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Microsoft Ignite 2020: Top Productivity-Related Sessions
The first-ever online version of Microsoft Ignite has now wrapped. The event, which ran for 48 straight hours last week, provided a lot of information about enhancements and updates across Microsoft's entire stack of products and services. We've pulled the productivity highlights for you.
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Session Title: Bring harmony to work and life with productivity and wellbeing insights in Microsoft Teams
Session Description: We’re bringing new wellbeing and productivity insights, powered by MyAnalytics and Workplace Analytics, to Microsoft Teams. Join us to learn how you can give individuals, managers, and business leaders personalized insights powered by MyAnalytics and Workplace Analytics and recommended actions that make it easier to change habits and harmonize work for people, teams, and organizations.
(Via Microsoft Ignite Session Catalog)
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Session Title: Windows 10 innovations for enhanced productivity and resiliency
Session Description: Windows 10 gets better with every update, and with the advanced management and security features available with E3 and E5, you'll get even more. Get a fast-paced look at recent innovations and improvements for organizations, IT, and end users. Learn how we are making it easier for you to stay current, protected, and productive whether on-site, remote, or a combination of the two. We'll also share practical tips you can use today to maximize update adoption and minimize user disruption.
Ask the Expert: Windows 10 innovations for enhanced productivity and resiliency
(Via Microsoft Ignite Session Catalog)
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Session Title: Introducing modern admin capabilities to better service Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise
Session Description: Explore the real value of staying current with Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise. Intelligent insights and cloud-based controls. Predictable, automated enterprise-level servicing. New tools that enable optimal app health and performance. See how modern admin tools will reduce your workload and total cost of ownership (TCO), letting you focus on strategic projects and delivering the latest productivity, security, and collaboration capabilities to your organization.
(Via Microsoft Ignite Session Catalog)
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Session Title: Microsoft Edge – State of the browser in 2020
Session Description: It's been an exciting year for Microsoft Edge! We've continued our mission for Microsoft Edge to be the best browser for business. Come learn about new security and productivity features and our continued integration with M365. We've been listening and learning from you and we'll share how all of that feedback fits into Microsoft Edge.
Ask the Expert: Microsoft Edge – State of the browser in 2020
(Via Microsoft Ignite Session Catalog)
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Session Title: Playing chess on a trampoline: How to innovate in an era of uncertainty
Session Description: Brad Anderson (Corp. VP, Microsoft 365) will show how to lead during these uncertain times by using modern management tools to help organizations not only survive but thrive. This session will share what Microsoft has learned about supporting a remote workforce, as well as the tools/management strategies you can replicate to empower end users and drive IT efficiency in your own org. Also featured: Four big announcements and demos that illustrate how to move your organization forward.
Ask the Expert: Playing chess on a trampoline: How to innovate in an era of uncertainty
(Via Microsoft Ignite Session Catalog)
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Session Title: The Outlook vision: IT and user value in a hybrid workspace
Session Description: Hear from Outlook’s new leader, Lynn Ayres, on how to empower your users and organization in areas such as Time Management, Mobile Productivity, and hybrid workplaces. Learn about the “One Outlook” vision - inspiring agile innovation, providing IT with tools to meet security and compliance standards, and offering users more value, faster. Lynn will cover the use of AI to help users get work done more efficiently, new integrations with Microsoft 365 apps, and Bookings in the Enterprise.
Ask the Expert: The Outlook vision: IT and user value in a hybrid workspace
(Via Microsoft Ignite Session Catalog)
Microsoft
Session Title: The Outlook vision: IT and user value in a hybrid workspace
Session Description: Hear from Outlook’s new leader, Lynn Ayres, on how to empower your users and organization in areas such as Time Management, Mobile Productivity, and hybrid workplaces. Learn about the “One Outlook” vision - inspiring agile innovation, providing IT with tools to meet security and compliance standards, and offering users more value, faster. Lynn will cover the use of AI to help users get work done more efficiently, new integrations with Microsoft 365 apps, and Bookings in the Enterprise.
Ask the Expert: The Outlook vision: IT and user value in a hybrid workspace
(Via Microsoft Ignite Session Catalog)
The Microsoft Ignite 2020 website lists more than 800 sessions that were presented live or on-demand during the recently completed 48-hour event. The format first got tested with Microsoft Build and Microsoft Inspire earlier this year.
Productivity was a big area of discussion during Ignite this year and rightfully so, with many enterprises' shift to provisioning and supporting a remote work force. Right now, it does not look like a full shift back to corporate offices is happening in the United States of America. In addition, once that does begin to happen, the expectation is that the work force will be a hybrid of remote and on-site work environments, depending on what work tasks require. That means many employees will be continuing to work from home for the foreseeable future.
This means tools that help an organization remain productive in this hybrid environment is critical. A common theme out of Microsoft Ignite this year was the introduction of features and other enhancements to the company's products and services that enable that productivity for workers across the board.
We have collected together six sessions that will help IT leadership delve into some of the productivity-focused news from Ignite this year. From these sessions, further exploration can be done by utilizing the layout of Microsoft's information page for each session.
For a quick reference, here is how to utilize the Microsoft Ignite 2020 session page to its full potential, if additional research is desired after watching a session on this list:
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Each session page is full of pertinent information about the session being viewed. To the left of the main video is a sidebar which will provide a deeper dive into the subject matter.
Microsoft provides a digital backpack to make it easy to save and download any session. Just click this button to add the currently viewed session to that digital backpack. Note: Registration is required but it is free.
Once this session is viewed, using this link will provide the next step in discovering more about this subject.
The resource secion provides links to download this specific session, its transcript, and then links to other information available from Microsoft on this subject.
If this subject is discussed further in another Ignite session, this link will go straight to that session for on-demand viewing.
One other note about the recommended Microsoft Ignite 2020 sessions in this gallery – each of them contain a second link to an Ask the Expert session related to the main session. These sessions provided an opportunity for questions and answers relating to the subject area. They also include contact information for the team for additional Q&A and other resources on the subject.
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