Microsoft Ignite 2021 took place on 2nd-4th March 2021. The annual conference for developers and IT professionals hosted by Microsoft was delivered to us this year in an exciting, new, all-virtual format.
AddIn365’s in-house Microsoft MVPs Suzy Dean, Wes Hackett and Paul Schaeflein have compiled a schedule of this year’s must watch events, follow the links to attend your chosen session.
To re-watch the sessions be sure to register here. Leave your comments below to ask our Microsoft MVPs any questions you may have about Microsoft Office 365 or Viva Connections.
Microsoft Ignite 2021 – must watch sessions:
Introducing Microsoft Viva Connections
Presented by Adam Harmetz. Adam is a Director of PM in the Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint organization. He has 15+ years of experience in content management and employee experience product design. His team currently focused on integrating the SharePoint experience inside Microsoft Teams and helping generate the next decade of intranet innovation with new products like Microsoft Viva Topics and Microsoft Viva Connections.
Meet Microsoft Viva, presented by Chuck Friedman: a new kind of employee experience
The first employee experience platform built for the digital era, Microsoft Viva brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights into an integrated experience that empowers people and teams to be their best, from anywhere. Join us as we introduce a new approach and a new category of technology solutions. Powered by the full breadth and depth of Microsoft 365, Viva is experienced through Microsoft Teams and other Microsoft 365 apps that people use every day.
Get the most out of Microsoft Teams by integrating your apps and processes
Every company has ways of working unique to them, so the ability to integrate apps and business processes into where you work and collaborate simply improves the value of your Teams deployment. Learn about the tools we provide for building high quality apps, developing custom solutions with Teams and Power Platform, and how to deploy and manage these app integrations.
One place for IT Professionals to manage Microsoft Teams efficiently
A glance into the Teams IT admin role that can granularity control and customize the organizational Teams experience on one place in the Teams Admin Center. We will present the new capabilities we recently announced, to help you manage Teams much more efficiently.
Intro to Microsoft Teams for IT
The session 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.
Ask the Experts: The latest innovations with Microsoft Teams
Learn how Microsoft Teams is delivering meeting experiences that adapt to individual needs and enable people to present with confidence. We’ll also show you how Microsoft Teams is making it simple to host webinars, and how we’re making it easier to collaborate securely with people outside of your organization.
Reach partners and customers to drive engagement through virtual events with the same Teams app used to collaborate within organizations. Learn about custom registration, 1,000-person interactive webinars and host controls that help manage scale for up to 20,000-person broadcasts. Microsoft Ignite 2021.
Updates to Microsoft 365 experiences in Teams, Lists, OneDrive, Stream and more
Join Microsoft 365 engineering VP, Omar Shahine, for a demo-rich tour of all the recent updates along with what’s coming soon to Microsoft 365, including new cross-company sharing experiences in Microsoft Teams. We’ll also show what’s new and coming to Microsoft Lists, OneDrive, SharePoint, Stream, and the brand new employee experience platform, Microsoft Viva – for users and for admins. This is an Ignite exclusive show from Microsoft Mechanics. Microsoft Ignite 2021.
Ask the Experts: Microsoft Teams Manageability
This session is for you Microsoft Teams IT pro! You are responsible for customizing the Teams experience for your organizational needs. Let’s discuss the latest Microsoft Teams management capabilities that enable you to gradually and efficiently customize the Teams experience. We will highlight how we evolving our capabilities to help you simplify your work from one UI place in the Teams admin Center.
Easy, intuitive webinars with Microsoft Teams: Virtual engagement in the age of remote work
Reach partners and customers to drive engagement through virtual events with the same Microsoft Teams app used to collaborate within organizations. Learn about custom registration, 1,000-person interactive webinars and host controls that help manage scale for up to 20,000-person broadcasts.
Get the most out of Microsoft Teams by integrating your apps and processes
Every company has ways of working unique to them, so the ability to integrate apps and business processes into where you work and collaborate simply improves the value of your Teams deployment. Learn about the tools we provide for building high quality apps, developing custom solutions with Teams and Power Platform, and how to deploy and manage these app integrations.
Drive a data culture with Power BI and Microsoft Teams
The way we work is changing dramatically. It’s more connected, collaborative, and often done remotely. Organizations need tools to help everyone infuse data into every decision. Learn how Power BI and Microsoft teams make it easier to discover insights and collaboratively make decisions based on data. You’ll learn how to easily access and visualize data without leaving Teams, collaborate with colleagues to find and share insights and foster a culture of using data to make decisions.
New Habits Podcast
Microsoft Teams Updates: New Habits Podcast presented by Suzy Dean, Wes Hackett and Paul Schaeflein
The New Habits panel discusses the updates to Microsoft Teams from the later part of 2020 and how that impacts meetings, training and presentations.
The New Habits team react to the latest new regarding Viva Connections.
Discover Viva Connections Webinar
On Thursday 4th March Microsoft MVPs Suzy Dean and Wes Hackett presented the AddIn365 Discover Viva Connections webinar to demonstrate live Microsoft’s new Viva Connections capability and how it can be utilised as part of your digital employee experience. To request a recording please email hello@addin365.com
