Outlook for Mac adds improved signature editor in Insider Fast



Microsoft Tech Community Weekly Roundup – March 23, 2018 Check out this week’s issue of Weekly Roundup for an at a glance view of hot topics and conversations. Table of Contents Product News Discussions Handy Resources Interesting Perspectives Upcoming Events Featured Group Member of the Week PRODUCT NEWS DISCUSSIONS NOW AVAILABLEOffice Hours for developers: Topic for the call on March 22ndOn Friday, March 16, 2018, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Identity team's next office hours for developers will be held on March 22nd. Join the conversation in the Azure Active Directory Developers space.Enhancements to Productivity App Discovery in Office 365 Cloud App SecurityOn Monday, March 19, 2018, Microsoft announced enhancements to Productivity App Discovery?in Office 365 Cloud App Security. Join the conversation in the Security, Privacy and Compliance space.Improved Signature Editor Now Available in Insider FastOn Monday, March 19, 2018, Microsoft announced an updated and improved signature editing experience for our Insider Fast users! (>= Insider Fast Build 16.12 (180314)). Join the conversation in the Outlook space.Improved multi-member Blockchain networks now available on AzureOn Monday, March 19, 2018, Microsoft announced significant enhancements to the Ethereum on Azure offering.?Join the conversation in the Azure Blockchain space.Global performance acceleration with Azure Traffic ManagerOn Monday, March 19, 2018, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of?Traffic View,?a new capability in Azure Traffic Manager, announced in public preview?last fall. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.Outlook for Mac adds improved signature editor in Insider FastOn Monday, March 19, 2018, Microsoft announced an updated and improved signature editing experience in Outlook for Mac for our Insider Fast users starting in?version?16.12 (180314). Join the conversation in the Outlook space.Announcing updated practical guidance for Audio Conferencing and Phone System in TeamsOn Monday, March 19, 2018, Microsoft announced updates to practical guidance for Cloud Voice in Microsoft Teams. This includes Audio Conferencing and Phone System with Calling Plans in Teams. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Teams space.Skype Room Systems v2 3.1.100.0 UpdateOn Monday, March 19, 2018, Microsoft announced that Skype Room Systems v2 3.1.100.0 has been available as an automatic update since March 16th. Join the conversation in the Skype for Business space. Azure Security Center and discovery of partner solutionsOn Monday, March 19, 2018, Microsoft announced the general availability of auto-discovery of partner solutions in Azure Security Center that have already been deployed in the subscription. Join the conversation in the Azure Security + Identity space. Microsoft creates industry standards for datacenter hardware storage and securityOn Tuesday, March 20, 2018, Microsoft announced a next-generation specification for solid state device (SSD) storage, Project Denali.?Join the conversation in the Azure Data + Storage space.Skype Room Systems v2 3.1.98.0 Deployment KitOn Tuesday, March 20, 2018, Microsoft announced Skype Room Systems v2 version 3.1.98.0 deployment kit is available for download from TechNet as of March 20th. Join the conversation in the Skype for Business space.Announcing general availability of Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQLOn Tuesday, March 20, 2018, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of?Azure Database for MySQL?and?Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Join the conversation in the Azure Data + Storage space.System Center Updates Publisher adds support for new OSesOn Wednesday, March 21, 2018, Microsoft announced that an updated version of System Center Updates Publisher (SCUP) is now available. Join the conversation in the System Center anize your intranet with SharePoint hub sitesOn Wednesday, March 21, 2018, Microsoft announced that SharePoint hub sites are now rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Office 365. Join the conversation in the SharePoint space.New release: SharePointDsc v2.2 is out!On Wednesday, March 21, 2018, Microsoft announced a new release of SharePointDsc, version 2.2. Join the conversation in the Windows PowerShell space.Build your next iOS and Android game with $2,500+ of gaming servicesOn Wednesday, March 21, 2018, Microsoft announced a special offer for developers featuring more than $2,500 worth of PlayFab, App Center, and Azure services free for up to a year.This promotion is limited to the first 1,000 registrants and ends on May 31, 2018. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.Columnstore support in Standard tier Azure SQL DatabasesOn Wednesday, March 21, 2018, Microsoft announced the general availability of Clustered and NonClustered Columnstore indexes for Standard databases in the S3 and above pricing tiers. Join the conversation in the Azure Data + Storage space.The next generation of Azure Alerts has arrivedOn Wednesday, March 21, 2018, Microsoft announced the general availability of the next generation of alerts in Azure. With Azure Monitoring Services, you can set up alerts to monitor the metrics and log data for the entire stack across your infrastructure, application, and Azure platform. