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Explore what’s possible with Power Automate and Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

• Automating manual processes 
• Planning RPA deployment 
• Preparing for a proof of concept using UI flows

Download the white paper:

• WHITEPAPER: Extend the Capabilities of Microsoft Power Automate with RPA
  https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-Power-Automate-White-Paper.html?LCID=EN-US

Today we are excited to announce the public preview of Universal Print, a Microsoft 365 service that enables an intuitive, rich, and secure print experience for users, while helping IT reduce time and effort.

Organizations moving to the cloud with Microsoft 365 have responded en masse since we announced the private preview of Universal Print in March, and today we have more than 2,500 customers testing the new service. Many of them have accelerated their adoption of cloud services and Universal Print because employees and teachers working from home can now print to company or school printers from anywhere when connected to the internet. While many processes have gone paperless, many critical business processes – especially in education, healthcare, and other industries – still require print.

What is Universal Print?

Universal Print provides a user-friendly, easy print experience that also:

• Eliminates the need to install printer drivers because it is built into the Windows experience
• Helps you to find printers both near and outside of your current location
• Enables print from zero-trust networks via single sign-on (SSO) when connected to the internet and authenticated to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).

For IT professionals who are managing print, Universal Print offers:

• A print solution to unblock the move to the cloud and support print for Azure AD users.
• Managed printing in zero-trust networks.
• Eliminates the need to manage print servers or the need for complex hybrid print solutions.
• A centralized portal that enables robust management capabilities.
• Visibility and insights into your print with reporting.
• Print data stored in the same manner as other Microsoft Office data, in accordance with Microsoft’s data management guidelines.
• Printer deployment and default printer configuration on end-user devices using Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Intune).

Universal Print public preview rolling out globally

We are ready to roll out the Universal Print public preview to data centers in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific in waves over the next weeks. We will start with Microsoft 365 E5 and A5 tenants, followed by customers who have a Microsoft 365 E3 or A3 subscriptions, and then those who have Windows 10 E3, A3 and E5 only subscriptions. And finally, we will complete the roll-out with Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Microsoft 365 Firstline F3 customers. Details will be published on the Universal Print release page, where you can start your journey with us.

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Read more here:

• BLOG: Announcing the public preview of Universal Print
  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/announcing-the-public-preview-of-universal-print/ba-p/1534891
• BETA: Accessing the Universal Print Public Preview
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/universal-print/fundamentals/universal-print-preview-access
• SURVEY: Universal Print feedback survey
  https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR48mwbnEXWRFgC2n-gLkrLFUMkQ3SkpaRlEyWUIwQzZNUFhQNkg4ME8xNy4u    

Ensuring that sensitive data is protected from risky or inappropriate sharing, transfer, or use has always been a top priority for organizations. The new reality of significant numbers of employees working from home or other remote locations indefinitely has created renewed emphasis on providing strong and coordinated protection on the endpoints they use every day. To help customers accelerate their deployment of a comprehensive information protection strategy across all their environments, we are announcing the public preview of Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP).

At Microsoft, we have long invested in developing cutting-edge information protection solutions for our customers. Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) is a built-in, intelligent, unified, and extensible solution that understands and classifies your data, keeps it protected, and prevents data loss across Microsoft 365 apps (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), services (e.g., Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Exchange), third-party SaaS applications, and more – on premises or in the cloud. Endpoint DLP now extends MIP classification and protection to devices.

Microsoft 365 customers only need to create DLP policies once in the Microsoft 365 compliance center. They can then apply the policies to Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and now – to endpoints as well. All that is required is for the endpoint to be onboarded in your environment using your established device management onboarding process.

Endpoint DLP identifies and protects information on endpoints. Endpoint DLP does not restrict or limit the use of applications, web browsers, or other services when sensitive data is not present. It delivers three core capabilities: Native protection, seamless deployment, and integrated insights.

Endpoint DLP is native to Windows 10 and the new Microsoft Edge browser. There is no need to install or manage additional DLP software on Windows 10 machines anymore. Providing DLP experiences natively on the endpoint has many benefits.

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Endpoint DLP starts rolling out to customers’ tenants in Microsoft 365 E5/A5, Microsoft 365 E5/A5 Compliance, and Microsoft 365 E5/A5 Information Protection and Governance.

For more information, visit:

• Announcing public preview of Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention
  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-security-and/announcing-public-preview-of-microsoft-endpoint-data-loss/ba-p/1534085

Improve the agility, reliability, and efficiency of your distributed systems by using Kubernetes.

Get the practical Kubernetes deployment skills you need in this O’Reilly e-book. You’ll learn how to:

• Develop and deploy real-world applications.
• Create and run a simple cluster.
• Integrate storage into containerized microservices.
• Use Kubernetes concepts and specialized objects like DaemonSet jobs, ConfigMaps, and secrets. 

Learn how to use tools and APIs to automate scalable distributed systems for online services, machine learning applications, or even a cluster of Raspberry Pi computers.

