Microsoft IT Showcase (HD) - Channel 9

Mark Schaefer, director of technical sales in the Microsoft Pacific Northwest Region, talks about how his team has experienced digital transformation—how an integrated toolset built on Dynamics 365 and Azure Cloud Services replaced multiple tools, complex processes, and time-consuming administration. This new set of tools boosted team morale and dramatically increased productivity—transforming the team into efficient, motivated sellers who think about strategy, long-term vision, and customer satisfaction. Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more: Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

At Microsoft IT, providing great user experiences for employees is more than just product improvement—it's about enhancing end-to-end experiences that span products and services. Anisha Gautam, Senior Program Manager in Microsoft IT, discusses broad experiences like finding, meeting, collaborating, supporting, and communicating. She talks about how we're applying data science—using machine learning and algorithms—to analyze user feedback and data from products and services. Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more: Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

IT Showcase brought together subject matter experts from our Skype for Business at Microsoft course to answer questions about how Microsoft IT implements, maintains, and supports Skype for Business at Microsoft. In this session, they discuss new features of Skype for Business, factors that affect call quality and reliability, client version control, tenant dial plans, normalization rules, and much more. These questions — and more — are discussed during this session: [2:34] What are new features across Skype for Business client, desktop, or mobile?[4:30] What are important factors in having a good call or conference experience with Skype for Business?[11:17] How does Microsoft IT handle client version control?[15:19] How does Microsoft use tenant dial plans?[17:52] What are normalization rules used for?[20:57] What networking infrastructure issues affect Skype for Business audio and video quality?[31:07] How does business continuity/disaster recovery differ between on-premises and cloud deployments?[34:37] With C5 caller, ID can be set or blocked. Have you tested?[37:53] How do we drive adoption of features and updates?[45:26] I heard that Microsoft brought Event Zero. What does this mean for IT pros?[49:26] What is the one tip you would like to leave our audience with today?Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more: Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

IT Showcase brought together IT Experts from our Cloud at Microsoft course to answer your questions about how Microsoft IT designs, develops, implements, and monitors cloud solutions at Microsoft. In this session, they discuss infrastructure as code, Azure security, and strategies for migrating applications, cloud adoption challenges, Azure architecture, data management in Azure, and much more. These questions — and more — are discussed during this session: [2:56] What are the biggest changes you are seeing with Cloud adoption, from your traditional on‑premises solution?[4:45] Could you explain a little bit about infrastructure as code?[7:27] How secure is Azure?[7:29] How much of the financial industry in the United States is using Azure?[12:05] Is IaaS or PaaS better for migrating applications?[19:31] On our different migrations to the cloud, did we experience any service disruptions?[23:36] What should we evaluate before we move from on-premises to Azure?[28:17] What are you doing now that is different from when you started your journey to Azure?[30:21] What was the most challenging aspect of cloud adoption for Microsoft?[33:01] What are some of the biggest differences that you have encountered with running IT workloads in IaaS or VM-based environments versus running in SaaS or Azure?[38:18] What is the high-level architecture of Azure?[41:57] What are the trends in data management and data solutions that Azure offers?[49:21] How do we manage our Azure subscriptions?[52:39] What is the one tip you would like to leave our audience with today?Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more: Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

IT Showcase brought together IT experts from our Enterprise Mobility at Microsoft course to answer your questions about how Microsoft IT designs, deploys, and supports mobility at Microsoft. In this session, they discuss personal devices on the corporate network, Intune, mobile device management, Azure Active Directory, hybrid environments, Microsoft Teams, securing corporate resources, managing apps for Android and iOS devices, and much more. These questions — and more — are discussed during this session: [2:33] How do you manage access to corporate resources from personal devices?[5:19] What are the advantages of connecting devices to Azure Active Directory?[8:10] How do you change from old parameter-based security approaches and culprit IT security to the new reality that parameters don’t exist in enterprise mobility?[15:36] What costs do you incur to get the desired results from your service compared to on-premises hosting?[19:52] How do you manage enterprise mobility in your diverse hybrid environment?[24:59] How do you manage apps for Android and for iOS?[26:13] How do we protect Wi-Fi and VPN access from unmanaged devices?[28:26] How has Microsoft Teams improved mobility at Microsoft?[34:26] How do we prevent vulnerable platforms from connecting to Microsoft corporate resources?[40:26] Is there enterprise mobility functionality that is easy to implement and that provides high impact?[43:31] How do you manage your global ecosystem of personal and corporate devices with Intune mobile device management?[51:30] What is the one key takeaway you would like to leave with people today?Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more: Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