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.Announcing Terraform availability in the Azure MarketplaceOn Thursday, March 22, 2018, Microsoft announced the availability of the new Terraform solution in the Azure Marketplace, in addition to Terraform already being integrated to the?Azure Cloud Shell. Join the conversation in the Microsoft Azure space.Azure Databricks, industry-leading analytics platform powered by Apache SparkOn Thursday, March 22, 2018, Microsoft announced the?general availability?of Azure Databricks, a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache? Spark?-based analytics platform optimized for Azure. Join the conversation in the Azure Data + Storage space.Azure Event Hubs integration with Apache Spark now generally availableOn Thursday, March 22, 2018, Microsoft announced the general availability of Event Hubs’ integration with Apache Spark. Join the conversation in the Azure Data + Storage ING SOONHANDY RESOURCES HYPERLINK ""SharePoint hub sites AMAOn March 23, 2018, Microsoft hosted a SharePoint hub sites AMA to help answer questions. The summary from this event will be available when it’s ready in the SharePoint AMA space.Celebrating 500 Members! :)It feels like just yesterday when we launched this brand new community on the Microsoft Tech Community platform. We've heard the tech industry's cry for more global stages, platforms, communities and safe spaces to talk about all things diversity, and two months ago on 17 January 2018, the Diversity and Tech Community was born. ?Microsoft Tech Summit Paris Mar 14-15 2018The Microsoft Tech Summit continues its tour of Europe with a stop in Paris, France!?Serverless computing recipes for your cloud applicationsYou have heard the hype around serverless computing, read countless online articles about its benefits, and heard industry pundits find new adjectives to describe its pathbreaking nature on a frequent basis. Are you now ready to dig into what you can?actually do?with?real code?using serverless computing cloud services like Azure Functions??Text Recognition for Video in Microsoft Video IndexerIn Video Indexer, we have the capability for recognizing display text in videos.?There is a misconception that AI for video is simply extracting frames from a video and running computer vision algorithms on each video frame but video processing is much more than processing individual frames using an image processing algorithm – for example, with 30 frames per second, a minute-long video is 1800 frames producing a lot of data but, as we see above, not many meaningful words.?Modernize index maintenance with Resumable Online Index RebuildAs we know, the index is one of the most powerful tools for optimizing database performance. As you insert, update, and delete rows, indexes become more fragmented and less effective. Because of this, DBAs regularly do index rebuild operations.Securing Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQLSelecting a secure cloud services provider is one of the most fundamentally important decisions customers make. Customers must build their applications and services upon a secure trusted foundation. Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL inherit the fundamentally proven trusted security architecture from Microsoft Azure. Azure has over 50 national, regional and industry specific?compliance offering?that Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL leverage as part of Microsoft’s Trusted Cloud foundation of security, privacy, compliance, and transparency.?Compliance offerings for Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQLCustomers experience an increasing demand for highly secure and compliant solutions as they face data breaches along with requests from governments to access online customer information. New regulatory requirements such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which governs the collection and use of individuals’ data, makes selecting cloud services that help customers achieve trust, transparency, security, and compliance essential. To help customers achieve compliance with national, regional, and industry specific regulations and requirements Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL build upon Microsoft Azure’s compliance offerings to provide the most rigorous compliance certifications to customers at service general availability.Blog Post: Top 10 Charts in Azure Log Analytics and Application InsightsI've written blog post that I think it might be interested for the audience here. I’ve recently stumbled on forum question asking for chart that list only the top 10 resources or computers. Such chart is of course used a lot in performance metrics where for example you want to get the top 10 computers with CPU usage and list them in time chart.Yammer Use CasesYammer a collaboration tool that helps you and your colleagues connect, share knowledge, discover information, and collaborate across the organization.?When exploring the benefits and features of Yammer, it's critical that you identify the best use cases to make your launch successful. Here are a few examples to help get you going.Engaging FastTrack at the intersection of technology adoption and digital transformation – TalkTalkThere’s an important?interplay between organizational culture and change management when it comes to technology adoption and digital transformation. Early this year, a?Microsoft?UK news article?highlighted this interplay with a telecommunication provider TalkTalk. In my interactions with members of the TalkTalk team when we worked together last year at Microsoft Ignite, one thing was clear: this is a company that cares about its people! But its traditional work culture, complete with office-bound staff and limited technology tools, was holding both the organization and its employees back. Focusing on its employees’ needs led the company to leverage?Microsoft 365 Enterprise?to create an open, inclusive, vibrant workplace that fosters