Jan 22 - Show Notes - Mondays at Microsoft
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Thank you all for viewing our?Mondays at Microsoft episode on January 22, 2024. Below are show notes and links for all we discussed.
You can view this episode?on demand here on LinkedIn or via YouTube on the Coffee in the Cloud channel .
Join us, February 5, 2024 for our next show, which will include more hot off-the-press information. Please keep the conversation going here in the?Microsoft Community ?or directly connect with us:?Heather Cook ?or?Karuana Gatimu .
Please share this Microsoft Community page and see you back here again soon.
Check out?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
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Microsoft One Big Rock:
Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit
Some don't know that Microsoft has a dedicated division that supports non profits around the globe. Both large and small we consult, create solutions and bring non profit leaders together to empower them with technology.?
Our Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit is coming up and registration is now open.? This is a hybrid event happening on January 31st and Feb 1st with the virtual portion taking place from 8:30am to 12:30 pacific.? There are still limited seats left for the in-person component in Bellevue, WA.?
You can find out more about this event at https://nonprofitsummit.microsoft.com/home_public_virtual including registration info.?
Davos World Economic Forum?
Satya spoke on our role in the world and the rise of AI at the Davos World Economic Forum on January 16. We'll give you the link to listen to his talk but it's also really cool to know that we've built with Accenture for the World Economic Forum a virtual Digital Global Collaboration Village where participants can participate in WEF even if they aren't in Davos.? It's a new type of experience but this idea of democratizing access to these important forums is essential.
He also spoke at length about the speed at which AI technology will become ubiquitous due to the existing platforms of cloud and mobile.?
Imagine Cup Jr March 7th
Imagine Cup Jr registration is now open for educators and participants. ICJ provides an engaging learning opportunity supported by?educators ?that covers a range of skills and is open to all?students ?ages 5-18, regardless of their technical proficiency.1?
Last year thousands of students from more than 100 countries participated in the ICJ challenge. Their innovative ideas can give you so much hope especially during chaotic times.?
Ability Summit
Just announced: Ability Summit is a one-day, free digital event experience on March 7, 2024. It celebrates people with disabilities, allies, and accessibility leaders who will provide learning opportunities at the event.
Are you interested in how you and your organization can imagine and build a more inclusive culture while including voices across the disability spectrum? Register to learn about leading accessible technology, discover real-life stories of empathy and vulnerability, get exclusive access to thought leadership discussions on how accessibility empowers everyone in your organization, and so much more. https://abilitysummit.eventcore.com/home
Community Insights Survey?
We also want to announce the launch of our Community Insights survey.? Make your voice heard and tell us what you like and don't like about the broader Microsoft Community that includes shows like ours, training events, user groups and of course our online forums like the Microsoft Tech Community and the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 hubs. We hope you complete this to give us feedback on how the overall Microsoft Community is working for you.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Center
As we honor MLK Day we want to highlight Microsoft Partnership with the Martin Luther King Jr. Center to digitize all the artifacts of Coretta Scott King's legacy to preserve them for history…? You can follow tweets online with the hashtag #DearCoretta and see the experience here: https://timeline.thekingcenter.org/timeline/the-king-center/
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Reading Coach for Free
With the latest AI technology, we have an opportunity to provide learners with personalized, engaging, and transformative reading experiences. Reading Coach, a Learning Accelerator now powered by generative AI, does just that. You can sign up for a preview of Reading Coach today and try it for yourself at coach.microsoft.com .
Reading Coach was already providing learners with personalized reading practice, instant feedback about pronunciation and fluency, while also giving insights back to educators. Today we’re sharing new features that will fuel student agency and motivation with dynamically created stories that adapt to their reading level and individual challenges. ?https://educationblog.microsoft.com/en-us/2024/01/unlocking-productivity-and-personalizing-learning-with-ai
BETT Jan 24-26 I London?
BETT Jan 24-26 I London for anyone in Education both Higher and K-12 - Worlds biggest EdTech event. Bett UK is a truly global meeting place for the EdTech community. Join 30,000+ educators and changemakers for three inspiring days of cutting-edge EdTech content, networking and product discovery!?
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Product Segment
Microsoft 365
Copilot for Microsoft 365 expansion
Expanded to Business Standard & Premium for underlying license. https://adoption.microsoft.com/copilot/smb has the first wave of assets and resources for Copilot use in small to medium business.
Microsoft 365 Backup?
Microsoft 365 Backup is now in public preview. This service serves the needs of Business Continuity and protects your tenant data in case of a ransomware attack. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/syntex/backup/backup-overview and information and assets at https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-backup/
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Microsoft Mesh is now generally available including the new Teams immersive meeting experience.? You can see images of that via the blog and give it a try in your next team meeting.? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/09/26/microsoft-mesh-enters-preview-in-october-including-a-new-teams-experience/
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Community Announcements
Our friends Dan Rey and others who have taken the Microsoft Adoption Specialist course have launched a new page on LinkedIn for community led adoption content… go follow it at https://www.dhirubhai.net/company/microsoft-adoption/?viewAsMember=true ?
