Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft 365 – September 2020

To say that September was a busy month for Microsoft 365 is a bit of an understatement. Microsoft’s Ignite conference has come and gone and with it brought many new features that were announced for the productivity suite but many of them are not yet available.

Before we get to the Ignite announcements, you should be aware that there was a significant outage this week that was preventing many users from being able to login to the service. The hiccups lasted for several hours and disrupted core functionality around the globe.

If you are a heavy user of the video calling feature that Teams provide, you may be interested in learning how to use Teams with OBS via NDI. Steve has a good breakdown of how you can use this feature to enhance your calling experience or use the tool for broadcast environments.

Activity alerts in Teams are a useful feature and if you are looking to make them more accessible, Tony’s post dives into the topic so that you can get the most out of your alert policies. He also penned a couple of other posts including how to Use a Super User Group for Privileged Access to Encrypted Office 365 Content and Restricting Guest User Access in Azure Active Directory that are worth checking out.

But on to the big show, Ignite…here’s a list of what we covered during the conference last week:

• Microsoft Moves On-Premises Office Servers to a Subscription Model
• Microsoft Announces New Teams Rooms Capabilities Arriving in 2020
• Microsoft Teams Will Soon Become Your Go-To Webinar Solution
• Teams First Office 365 Application to Use Stream 2.0
• SharePoint Syntex is the first Project Cortex Product, Arrives October 1^st
• New Features Coming to Windows Virtual Desktop Later This Year
• New Features Coming to Cortana Later This Year
• Surface Hub 2S 85in Arrives in January of 2021
• Microsoft’s Edge for Linux Arrives in October, New Features Announced
• Microsoft Announces Ignite, Part 2, is Happening in March
• Teams First Office 365 Application to Use Stream 2.0

If you are thinking that you need more information about Office 365, make sure to check out all the content posted here on Petri during the month and check back frequently as we publish articles daily.