Aug. 21st Show Notes & Replay
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Thank you for viewing our?Mondays at Microsoft episode - Monday, August 21. Below are show notes and links for all we discussed. Our standard practice going forward will be to post the show notes article by approximately 12:00 noon Pacific time on the day of our show.
?You can view this episode on demand on LinkedIn and join us September 11, 2023 for our next show, which will include more hot off the press information. Keep the conversation going here in the?Microsoft Community?and connect with us - ?Heather Cook & Karuana Gatimu directly. Share our Microsoft Community LinkedIn page, and see you again soon.
Stay with us here on LinkedIn for?Seth Juarez?and the?#AIShow?that will stream right after us. View Seth and his guests talking about building safer online communities with AI at?aka.ms/AIShowLive
First off - Sending love and supplies to our friends on Maui in all the impacted areas due to these devastating wildfires.? If you are so moved to contribute to the Maui Strong Fund via the Hawaii Community Foundation at this link: Home - Hawaii Community Foundation
Microsoft? One Big Rock:? With so much happening in our environment, it is important to know about our efforts on Sustainability.?? you can learn about them at Microsoft Sustainability - Products for a Sustainable Future. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sustainability
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#ICYMI?Segment (In Case You Missed It)
Scottish Summit, August 5, Manchester, UK - Community Days | Scottish Summit 2023
Azure OpenAI ChatGPT Bootcamp, August 11, Reston, VA - Community Days | Azure OpenAI ChatGPT Bootcamp
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Product Highlights
Frontline worker productivity announcement: Microsoft unveils next-gen AI solutions to boost frontline productivity amid labor challenges | VentureBeat. Focused on Dynamics 365 Copilot integrations for Field Service scenarios - Copilot, Teams, Mobile Experience, and Guides all focused on empowering frontline workers.
Clipchamp is launching as a part of SharePoint.? On August 31st, this change will roll worldwide for Microsoft 365 SKUS, including ME3/ME5 and Business Standard/Premium.. Blog link: Introducing Microsoft Clipchamp: Unlock the power of video at work | Microsoft 365 Blog
For the third consecutive year, Microsoft has been named a Leader in the Gartner? Magic Quadrant? for Robotic Process Automation. This year Microsoft is positioned furthest in Completeness of Vision.
We’ve continued our momentum by?announcing the inclusion of our generative AI component, Copilot, within Power Automate. Additionally, we launched custom UI actions for Power Automate for desktop (PAD), added additional cloud API connectors in the desktop flow designer for RPA, released general availability for hosted RPA, and more.
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General Availability (GA) of a few connector related features within the Power Platform ecosystem including custom connectors in solutions, environment variable secrets using Azure Key Vault secrets, as well as connector activity logs.
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We are excited to unveil a suite of new Copilot experiences for Microsoft Power Pages that will change how you design websites and create forms. Let’s look at some of the new capabilities now available in Public Preview!
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The Power Virtual Agents teams have recently released new code samples to help automate chatbot tests, including testing utterances, validating topic triggering, intent candidates (multiple topics matched), playback of full conversation transcripts, and integration into a CI/CD pipeline.
What can be tested with the PVA Test Framework sample solution?
The PVA Test Framework is a sample solution available on GitHub that showcases how to execute tests against a Power Virtual Agents chatbot through APIs, using the Direct Line channel. It verifies that the bot performs as expected in various scenarios, such as:
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Events Segment – What's Coming Next
Find all these events and more at?CommunityDays.org
?Via @Robert Turner Discover the latest Microsoft announcements on Azure OpenAI and gain valuable insights from our team of experts. We'll dive into Manufacturing-specific use-cases and explain how Azure ensures the security and privacy of YOUR data, giving you the confidence you need.?Do not miss the opportunity to witness a live product demo.
August 23rd, 2023 - 7:00am – 8:30 am CT?
Register here:?https://msevents.microsoft.com/event?id=3101838906
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August 24th, 2023 - 1pm -2:30pm CT
Register here: https://msevents.microsoft.com/event?id=3049210207
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365EduCon & PwrEduCon, August 21-25, Seattle WA - https://365educon.com/portal/
Dynamics User Group Meetup Ohio Meetup - August 22-23, 2023 - Community Days | Dynamics User Group Ohio Regional Meetup
Microsoft AI Day? Sept 1 - Toronto Canada - Community Days | Microsoft AI Day
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Microsoft Tech Community Live Events - Microsoft Tech Community Events
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Microsoft Viva Getting Started Series - Getting started with Microsoft Viva series – Microsoft Adoption
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Thank you and join us Monday September 11 for our next show!
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Share our Microsoft Community Linkedn page with your colleagues and if you are hosting an event make sure to list it at CommunityDays.org.?
We'll see you at Mondays at Microsoft!?
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Additional Links
Service Adoption Specialist Course:?aka.ms/AdoptionCourse
Power Platform & Dynamics 365 Release Planner:
Microsoft 365 Roadmap:?Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365
Tutorial:?Integrating Microsoft 365 Message Center Posts with Microsoft Planner & Teams?to drive feature change management and end-user adoption (via?Coffee in the Cloud?on YouTube)
Empathetic Microsoft 365 mentor. Ex-Microsoft. IT tinkerer, problem solver and dedicated project team player. Decent sense of humor. I tried perfectionism. Tribes: Digital Fitness and professional LinkedIn communities.
1 年?? I know creating these show notes is a lot of work, but these are really so, so helpful, Karuana, Heather, and Alister. Thank you to everyone who makes the Mondays at Microsoft live shows and the show notes happen! Quick tip: the title of this specific edition still reads August 7, where it probably should read August 21 – am I right?