Part of community work is fostering opportunities for the next generation of tech folks.? Microsoft PM Fabian Williams has been doing this with his daughter to great impact. Check out her story about presenting at ESPC tech conference last fall.. It's fantastic. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/educator-developer-blog/finding-my-path-reflections-and-revelations-from-espc-2023/ba-p/4019278 The next time you speak.. Bring someone along!? If you don't have kids then make room for someone junior in your organization or someone will less experience than you.? There is room for EVERYONE in the Microsoft community.
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Business Applications ?
Power Apps
Recap of modern controls evolution in 2023 and a glimpse into 2024 innovations
We started by?launching 13 modern controls based on Microsoft Fluent 2 ?in preview. These controls were built for performance, ensuring fast and fluid app experiences with accessibility also as a key focus. Our makers started providing direct feedback through thumbs up/down on controls to Microsoft. Across next few weeks, we?updated the canvas studio experience ,?added new controls , and started shipping numerous?property improvements based on maker feedback ?to address the core usability of these controls. https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/recap-of-modern-controls-evolution-in-2023-and-a-glimpse-into-2024-innovations/
Power Automate
Process Mining is Generally Available in GCC (Sovereign Region)
We are excited to announce that Process Mining is now generally available in the Government Cloud (GCC), a sovereign region. This marks a significant milestone in our commitment to providing powerful process analysis tools while ensuring data sovereignty and compliance with regional regulations.
?Licensing is now enforced in GCC, and you will require a Power Automate Premium license or a Power Automate free trial to use Process Mining capabilities. Furthermore, in GCC, you can purchase capacity packs that give 100GB worth of additional Process Mining capacity.
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Dynamics 365
Shaping the future of retail with AI and Dynamics 365
At the National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show, Microsoft demonstrated Dynamics 365 solutions powered by AI to help accelerate retail agility and innovation in the next decade.?In addition to solutions powered by Microsoft Cloud for Retail, this vision for the future of retail is spotlighted by new Copilot capabilities for Dynamics 365 applications, including:?
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Copilot Studio
Microsoft Copilot Studio lets you create powerful AI-powered copilots for a range of requests—from providing simple answers to common questions to resolving issues requiring complex conversations. Engage with customers and employees in multiple languages across websites, mobile apps, Facebook, Microsoft Teams, or any channel supported by the Azure Bot Framework.
Copilot Studio is available as both a standalone web app, and as a discrete app within Teams. Most of the functionality between the two is the same. However, there might be different reasons to choose one version or the other based on the ways you want to use Copilot Studio.
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Microsof Fabric/Power BI
Microsoft Fabric Copilot for Data Science and Data Engineering
Microsoft Fabric Copilot for Data Science and Data Engineering began its public preview journey in November 2023, during the Microsoft Ignite Conference. This tool, built to act as a collaborative assistant for data professionals, has already started to transform data exploration, preparation, and machine learning tasks, boosting productivity of data scientists and data engineers in Fabric. This week we are also happy to announce the worldwide availability of Copilot for Data Science and Data Engineering. https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-fabric-copilot-a-game-changer-for-data-professionals?ft=All
How to enable Copilot in Fabric for Everyone
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Events Segment
So many great events coming up and all available to check out on www.communitydays.org
Past Events
Community Days | IntraTeam Event Online volume 9 about modern intranets and AI | January 17-18 | Virtual: CET Timezone
Community Days | aMS Strasbourg 2024 | January 18 | France
Community Days | Azure OpenAI and ChatGPT Fest 2024 | January 18-19 | Reston Virginia
Upcoming Events?
Community Days | M365 COMMUNITY DAYS LAGOS 2023 | January 27| Lagos Nigeria
Community Days | aMS Luxembourg 2024 | January 30 | Luxembourg
Community Days | Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2024 | Jan 31 - Feb 2 -Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
Community Days | Microsoft 365 Community Day Miami | Feb 2 | Miami Florida
Community Days | M365 Community Days at Sea 2024 | Feb 4-11, Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas, Miami FL
M365 Conference Registration Link: https://m365conf.com
Please share our Microsoft Community page with your colleagues and if you are hosting an event make sure to list it at CommunityDays.org .? We're continuing to build out the Community Page so stay tuned for our Community Call post and the notes from today's show.
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We'd love for you to join the Microsoft Global Community Initiative where we host a monthly meeting to hear from you regarding community, and where we share what is new and upcoming events. Aka.ms/MGCISignUp
Thank you for tuning in and please join us Monday February 5th for our next show.
Cheers!
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