NeoStream Technologies: Ignite 2016 Trip Report

My Goals Provide a broad overview of MS Ignite Communicate the Microsoft vision Useful tools & features in SP and O365 Including some demos Jump start your exploration…

A Bit About Me VP Product Development & Managed Services at NeoStream Technologies 10+ years in the SharePoint space SP Configuration, Infrastructure, BA/PM SP 2007, 2010, 2013, O365/SP Online Expert in information architecture, collaboration practices, software development Successful implementations at many clients (20+) across Calgary

Microsoft Ignite Overview 20,000+ people 1446 Sessions in total I attended ~30 sessions (~2%) *I don’t know it all! Focused on Azure/Cloud, Machine Learning, O365/SP Online enhancements, Hybrid, INNOVATION

Overall Microsoft Trends Major innovation – changing faster than ever Integration of all MS products Hard to tell where one ends... Cloud cloud cloud! Lots of new functionality, lots of options. Wide, not deep! Spend more time delivering functionality to end users 

Hybrid: O365 / On Premise Strong push to go to Azure/O365, but... Hybrid configuration wizard Hybrid: SP 2013 and 2016 Makes experience seamless for end users Connects search, delve, "content I'm following"

Mobility Apps Single Sign-on / navigation between apps SharePoint OneDrive Delve Outlook Calendar Word PowerBI Single Sign-on / navigation between apps  Each app delivers its own value

SharePoint App

Delve App

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Office Graph Connections to people made for you Commonly accessed sites presented in Apps and SP Drives Delve Machine Learning for BI Recognize patterns within your data

Business Intelligence PowerBI.com Solution templates Partner eco-system (for solutions) App for visuals / mobility Any device Easy Configuration Push out beautiful dashboards quickly Drag & drop configuration Don't need to be a developer 

Power BI Dashboard Builder

Flow & PowerApps Flow: Small ‘no code’ workflows to work in O365 Example: 'watch my inbox, if attachment, put into a particular document library‘ Ubiquitous across the MS stack, not just in SharePoint. Centralized workflow. https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/ PowerApps: No code way to create mobile functionality and forms Example: List view of a form for mobile data entry Very little up front effort

PowerApp Example

Modern Team Sites Team Sites: “Hub for content collaboration” News, Activity View (recent) and quick links prominently displayed Document Libraries and List – highly customizable now Easy to configure, useful web parts Groups – next slide "Classic" team sites not gone

Groups Think ‘Distribution List’ in Outlook…but…a “Group” lives in Azure Active Directory Group Inbox in Outlook (like a folder) Group Calendar Group OneDrive Library Group OneNote notebook Group SharePoint site (soon) Yammer Group – public or private Skype for Business Group Planner Board Can create from Outlook or SharePoint Groups are born in the Cloud, not on prem (need a governance model to allow/restrict)

Do “Groups” Replace SP? No, SharePoint is not going away. Custom lists/libraries PowerApps Flow Granular permissions PowerBI All the other SP features you use today Groups create a simple template for collaboration

Other Innovations Worth Noting People Card Big investment to ‘surface’ people information Shows recent documents worked on, sites favorited, articles posted…activity Mouse over any person (ex. Document owner) and people card pops up Security Enforced Link to full ‘People Profile’ Copy / Move / Link Lots of functionality to move documents around SharePoint Ability to send links to documents over email (no security restrictions!)

O365 People Experience

Other Innovations Worth Noting Publishing Sites Visually very attractive and easy to build Hit “+” sign and add: Text Images / Video Apps! (ISV community now creating for this functionality) Lists Ability to add / modify columns Powerful sorting and view creation Use of the Term “Modern” (going to keep ‘Classic’ functionality, so important to know) Modern Document Libraries Modern Page Authoring Moderns Lists

Other Innovations Worth Noting Office 365 Video Backend is Azure Requires hybrid for search to work Hybrid 365 / Other Master Taxonomy – in O365, then pushes down to other SharePoint Embed code and other linking between environments Office Lens Add Photos directly from an App Included in OneDrive app

Other Innovations Worth Noting Information Governance Enhancements Retention: Retention Tags that can be used throughout MS ecosystem Records Declaration Data Loss Prevention: ‘sensitive type’ definition eDiscovery / Litigation holds SharePoint News Driven by Microsoft Graph Focus is SharePoint App and Team site homepage Excel Co-authoring! PowerPoint Designer (design and layout suggestions for compelling content)

Microsoft Development Technologies Xamarin: Cross-platform development R (BI Development Language): Use “R” to add intelligence to reporting Microsoft Graph: “One endpoint to rule them all”

* Q&A