What are the new features of Microsoft Teams?

Microsoft Teams has recently announced rolling out new features for better collaboration. Teams are committed to reimagine virtual collaboration for the future of work and learning. Teams feature like meeting controls, larger gallery, Meeting notes, together mode, and many others are being rolled out.

We’ll take a look in a while.

But first, you’ll have to turn it on

In your Microsoft Teams desktop app, select a profile pic. Then Go to Settings > General.

Turn on new meeting experience and Restart the app.

New Meeting and Calling Experience in Microsoft Teams

• Microsoft Teams group video call

There are a few new meeting controls on the top of the meeting screen. They are available for access at all times and do not become a hurdle in the way of content sharing.

• Larger Gallery

With this feature, you’ll be able to see 49 videos streaming all at once. The minimum number of attendees needed for this view is 10.

• Together Mode

With this mode one, you’ll feel like all of the attendants in a meeting are in the same place. It is a fun way to interact and make you feel you and your meeting attendants are together in a meeting room. Minimum 5 participants are needed in a meeting in Together mode.

• Meeting Notes

Now you can easily take meeting notes right from within Microsoft Teams. You can either take notes from a meeting notes tab or open a side panel that opens alongside the meeting screen.

The Microsoft Teams has remarkably been an important element in online collaboration. Businesses also opt for other remote collaboration services like Remote Desktop Services, Work Folders, and Windows Virtual Desktop services.

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MachPanel Turnkey Services

In the highly competitive market, it is always time-consuming and costly to set up collaboration solutions like Remote Desktop services, Skype for Business Server from scratch. Not only does it require a skilled IT team to set up the services at your end but it may also hinder business flow for a few days which is indeed costly. MachSol offers enterprise turnkey services for various Microsoft accredited products that can keep your business flow smoother than you think while you migrate to the modern collaborative solutions that can be used in combination with Microsoft Teams for a next Level collaborative experience.

MachPanel is a robust turnkey solutions provider platform where you can get Microsoft’s services like Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, Dynamics 365 CRM, Hyper V, and Skype for Business Server on-prem deployment. MachSol also provides hybrid deployment so if you are not ready for a full on-prem or deployment or cloud-based services, you can always opt for the hybrid thing.

Why MachSol?

Modern businesses also opt for business automation services for better collaboration within a company via SharePoint Sites, Microsoft Exchange Services, Hyper V, Dynamics 365 CRM (for better Customer services), and many more. Our experts are more than ready to analyze business requirements. MachSol is equipped with the latest infrastructure to deploy and implement those services without major disruption to your business flow.

Stay aligned with the latest offerings from Microsoft and get them through the turnkey services offered by MachSol.

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Flexible SharePoint hybrid deployments

Since SharePoint 2016 was launched, the option of Hybrid became more widespread. Since there was no firm restriction to opt for SharePoint cloud or SharePoint Server, business can opt to approach SharePoint Cloud at their own pace based on various scenarios. The “Site and Search” deployment scenarios gained popularity where organizations can select the location of sites according to their convenience. Files like media assets that require more space can be hosted in Cloud, or files that contain sensitive information can be hosted in the server and it’s needless to shift them in the cloud until the organization is fully ready for it.

SharePoint Hybrid with Office 365

The harmony between SharePoint hybrid environment and other Microsoft technologies has proved to be a productive for cloud businesses. Microsoft service like Power BI, Office 365, Yammer, Planner, Exchange and many more are compatible with SharePoint Hybrid environments and provide all the functionality available in the cloud.

The Hybrid search experience

Hybrid search is one feature that makes SharePoint Hybrid a win-win for cloud business. With hybrid search, content from the Cloud environment and on-premises is readily available because it enables a unified search index.

More security and control

In a SharePoint hybrid environment, since you are more in control of your Cloud, things are more secure than you’d expect in a complete Cloud or complete on-premises environment. More certainly, you can’t expect to implement, while deploying SharePoint hybrid, the level of security Microsoft or other Tech giant implements in their Cloud and offers to its customers.

Hybrid auditing

This feature in SharePoint allows SharePoint Admins to push the audit logs of the company from On-Premises to the Office 365 Unified Audit Log. In this way, there is a single location from where you can view audit log that comes from both on-premises and SharePoint online.  However, this feature is yet available in SharePoint Server 2016 and at the time of this writing, the audit log feature is in public preview for SharePoint Server 2019. Once the feature is releases for SharePoint 2019, you can experience the unified Audit log experience for SharePoint Server 2019 as well.

Hybrid Business Connectivity Services

In order to have a secured view of data from external systems, you can make use of the Hybrid Business Connectivity Services. Data can be imported as a SharePoint List in Office 365 from systems like SQL Server Database and users can edit and view the data remotely. No on-premises connection is required for the purpose of accessing data.

