1. NeoStream Technologies:
Ignite 2016 Trip Report

2. 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…

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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 

6. 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"

7. 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

8. SharePoint App

9. Delve App

10. 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

11. 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 

12. Power BI Dashboard Builder

13. 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.
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

14. PowerApp Example

15. 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

19. 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)

23. 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

24. 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 (no security restrictions!)

25. O365 People Experience

26. 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

27. 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

30. 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)

31. 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”

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Q&A