ingenuity and empowers its staff to anticipate customer needs and develop new services.Why can't I see the Microsoft Teams Meeting add-in for Outlook?We’ve heard reports that the Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in for Outlook on Windows does not show up for some users who have installed the desktop app.? There are several reasons why the add-in may not display that have simple remedies.? Here are some steps to help you troubleshoot this problem.Project Denali to define flexible SSDs for cloud-scale applicationsLast September, at SNIA’s Storage Developer’s Conference, we presented a prototype of the Project Denali SSD. Project Denali drives provide the flexibility needed to optimize for the workloads of a wide variety of cloud applications, the simplicity to keep pace with rapid innovations in NAND flash memory and application design, and the scale required for multitenant hardware that is so common in the cloud.?SONiC, the network innovation powerhouse behind AzureThis week is?OCP Summit 2018, and I cannot think of a better time to do a status update on our Open Source fabric powering our cloud. Since joining OCP back in 2014, I have always been a huge supporter of Microsoft’s participation in the important work done by the members of the Open Compute Project (OCP) community.Deploying WordPress Application using Visual Studio Team Services and Azure – Part twoThis post is the second part of two blog posts describing how to setup a CI/CD pipeline using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for deploying a Dockerized custom WordPress website working with Azure WebApp for Containers and Azure Database for MySQL.Unlock your data’s potential with Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure DatabricksGetting the most out of your data is critical for any business in a competitive environment. Businesses need the ability to get the right data into the right hands at the right time. Azure Databricks and Azure SQL Data Warehouse can help you do just that through a Modern Data Warehouse.Today on Azure Friday: Using Habitat in AzureNick Rycar from?Chef?stops by Azure Friday to chat with Donovan Brown about Habitat, a simple, flexible way to build, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications. Habitat makes it easier to develop and promote changes by enabling each instance of your application to continually and independently apply updates as soon as they're ready.INTERESTING PERSPECTIVESSharePoint Social Bar – Page Usage InformationJohn Wynne asked whether the SharePoint Social Bar has been rolled out to Targeted Release, as it should be according to the Message Centre. Several Microsoft employees, including Mark Kashman, were able to clarify the details of the release.Sub Teams CreationIt was asked whether it was possible to create sub teams within Teams to manage different opportunities with different people inside. Several people responded, notably MVP Steven Collier who helped clarify the functionality within Teams. Contributor Antony Taylor mentioned a solution he’d followed that effectively answered the question.WDATP preview features are now on!Microsoft employee Raviv Tamir posted about new preview features for Windows Defender ATP community members, and followed up with questions afterward.UPCOMING EVENTSAnnouncing the March Office International Contest on the Tech CommunityHi Office International Community! We're looking for feedback on how the localized (non-English) versions of the Windows 10 applications (Mail and Calendar) and their help content are landing in your market. We're running a contest from March 14th?to March 31st?to find language issues on localized versions of Windows 10 Mail and Calendar and we are giving away a $100 Amazon voucher to the top 3 contributors.Learn how to build great cloud apps at the Azure Developer Tour!The?Azure Developer Tour?is coming to a?city near you?and we’d love to see you there! Building on the cloud helps you tap into massive compute, scalable data storage and advanced tools, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. With the cloud, you can build revolutionary apps that transform your business and improve people's?lives.Create tomorrow today with emerging tech at Microsoft BuildOn May 7–9, brilliant developers and industry game-changers will meet at Microsoft Build in Seattle, Washington. Creators of all kinds will gather to spark ideas, get inspired, and build what’s next.?Save the date?to register tomorrow for your ringside seat.SharePoint Conference North America – Save the DateThe SharePoint Conference North America is less than ~123 days away, if you’re an IT Professional, implementer, decision maker, business user, or developer you don’t want to miss this SharePoint Conference. The SharePoint Conference North America promises to be 2018’s premier event for SharePoint and related technologies, featuring over 140 sessions (8,400 hours) of content under one roof.? In addition, SharePoint Conference North America is the host for this year’s SharePoint Virtual Summit where we’ll share the latest innovations, vision, and strategy across SharePoint and OneDrive.? Don’t miss this unique opportunity to be part of the action, live, and in-person.FEATURED SPACE SharePointAlways one of our most active communities, this week’s SharePoint hub sites AMA was very popular. Join the SharePoint community today!MEMBER OF THE WEEKDavid SlightA member since July 2016, David’s been an active contributor in a number of spaces, notably Office 365 Groups, Office 365 and Microsoft Teams. Thanks for being a member of the community, David! ................
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