New Graphics Ecosystem Measure
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August in HLS: Virtual Tours, Collaboration Security, Data Strategy, Stream, and AI in Health
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Can you believe that it’s already the end of August? Check out the Healthcare and Life Science blog’s monthly wrap-up below:
HLS “Show Me How” Posts:
- 360′ Virtual Tours – Michael Gannotti, Principal Microsoft Teams Technical Specialist: In today’s fast-paced and virtual working environments, employee onboarding and facility training are two areas in which many of our organizations are struggling. These videos focus on the creation of immersive tours and training using SharePoint Spaces, in particular the 360′ Tour.
- Did You Know? Tips for Word – Michael Gannotti, Principal Microsoft Teams Technical Specialist: When you think of Microsoft word, do you think of any of the following: researcher, ink-to-shape, dictate, inspect doc, check accessibility, transform, translate, read aloud, or add-files-from? Mike highlights these cutting edge productivity capabilities and more in this video.
Upcoming Webcasts and Events:
- How To Ensure Collaboration Security in Microsoft Teams: Do you want to ensure security for your users as they collaborate in Microsoft Teams? Join us for our next CollabCast with Microsoft’s Technical Specialist Sam Brown on Wednesday, September 30th at 12 Noon EST, where we are bringing in speakers Scott Gode and Brandon Long from our trusted partner Unify Square. They will dive in beyond the basic native Teams governance with third party specialty tools. Check out the event details here.
- Free Virtual Workshop – Data Strategy for Healthcare Systems: Interesting in learning more about planning and implementing a successful data strategy using Microsoft tools? Microsoft’s Senior Technical Specialist Greg Beaumont wants you to be aware of a free virtual workshop from Tail Wind Informatics, focusing on Healthcare Data Strategy and Analytics. Click here for registration and more information.
Industry Expert Posts:
- Confessions of Health Geeks Podcasts
- Did you know Microsoft has the coolest internships?: Get a glimpse into the Healthcare and Life Sciences industry team with Param Mahajan, who spent three months of his summer as an intern on the Microsoft Team. Claire Bonaci, Microsoft’s Director of Business Development in Health and Life Sciences, interviews Param to learn more.
- Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020: The World Health Organization designated 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife to raise awareness of nurses and midwives’ significant and varied roles in healthcare.
- AI in Health Care: Leading Through Change: Listen as Microsoft’s Chief Nursing Officer Molly McCarthy talks with Dr. Robyn Begley, the Chief Nursing Officer for the American Hospital Association and the Chief Executive Officer of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership.
- Calling all white hat hackers: Tune in to hear Microsoft’s Customer Success CSA Manager Jeff Fatic, Principal Cloud Solution Architect Jeff Luna and Chief Nursing Informatics Officer Kathleen McGrow talk through the importance of having nurses and clinicians involved in hackathons and creating innovative solutions to everyday problems.
Resources:
- Microsoft Security Matters Newsletter – July 2020 – Jeremy Windmiller, Enterprise Security Architect: Jeremy has been providing a newsletter to customers that consolidates resources for Microsoft Security Products and Services. Check out the July newsletter.
- Microsoft 365 Stream Resources for Administration and Security – Michael Gannotti, Principal Microsoft Teams Technical Specialist: After a great conversation with a progressive healthcare customer, Mike put together a list of resources regarding Stream architecture, administration and security and compliance here.
August’s HLS Blog Contributors:
Claire Bonaci, Director, Business Development, Health and Life Sciences
Michael Gannotti, Principal Technical Specialist, Microsoft Teams
Jeremy Windmiller, Microsoft Senior Technical Specialist, Security and Compliance
Greg Beaumount, Senior Technical Specialist, Microsoft Teams
Thanks for reading and let us know how else our Microsoft team can help!
Sam Brown, Technical Specialist, Microsoft Teams
SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: August 2020
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August welcomed some nice innovation, some to help get back to school, some to help you stay more informed, plus new ways to keep sharing and stay better connected.
This month brought: SharePoint site templates for Education, our timeline and support for the retiring of SharePoint 2010 Workflows, how to access Visio as a tab within Teams channels, sharing of moved files, and more. Details & screenshots below, including our audible companion: The Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop: August 2020 podcast episode – all to help answer, “What’s rolling out now for SharePoint and related technologies into Microsoft 365?”
