Microsoft Mechanics Podcast

A look at how Project Cortex builds on the content services of SharePoint while connecting content in Microsoft 365 and external sources. It enables you to manage your information and streamline processes with advanced security, compliance and automated workflow. Sign up for the preview at: https://aka.ms/projectcortex At Microsoft Ignite 2019, this was session THR2276: Beyond ECM: Building the knowledge network for your organization with Project Cortex.

See the evolution of device management, with the new Microsoft Endpoint Manager. Microsoft Endpoint Manager brings together Configuration Manager and Intune in one unified, web-based experience. You'll also see the evolution of our compatibility tools and services to ensure your devices, apps, add-ins and sites are always ready. Plus you'll see new security baselines and Threat and Vulnerability Management to help bring IT and security teams together.

Microsoft is transforming virtual desktop delivery by separating operating system, user profile and app layers. You'll see how we’ve improved the Microsoft Teams remote experience with AV redirect and you'll see the preview of the Windows Virtual Desktop admin portal experience. At Microsoft Ignite 2019, this was session THR2277: Windows Virtual Desktop updates.

Look at the new capabilities of Microsoft Teams that you can use day-to-day to help transform your workplace collaboration and streamline your business processes. You'll see the new capabilities for chat, collaboration, meetings and file sharing, as well as new private channels, for scoped conversations with specific team members in a team. Plus, take a look at the improved integration with Microsoft 365 apps, like OneDrive, Outlook.

See how Microsoft Teams is built to ensure a secure and compliant collaboration environment, and how you can manage it with the controls you need, while keeping a great experience for your users. We’ll share the newest security & compliance features such as data loss prevention, information barriers and new retention policies. And we'll dig into new controls and tools, including network planner, Advisor for Teams, enhanced calling, and device management.

A deep dive on Azure data services as part of Azure Arc. This provides a central way to provision, then manage your SQL or PostgreSQL databases whether it sits in your datacenter, in Azure, or in other Clouds. You'll also get a look at how Azure Arc takes advantage of container-based architectures with Kubernetes for instant database provisioning, updating and elastic and hyper scale. At Microsoft Ignite 2019, this was session THR2299: SQL across infrastructures, your options with Travis Wright.

The first video in our Microsoft Teams for IT series offers an overview of configuration options and takes IT Admins through important considerations for planning, deploying, and rolling-out of Teams for their organization. You'll get a breakdown of the core components and the enterprise-class policies and security that you need and expect as an IT Admin. In addition, you'll see the easy customization options to tailor Microsoft Teams for your organization.

An in-depth look at Azure Arc, a new way to manage your servers, virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters – even Azure data services on any infrastructure, any cloud, and any edge. Watch this to see how Azure Arc unifies management, governance, and control with your virtual and physical machines right from the Azure Portal. See how Azure Azure Arc also enables Azure data services to run on any Kubernetes cluster. Plus a look at the recent updates across the Azure Stack family.

Chris Lauren the Principal Program Manager for the Azure Machine Learning Platform goes over the new Azure Machine Learning service. Chris shows you what capabilities data scientists can get across the machine learning lifecycle within a familiar notebook experience. And you'll see how you can use the newly introduced Automated Machine Learning capabilities in Azure ML to build machine learning models in a fraction of the time.

Go behind the design of our Surface Laptop 3, Surface Pro 7, and Surface Pro X with Microsoft Surface engineer, Jochen Siegl. We'll demonstrate the new lineup of devices for the commercial channel - with the design, internals, and technical specifications of each new device. Check out www.microsoft.com/surface for more information and availability of each Surface device

Windows Virtual Desktop is now released and ready for production! On today's show, Scott Manchester demonstrates WVD at general availability and what's coming. We'll show what the WVD team is doing to revolutionize app delivery with App Attach. This is a new way to deliver apps to WVD virtual machines without installing or streaming app binaries into VMs, but instead attaching to MSIX-based app packages stored in file shares.

If you're troubleshooting an issue and wondering whether the problem is on your side or on the Azure side, you'll want to watch. In just a few minutes, Microsoft Azure Product Manager Dante Rasera will walk you through how you can get a personalized view of the health of your Azure services, regions, and resources with Azure Service Health.

If you're new to Azure or just want to quickly learn more, check out our introduction to Azure Quickstart Center. Senior Program Manager at Azure, Ayesha Gaffer will show you how Azure Quickstart Center is the fastest way to explore and onboard yourself to Azure. You'll see how it helps with in-the-moment, pragmatic guidance, and steps that you can accomplish all in one flow by taking you to the exact blade in Azure to perform a specific action.

If you're in the middle of your cloud migration, dealing with legacy systems, or you want better integration between Microsoft, third party, and on-premises systems and services, we're going to take a look at how Azure Logic Apps can help. Derek Li from the Logic Apps team will give you the latest updates. You'll see the new SAP connector with bi-directional connectivity, and the new integration service environment for direct, secure access to your virtual network resources.

With the impending end of support for Windows 7, if you still need help with your Windows 10 migration, Aleks Lopez, who leads the Desktop App Assure team from FastTrack and Microsoft will walk through services for app remediation and upgrade automation using FastTrack to help get your environment to Windows 10, whether you're fully on-premises or using the Cloud. https://aka.ms/desktopappassurerequest https://microsoft.com/fasttrack https://aka.ms/ttd