MachPanel Automation module for SharePoint Hybrid

MachPanel is a Multi-Cloud Operations Management and Orchestration Solutions Platform designed for easy automation and management of Microsoft services in cloud business. The automation module for SharePoint makes the selling of SharePoint services manageable as a hosted cloud solution. It makes CSPs in control of their cloud whether it is SharePoint Online for which they are opting for or SharePoint Server 2019, 2016 and 2013. By easy billing, provisioning and management through built-in multi-tenancy and segregation for Microsoft SharePoint 2019 and previous versions, CSPs stay ahead of the curve with their cloud offerings in their cloud business.

Taking all these SharePoint benefits into account, it is high time you go for MachPanel’s services for Microsoft SharePoint hybrid deployments and lead in the cloud business with reliability and better management.

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As promised in the public preview, there are many new features that were expected from SharePoint 2019 user all over theworld like trends in team collaboration, blending of cloud and on-premise versions, better cross-device user experience and many more. It’s built on the same platform as SharePoint Server 2016; the new SharePoint Server 2019 fulfills the needs of performances and scalability expectations to the maximum.

Let’s have a closer look at what compelling features are there in this new release:

1. Trendy Sites:

Connecting Team and content together, sites have always played the role of core collaboration across organization. Modern design is effective and captivating, with a touch of flexibility and ease-of-use.

1. Excellent User Experience:

In today’s era, user experience is everything, when it comes to new technology. Not even the new SharePoint Server 2019 is catchy in ‘look and feel’, but is engaging, entertaining and rich with contextual content. It ensures reliability, security and minimum complexity.

1. Modern Pages:

SharePoint 2019 introduces a new way of sharing content using Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents, images, embedding video content, and many more. Modern pages shall be published efficiently and in a quicker manner that are good for each display.

1. Improved Lists:

The modern list experience in SharePoint Server 2019 is more responsive, more intuitive and provides the best combination of Microsoft SharePoint with OneDrive usability.

1. Communication Sites:

Next Gen mobile collaboration and better intelligent intranet makes working together a fruitful experience in the newest version of SharePoint server.

1. OneDrive for Business:

Providing improved mobile experience to SharePoint mobile users, it also makes collaboration and file storage people-centric and supports latest sync client generation with on derive for Business.

1. SharePoint Mobile:

Microsoft SharePoint 2019 provides all the necessary resources needed for a collaborative work flow within organization, and improved mobile experience for intranet is one of the core elements. It makes file sharing on-the-go which is more personalized and intelligent.

1. Growing File Support:

The offered file sizes have increased: up to 15GB, a few character restrictions are maintained with file names and path length restriction has been increased from 260 Unicode code units to 400.

MachPanel Automation Module for SharePoint Server 2019

Yes, you heard it right. MachPanel supports the services offered by SharePoint Server 2019 and hence can assist you in deployments smoothly and efficiently. Customers all over the world trust MachPanel with their SharePoint solutions and turnkey solution deployment services. Automation module for SharePoint Server supports other versions like SharePoint 2019, 2016 and 2013. It provides entire automation for on-premises SharePoint Server. It also offers selling of sell fully segregated multi-tenant hosted SharePoint environment.

It’s a great opportunity for CSPs to get their hands on MachPanel and deploy SharePoint Server 2019 in the most hassle-free manner.

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Tips to Fine-Tune performance of SharePoint Online

1. Image Optimization

Images make the overall design appealing but their size can greatly affect page loading speed that can have a huge impact on site performance. The ideal way to use images on a SharePoint Site is to use sprites approach (an image Sprite is a technique of showing multiple images on your site that are actually a portion of one larger image, as it reduces HTTP traffic since you are downloading more images in one request). Further, it is necessary to use image compression and image optimization techniques before using them on your site.

1. Minification and Bundling

Customization a web-page results in a lot of extra files being added to the server for support. The process of minification minimizes the size of these fields by removing extra white spaces and unnecessary characters. This reduces overall size of files and hence improves performance of site by giving low overhead on the server. Images can be bundled in an image sprite, as mentioned earlier.

1. Navigation Options

Choosing configuration options for SharePoint site makes significant impacts of performances. Options like, Managed (Metadata) navigation is recommended whereas Structural navigation is not recommended for better performance. Navigation providers work seamlessly with responsive page designs. Plus, they are scalable and are able to render without a resource cost. Cloud Service Providers need to focus on navigation options for better site results.

1. Delay Loading Images and JavaScript

Modern browser pre-fetch the images to be loaded within the HTML page. Another technique to make SharePoint Online site load efficiently is to delay loading images using JavaScript. Images will be loaded as the user scrolls towards it.

1. Use the Page Diagnostics Tool

Publishing pages using classic publishing can be a overhead on the SharePoint site. It is best to use page diagnostic tools for that purpose. Install it to your site to make publishing efficient.

1. Using Content Delivery Networks

Content Delivery networks or CDNs can increase SharePoint Online Performance. CDN is a worldwide network of different servers that host the same file simultaneously. In this way, the server that is closest to the user requesting that file, can serve the file in less time as compared to the main server located far away. Cloud Service Providers must take this into account.

