after meetings, we’re introducing a new content layout called front row. Visually, this new layout moves the video gallery to the bottom of the screen so in-room participants can see remote colleagues face to face across a horizontal plane – similar to if they were in the same room.
Meeting content is surrounded by contextual fluid components like the agenda, tasks, and notes, which can be updated in real-time, helping you stay engaged and productive. Additionally, the meeting chat is brought clearly into view so when in a room you can easily see and engage in the conversation in real-time. This layout will be supported across both single and dual display configurations.
Single screen configuration of Front row, a new content layout for Teams Rooms brings remote users on equal footing with in-room meeting participants. Single screen configuration of Front row, a new content layout for Teams Rooms brings remote users on equal footing with in-room meeting participants.
Helping remote participants establish a genuine presence in the room is key to delivering an inclusive hybrid meeting experience. Turning on video is one of the best things you can do when joining remotely and with new video layouts for Teams Rooms, we’ll maximize screen real estate by splitting the video gallery across all available displays when content isn’t being shared. With increased screen space, video of remote participants can be seen more clearly, bringing greater attention to the people who aren’t in the room.
New video layouts for Teams Rooms maximizes screen real estate by splitting the video gallery across available displays.
We’re also bringing popular features from the personal Teams meeting experience to Teams Rooms. With the ability to pin or spotlight multiple video streams, you can maintain a clear view of the selected videos when in a room. Remote participants can promote their presence in the room by engaging in the meeting, which doesn’t always require speaking up. Live reactions, now visible in a Teams Room, allows you to share sentiments, and when using the classic video grid layout, chat bubbles alert in-room participants to the conversation happening alongside the meeting, so nothing gets missed and all voices are heard.
Teams Rooms now include popular features from the personal Teams meeting experience that help remote attendees promote their presence in the room.
Optimize how remote viewers can see and hear what happens in the room
When you join meetings from a personal account, your individual video and profile information makes it easy to identify who said what but faces and voices can get lost in the crowd when joining from a shared meeting space. We are working with our certified OEM partners to deliver audio and video capabilities that allow every person in the room to be seen and heard more clearly.
Meeting transcripts are a great tool for you to catch up on a meeting asynchronously, but traditional transcription services can’t identify or differentiate between speakers. Intelligent speakers, now generally available from EPOS and Yealink, are designed for Teams Rooms and use Microsoft’s voice recognition technology in Teams to identify who is speaking and apply their name to the meeting transcript. After a quick voice enrollment in Teams, speakers are recognized automatically, and biometric enrollment information is securely stored and manageable in the Office 365 Cloud. Learn more about intelligent speakers for Teams Rooms here.
New category of intelligent speakers for Teams Rooms make meetings more engaging for both remote and in room attendees.
We are also working with our certified OEM partners to deliver enhanced views of rooms that are optimized for remote participants, allowing every person in the room to be seen more clearly. With new advanced camera capabilities, Teams Rooms devices from Neat, Jabra, Logitech and Poly help you feel even closer to the people in the room when joining remotely.
We’re thrilled to announce the newest partner to join the Teams device family, Neat. Later this year, Teams experiences will be available across Neat’s full device portfolio, designed to support hybrid work across home and office workspaces. All Neat devices incorporate unique sensory capabilities like Neat Symmetry, which allows everyone to be seen equally up close. Neat Symmetry combines advanced AI with high-resolution sensors to focus in and individually auto frame each in-room participant, instinctively following them as if they have their own camera person. Learn more about Neat and Neat Symmetry here.
Neat joins the Teams family. Teams experiences available across device portfolio later this year are designed to support hybrid work.
All Neat devices incorporate unique sensory capabilities to allow everyone to be seen equally up close.
The new Jabra PanaCast 50 front-of-room video bar provides an immersive 180-degree view of the room so everyone can be seen. With the new dynamic gallery view, active speakers in the room are shown up close, in their own video pane. PanaCast 50 can also be used to capture an in-room whiteboard so it can be brought into Teams and enhanced, using Microsoft’s intelligent capture feature, eliminating the need for a second content camera. These new views will come to the PanaCast 50 through a software update coming later this year. Learn more about Jabra and Jabra PanaCast 50 here.
Jabra PanaCast 50 front-of-room video bar provides an immersive 180-degree view of the room so everyone can be seen.
New dynamic gallery view enable active speakers in the room to be shown up close, in their own video pane.
