What’s new in Microsoft 365? Microsoft Ignite 2021 announcements.
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The document summarizes announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2021 about new features for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva, and Microsoft 365. Key updates include Teams Connect for shared channels, PowerPoint Live in Teams, new presenter layouts in meetings, Teams webinars, security controls for meetings, and end-to-end encryption for 1:1 calls. Microsoft Viva modules for employee engagement, learning, well-being and knowledge were also introduced. New certified peripherals for Teams Rooms were announced along with gallery views and intelligent speakers.
What’s new in Microsoft 365? Microsoft Ignite 2021 announcements.
- 1. 1 What’s new in Microsoft 365? Microsoft Ignite 2021 announcements Advatera Digital Leadership Forum 2021 Open Roundtable Discussion Thomas Maeder
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- 4. Microsoft Teams Connect – shared Channels 5 • Microsoft Teams Connect helps organizations collaborate seamlessly with external parties through shared channels, is now in private preview. • With shared channels, users can add individuals to a single channel rather than to an entire team. • Each shared channel will appear within a user’s primary Teams tenant alongside existing teams and channels, providing convenient access within their current flow of work. • Teams Connect will be made generally available later this calendar year.
- 5. New Presenter Layouts and Audience Views available in Microsoft Teams Meetings 6 PowerPoint Live in Teams • With PowerPoint Live in Teams, presenters can deliver richer, more inclusive experiences and lead meetings more confidently with notes, slides, meeting chat and participants all in a single view. • Attendees can personalize their experience by privately navigating the content at their own pace or using high-contrast mode to make content more accessible. • PowerPoint Live in Teams is now generally available.
- 6. New Presenter Layouts and Audience Views available in Microsoft Teams Meetings 7 Presenter Mode • Presenter mode empowers presenters to customize how their video feed and content appear for the audience. • New options coming soon are Standout, which shows the speaker’s video feed in front of the shared content; Reporter, which shows content as a visual aid above the speaker’s shoulder; and Side-by-side, which shows the presenter’s video feed alongside their content as they present. • Presenter mode is available this month, with more options coming soon.
- 7. New Presenter Layouts and Audience Views available in Microsoft Teams Meetings 8 Dynamic View • Dynamic view intelligently arranges meeting elements for an optimal presentation. • Presenters can now place the gallery on top so participants appear at the top of the meeting window, helping maintain more natural eye contact with the audience. • In addition, the participant gallery automatically adjusts when the meeting window is resized. • Dynamic view will become generally available in the coming weeks.
- 8. Microsoft Teams Webinars 9 • The Microsoft Teams app can now support interactive webinars. • Teams’ end-to-end webinar support includes custom registration, rich presentation options, host controls (such as the ability to disable attendee chat and video) and post-event reporting. • Teams webinars can also seamlessly scale to a 10,000-person view-only broadcast experience • Selected Teams webinar capabilities, including registration, attendee limits and attendee reporting, will become generally available starting this month.
- 9. New features for Microsoft Teams Security, Privacy and Compliance 10 Invite-only meetings controls • Invite-only meetings controls will be generally available this month. • Invite-only meetings controls help ensure that only intended participants join a meeting. Disable video • Disable video will be generally available in the first half of this calendar year. • This feature is intended to limit potential disruptions, along with other capabilities such as Invite- only meetings and recently announced chat moderation controls. End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for 1:1 Teams calls Teams will support end-to-end encryption for organizations to help customers meet their security and compliance requirements by providing an additional option for conducting sensitive online conversations. For example, a call from an IT admin giving an employee her password over Teams could be conducted with E2EE. In this first release, customers will have the ability to enable E2EE for 1:1 unscheduled Teams calls. Customers will be able to specify which members of their organization can use E2EE. Future updates will be made available to support customers’ evolving compliance needs, including expanding to scheduled calls and online meetings. Multigeo Support • Multigeo support for Teams data will give multinational organizations greater control over the location of specific data centers where their Teams data is stored, down to the team and user level. • Similar to the multigeo capabilities available to customers with Exchange Online and SharePoint Online, this update helps organizations meet specific data compliance and regulatory standards in certain countries and in highly regulated industries.
