MidDay Cafe

Kicking off the new fiscal year here at Microsoft we were joined by some new faces who sat in to get a feel for participating in a MidDay Café podcast recording. We also kicked of the FY22 with coverage of two exciting topics, the Microsoft Teams Broadcast Development Kit and Microsoft Teams Multi-Geo capabilities. Looking forward to the new year with new folks jumping on board to participate. In this episode the podcast features Microsoft’s Sue Vencill,  Samir Thapa, Jim Warner, Tracy DeWald, Scott Moore, and myself.

In this episode of MidDay Café Microsoft’s Scott Moore and myself cover Microsoft Team Multi-Geo as well as the new Microsoft Teams Broadcast Development Kit.

To see the entire post, including all visuals and resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog 

Capturing data and collaborating with others are daily occurrences across all workstreams withing Healthcare and Life Sciences, as well as other industries. To assist users in these activities Microsoft 365 provides for rich data capture and reporting within Microsoft Lists and uber rich collaboration across all devices with Whiteboard.

In this MidDay Café Microsoft’s Sue Vencill and Michael Gannotti, discuss and demonstrate how Microsoft Lists and Microsoft Whiteboard can facilitate rich data capture and collaboration.

To see the entire post, including demonstrations and resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog 

As customers look to standardize on Microsoft Teams the move to voice and calling often is high priority.

In this MidDay Café we cover connecting to existing phone carriers with Microsoft Operator Connect.

Covered in this session:

To see the video of the podcast, as well as the resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog 

As organizations look to increase their inclusiveness accessibility becomes a key pillar to be addressed. Ensuring that content and systems are accessible by all employees is not only a matter of compliance but also the right thing to do.

In this episode of MidDay Cafe, the MidDay crew addresses the topic of accessibility in this demonstration rich coverage of Microsoft Immersive Reader (within OneNote, Word, Edge, and Microsoft Teams), Dictation in Microsoft Outlook/Word in iOS, Accessibility settings and capability within Microsoft Windows, as well as Accessibility in Power BI.

To see the original post, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog 

In episode 12 of MidDay Café the MidDay Café crew breaks down some of the very cool things you can do with Microsoft PowerPoint in Teams presentations, for video “show me how” production, translation/closed captions, and more. This week’s MidDay Café crew included Microsoft’s: Sue Vencil, Scott Moore, Phil Urban, and Michael Gannotti.

Next week for episode 13 the MidDay Café crew will be tackling accessibility with Microsoft 365. In particular we will be diving into accessibility in general, Immersive Reader, Access Center settings and more.

To view the post and access resources visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog 

In episode 11 of MidDay Café the MidDay crew is joined by Microsoft’s Johnathan Wynn. In this episode MidDay takes an in-depth look at the newly rolled out Teams Webinar capabilities with a special emphasis on the setup, and customization, of the Webinar Registration Page. The crew also touches on setup requirements and other features like the View Only Meeting Experience.

Tune in and see how organizations can leverage the power of Microsoft Teams Webinars and grab the resource links below as well.

Next week the crew will be taking a deep dive into some of PowerPoints least known, but most powerful features including: PowerPoint Present in Teams, Present Online, Closed Captions, Translation, Record, and more.

To see the entire episode, including video of the demonstrations and resource downloads, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog 

Microsoft Teams steals the spotlight in this week’s MidDay Café podcast. First up the panel discusses the release of Microsoft Teams Large Events (Webinars) and what it brings to large organizations. The panel closes out with a discussion of the newly announced Microsoft Teams for Home and its features for bring together friends and family.

To see the entire post including video, transcript, and resources visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog 

In this episode of MidDay Cafe host Michael Gannotti is joined by Microsoft's Kendra Burgess and Sue Vencill as they discuss the Microsoft Business Application Summit (MBAS)), Why I Came to Microsoft/Single Platform, and Next Generation Intranets with Microsoft VIVA Connections.

To see the entire post including video, transcript, and resources visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog 

Microsoft Teams Shared Channels have been a top request by customers as it facilitates secured, focused collaboration and sharing with external individuals and entities at the more granular channel level vs Team level.

On Monday 3/22, MidDay Café was joined by Microsoft’s Pouneh Kaufman and Eileen Zhou. Pouneh and Eileen presented all the latest around Microsoft Teams Shared Channels. It was a lively, informative, session with lots of questions from attendees.

To watch the webcast video recording and see the resources go to https://aka.ms/HLSBlog

Microsoft Teams is increasingly becoming THE place where employees get their work done. Whether it be through integrated applications, communications, or collaboration, the importance of Teams in this hybrid world of work continues to grow. This Monday, 3/15, we hosted Principal Manager, Customer Advocacy, Teams Engineering, Karuana Gatimu who covered adoption, and governance, for Microsoft Teams. Karuana also covered resources to assist, and best practices for organizations to get the most out of their Teams investment.

To watch the webcast as well as grab the resources visit the blog post located here.