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MachPanel Automation Module for Microsoft SharePoint

MachPanel Automation Solution for Microsoft SharePoint offers a complete end-to-end management & Automation layer for Microsoft SharePoint on-premises and Microsoft SharePoint Online. With MachPanel Automation module for Microsoft SharePoint Provisioning and management is simplified and made easy for Service Providers. MachSol also provides turn-key services related to Microsoft SharePoint on-premises design, deployment, migration, planning, reliability and scalability.

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In order to get a legitimate answer, it is important to analyze different aspects like Scalability, Licensing etc. Microsoft SharePoint 2016 has significant benefits for businesses. In case of Scalability, it is important to analyze how Microsoft SharePoint 2016 is scalable without lowering performance of the system. There is even quite a good integration with Microsoft Office 365 which gives you quite a control over license costs per member of staff. This feature is most beneficial for small businesses and growing teams.

Upgrading to Microsoft SharePoint Server

A Microsoft SharePoint upgrade is recommended when the existing version is SharePoint 2010 or higher. The taxonomy is well-informed. There needs to be a decent architecture of existing Site Collections and content databases. The content has to be properly distributed and folder structures should not be too shallow. It is best to upgrade to Microsoft SharePoint 2016 when Site templates are used that include Team Site, Document Center or Records Center. It is also necessary that the existing version shall be a lower version than the version which you are planning to upgrade to.

Migrating to Microsoft SharePoint Online

Executing a business content migration is not easy. In fact, consolidating legacy information into a latest environment is not an easy task either. There are many challenges, benefits and other technical considerations. Migrations are recommended when the original Document repository is not Microsoft SharePoint or it is not SharePoint 2010 or higher. It is better to migrate to Microsoft SharePoint online when architecture of taxonomy needs a redesign in your business. It is also best to opt when content is improperly distributed. If customer site templates were used for initial document repository site collection, it is better to migrate rather than upgrade because that makes up gradation overly complicated and costly.

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MachPanel Automation Module for SharePoint

MachPanel is a complete solution control panel where you can effectively sell Microsoft SharePoint 2016/2013/2010 as hosted solution on cloud. The services of deployment and migration can be utilized as MachSol offers excellent turn-key services for Microsoft SharePoint design and deployment with better reliability and good scalability for your business. Whether you plan to upgrade to Microsoft SharePoint On-Premises or plan to migrate to SharePoint Online, MachPanel is your gateway to a successful execution along with added support that is available 24/7. By opting for MachPanel you even get after migration support and hence the stability of your business is guaranteed.

So grab this opportunity to grow your business beyond measures with MachPanel Automation module for SharePoint.

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Content management is the core of every business. There is a dire need to have a content management system through which the creation, sharing, collaboration and storage of content can be centralized. A full fledge content management system is required to manage the above mentioned functionalities. However, there is no point having a cloud service if it can’t be handled smartly. Most of the times Hybrid is a more feasible solution for business today because of the innumerable benefits like:

1. Apps can be kept on-premises and when they are needed, they can be accessed from app launcher
2. The sensitive data can reside on-premises and need not be sent up to the cloud for storage. It can later be searched through hybrid taxonomy and a unified search
3. Content security is ensure by authenticating users accessing form different locations through a multi-factor authentication system
4. Collaboration gets effective by using business to business sites through extranets.

SharePoint Online and SharePoint server (On Premises) fulfill the essence of going hybrid.

SharePoint Online vs SharePoint Server (On Premises)

With SharePoint Online, services are offered as a SaaS model. Disaster recovery is handled by Microsoft Data Centers. There are annual subscriptions and Pay as you go model. Customizations are limited. In case of SharePoint Server, the whole system resides within the corporate network. Going hybrid with SharePoint hybrid model gives you the best of both the worlds.

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The Hybrid Model

With the hybrid SharePoint option, you need not get concerned for the scalability and security of systems; Microsoft takes care of that. Going hybrid combats Shadow IT making the environment securer. This way, the data and other content specific to business remains with you and is not sent to O365 (SP online). This is more important for companies who don’t want to share their data with a third party cloud providers due to its sensitive nature, or other legal terms. In such cases, Hybrid model is the solution. With its intelligent intranet and cool features of OneDrive, the collaboration and storage is not a problem anymore.

Hybrid federated search is a convenient way to implement, if multiple users are working in the same environment. The results are fetched from the index from the SharePoint Server and from the search index in Microsoft Office 365. The search Center displays search items in two different result blocks resulting in two different ranks being displayed to the user.

The MachSol way

MachPanel Automation Module for Microsoft SharePoint is the most trusted hosted solution on the cloud. The setup of infrastructure on premises is simplified by experts. There is no need to be concerned about the growth of the system as the business continues to grow. With MachPanel, your services to customers can never be down as it ensures maximum uptime. MachPanel SharePoint makes the hassle of cloud computing smooth and easy.

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