More than ever, people are reliant on their peers to help get things done

Around the world teamwork is on the rise. Research suggests employees now work on nearly double the number of teams than they did just five years ago. This means more than ever people are reliant on their peers to help get things done. But a “one size fits all” approach does not work when it comes to group collaboration—different tools appeal to different groups and address unique needs.

This is not your typical online event

Each 90-minute session starts with an online business roundtable discussing your biggest business challenges with a trained facilitator and then transitions into a live environment in the cloud. You will receive a link to connect your own device to a remote desktop loaded with our latest and greatest technology so you can experience first-hand how Microsoft tools can solve your biggest challenges.

U.S. customers: Register here.

Outside the U.S.? Register here.

Why should I attend?

During this interactive online session, you will explore:

• How Microsoft Teams, the newest collaboration tool:
  • Keeps everyone engaged with threaded persistent chat.
  • Creates a hub for teamwork that works together with your other Office 365 apps.
  • Builds customized options for each team with channels, connectors, tabs and bots.
  • Adds your personality to your team with emojis, GIFs and stickers.

• How to keep information secure while being productive—Make it easier to work securely and maintain compliance without inhibiting your workflow.

• How to quickly visualize and analyze complex data—Zero in on the data and insights you need without having to involve a BI expert.

• How to co-author and share content quickly—Access and edit documents even while others are editing and reviewing them all at the same time.

• How to get immediate productivity gains—Most attendees leave with enough time-saving skills that time invested to attend a Customer Immersion Experience more than pays for itself in a few short days.

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Updates for OneNote Class Notebook, Learning Tools and Office Lens—plus stickers!

The OneNote team continues to listen to teachers to learn about how we can help them be more productive with our software. Today, we are announcing a set of improvements across OneNote Class Notebook, Learning Tools and Office Lens. All these improvements have come directly from our regular discussions with teachers and include:

• The availability of Class Notebook Tools on more platforms.
• Updates for Learning Tools for OneNote—new languages and more.
• The ability for teachers to give stickers to students in their Class Notebooks.
• New embeddable content types from partners.
• Updates for the OneNote Class Notebook and LMS.
• The availability of Office Lens for iPad, including Learning Tools.

Class Notebook Tools—now available for OneNote Online and the Windows 10 app

We’re excited to announce that OneNote Class Notebook Tools are now available for OneNote Online and OneNote for Windows 10 to help teachers work even more efficiently across more platforms!



Class Notebook Tools for OneNote Online



Class Notebook Toolbar for OneNote for Windows 10.

With the Class Notebook Tools for OneNote Online and OneNote for Windows 10, you can do the following:

Distribute a page or section to your students—Rather than sending students to the Content Library to copy a page for themselves, teachers can distribute a page to all students in a class with just two clicks.
Review student work sequentially—Just like in the Class Notebook add-in for OneNote 2013 or 2016, teachers are provided with a list of all the pages they’ve distributed and a quick way to sequentially review work (homework, assignments, quizzes, etc.). Simply click a student’s name to navigate to the page in the student’s notebook.



OneNote Online is rolling out today to Office 365 Education customers, with the OneNote for Windows 10 update available in the coming days in the Windows Store, and you will be able to download the OneNote Windows 10 app and enable the feature through settings in the Options menu.
For more details, visit the Getting Started guides for Class Notebook Tools for OneNote Online or Class Notebook Tools for OneNote for Windows 10.

Learning Tools updates—new languages and more

We have been hard at work rolling out Learning Tools across new apps and platforms—including Word desktop, Word Online, OneNote Online and Office Lens for the iPhone. At the same time, we’ve been listening to teachers and students and making improvements to the original Learning Tools add-in for OneNote. Our international audiences expressed the desire to have Learning Tools in more languages, as well as the ability to use dictation in more languages, and are pleased to launch two improvements in this area:

• The Learning Tools user interface is now localized in six new languages: Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional).
• Support for three new dictation languages: Russian, Portuguese (Brazil) and Chinese.

Support for three new Dictation languages—Chinese, Portuguese and Russian.

We also heard the desire to have explicit punctuation when dictating. For example, saying “period” now translates to “.” and “question mark” translates to “?”

In addition to these improvements, we made a few other enhancements:

• Now, when IT admins deploy Learning Tools, the Update button is only displayed on client machines that have rights to install updates.
• Implemented several bug fixes and performance improvements.

For feedback, you can always drop us a line at learningtools@onenote.uservoice.com.

Fun with stickers

A top request by teachers was to add some “fun” when giving feedback to students in OneNote. Now teachers can give students stickers in OneNote—as well as easily add a personalized message to the sticker. In addition, we plan to release new stickers packs throughout 2017—so keep an eye out for more “fun” way to give students feedback.
Stickers are available today in the OneNote Online app and will be available in the coming weeks for the OneNote Class Notebook add-in for desktop (2013 or 2016) and Windows 10 app.

