Nanddeep Nachan

Nanddeep Nachan

Microsoft MVP (M365 Apps and Services) | Consultant - M365, MS Azure, Power Platform | Speaker | Author | Blogger | Trainer | CSM

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Learnings from Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021 on Hybrid Work with Microsoft Teams

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Learnings from Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021 on Hybrid Work with Microsoft Teams

Overview

Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021 is happening on November 2 - 4, 2021. It is exciting as always with new features and announcements all across Microsoft products.

In this article, we will focus on what’s new for Microsoft Teams on hybrid work.

Hybrid Working Theme

The past 20 months living in pandemic situation have changed our life. The work is completely redefined. Nearly every human interaction now involves a digital touch point.

Jared Spataro (Microsoft) started his session Empower everyone for a new world of hybrid work with an exciting statement - Hybrid work is here to stay.

Hybrid working is one of the theme of Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021 to answer the biggest question of how we prepare for it? Microsoft cloud empowers everyone in this new era and Microsoft Teams is at the center of it all.

Windows 11

Windows 11 is the best OS for the hybrid work. It is most productive, collaborative and secure windows ever. Easy to deploy.

MS Office

Word, Excel, PowerPoint – they are not going anywhere. In fact they are getting better with Teams integration.

Microsoft Loop

Microsoft loop is the next big breakthrough in Microsoft 365. Loop is an app for communication first and AI first world. With loop we can collaborate with our innovation from chat, email, meeting, or a document.

Image Reference: What’s new in Microsoft 365—How we’re empowering everyone for a new world of hybrid work

Microsoft Loop is a whole new way to work together. It has 3 core elements:

  1. Loop Workspaces: These are shared spaces that allow you and your team to see and group and track everything important to your project.
  2. Loop Pages: These are flexible canvases to organize your components and pull in helpful elements like links, files, or data to suit your specific project needs.
  3. Loop Components: Allow you to collaborate in the flow of work. Loop components can be lists, tables, notes, or a customer sales opportunity from Dynamics 365.

Context IQ

Context IQs are context aware which turns insights in to actions so that we will no more switching apps, manually copying and pasting links in email.

Context IQ Editor brings in AI capabilities while you work with below scenarios:

  1. Editor suggests relevant documents based on similar subjects while you attach, insert, or share files with colleagues.
  2. Editor recommends potential people to tag. Image Reference: Microsoft Editor is now superpowered with Context IQ to help you stay in the flow of your work
  3. Suggest time for scheduling a meeting. Image Reference: Microsoft Editor is now superpowered with Context IQ to help you stay in the flow of your work
  4. Pull Dynamic 365 data as a Microsoft Loop component. Image Reference: Microsoft Editor is now superpowered with Context IQ to help you stay in the flow of your work

ClipChamp

Microsoft 365 will now support ClipChamp to create polished, professional looking videos in minutes. Read more on ClipChamp.

Teams connect

Azure AD is now going beyond just maintaining your organization users to support one extended teams across multiple companies. External shared channels are shown along side other channels in one single view. Sign up for Microsoft Teams connect.

Image reference: Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021: Innovations coming to Microsoft Teams

Public preview 1st quarter of 2022.

Hybrid events & webinars in Teams

A whole new experience to set up professional, engaging experiences to internal and external audiences.

  • Provides rich experiences to presenters and attendees including a virtual green room for presents to prepare and interact backstage before going live.
  • New structured Q&A experience for better audio engagement.
  • Curated attendee experience to ensure attendees only see shared content and guests that are invited to speak.
  • Leading events and hospitality management platform Cvent will be integrated with Teams by early 2022.

Collaborative apps

Provides developers an ability to develop Collaborative apps within digital workspace including chat, channels, and meetings.

Mesh experiences in Teams

Mesh for Microsoft Teams introduces a new generation of 2D and 3D meeting experiences with personalized avatars and immersive spaces to bridge the gap between physical and digital worlds. Avatars within immersive spaces brings people’s physical presence in to the conversation when they don’t have their camera turned on. This also brings in inclusivity and accessibility using Microsoft AI capabilities like translation.

Image reference: Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021: Innovations coming to Microsoft Teams

Are you not comfortable tunring your videos on during Teams meetings? No worries, Avatar will make your presence without having video turned on!

Image reference: Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021: Innovations coming to Microsoft Teams

Use Whiteboard in Mesh experience.

What’s new in Microsoft 365—How we’re empowering everyone for a new world of hybrid work

Digital Employee Experience – Microsoft Viva

Viva builds on top of Microsoft Teams so people can find everything they need right in the flow of work. Viva has 4 modules

  1. Viva Connections
  2. Viva Insights
  3. Viva Learning
  4. Viva Topics

Acquisition of Ally.io brings in the 5th module focus on connecting work to strategic objectives.

Microsoft Ignite After Party

Intersted to explore more? Following Microsoft Ignite, We will host After Parties to spark conversations around a pre-selected topic, bringing the content closer to our local communities! Join me along with my fellow MVP colleagues Kirti Prajapati, Siddharth Vaghasia, and Smita Nachan on the discussion!

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