In the podcast episode, I chat with Lincoln DeMaris (LinkedIn | Twitter), principal program manager at Microsoft who works on Microsoft Lists. We talked about the state of the Lists roll out, how it evolves from what we know as SharePoint lists, some of the early feedback, and tackle some of the most common frequently asked questions about Microsoft Lists.
![Lincoln DeMaris, principal program manager (Microsoft Lists / Microsoft) [Intrazone guest]](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/215631i5811B30213AF8791/image-size/large?v=1.0&px=999 "IZ-RP-21_August-2020_022_001_Lincoln-DeMaris_profile.jpg")
All features listed below began rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of August 2020 (possibly early September 2020).
Inform and engage with dynamic employee experiences
Build your intelligent intranet on SharePoint in Microsoft 365 and get the benefits of investing in business outcomes – reducing IT and development costs, increasing business speed and agility, and up-leveling the dynamic, personalized, and welcoming nature of your intranet.
SharePoint site templates for Education
These are for schools and universities, made available via the Microsoft Look Book. Each brings together news, events, highlighted content, quick links and more, pre-configured and designed with a specific scope and audience for a variety of Education scenarios.
Here is a quick highlight of each of the four templates:
- School home page: a central, institution-wide landing experience for students and staff to showcase the latest happenings and important resources.
- Staff home page: a dashboard for staff members with time-saving links, documents, and calls-to-action. It’s designed to be used with a Staff team or a Professional Learning Community (PLC) team in *Microsoft Teams for Education*
- Class home page: this is a dashboard for a class with resources, updates, and learning content, and designed to be used with a Class team in *Microsoft Teams for Education*
- Learn more.
Azure CDN caching for SharePoint and OneDrive video
We are pleased to introduce improved support for videos; aka, better streaming performance for videos you store in SharePoint and OneDrive. Videos that are accesses often will be streamed from the Azure CDN closest to the user to optimize the playback experience. At all times data will remain within the Microsoft 365 compliance boundary.
This is a great area for growth that also paves the way for future innovation. Stay tuned to this space.
- Roadmap ID: 66065.
- Learn more about CDNs
Retiring SharePoint 2010 Workflows
Since the release of SharePoint workflows, Microsoft has evolved workflow orchestration to not only encompass SharePoint, but all the productivity services you use with Microsoft 365 and beyond. With the continued investment in Power Automate as the universal solution to workflow, Microsoft is retiring SharePoint 2010 workflows. We recommend customers to move to Power Automate or other supported solutions.
Timeline:
- Starting August 1st, 2020, SharePoint 2010 workflows will be turned off for any newly created tenants.
- Starting November 1st, 2020, Microsoft will remove the ability to run, or create, and or execute SharePoint 2010 workflows from existing tenants.
Note: SharePoint 2013 workflows remain supported, although turned off by default for new tenants starting November 1st, 2020.
Resources:
- Use the SharePoint Modernization Scanner tool to scan your tenants for legacy workflow usage.
- Review the guidance for migrating from classic workflows to Power Automate flows.
- Review the Power Automate resources as a solution to legacy workflows.
- Support update for the retirement of SharePoint 2010 workflows in Microsoft 365.
- Detailed support article and with additional resources.
- Related to Microsoft 365 admin center message post #MC217999.
Download SharePoint site usage data in Excel
Site owners, from the Site usage page, will be able to export their site’s 90-day usage data in an Excel report. You can then build out a process that works for you per your preferences or governance requirements, to download the data on a recurring basis and build out the analysis you desire in Excel, or take it beyond and visualize the data in Power BI.
- Learn more.
- Roadmap ID: 66395
Abd to round out this section, two recent summary blogs for admins managing their intranet; both add a little context across several recent updates:
- “Migrate your content into Microsoft 365” [8/24/20]: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sharepoint-blog/migrate-your-content-into-microsoft-365/ba-p/1604587
- “Agile IT management of your SharePoint-powered intelligent intranet” [8/26/20]: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sharepoint-blog/agile-it-management-of-your-sharepoint-powered-intelligent/ba-p/1604914
Teamwork updates across SharePoint team sites, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams
Microsoft 365 is designed to be a universal toolkit for teamwork – to give you the right tools for the right task, along with common services to help you seamlessly work across applications. SharePoint is the intelligent content service that powers teamwork – to better collaborate on proposals, projects, and campaigns throughout your organization – with integration across Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Yammer, Stream, Planner and much more.