New embeddable content from third-party partners

Last year, we announced that OneNote supports embedding interactive content such as YouTube, Vimeo, Slideshare, Sway, Docs.com and Office Mix. Today, we are announcing support for a new set of partners to embed content onto the OneNote canvas including:

• Quizlet
• ThingLink
• GeoGebra
• Wizer
• Sketchfab 3D

To view all of our supported embed content, visit this public OneNote notebook, created by @OneNoteC.



Quizlet support in OneNote.



Geogebra support in OneNote Online.

OneNote Class Notebook and LMS updates

We recently announced these updates to OneNote Class Notebook:

• Read/Unread support for page distributions and assignments in the Class Notebook add-in for OneNote.
• New LMS’s supported in the Class Notebook add-in for OneNote.

In addition, we are about to launch new assignment and grade support for the Skooler LMS in the next update of the Class Notebook add-in for OneNote desktop. You can learn more at our Education Partner page. We plan to continually improve these tools and deliver on top requests in 2017, just as we did in 2016. Check out the 2016 recap for OneNote.
Please don’t hesitate to email us directly at classnotebook@onenote.uservoice.com, where the OneNote Class Notebook product team reads through every piece of feedback received. We’re excited for teachers to try out these new improvements and look forward to hearing feedback!

Office Lens for iPad and the Immersive Reader

We are also announcing the availability of Office Lens for iPad. Shipping together with an improved version of Office Lens for iPhone, both apps have Learning Tools built right in. Scan documents and whiteboards with your iPad or iPhone camera. Launching the Immersive Reader lets you hear the text from the printed page read back to you. The words are highlighted as they’re read to make them accessible for all students.

With the bigger screen on the iPad, going from physical to accessible digital content is easier and more compelling than ever. And, as always, you can save the content into OneNote and OneDrive easily. You can get Office Lens today in the iPad Store.

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Move all your communications to Skype for Business Online

Today, at the Microsoft Ignite Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, we announced several new Skype for Business innovations that enhance the Office 365 collaboration experience across devices and empower IT professionals to deliver modern communications to their end users. Read on for more about what we announced today.

The best user experience for workplace communication

Over the past year we’ve been working on making the best experience for communicating with others, across all the devices you use for work. We are excited to announce that the new Skype for Business for Mac will be available in October. The new client has been written from the ground up using the modern Mac programming language, Swift. It provides high-definition audio and video, in addition to features like one-click join for meetings and edge-to-edge video and desktop sharing to make full use of a screen.

As part of our efforts to build deeper native integration on iOS and Android, we’re also pleased to be rolling out enhancements to the Skype for Business experience on iPhone staring in October. Using the Apple CallKit framework, Skype for Business calls now work just like a cellular call on your iPhone. You can accept a call via the lock screen or put a Skype for Business call on hold to take a cellular phone call—it works just like a phone. Both clients deliver a first-class Skype for Business experience to Mac and iOS users.

We’re also pleased to announce that we’ll deliver a preview of real-time transcription and translation in Skype Meeting Broadcast by the end of 2016. Skype Meeting Broadcast in Office 365 lets you produce, host and broadcast meetings to large online audiences. These new services will provide live closed-captioning for presentations spoken in English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and German, and allow viewers to select their preferred language for captions. More languages will be released throughout preview.

The next generation of Skype Room Systems

Today, we’re announcing the next generation of Skype Room Systems (formerly Project Rigel). Skype Room Systems bring the Skype for Business meeting experience, with rich HD audio and video, to every meeting room. With the new Skype Room Systems, your team can work like you’re all in one place, quickly and easily join meetings, make phone calls, and instantly share content in the room and remotely—all from an elegant touch screen console device. Transform your meeting rooms and make any space a Skype meeting place. Logitech SmartDock for Skype Room System bundles are available to reserve today, and will start shipping in a few weeks. You can also reserve Crestron’s Skype Room Systems, shipping at the end of this year, and the Polycom MSR Series for Skype Room Systems, which will start shipping early first quarter of 2017.

We are also pleased to announce the preview of Polycom RealConnect Service for Office365. This service, hosted on Microsoft Azure, enables non-native video teleconference (VTC) systems from Cisco and others to join a Skype for Business meeting. This means you can keep your existing investments and non-Skype for Business endpoint devices can leverage Skype for Business Meetings all in a seamless experience.