• DOWNLOAD: Free eBook, “Kubernetes: Up and Running, Second Edition”
  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/kubernetes-up-and-running/

Save the date and join us for a one-hour "Ask Microsoft Anything" (AMA) event on Tuesday, August 11th from 8:00-9:00 a.m. Pacific Time to get answers to questions about managing iOS and macOS devices using Microsoft Endpoint Manager. We’ll be here to help you with everything from setting up automatic enrollment and remotely managing user-owned devices to custom configurations and troubleshooting.

To join, simply, visit the Microsoft Endpoint Manager AMA space on Tuesday, August 11th and click "Start a New Conversation" to post your question. This event is open to all Tech Community members and we’ll have the Microsoft Intune and Configuration Manager product and engineering teams–plus members of the MVP community–standing by to provide answers.

Save the date to join us live at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time. We’ll also open up the AMA space 24 hours in advance for those that can’t attend live—and post a recap of the event later this week.

We look forward to answering your questions!

ANNOUNCEMENT BLOG:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-endpoint-manager-ama/ama-managing-ios-and-macos-devices-with-microsoft-endpoint/m-p/1524292

Per the article entitled, “Support update for SharePoint 2010 workflows in Microsoft 365”, SharePoint 2010 Workflows will be shutting down in November 2020 which leaves limited time for those processes to be migrated if workflow owners haven’t already done so.

• Starting August 1st, 2020, SharePoint 2010 workflows will be turned off for newly created tenants. 
• Starting November 1st, 2020, Microsoft will begin to remove the ability to run or create SharePoint 2010 workflows from existing tenants.
  

DOCUMENTATION:
Here’s the key documentation on the matter:

• ARTICLE: Support Update for SharePoint 2010 workflows in Microsoft 365
  https://aka.ms/sp-workflows-update
• SUPPORT: SharePoint 2010 workflow retirement
  https://aka.ms/sp-workflows-support
• DOCS: Guidance: Migrate from classic workflows to Power Automate flows in SharePoint
  https://aka.ms/sp-workflows-guidance

ASSISTANCE:
You can use the following services and partner programs to help with your migration from SharePoint 2010 workflows:

• Microsoft Solution Provider
• Microsoft Power Automate Partners

Join this Microsoft Planner ‘Ask Microsoft Anything’ (AMA) on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 9:00 to 10:00 AM PT!

An AMA is a live online event similar to a “YamJam” on Yammer or an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. Share your questions and feedback about Microsoft Planner in the Planner AMA space during this one-hour event. Members of the Planner team will be online to respond directly to your posts.

During the AMA, open the Planner AMA space, and submit your questions and feedback as a new post by clicking on, "Start a New Conversation" at the top of the page.

Add this event to your calendar.

• ANNOUNCEMENT PAGE:
  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/planner-ama/announcing-a-microsoft-planner-ama-on-july-28-2020/m-p/1513107

Have you tried the “magic select” option in Paint3D yet? It’s really handy if you want to quickly to cut out something from a picture.

The “magic select” tool lets you easily crop the background of any picture to turn into a sticker to wrap or tile onto 3D objects. Here’s how it works:

• Click on Insert and choose one of your favorite photos.
• Use the “select” tool to drag and select the area that you want. The magic select button will appear.
• Use the add and remove button to draw onto areas that you want to add or remove.
• Once finished, click on the green check mark and the selection will pop-out as a separate layer.

You’ll love creating cut-outs from your favorite family photos, BFF selfies, or pet pics with magic select, then using them as stickers to personalize your creations.

You can make this a sticker by clicking on “make sticker”.

Read the original post here:

• BLOG: 5 Ways to get started with Paint 3D
  https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/04/17/windows-10-tip-five-ways-get-started-paint-3d/

We’ve published the latest summary of the Public Sector roadmap to the Microsoft US Public Sector blog.  This month we cover the following:

• References and Information Resources
• Office 365 & Managing Crisis Communications
• Microsoft 365 for US Government Service Descriptions
• Newsworthy Highlights
• Public Sector Blog Spotlight (GCC, GCCH, DOD)
• Roadmap Changes This Month (GCC, GCCH, DOD)

Read it here:

• July 2020 – M365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter
  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/public-sector-blog/july-2020-m365-us-public-sector-roadmap-newsletter/ba-p/1502149

Microsoft Whiteboard is not yet available in Microsoft 365 GCC/Microsoft Team for Government. 

It is on the roadmap to be available to our GCC customers, however, and will be FedRAMP reviewed.

In the meantime, there are a couple alternatives:

• Add Freehand by InVision as a tab in a Team or a meeting chat to collaborate. 

  For more on this, view:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd65qDvLZF0&feature=youtu.be

• Add a OneNote notebook as a tab in a meeting chat and collaborate

  For more on this, view:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDbituQPY9s&feature=emb_logo