Brian Moring, productivity trainer with Microsoft IT Showcase, demonstrates how to use Microsoft PowerPoint and share presentations in the cloud. Find out how to make a PowerPoint template, create presentations, design interactive content with the Office Mix add-in, and save it all to OneDrive. Learn how to access PowerPoint from your Windows, iOS, or Android device. Brian answers questions about best practices for using PowerPoint. These questions — and more — are discussed during this session: [2:42] Create a PowerPoint presentation[5:00] Add slides and content[33:09] Transitions and Animations[44:38] Include speaker notes[47:31] View in Slide Show mode[50:02] Move to OneDrive[52:49] Share and collaborateAccess additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more: Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

Learn how Microsoft IT helps protect and secure our enterprise network against malware and advanced attacks. Brian Hooper, Senior Security Engineer in Microsoft IT, and Daryl Pecelj, Senior Security Architect in Microsoft IT, discuss Windows Defender and how we use Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) to monitor the network for anomalous behavior that may indicate possible malicious attacks or breaches. They answer questions from participants about best practices. Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more: Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

IT Showcase brought together subject matter experts from our Skype for Business at Microsoft course to answer questions about how Microsoft IT implements, maintains, and supports Skype for Business at Microsoft. In this session, they discuss Skype Meeting Broadcast, Skype fax service, new features, hardware requirements, security considerations, and much more. These questions — and more — are discussed during this session: [7:54] How does Microsoft IT support Skype Meeting Broadcast?[11:42] How does Microsoft IT manage fax?[16:10] What are the new features across the Skype for Business client?[21:14] What are some key learnings for end users to ensure a good experience?[27:23] Are there any special hardware requirements for running a self-hosted Skype Meeting Broadcast live streaming event?[30:55] Are there ways to join Skype Meeting Broadcast that are bandwidth conservative?[37:41] What are our security considerations for phones placed at public locations?[41:02] What are some of the improvement areas that you have started taking on in your Get to Green service project?[49:22] What is the one tip you would each like to leave our customers with today?Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more: Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

IT Showcase brought together subject matter experts from our SharePoint at Microsoft course to answer questions about how Microsoft IT designs, develops, implements, governs, upgrades, and supports SharePoint at Microsoft. In this session, they discuss Microsoft Teams, MyAnalytics, search technologies, custom user data, the Office 365 app launcher, third-party tools, taxonomy, access from iOS and Android devices, governance, multifactor authentication, and much more. These questions — and more — are discussed during this session: [2:14] We just launched Microsoft Teams to general availability yesterday. What do you think of Microsoft Teams, now that we’ve been using it for a while at Microsoft? What should our customers know about Microsoft Team?[6:48] Delve search and SharePoint search are really good. Can these search technologies be extended to other Office 365 apps, specifically Outlook on the web, where search is not very good?[12:18] Extending these questions a little bit, is Group the same across SharePoint, Team, Lync, and Exchange?[15:08] Does Microsoft IT import any custom user data into the profile database?[18:21] Can you control the features available in the Office 365 app launcher (internally known as the waffle) to users on a granular basis?[21:38] I watched the team showcase and it supports a lot of third-party tools. What are the roles of SharePoint in it?[22:41] How does Microsoft IT manage taxonomy at Microsoft?[26:34] How do you provide access to SharePoint content from non-Windows devices and platforms from Apple and Android?[28:38] Do you give guidance on when your employees should use SharePoint team sites versus OneDrive, versus the new Office 365 Groups or Teams?[31:27] How does Microsoft IT ensure high availability of the SharePoint database when most, but not all, databases for SQL Server feature Always On?[34:54] When will SharePoint support SQL Server 2016?[36:06] What are some of the biggest adoption hurdles to using Delve internally at

Dwight Jones, Senior IT Service Manager, discusses how Microsoft IT is making the transition to Skype for Business—unified communications in the cloud. He shares how we reconciled Microsoft Lync and other technologies to become Skype for Business, and how we're listening to our users to drive service improvements, increase call quality, and optimize the user experience. Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more: Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

