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[AO365UG] Adelaide Office 365 User Group Newsletter – January

Greetings and Salutations,

Welcome to 2020 everyone!

This year has kicked off with a bang! We have pencilled in speakers for the next 10 months of the Adelaide Office 365 User Group – full list is below!

In February we have returning speaker, Asish Paddy who is a senior consultant presenting “Hello, I am your Cortana”, build your own Virtual Assistant in Microsoft Teams”. Asish has presented to the group several times and we welcome him back.

Registration for next month’s event can be found at https://ao365ug18022020.eventbrite.com.au

In other news….

Next month will also see the Microsoft Ignite Tour – Sydney taking place on February 13–14. More details below as well.

In October 2020, support for SharePoint (and Office) 2010 is concluding support for these products, now is the time to be planning your upgrade/migration of such products!

We hope to see you at next month’s meeting!

-Adelaide Office 365 User Group Team

February Meeting Information

Our next meeting will be taking place on Tuesday, the 18th of February where we have Asish Paddy who is presenting ““Hello, I am your Cortana”, build your own Virtual Assistant in MS Teams”

You can register for February’s meeting at: https://ao365ug18022020.eventbrite.com.au

The agenda for February’s activities are:

  • 3:45PM – Arrive, Relax, Network and enjoy some nibbles!
  • 4:00PM – Welcome, Introductions, Australian Computer Society & Microsoft Ignite / SharePoint Recap – Daniel Brown
  • 4:10PM – “Hello, I am your Cortana”, build your own Virtual Assistant in Microsoft Teams – Asish Paddy

Virtual Assistants are the next step up to Bot services in Microsoft Teams. It allows you to customize the bot experience specific to your enterprise and personalized to your users. Virtual assistants can accept new skills, keep an organization specific knowledge base and create an experience tailored to your users. In this session, we will look at how to create Virtual Assistant concept and what it means for your organization. Next, we will create a Virtual assistant which can interact with us over Microsoft Teams Channel that acts as an easy interface to interact with your Business users.

  • 4:45PM –SharePoint Forum, Questions & Door Prize (if available)
  • 5:00PM – Meeting Close

You can register for this month’s meeting at: https://ao365ug18022020.eventbrite.com.au

2020 Schedule

We have been busy scheduling speakers for the User Group in 2020, below is what we have secured!

Microsoft Ignite Tour – Sydney

Microsoft Ignite - The Tour brings the very best of Microsoft Ignite to a city near you. The tour provides technical training led by Microsoft experts and your community. You’ll learn new ways to build solutions, migrate and manage infrastructure, and connect with local industry leaders and peers.

When: Microsoft Ignite Sydney Tour - February 13–14, 2020

More details can be found at: https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/ignite-the-tour/sydney

SharePoint/Office 2010 support to end this year!

As you may have heard, Microsoft support for Office 2010 (including SharePoint) is finishing on 13th of October, 2020. Don’t wait to put this on the strategy plan for the next 12 months!

As such, you may want to look at moving to a newer platform, such as Office 365.

With Office 2010 end of support, security updates will stop. Office apps will work, but you may be exposed to security risks. Upgrading is recommended.

More information can be found at:  https://products.office.com/en-us/office-2010-end-of-support

March Early Bird User Group Meeting Details

Early bird details for the Adelaide Office 365 User Group March meeting

Microsoft Teams is coming to Office 365 ProPlus

In the past, Microsoft Teams was a separate installation from Office 365 ProPlus. But starting with Version 1902, Teams is included as part of new installations of Office 365 ProPlus. If Teams is already installed on the device, no changes are made to that installation of Teams.

Teams is also being added to existing installations of Office 365 ProPlus on devices running Windows. For more information and full details, please see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/teams-install?_lrsc=3e33b7f6-8db1-4b67-a71e-4e27f267a619

User Group Sponsors

The Adelaide SharePoint User Group would like to thank our user group sponsors who help make our meetings possible each and every month in 2018!

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If you would like to find out more or are interesting in becoming a sponsor of the Adelaide SharePoint User Group, please email [email protected]

Websites

Check out our website at http://www.ao365ug.org.au

We also have a number of Social Media platforms:

List Management

Feel free to forward these emails to others who may be interested in the Adelaide SharePoint User Group. If they wish to receive emails directly about the Adelaide SharePoint User Group, they should send a message to me at the address below.

If you would like to include meeting details in your works internal newsletter, please also feel free to do so.

We are in the process of setting up a facility for companies who which to include meeting details can be notified by an automated system. If you would like to participate, please contact Daniel Brown ([email protected]).

Feedback

Please let us know if you have any feedback on how we can improve the user group. Also, if you would like to present to the group on your experiences with SharePoint, just let us know. We can be contacted at [email protected] or by visiting http://www.aspug.org.au.

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