As promised, here are the links for the topics covered during the Adelaide Microsoft IT Pro Community User Group from 1st November 2022.
In addition, here is the recording, which includes Matt Cline’s topic:
“The Road to Passwordless. Windows Hello for Business and Beyond”: https://youtu.be/3bKRVowCtKg
The slides can be accessed here:
Resource Links from Matt’s presentation
Windows Hello for Business Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) – Windows security | Microsoft Learn
And because it’s John Savill 💖
Learning
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Reminder
Ignite 2022 Cloud Skills Challenge ends 4PM UTC November 9th (2:30AM ADST November 10th)
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Now for some Microsoft Ignite 2022 announcements!
Azure
Premium SSD v2
Offers Virtual Disks up to 64TB, with 80,000 IOPS and 1,200 Mbit/s throughputs.
This is going to be crucial for the availability and latency of Services and Apps hosted in Azure.
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage: General Availability – Microsoft Community Hub
Elastic SAN (Preview)
This Cloud-Native service will offer a scalable, cost-effective, high-performance and reliable storage solution.
You will be able to Lift & Shift or bulk provision new SAN workloads to Azure with an End-to-End experience like on premises, achieving massive scale-up to millions of IOPS, double-digit Gbit/s throughput and single-digit millisecond latencies.
Azure Elastic SAN in preview – Microsoft Community Hub
Azure OpenAI Service (Preview)
Microsoft and OpenAI are joining forces to bring you the Azure OpenAI Service.
OpenAI are the team behind DALL-E, the AI and Natural Language powered image generator.
DALL-E Version 2 will be coming to Azure OpenAI Service.
This leads us to the new app coming: Microsoft Designer, which will leverage DALL-E 2 and AI to empower your designs!
Microsoft Teams
Mesh Avatars are now in Private Preview
You will be able to sign up to the Teams Technical Access Program (NDA).
New Chat Experience
Chats getting video clips, expanded reactions, suggested replies, scheduled send, and @everyone mention Group Chats.
New Channel Experience
Improved Channel Experience coming soon; Pinned posts, pop-out conversations, compose box moving to the top, new info pane, and multiple new post types!
Teams Premium – Add-on available in Preview in December
Will offer a Meeting guide, branded meeting experiences with logos and backgrounds in the Teams lobby, custom backgrounds or at an Org level, as well as custom scenes for Together mode.
Will also include AI powered automated tasks and insights for during and after meetings.
Finally will introduce Advanced Webinars (registration waitlist, manual approvals, automated reminder emails, virtual green rooms for hosts & presenters and manage what attendees see) and Advanced Virtual Appointments (B2C) (access to Virtual Appointment app, ability to join through mobile web browser and schedule through Teams Calendar or Microsoft Bookings, pre-appointment SMS reminders, branded lobby and post-appointment follow-ups.
Cisco now (finally) a Teams Room Certified Devices partner
For More info on Teams announcements:
Microsoft 365 at Ignite—Re-energize your workforce in the office, at home, and everywhere in between | Microsoft 365 Blog
Employee Experience
Microsoft Places – Coming 2023!
Turn your spaces into Places!
A new way to make your presences known, whether it be in the office or remote.
Manage and book Workspaces.
And even monitor analytics on utilities.
Introducing Microsoft Places: Turn your spaces into places | Microsoft 365 Blog
Viva Engage Storyline is now Generally Available
Rolling out over the new few months, engage with your organisation with photos and videos.
Announcing Microsoft Viva Engage – Microsoft Community Hub
Viva Goals Integrations Coming
Viva Goals will soon be integrated with Slack, Google Sheets and on-prem Jira instances.
Goals will also integrate with Microsoft Planner and Project.
Microsoft Syntex is Official
After many years of development Syntex is live; offering a set of content apps and services that leverage AI to index and organise large quantities of unstructured content to be easily searched and analysed.
Overview of Microsoft Syntex – Microsoft Syntex | Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Loop App in Private Preview
The Loop App with Loop Workspaces and Loop Pages is now in Preview.
https://loop.microsoft.com/
Another Productivity tool to enhance Collaboration across multiple platforms in a single context.
Loop Components are coming to Word Online and Whiteboard.
Loop Component types Polls and QnA are releasing, and there will be Sensitivity Labels and DLP policies to include Loop Component.
Microsoft Loop at Ignite 2022 – Microsoft Community Hub
Find out more from the Microsoft Loop User Group run by Microsoft MVP Darrell Webster.
New Microsoft 365 App
We will soon bid farewell to the familiar red-orange, square O and welcome the blue-purple hexagon fluent ribbon O.
Note the Microsoft Designer logo to come. Clipchamp (video editor) also has an icon.
Find out more about what this means for you: https://aka.ms/microsoft-365-faq
Power Platform
Natural Language for Power Automate
You will be able to describe your flow in words, and AI will suggest and assist you in creating a Power Automate Flow.
AI will be able to copilot to help you reshape and format your data with examples.
GitHub will also receive a Co-Pilot experience.
Security
Microsoft Defender for DevOps
An addition to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, this will provide visibility and central security management across multiple DevOps environments.
Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management (CPSM)
In Preview, delivers integrated insights across cloud resources, including DevOps, runtime inf and external attack surfaces and will provide contextual risk-based information to Sec Teams.
Provides proactive attack path analysis, built on the new cloud security graph, to help identify the most exploitable resources across connected workloads to help reduce recommendation noise by 99%.
5 cybersecurity capabilities announced at Microsoft Ignite 2022 – Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft 365 Defender now automatically disrupts ransomware attacks.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint P1/P2 50% off!
Microsoft Intune?
Microsoft is renaming Microsoft Intune (formerly Microsoft Endpoint Manager) back to Microsoft Intune.
Stay tuned for some new tools and functions in the Microsoft Intune Family
Introducing the Microsoft Intune product family – Microsoft Community Hub
Passwordless Things!
Windows Hello for Business Hybrid Cloud Kerberos Trust is now Available.
This marries up On-Prem SSO with Azure AD Passwordless authentication methods.
Check out Matt Cline’s presentation (top of the page) as he goes through the requirements and configurations to achieve this state of Passwordless.
Windows Hello for Business Hybrid Cloud Kerberos Trust is now available! – Microsoft Community Hub
Tune in again next month during our Meetup, or catch the notes here!
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