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This eBook provides an overview of Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive for Business security and compliance capabilities.

Microsoft has been building enterprise software for decades and running some of the largest online services in the world. We draw from this experience to keep making Microsoft SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business more secure for users, implementing and continuously improving security-aware software development, operational management, and threat-mitigation practices that are essential to the strong protection of your services and data.

The collaboration landscape has changed. Connectivity is ubiquitous, and the ability to work remotely has become an ingrained part of the work practice. People have come to expect to be able to access email and documents from anywhere on any device—and for that experience to be seamless.

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The eBook covers:

• Platform security
• Information governance
• Secure access & sharing
• Awareness and insights
• Compliance & trust

Get the book here:

• DOWNLOAD: Free eBook, “Securing your content in the new world of work with SharePoint and OneDrive” (.PDF, 22pgs)
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55242

With the release of Microsoft Stream, the Stream product group wants to be able to answer your questions!

To learn more about Microsoft Stream, join the “Ask Microsoft Anything” session on the Microsoft Tech Community site.

• DATE/TIME:
  June 29, 2017
  9:00 AM. PT
• LOCATION:
  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Stream-AMA/bd-p/StreamAMA

Today, Microsoft Stream became generally available for Office 365 customers.

Introducing the new enterprise video service – Microsoft Stream

Microsoft Stream helps customers create a more collaborative and productive organization through the power of intelligent enterprise video.

Microsoft Stream integrates across Office 365 applications like Microsoft Teams, Yammer, SharePoint and more to enable users the ability to seamlessly bring videos and channels right into their apps.  It will be available to enterprise customers, as well as education and kiosk plans. 

Stream has the following goals:

Make it easy to participate

• Organize your content easily with channels & groups
• Watch trending videos or save them for later on your watch list
• Upload, manage, and share videos from your personalized home page
• Like videos, add comments, and follow your favorite channels
• Seamlessly share videos in Office 365 applications including Teams, SharePoint, Yammer, and OneNote

Add intelligence to every video

• Face timeline powered by automatic face detection makes navigating a video more interactive
• Automatic closed captions enhance accessibility getting your video to an even broader audience
• Auto generated speech to text transcript adds easy discoverability – jump to the moment that matters most
• Clickable time codes in the comments section, transcript or table of contents take you to the specific point in the video being referenced

Videos for a secure & connected organization

• Stay close to your content – cloud-based access means you’re always connected
• Videos are secure & encrypted across any device
• Video that works where you are – create or watch on any device anywhere
• Create groups to make access based management easy with Office 365 Groups
• Manage sharing permissions on videos with Azure Active Directory

Governance designed for your organization

• Manage licensing for employees and open support tickets with Microsoft
• Assign admins to manage the experience
• Restrict who can upload and create channels
• Moderate and edit content on an owners behalf when needed
• Set enterprise wide content policies and require employees to optionally accept terms before the upload

Read more on the product site below:

• SITE: Microsoft Stream
  http://stream.microsoft.com

Ever wanted to be able to easily speak to your computer & accurately have your speech be turned into text while using Outlook, Word, or PowerPoint?

Dictate is an free Microsoft Office add-in for Outlook, Word and PowerPoint which converts speech to text using the state of the art speech recognition behind Cortana and Microsoft Translator. Currently available for Windows OS.

Dictate, a Microsoft Garage Project

Dictate is unique in that has the following features:

• Supports more than 20 languages for dictation
• Real time translation to 60 languages
• Commands like "new line", “stop dictation” and "enter" to give more control while dictating
• Two modes of punctuations: Auto and manual for English
• Visual feedback to indicate that speech is being processed

Here’s a quick example of what I cranked out in just 60 seconds.  Note: I didn’t correct anything written.

It supports the following commands:

• New Line: Takes cursor to new line
• Delete: Removes the last line you dictated
• Stop Dictation: Terminates the dictation session
• Full stop or period: Types period character (.)
• Question mark: Types (?)
• Open Quote: Types (“)
• Close Quote: Types (”)
• Colon: Types (:)
• Comma: Types (,)

Get started by downloading the free “Dictate” for Microsoft Office 2013/2016 (32-bit/64-bit) today!

• BETA: “Dictate” – a free Microsoft Garage project for Speech-to-Text in Office (2013+)
  http://www.dictate.ms/
• FAQ:
  http://www.dictate.ms/FAQ.aspx
• Contact:
  http://www.dictate.ms/ContactUs

There are 76 video recordings posted from the Microsoft Data Insights Summit 2017 (June 12-13, 2017) as of this week.

SUMMARIES:
There are summaries posted of both days:

• Microsoft Data Insights Summit 2017 Day 1 Recap
• Microsoft Data Insights Summit 2017 Day 2 Recap

KEYNOTES:
The opening keynote is here:

Opening Keynote Session: James Phillips, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft

RECORDINGS:
Video recording session categories include:

• Keynotes
• General or Introductions
• Dashboards/Reports & Design
• Developer
• Administration & Governance
• Advanced Analytics
• Business Applications for Connected Data
• Data Prep & Modeling
• Distribution & Deployment

View the video recordings here:

• TRAINING: Recordings from Microsoft Data Summit 2017
  https://www.youtube.com/user/mspowerbi/playlists?sort=dd&shelf_id=9&view=50&utm_source=Direct

Have you ever wondered how Microsoft broadly deployed Windows 10?

