Microsoft Mechanics (Audio) - Channel 9

Microsoft Mechanics takes a deep and hands-on look at updates to Yammer for enterprise-social, from enhanced security and compliance to greater team productivity. Angus Florance from the Yammer team demonstrates new integrated experiences, including Office 365 Video and Delve. And for admins, we'll show you new controls for analytics, merging networks, and managing users.

A look at the compliance side of the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center, the central place to view and manage your data - even beyond the Microsoft ecosystem. Watch and you'll see how the experience is improved by centralized security controls, the ability to view and manage security and compliance for all your cloud services. Insights and intelligence that offer recommendations based on your Office 365 environment. Also, the experience for security and compliance based on your role.

A look at the physics behind the Surface pen and display interaction. From pressure sensitivity to parallax and latency.

An exploration of how you can use the hyper-scale of Azure to run and manage Red Hat solutions in your IT environment. We'll also go over pre-built Red Hat Enterprise Linux images in the Azure marketplace, integrated support to help you troubleshoot issues and get access to Red Hat resources. Also, how you can take your on-premises apps and run them on top of the Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure running on Azure.

Today, we take a deeper look at Microsoft Planner—a new experience in Office 365 to organize work, manage and assign tasks and collaborate within your teams. We go hands-on and show you how to use Planner—including integrated experiences across Office 365. This show demonstrates how to get started with creating plans, assigning tasks and the things you can do while working through a plan. We walk through the integrated experiences with Office 365 Groups, board and chart views to visualize tasks and monitor progress—and finally what the team is building in the coming months. To learn more and see this in action, watch the video and keep giving us your feedback at our UserVoice site (planner.uservoice.com).

If you are an existing Azure user, we take a look at the new migration feature to help you move your IaaS resources from Classic to Azure Resource Manager without ANY downtime. We'll refresh you on the awesome power of the Azure Resource Manager, look at how the PowerShell and CLI tools work to prepare and commit migration and we'll answer some common migration questions.

This week we catch up with Sri Srinivasan from the Dynamics AX team for an update on Microsoft Dynamics AX. From modern user experiences, to new ways for developing custom solution, we go hands on to show what's new and what's possible.

Microsoft Azure Information Protection is a new solution that makes it simpler to classify and protect information, even as it travels outside of your organization. You'll see the new options that let you define how your users can classify their documents and emails during the normal course of their work. Find out how you can define the labels, protections, and visual markings appropriate for your organization. And finally, track where sensitive documents are traveling and how to stop them in their tracks.

In a continuation of our engineering focus, we take a brief but revealing tour of the ergonomic design and performance of the latest Surface Pen with Director of Program Management, Vineet Thuvara. Vineet explains, how the new Surface Pen is designed to deliver a natural and comfortable experience for writing and drawing in the digital domain while also offering a clickable and convenient way for you to interact with your applications.

On today's demo bench, we are joined by Xbox Engineer, and member of Microsoft's Accessibility Community, Steven Liss. Steven walks through why High Contrast mode is so important for people such as himself with a visual impairment and highlights the latest enhancements in Office 365 applications to support High Contrast themes in PCs. To learn more, visit https://blogs.office.com/2016/05/19/accessibility-enhancements-in-office-365-for-people-with-vision-impairments/