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What’s New – July 2022
July 2022’s What’s New is full of fantastic announcements from Microsoft Inspire, with several new innovations including Excel Live, Video Clip and Live Share coming to Microsoft Teams and Viva Goals coming to Microsoft Viva. We also announced our September and October Microsoft Campus Updates webinars (following a short break in August), with Veeam and Adobe joining us as guest presenters, respectively. Plus, Zoom is expanding its end-to-end encryption to both Zoom Phone and Breakout Rooms, Corel has released two exciting new products and has further enhanced its portfolio by acquiring Awingu, and Poly’s Studio R30 video bar is now Microsoft Teams-certified.
Microsoft Inspire 2022: What’s New in Microsoft 365
Coming soon to Microsoft Teams
This year’s Inspire saw many new Teams innovations announced, providing additional ways to connect, collaborate and enhance hybrid working.
In this short video, Microsoft Teams Product Marketing Manager Holly Lehman explains three of the most exciting Teams features coming soon:
- Excel Live – Collaborate on Excel workbooks directly within Teams meetings, including viewing, editing, sorting and filtering your views
- Video Clip – Create, record, edit and send clips in Teams chats to strengthen relationships with a friendly face
- Live Share – Make any app collaborative within Teams meetings by co-watching, co-editing and co-creating dynamic content
In addition to Viva Learning, Connections, Topics and Insights, Viva Goals, Viva Sales and Viva Engage are coming soon!
Viva Goals is a goal-setting and management solution that aligns employees and teams to your organisation’s overall strategic priorities, ensuring that everybody has a clear purpose and are working towards achieving those common goals (OKR’s).
Viva Goals’ customisable dashboards provide valuable insights into task and objective progress, getting everybody engaged and helping to build a culture of collaboration and powerful results.
What’s New in Microsoft Teams | July 2022
This month, Microsoft share the ways that Teams updates and enhancements can make your meetings more collaborative, announcing new ways you can connect with anyone on your team and in their language. Also, the new Teams Rooms on Windows updates? Microsoft has seven new additions for you this month click the link below to read what they are.
Webinar: Monthly Microsoft Campus Updates with Guest Presenter Veeam – September 2022
We have a great session lined up for you in September as we are joined by Arrow’s Veeam Specialist who will be discussing how Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 securely backs up Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and more, with flexible backup locations including on-premises, Azure, AWS or another service provider.
Webinar: Monthly Microsoft Campus Updates with Guest Presenter Adobe – October 2022
Come and join our October Microsoft Campus Updates webinar as we are joined by Adobe’s Strategic Hyperscale Partner Alliances Lead Jay Epton who will provide insights into the great benefits provided by Adobe Sign’s seamless integration with Microsoft Teams and the Microsoft 365 stack, including the increased collaboration and efficiency you achieve by automating your workflows.
Zoom Expands End-to-End Encryption to Zoom Phone and Breakout Rooms
Sending and sharing data is a sensitive matter and therefore requires the strongest protection. That’s why Zoom has released key new features such as data routing control, in-product privacy notifications, end-to-end encryption (E2EE), giving you more insights and control over your information that ever before.
Plus, Zoom’s end-to-end encryption feature is soon being expanded to both Zoom Phone and Breakout Rooms, giving you two more ways to achieve seamless and secure communication within Zoom.
Corel’s exciting new products and acquisition of Awingu
NEW CorelCAD™ 2023 – Achieve outstanding results with CorelCAD™, an affordable collection of powerful 2D drafting and 3D design tools, purpose-built for architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and manufacturing professionals who demand precision.
NEW Corel Painter® 2023 – Sketch, paint, illustrate and produce unparalleled photo art with hundreds of impeccably realistic artist-created brushes, superior blending and an array of versatile art tools right within the New Corel Painter 2023.
Plus, more exciting news as Corel announce their acquisition of Awingu, the company behind the innovative, browser-based workspace that’s driving the future of remote and hybrid work.
Awingu’s powerful technology is an ideal complement to Parallel’s product portfolio, enabling workers to securely access server-based and SaaS applications, files and remote desktops on any device, anywhere.
Poly Studio R30 now certified for Microsoft Teams
The Poly Studio R30’s dynamic 120-degree camera experience ensures that everybody is seen clearly, with Poly DirectorAI’s automatic framing and tracking working to pinpoint accuracy.
Its rich audio capabilities that automatically filter out background noise are also crucial in ensuring that everybody is heard clearly and accurately.
This Teams-certified plug-and-play USB device will make your hybrid Teams meetings easier and more inclusive than ever!