- 10. New features for Microsoft Teams Rooms and newly certified peripherals 11 Gallery Views in Teams Rooms • New gallery views in Teams Rooms, now generally available, include Together Mode and large gallery. • These views enable everyone in a meeting to see meeting content whether the room has one screen or two. Certified Peripherals Hardware • Microsoft now certifies hardware with audio and video optimized for Microsoft Teams meetings and calling. • Certified monitors are the Dell Video Conferencing Monitor and the Poly Studio P21. These monitors integrate a microphone, speaker, camera and lights (only in P21). Employees simply attach their PC via USB to get started. The new P15 Video Bar from Poly is an easy-to-mount peripheral that transforms an existing monitor into a high- quality Teams endpoint. • Another Teams certified peripheral, the new Cam130 by Aver, integrates lights as well, allowing users to present their best selves in video meetings. Intelligent Speaker • Using advanced speech recognition, intelligent speakers can identify the people talking in a Microsoft Teams Room. • The speakers include a special 7-array microphone that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and differentiate the voices of up to 10 people in meetings and apply their name and profile to the live meeting transcript. • Now, attendees in the new hybrid workplace using the transcript to follow along or capture action items will know who in the room said what. To help ensure privacy and security, users can turn attribution on or off at any time.
- 12. Microsoft Viva 13 • Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform built for the digital era, bringing together tools for employee engagement, learning, well- being and knowledge discovery directly into the flow of people’s work. • The modules are Viva Connections, Viva Learning, Viva Insights and Viva Topics
- 13. Viva Connections 14 • With Viva Connections, employees will receive personalized information delivered to the desktop apps and devices they use every day, such as Microsoft Teams. • The Teams desktop experience of Viva Connections, which provides a curated, company-branded experience including news, conversations and other resources for employees, will become generally available this month • Viva Connections is available for no additional charge to existing Microsoft 365 and Office 365 customers. A mobile experience will also be made available in summer 2021.
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- 16. Viva Learning 17 • Viva Learning will begin rolling out in public preview in April. • This app in Teams creates a central hub for learning where people can discover, share, assign and learn from content libraries across an organization to help make learning a natural part of their day. • Microsoft will share pricing and packaging details for Viva Learning when it becomes generally available.
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- 18. Viva Insights 19 • Starting in April, new personal wellbeing features, such as the virtual commute experience unveiled at Microsoft Ignite 2020, will begin rolling out as part of the Viva Insights app in Teams, available now in the Teams app store in public preview. • Viva Insights has made available an initial set of personal insights for no additional charge to existing Microsoft 365 and Office 365 customers, with manager and org leader insights as an add-on through Workplace Analytics.
- 19. 20 Viva Insights
- 20. Viva Topics 21 • Viva Topics automatically organizes content and expertise across an organization, making it easy for people to find information and put knowledge to work. • It is generally available as an add-on for Microsoft 365 customers.
- 21. 22 Viva Topics
- 22. Microsoft Roadmap Slides from Ignite 2021 23
- 23. 24 Knowledge and Content Services
- 24. 25 SharePoint, Yammer, Stream: Viva Connections
- 26. Microsoft Ignite 2021 Ressources 27 • Microsoft Ignite 2021 Book of News • Flexible work is here to stay: Microsoft 365 solutions for the hybrid work world • What's New in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Ignite 2021 • Microsoft Viva announcements | Microsoft Ignite 2021 • Microsoft Ignite 2021 Sessions • Microsoft 365 Roadmap
- 27. Zielweg 27, 3014 Bern | Switzerland | www.rethinkdigital.ch | thomas.maeder@rethinkdigital.ch | +41 79 688 08 71 rethink your digital employee experience.
Editor's Notes
- #4: https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-march-2021-book-of-news/
- #5: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-microsoft-ignite-2021/ba-p/2118226
- #7: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/introducing-powerpoint-live-in-microsoft-teams/ba-p/2140980
- #8: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/introducing-powerpoint-live-in-microsoft-teams/ba-p/2140980
- #9: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/introducing-powerpoint-live-in-microsoft-teams/ba-p/2140980
- #13: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/microsoft-viva-announcements-at-microsoft-ignite/ba-p/2175907