RightSight2, a new feature for Logitech Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini, creates a more inclusive meeting experience for remote users by displaying two views on the Teams meeting screen: one of the active speaker, and another that captures everyone in the room. As the conversation shifts to a different speaker, so does the camera. RightSight2 will be available later this year as a software update for Teams Rooms. Learn more about Logitech Room Solutions for Microsoft Teams Rooms here.
RightSight2, a new feature for Logitech Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini, will be available later this year for Teams Room.
The RightSide2 feature for Logitech Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini, creates a more inclusive meeting experience for remote users on a Teams meeting screen.
The new Poly Studio E70 intelligent camera detects and tracks active speakers to help remote participants more clearly follow what is happening in the room. Poly DirectorAI is the brain behind the camera’s capabilities, leveraging AI and machine learning technology to deliver real-time automatic transitions, framing to zoom in closer to the person speaking and tracking to follow the conversation. A future segmented view will display multiple people in their own individual frames. The Poly Studio E70 will be available globally later this year. Learn more about Poly and Poly Studio E70 here.
New Poly Studio E70 intelligent camera, available later this year, will help remote participants more clearly follow what is happening in the room.
Poly DirectorAI, the brain behind the new Poly Studio E70, leverages AI and machine learning technology to deliver real-time automatic transition.
Teams Room on Surface Hub brings boundaryless collaboration to your hybrid meetings
We are all looking forward to those moments of brainstorming huddles back in the office. But in a hybrid environment one of the biggest challenges is finding ways to collaborate fully with participants joining from different locations. We are pleased to share the new Teams Rooms on Surface Hub experience, designed to enable boundaryless collaboration on a device purpose built for teams to meet and co-create, wherever you work.
New Teams Rooms on Surface Hub experience has been redesigned to bring popular features from the desktop to enrich collaboration for the hybrid workplace.
This next generation of Teams on Surface Hub has been redesigned to bring your favorite features from the desktop into the meeting space. With a new meeting stage, a robust set of meeting controls, and popular features including Together Mode scenes, background noise suppression, chat bubbles, and live reactions, Teams Rooms on Surface Hub enriches collaboration for the hybrid workplace. You can easily access your Microsoft 365 files and confidently present using features like PowerPoint Live in Teams, letting you see slides, notes, and your audience all in one view.
People love the rich collaboration capabilities on Surface Hub, and the new Microsoft Whiteboard experience announced today will also come to Teams Rooms on Surface Hub so everyone can draw and ink on the same digital canvas, no matter where they are.
The new Teams Rooms on Surface Hub experience will be rolling out in preview to the Windows Insider Program for Surface Hub later this month. Learn how to enroll in the program here.
Be seen, heard and collaborate from anywhere, at any time
As part of an increasingly mobile workforce, you may work from offices where you do not have an assigned space. Imagine coming into the office for the day or working from a satellite location – you’ll need spaces that give you the flexibility to touch down and focus for a few hours, or simply take a quick call or meeting in private. The new hotdesk capability on the Teams display provides you a way to reserve workspaces ahead of time, and gain access to your personal Teams account in a shared space. Simply log in with your Office 365 credentials and use the display to access your Teams chats, files, and calendar. You can also pair the display with your PC, providing a second screen to help you multitask. When finished, securely sign out and the space is ready for the next person.
New hotdesk capability on the Teams display provides you a way to reserve workspaces ahead of time, and gain access to your personal Teams account in a shared space.
When working from your personal workspace, you will be able to enjoy the rich features of the Teams display on the newest member of the portfolio, Neat Frame. You can easily chat, collaborate, and access the Teams and AI features found on the display on this larger, portrait oriented, 15.6-inch form factor. Now there is a new way for you to easily see colleagues better and engage with live reactions, quick responses, and more.
Enjoy rich features of Teams display from personal workspace with newest member of the portfolio, Neat Frame.
Finally, for seamless connectivity on the go, the first Teams-certified true wireless earbuds will soon be available from Logitech in both Graphite and Rose colors for an always-on Teams experience from your mobile device or desktop.
The first Teams-certified true wireless earbuds from Logitech will soon be available; an always on Teams experience from your mobile device or desktop.
Businesses around the world have been consumed with making remote work successful during the past 18 months, focusing on the physical office took a temporary backseat. That’s all changing as people begin to go back into the office. The way we work has permanently changed. As we return to the office and the physical meeting room, Microsoft, with our device partners, are committed to bringing experiences to Teams Rooms that allow everyone to participate on equal footing, whether in the room or remote.
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