New Financial Year, New toys from Microsoft – maybe this is Christmas in July?
Congratulations to New and Renewed Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP)!
Shout out to MVPs down under that I have met and see frequently, love your work.
July was a big month, lots of announcements and improvements
Scraping in just before the end of June, Microsoft Phone System Direct Routing is Generally Available. If your Country is supported through Telecom provider, Direct Routing enables users to make and receive calls in Teams. 
Waffle Menu in web client lists some of your Office Online Web Apps
Edit Documents within Teams
eDiscovery for Calling and Meetings
MS Teams Free Version – up to 300 users
Live Events (Preview) – very excited for this
Usage Analytics (GA)
Share PowerPoint directly in your Meetings
Translate Chat messages
Code Snippets
VIP DND Bypass
SfB contacts to Teams
New Keyboard shortcuts
Team Join Code
250 participant meetings
And more features for Teams spilling into August!
Edu tenants get 20Pb of storage
Files will have 100 Versions in History
Mailbox Auditing enabled by default
Exchange 2019, Skype for Business 2019, SharePoint 2019, Project 2019 Public Preview Available now
Surface Go – New lightweight, 10″ Surface to compete with Apple iPad Pro
Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2018
Featured Sessions available from here
MS Inspire & Ready 2018
Tweet from my favourite MS MVP – Satya Nadella’s empowering MS Interns
Corenotes and Sessions available from here
AI School and IoT School
Learning paths in Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things
Some interesting Updates impacting Exchange:
Windows 10 Evolution:
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Details on next version of Azure AD Connect found here
Global Office 365 Developer Bootcamp
Guided workflow to “deleting” M365 Users
Build Bots with Botbuilder Templates
I am very interested in the direction Microsoft are going, especially with
This Meeting Room Device
The black cone in the center, has cameras and microphones.
Leveraging Cognitive Services, it will shake up the way of Meetings in future.
Facial Recognition, Voice Recognition, Live Transcription/Translation, Action Items, File Lookups, Hololens support for remote attendees, etc.
Remote Assist with Hololens
The next step in Remote Assistance 🙂
Featured Image courtesy of Brand Magazine Phillipines
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