Host Lyle Dodge chats with Pete Apple, Principal Service Engineer, and Rick Ochs, Senior Service Engineer, to learn how Microsoft IT understands our cloud investment and how we implemented cloud resource management and cost optimization strategies. Listen in as they discuss the tools and processes that we built on our journey to an efficient cloud environment. Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more: Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase Windows Phone App

Ryan Gaukroger, Senior Product Marketing Manager, talks with Hans Reutter, Principal Service Engineering Manager in Microsoft IT, about how and why we moved our SAP environment to Microsoft Azure. Hans explains how SAP in the cloud has reduced costs and improved the flexibility and scalability of our environment, and he shares best practices for organizations who want to move to Azure.

Join Shad Morris, IT Service Engineer for the Discovery and Collaboration team, as he shares best practices for increasing email security using Exchange Online Protection. He will discuss how Microsoft IT uses both proactive configuration and reactive policies to block threats at the connection, content, and user levels. You will have opportunities to ask questions throughout this webinar. Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more: Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase Windows Phone App

IT Showcase brought together subject matter experts to answer questions about how Microsoft IT uses data analytics at Microsoft. In this session, they discuss trends in data management, the value of data analytics, data-driven decision making, Power BI adoption, data in the cloud, Azure, SQL Server 2016, Azure Data Lake, Cortana Intelligence Suite, and much more. These questions — and more — are discussed during this session: [3:23] How do you leverage data analytics at Microsoft?[5:46] How have you seen data analytics change at Microsoft over the last five years?[10:32] How are you moving to a Power BI solution? Are you moving it on-premises or into the cloud? What is the roadmap for all of you?[15:20] How do you support the growing demand for working with data when everything is moving to Azure? How does the move to the cloud change your business? How does it change your experience with data, such as executives’ data and personal data?[19:34] How did you go from providing services to our database engineers and DBAs, to providing on-premises solutions as your standard, and now to Microsoft Azure as a default standard? How did that change take place? What did that change look like in your organization?[25:19] What percentage of your environments are SQL Server 2016? What benefits have you seen from SQL Server 2016?[27:30] How has data analytics changed your business from a sales and marketing perspective?[35:28] How do you measure your customers’ level of satisfaction for your service?[38:39] What is your experience with using Azure Data Lake and some of your Cortana Intelligence Suite technologies?[41:45] How do you ensure the success of Power BI inside the company?[43:35] How does Power BI change the roles within your company?[52:39] What is one final tip that each of you would like to leave behind for our customers? Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more: Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLi

IT Showcase brought together subject matter experts from our Cloud at Microsoft course to answer questions about how Microsoft IT designs, develops, implements, and monitors cloud solutions at Microsoft. In this session, they discuss migrating enterprise portfolios to the cloud, best practices for migrating to Azure, cloud security, software as a service (SaaS), hybrid cloud solutions, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Office 365, and Azure Stack. These questions — and more — are discussed during this session: [3:26] What percentage of our portfolio have we taken to the cloud?[7:22] Is there an aspect of on-premises versus cloud because Office 365 has SharePoint as one of its products?[8:26] What is the best approach to migrating to Azure?[17:00] What are some of the biggest challenges that your organization has had to overcome as you moved from hosting IT services in your own datacenters to those run by cloud service providers?[20:19] What are some proven practices in outsourcing to Microsoft SaaS offerings?[27:22] With 95 percent SaaS, what is the best way to proactively monitor that services are working? Can you rely solely on service communications, or do you need more?[31:47] What are the plans for a hybrid solution where you can mix on-premises with cloud infrastructure and services?[37:42] Is the backend storage for OneDrive and OneDrive for Business files the same? As I understand it, OneDrive for Business is for syncing SharePoint document libraries, and I'm assuming would be stored in SQL in the cloud. Does the one terabyte of OneDrive personal storage I get with Office 365 get stored in SharePoint also?[41:44] What is the roadmap for Microsoft Teams? Will it replace Office 365 Groups and/or Planner down the road?[44:06] Azure Stack appears to be a solution. Can you tell us more about it?[46:00] How does this panel feel Microsoft Azure stacks up against Amazon Web Services?[48:47] Can you speak about mixing and matching multiple Azure and