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O Microsoft Ignite is the annual news presentation event for the Microsoft Teams and other tools that help companies on a daily basis. As a major highlight, the company will finally now allow collaborative editing in spreadsheets through the functionality excel live, working in a similar way to that offered by the Google Sheets. 522m6h

The annual event also featured news about security and the launch of new resources for collaborative work. Know all the details right now.

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O Microsoft 365, a business platform that serves companies from different segments, has just won a new application that unifies the teams, Excel, Power point e Outlook on a single platform. The company also confirms that the Microsoft Loop, launched last year and focused on improving collaborative work, can also be accessed by this new app. Another possibility is the Graph, a feature that allows the creation of graphs in a simpler way.

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Microsoft Teams and 365 gained several new features (Photo: Reproduction/Microsoft)

Speaking specifically about the Microsoft Teams, the first announcement was a 360º camera developed in partnership with Yealink. SmartVision 60 is a webcam focused on connecting employees working in person and remotely in the same room. Its main feature is the possibility of having multiple video streams with voice tracking and soon, it will also be able to perform people tracking.

A Microsoft also announced at its special event that Cisco, well known for its video call software, but which operates in the corporate market developing routers and other products for the daily lives of these professionals, is now a company Teams Rooms Certified Devices. This means that video calling products will now have native for Microsoft Teams so that a more complete experience is delivered to s.

Already offering a personal assistant that performs an automatic cut of video calls for those who cannot be live, the Teams gained interesting news. The first is the possibility of organizing meetings in the same pattern through special guides. You'll also be able to book personalized appointments and even host high-quality webInars, all within the new Microsoft 365.

Teams has a recording feature with an integrated personal (Photo: Reproduction/Microsoft)

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With the concept that offices are more than just workplaces, the Microsoft Places. In practice, this is a virtual agenda that will help managers and the rest of the company to know who will be in the face-to-face office and who is working remotely during weekdays. The main focus is to deliver a platform that acts as a planning tool for the future and in a simplified way, it will be possible to know the percentage of the team that will work in loco. This way:

Microsoft Places is focused on organizing remote and face-to-face work (Photo: Reproduction/Microsoft)

The company also hopes that this new app will help you know if the locations intended for face-to-face work are being used as expected. Partner companies will also be able to integrate their applications with Microsoft Places to deliver new and existing solutions.  

Places will be available on Microsoft 365, teamsOutlook OneNote free of charge for company customers.

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People who use the Microsoft 365 and teams were not forgotten during today's event. The only highlight for the resources section was the excel live, which will allow you to edit spreadsheets directly from Microsoft Teams, without having to open Excel on your computer. The novelty was being tested since September 2022 and is now available to all customers.

Excel Live will allow editing of spreadsheets during meetings in Teams (Photo: Reproduction / Microsoft)

O Teams Share Live is now more intuitive and allows sharing any app in real time, including the ability to take notes on the meeting screen.

O Together mode (announced during the event as Together Mode) is a new way for managers to see the camera footage of multiple people in a video call. By activating it, it will be possible to take the captured image and organize everything in a special template that simulates an auditorium. A dining room and other scenarios will also be available.

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Together mode in Teams will allow better viewing of people in a video call (Photo: Reproduction / Microsoft)

Another resource for collaborative work is scheduling meetings based on the time and place that a person will be on the desired day. In practice, a whole team of teams starts to have a shared agenda with the manager to avoid disagreements. This is a preview:

Agenda will be shared with managers (Photo: Reproduction/Microsoft)

The chat channels teams new features: the most recent messages are now located at the top of the conversation for easier reading.

Managers will now be able to schedule special posts and call everyone on the same channel using the “@channel” quote. Similar to what happens in Slack e Discord. 800 reaction emojis have been added to chat and video will be available to everyone. And an AI tool that facilitates reactions and allows scheduling of messages is coming to the app soon.

Microsoft Teams chat gained new features (Photo: Reproduction/Microsoft)

An application focused only on improving the use of the Microsoft Loop was announced during the event and the company hopes that with the integration with Microsoft 365 and Teams, companies will be able to centralize tasks and files are centralized in a single application.

Os Adaptive Cards are a new way for developers to bring microapplications to increase the productivity of the company in general. Little is known about how this will be done in practice, but the purpose is to allow the experience to be improved without people having to leave the Team Chat.

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Microsoft Viva won news that complement the 2021 launch (Photo: Reproduction / Microsoft)

Also announced last year, the Microsoft Live It works like a large virtual bulletin board where managers can speak directly to their employees without the need to send a private message to each of them. And three new divisions were announced, let's understand each one of them.

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As the name implies (Goals can be translated as objectives), this is the division so that the work goals are seen by everyone in the same company, with updates being able to be made in real time.

The most interesting thing is that if before, everything was on a physical , now leaders are able to have broad visibility for the decision-making that will lead to the goals being achieved.

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This is the tool that will improve communication with everyone on a team, sharing quick and confidential information with complete security and secrecy. The main focus is to allow decision-making to be made with as much data analysis as possible, when necessary.

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If you work as a team, you know that it is not always easy to get the message across to everyone. Literally, it is enough for a manager to send messages on the same channel and regardless of the application they are on. teams, Outlook, SharePoint ou Viva, everything will be delivered in the same way.

Metrics that will help understand the delivery of communications will also be available, as a great engagement tool. It will be possible to know what is working and what is not, in a more simplified and automated way.

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Wrapping up the news, the Microsoft announced that the new 365 app will continue to allow remote control from another PC; The novelty of the event was the availability of the Windows 365 Government to the USA.

The same system will also soon allow part-time or temporary employees to have access to cloud computers for a limited time, which will help those who need a powerful machine but don't have time to get it.

A part of the event was focused only on IT management and announced that the company will allow, through endpoint privilege management, elevated permissions are managed more assertively. already the Microsoft Tunnel is aimed at managing mobile applications for secure access to company resources. This ensures secrecy in all processes so that development is done safely during all stages.

According to the company, the use of Microsoft 365 guarantees 60% savings over competitors and there is even that helps employees keep their workflow safe.

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