Get your questions answered about how Microsoft IT approaches migrations and rollouts

Performing a system-wide migration across a large or complex environment is no easy task, but new Windows 10 deployment options, streamlined application rollouts, and enhanced cloud capabilities can ease the path. Find out how Microsoft IT approached the deployment of Windows 10 across a global user base, plus how they think about Windows as a service.

You’ll also hear about Microsoft IT’s best practices and lessons learned—from application compatibility testing and upgrade strategies to smoothing the deployment path through end user readiness.

Join this webinar to:

• Learn how Microsoft IT is using new features in the Windows 10 Creators Update.
• Find out how Windows IT approaches Windows 10 update management.
• Get your questions answered in a live Q&A.

Details below:

• DATE/TIME:
  June 20, 2017
  10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET
• REGISTRATION:
  https://info.microsoft.com/en-us-landing-windows10deploymenttipsandtricksfrommicrosoftit.html?wt.mc_id=AID619029_QSG_PD_SCL_159316

If you’re an IT professional that knows networked Windows desktop games, this announcement should excite you.

Join us on Sunday, June 11th to celebrate E3 with special guest host  Ahman Green at Microsoft Store Westfield Century City.

The in-store viewing event and Forza Motorsport 6 tournament will be hosted by the 4 time Pro Bowler and avid gamer who will mix and mingle with fans and be there to experience all of the exciting announcements coming out of E3. Then put your Forza skills to the test for a chance to win exclusive Xbox One prizes!

Tournament participants must be 13 years of age or older. No purchase required. Open to players 13+, some restrictions apply. See store for full Official Rules.

• DATE/TIME:
  Sunday, June 11th
  • 1:00pm PST — Registration begins.
  • 2:00pm PST — Event begins.
  • 3:30pm PST — Event ends.
• LOCATION
  Microsoft Store Westfield Century City
  10250 Santa Monica Blvd.
  Space #1045
  Los Angeles, CA 90067
  310-228-355
  http://msft.it/AhmanGreenMGLOC

See rules and FAQ: http://msft.it/AhmanGreenMGFAQ

• Does the event cost anything?
  No there is no cost.
• Do I have to RSVP?
  No, you don’t need to RSVP, all are welcome. The first 32 to register will be able to participate in the Forza Motorsport 6 tournament
• Do I have to buy anything?
  No purchase is required. 
• What time can I start lining up?
  The line will open at 1pm. The first 32 in line can participate in the Forza Motorsport 6 tournament but everyone is welcome to come into the store and watch all of the exciting announcements out of E3.
• PRESS: Who should press contact to cover the event?
  Please direct all Microsoft retail store media inquiries to the Assembly PR team at: MicrosoftStorePR at assemblyinc dot com

Watch as open source community leaders discuss their work in the cloud at Microsoft Azure OpenDev. Join us to learn how open source technology is shaping the future of cloud infrastructure, app platforms, containers, DevOps, and more. Get hands-on experience with open source technologies on Azure, and ask questions and get answers during our live Q&A session.

Here’s some of the great open development speakers that will be participating:

• Microsoft Azure
  John Grossman – Lead Architect
  Gabe Monroy – Lead Program Manager & former Chief Technology Officer at Deis
  Michelle Noorali – Senior Software Engineer & core maintainer of the Kubernetes Helm project
• Ubuntu
  Mark Shuttleworth – Founder
• Pivotal
  Joshua McKenty – Head of Global Ecosystem Engineering
• Docker
  Scott Johnson – Chief Operating Officer
• Chef
  Nathen Harvey – Vice President, Community Development
• Skype
  Kaspars Mickevics – Senior Engineering Manager

Please register if you’re interested!

• Date/Time:
  June 21, 2017
  9:00AM-2:00PM
• Add to Calendar:
• Outlook Calendar
• Google Calendar
• Apple Calendar
• Yahoo Calendar
• Registration:
  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/opendev/

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Want no-risk Azure services credit?
If you haven’t tried using Azure for running virtual machines, cloud services, or development environments, did you know you can get $200 in credit – absolutely free – with no credit card necessary?

Sign up here:

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/trial/free-trial-open-source//

The folks in Microsoft India started a Garage project that is centered around, “How do we make finding the email you need easier, faster & less frustrating?”

Introducing “Email Insights”.

For the best experience with Email Insights, you’ll need either Microsoft Outlook 2016 or a Gmail account. Email Insights is a lightweight email search client which helps users do their emails related tasks faster. It provides guided search in the form of superfast autocomplete, spell correct and fuzzy name search which means that users do not have to type out everything. Email Insights provides relevance based search results in addition to time ordered results so that users do not have to scroll down to find that elusive mail. Email Insights also provides additional features like tabbed email searches and quick commands from search box so that your email experience is faster, easier and more productive.

Wanna give it a try?  It’s free and only requires Outlook 2016 or Outlook from Office 365.

• DOWNLOAD: Email Insights, a Microsoft Garage Project
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/email-insights-a-microsoft-garage-project/9nr1zgswxpb7?cid=garage%5c_store%5c_link&rtc=1#