Updating the list and list item sharing experience
Site owners, members and visitors will now see a Share command when they are viewing a list, even when they do not have any list item selected. Site owners will be able to grant other users access to the list and can specify whether to give View-only, Edit, or Full Control permissions to the list. Other users (e.g. site members and visitors) cannot directly grant other users access to the list, but they can use the dialog to send an approval request to site owners if the site is set up to allow access requests (enabled by default).
This update also brings sharing links to list items. When users select a list item and click Share, they will see the same Send Link sharing dialog that exists today with new options. Specifically, the “People in your organization with the link” and “Anyone with the link” options will be available based on the policy that your organization has configured.
All the sharing policies you have configured for files will apply to list items. For example, if you have set “People in your organization with the link” as the default link type then that will also apply to list items. Similarly, if you have disabled or restricted “Anyone links” then those will also be disabled or restricted when users are sharing list items.
- Roadmap ID: 64164.
- Learn more: Share lists and list items in SharePoint
SharePoint lists and libraries – improved image columns
It is much easier now to work with images in lists and libraries. Once an Image column is added to a list or library, users can add an image using the list or library form. They, too, can view, replace, or remove the image when viewing the item or file properties in the form. When users are browsing the list on a mobile device, they will be able to upload an image – including taking a photo with the device’s camera.
- Learn more: List and library column types and options.
- Roadmap ID: 64872.
Move files, and keep sharing
Collaboration requires the flow of work access to go unbroken. When you move a file to a new location in Microsoft 365, you will have the option to continue sharing the file from its new destination. A simple pop-up to confirm and keep moving forward.
The new link match permissions just like the source location and we send your collaborators an e-mail that notifies them that the file has been moved.
Learn more:
- Introducing new OneDrive features to share and collaborate across work and life
- Move or copy files in SharePoint
- Move and keep sharing is a new feature that allows your end users to easily re-share a file with all the direct collaborators (e.g., the users who had previously received a share for that file) should it be moved.
- Roadmap ID: 65907.
Related technology
Yammer discovery feed
One superpower of Yammer is discovery – discovering new communities and new conversations that help broaden your perspective. This is the place for you to catch up on conversations happening in the communities you belong to.
Note for admins: you can select specific conversations to be *Featured Conversations* for a specific date. These conversations will be highlighted at the top of the Home Feed for everyone, until they have been read by the user or the time passes, and new content gets highlighted.
- Learn more, plus new support article: feed in Yammer.
- Roadmap ID: 59319.
Access Visio directly from a tab within Teams channels
As part of our commitment to make collaborating on Visio diagrams within Teams seamless, we have added the ability to have “Visio as a tab.” This brings co-authoring on a diagram in real time.
You can keep important processes at your fingertips – like giving your sales team a way to visualize specific steps to solve customer questions and concerns. Or simplify brainstorming on business diagrams like SWOT analysis, Venn diagrams, pyramid diagrams.
- Learn more: Visio tabs in Teams allow team members to quickly access content in a dedicated space within a channel or in a chat.
- Roadmap ID: 20886.
Microsoft 365 Network Connectivity Principles
Connectivity is one of the most critical decisions that customers should make to achieve best performance and delightful user experiences. We fine tune the Microsoft 365 for optimal features and connectivity, and there are several things you can do to optimize your network.
Microsoft has developed four *Network Connectivity* principles to help customers evaluate their existing network architectures and prepare or optimize readiness for Microsoft 365 – with security and privacy firmly intact.
The 4 principles:
- Optimize Microsoft 365 traffic from our endpoint and differentiate it from generic Internet traffic for more efficient routing.
- Enable local egress | Egress Microsoft 365 data connections through the Internet as close to your users as practical with matching DNS resolution.
- Enable direct connectivity | Avoid network hairpins and minimize network latency to Microsoft’s global network.
- Modernize security for SaaS | Avoid intrusive network security by bypassing proxies, traffic inspection devices, and avoid duplicating security controls already available in Microsoft 365.
- Learn more + https://aka.ms/tune –> “Network planning and performance tuning for Microsoft 365”
And last, did you see OneDrive on the Surface Duo?
Panos Panay looking at photos in OneDrive: https://youtu.be/R1CNwBzYqRs?t=568 – spanning OneDrive on two screens and staying in the flow.
September 2020 teasers
Psst, still here? Still scrolling the page looking for the rolled out goodness? If so, here is a few teasers of what’s to come to production next month…
- Teaser #1: New *Integrate* menu for Microsoft Lists [Roadmap ID: 64869]
- Teaser #2: Manage how long guests can access SharePoint and OneDrive [Roadmap ID: 43797]
… shhh, tell everyone.