The power of global availability and capability

With the scale of Microsoft, you can use Office 365 to manage your communications globally. For online meetings, today we are announcing the latest geographic expansion of PSTN Conferencing. Customers in Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Monaco, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Uruguay and Vietnam can now purchase audio conferencing as part of Office 365. People can join Skype for Business meetings using local numbers from 90 countries and 400 cities across the globe—virtually everywhere. Default city numbers are available to every Office 365 customer, and customers can now acquire dedicated toll numbers or toll-free numbers in hundreds of cities across the globe via the Office 365 admin portal. Starting in October, we are also releasing previews of PSTN Calling in France and Spain for testing. PSTN Calling plans are already generally available in the United States, United Kingdom and Puerto Rico.

Office 365 administrators can decide where they want to provision their users for meetings. By the end of the calendar year, Skype for Business will support regionally hosted meetings. Users within multinational organizations can be provisioned in the datacenter region nearest to their physical location—reducing latency, delivering high quality media and keeping the data in the same region.

We’ve also been striving to create better experiences while users are in a meeting. Starting later this year, a new dynamic conference IDs feature will also be standard for all Skype for Business online meetings. Dynamic conference IDs provide a unique conference ID for each Skype for Business meeting, offering enhanced security and smoother transitions between back-to-back meetings. If a meeting organizer’s meeting is running long, the meeting will no longer be interrupted by a guest of the next scheduled meeting.

For voice services, Skype for Business Cloud PBX is already available worldwide, helping IT administrators realize significant operational efficiencies with a complete solution for user provisioning and call control in Office 365. Office 365 customers can use Skype for Business Cloud Connector Edition to connect our Cloud PBX with your existing telephony environments using the telco carrier of your choice.

In October, we’ll roll out previews of Organizational Auto Attendant for call treatment and Call Queues for queueing and routing of inbound calls. Configured by the admin in the Office 365 admin console or through Windows PowerShell, these powerful features let customers quickly migrate entire offices to Cloud PBX for voice.

Lastly, by the end of the year, Skype for Business Advanced Analytics will be in preview. Advanced Analytics is a powerful single pane of glass that enables customers to manage their global communications using a complete set of tools that provide an end-to-end view of the Skype for Business online environment—from users to entire enterprise. Our most recent enhancement gives you built-in intelligence to optimize your network for the best end-user experiences and proactively drive adoption.

Deployment excellence with the Skype Operations Framework

With the launch of Skype Operations Framework (SOF), we are expanding on an end-to-end planning, deployment and operations methodology and tool set for Skype for Business. The framework provides a comprehensive guide and toolset for implementing and managing a reliable, cost-effective communications service with operational excellence. Today, we’re announcing the availability of the Cloud Migration release, which extends SOF and will play a critical role in helping our customers and partners migrate from current on-premises deployments to Skype for Business Online using the SOF lifecycle of Plan, Deliver and Operate. Our SOF Partners also play a critical role in helping customers plan, deliver and operate Skype for Business Online successfully. Since the launch of SOF, hundreds of organizations have undertaken SOF training, and leading partners, including Modality, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Avanade, Unify Square, Tata Communications and Carousel, now offer SOF-aligned services to customers.

Move your communications to Skype for Business Online today

Customers around the world rely on Microsoft for their communications. We power over 1 billion meetings per year, more than any other provider. Kelly Services, TRC, Cushman & Wakefield, Ixia and many others take advantage of our services in Office 365 to improve teamwork, consolidate suppliers and cut costs. And they can rely on our commitment to continually improve our services using the hyper-scale, intelligent and trusted Microsoft Cloud.

Try Skype for Business in your organization using the free 30-day Office 365 E5 trial and see how a complete enterprise-grade voice and meetings solution delivered as an integral part of our modern productivity stack can help your teams achieve more together.

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WITHOUT YOU, IT’S “HEARTLY” A CONVERSATION!

Dear Yammer users, you are the heart of what we do at Yammer! With conversations and action arising from those conversations, you imagine and boldly pursue the futures of your companies. You are the ones driving business value, converting non-believers into Yammer champions, inciting radical transparency and transforming your organizations. We simply provide a platform for this to happen, but you — our amazing and inspirational users — are the ones making magic happen.

Business transformation is a big goal, and yet everything starts with a simple conversation. Some conversations help a colleague get something done, some turn around entire organizations, some save businesses money, some help companies simply become better and retain employees, some help them delight customers and partners. Whether you are transforming an entire business or meeting a single goal — large or small — conversations matter. Today, on Valentine’s Day, we want to thank you for having these conversations and shine the spotlight on you. We invite you to share with the Yammer community the story of a conversation that mattered — today and every day. Your story of how a conversation led to a business outcome can inspire others to start conversations at their companies. And here’s a bonus: if you share your story within the next week, you can win a prize! Check out the contest button on the right side of our blog, or get more information via our Facebook page.

You have the power of the conversation, and we are so grateful for our partnership!

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