Helpful, ongoing change management resources
- “Stay on top of Office 365 changes“
- “Message center in Office 365“
- Install the Office 365 admin app; view Message Center posts and stay current with push notifications.
- Microsoft 365 public roadmap + pre-filtered URL for SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer and Stream roadmap items.
- SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice
- OneDrive Facebook | Twitter | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice
- Follow me to catch news and interesting SharePoint things: @mkashman; warning, occasional bad puns may fly in a tweet or two here and there.
Thanks for tuning in and/or reading this episode/blog of the Intrazone Roadmap Pitstop – August 2020 (blog/podcast). We are open to your feedback in comments below to hear how both the Roadmap Pitstop podcast episodes and blogs can be improved over time.
Engage with us. Ask questions. Push us where you want and need to get the best information and insights. We are here to put both our and your best change management foot forward.
Stay safe out there on the road’map, and thanks for listening and reading.
Cheers and thanks,
Mark Kashman – senior product manager (SharePoint/Lists) | Microsoft)
ADF adds Snowflake support in Mapping Data Flow
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Azure Data Factory now enables Snowflake connector in Mapping Data Flow to expand Snowflake data integration support. You can read data directly from Snowflake for analysis, or write transformed data into Snowflake for seamless ETL. For other Snowflake data integration support in ADF, refer to the earlier blog.
For example, when using Snowflake as a source in data flows, you are able to pull your data from a table or via custom query, then apply data transformations or join with other data.
Additionally, when using Snowflake as a sink, you can perform inserts, updates, deletes, and upserts so as to publish the analytics result set into the warehouse.
You can point to Snowflake data using either a Snowflake dataset or an inline dataset.
Learn more about Snowflake support in Azure Data Factory from Snowflake connector documentation.
Sharing Azure Sentinel Workbook Data with Someone Outside the SIEM
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Hi, all! Rod Trent here. I am a Cybersecurity CE/Consultant at Microsoft and working with Azure Sentinel. I also blog for our Secure Infrastructure Blog and have quite a few Azure Sentinel articles posted there already.
Customers ask quite often how they can share their Workbooks with others outside of Azure Sentinel, i.e., give access to the valuable visualizations/reports to those that don’t need full Azure Sentinel access.
The solution is actually much easier than it might seem and involves a very simple method of using the pinning features of Workbooks and setting appropriate RBAC rights.
The most important piece is ensuring that the proper, least privilege rights are in place to enable viewing of the Workbook data on the Azure Dashboard. But, before digging into that, read my recent walkthrough for properly Pinning Entire Azure Sentinel Workbooks to Azure Dashboards.
After understanding how best to promote the Workbook data to an Azure Dashboard, now you just need to set the proper access rights.
When you follow the instructions listed above, part of the pinning process is saving the dashboard to a resource group. By default, the resource group is dashboards, as shown in the next image.
The dashboards resource group (or whatever you rename it to) needs to have Reader role assignment in place for the individual or individuals that need access to the specific Dashboard. As shown below, I have an Azure Active Directory group called AzureSentinelDashboards with the Reader role on the dashboards resource group. As a best practice, you should always assign groups versus individual role assignments. The user I want to give Dashboard access to, Andre Rene Roussimoff, is a member of the AzureSentinelDashboards group. This gives Andre proper access to the dashboard but doesn’t yet give him access to the Azure Sentinel data. To do that, I have to also assign proper Log Analytics workspace access.
After the dashboards role has been assigned, I now need to assign access to the Log Analytics workspace for Azure Sentinel. This ensures that the user or users can view the data in addition to having access to the Azure Sentinel Workbook that has been pinned as a shared Azure Dashboard.
In the Access control for the Azure Sentinel Log Analytics workspace, I assign the AzureSentinelDashboards group as a Reader of the resource.
As shown in the next image, Andre now has access to the dashboard and also the Azure Sentinel Workbook data.
Summary
Keep in mind, though — this is simply Reader access. If Andre tries to click on any of the Workbook’s dynamic components, he’ll get an error message. But, still…this gives Azure Sentinel analysts a quick and easy way to make Workbooks and reporting data available to those that shouldn’t have full access to the Azure Sentinel console.
P.S. If you’ve been following along, I hope you’ve picked up that there’s a TV theme to my personal Azure Sentinel demo site. Any guess how Andre Rene Roussimoff plays into that TV theme?
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