Microsoft Mechanics (HD) - 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/

Lead engineer, Astrid McClean demonstrates Office 365 Advanced Security Management. A new capability added to the service which gives you enhanced visibility and control into your Office 365 tenant by: identifying high-risk and abnormal usage; assigning a risk score and alerting you when a policy gets triggered; enabling you to investigate alerts, set your own custom policies and take further actions to remediate suspicious activity. If you have E5 you can turn on Advanced Security Management now or try it here: Aka.ms/E5Trial

Take a guided tour of the design and engineering behind the Surface Book, Microsoft's first laptop. Jeff Stewart, Director of Program Management for Surface devices, demos and details this redefining laptop.

A walk through of the Security and Compliance Center; enabling search and investigation in the Office 365 service. These new capabilities give you transparency into the actions taken against your data and allow you to investigate and respond to potential issues.

Lead engineer and Principal Program Manager for enterprise Cloud mobility, Dilip Radhakrishnan, offers a demo-rich overview of the latest Mobile Application Management capabilities in Microsoft Intune, including: How to define policies to stop data leakage; How you can manage your apps without needing device enrollment and how to setup this protection for your users' most valuable Office Apps. You can try these capabilities for yourself and learn more today at: AKA.MS/TryEMS

Microsoft's Principal Program Manager, Dean Wells offers a demo-rich look at Shielded Virtual Machines (VMs), new with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V. Watch as he demonstrates the types of attacks that are possible today and then walks you through how things change with Shielded VMs. This includes the protection of Virtual Machines against malicious Hyper-V admins and malware attacks in both the public and private Cloud. Dean also describes how the tech works to help you to ensure that the Hyper-V fabric that's running your Shielded VMs is healthy. He also shows you how you can build an infrastructure that runs Shielded VMs to achieve a guarded fabric.

Whether you are a 1st or 3rd party SharePoint developer, the new SharePoint Framework offers a modern new client side approach that allows you to extend and customize SharePoint with high-trust code in ways that were previously unavailable in the Cloud. Watch, as program manager Daniel Kogan, provides an overview and demonstrates how the SharePoint Framework helps you to create beautiful, responsive solutions that you can customize to your own needs. Stay to the end to see how you can build and test SharePoint Web Parts locally with the new workbench, without having SharePoint running in your own environment.As part the Future of SharePoint event, we created exclusive demos from the engineers behind new and upcoming capabilities. Check out the list below for all the videos related to the event.The Mobile and Intelligent Intranet: SharePoint Sites and PowerAppsYour Intranet in Your Pocket: The SharePoint mobile appEffortless File Sharing on Any Device: OneDrive for Business and SharePointSecurity, Privacy and Compliance for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business Accelerating Innovation with Hybrid: SharePoint Server 2016 and Office 365Foundation for the Future: SharePoint Server 2016Open and Connected Platform: The SharePoint Framework

SharePoint Server 2016 represents a new generation of SharePoint, that brings our experience running SharePoint at scale in Office 365 to your datacenter. This allows us to bring innovation to you at a more rapid pace and on your terms; improve performance, reliability and scale, and provide a foundation for future innovation. Watch as SharePoint veteran, Bill Baer provides an overview of the key elements that make this possible including the new feature pack model; converged code base; the standard min-role topology and zero down-time patching.As part the Future of SharePoint event, we created exclusive demos from the engineers behind new and upcoming capabilities. Check out the list below for all the videos related to the event.The Mobile and Intelligent Intranet: SharePoint Sites and PowerAppsYour Intranet in Your Pocket: The SharePoint mobile appEffortless File Sharing on Any Device: OneDrive for Business and SharePointSecurity, Privacy and Compliance for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business Accelerating Innovation with Hybrid: SharePoint Server 2016 and Office 365Foundation for the Future: SharePoint Server 2016Open and Connected Platform: The SharePoint Framework

Whether you have a long-term commitment to keep the bulk of your company's assets on-premises, or you are planning a full transition to cloud in the future, SharePoint Server 2016 allows you to extend your on-premises investment to the cloud today. Principal engineer Michael Connolly explores the easiest ways for you to get value out of the Cloud now via a hybrid solution that doesn't require full migration of content from your existing on-premises deployment. You can learn more by checking out our resources at: hybrid.office.com OR aka.ms/sphybridAs part the Future of SharePoint event, we created exclusive demos from the engineers behind new and upcoming capabilities. Check out the list below for all the videos related to the event.The Mobile and Intelligent Intranet: SharePoint Sites and PowerAppsYour Intranet in Your Pocket: The SharePoint mobile appEffortless File Sharing on Any Device: OneDrive for Business and SharePointSecurity, Privacy and Compliance for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business Accelerating Innovation with Hybrid: SharePoint Server 2016 and Office 365Foundation for the Future: SharePoint Server 2016Open and Connected Platform: The SharePoint Framework

Trust is a key principle of our ambition to reinvent business productivity. As we deliver SharePoint and OneDrive our commitment to security, privacy and compliance is unwavering. Learn from principal engineer Navjot Virk as she both explains and demonstrates Microsoft's approach and upcoming capabilities for differentiated access, the prevention of unwanted data sharing and more, giving you better control over the security of your data.As part the Future of SharePoint event, we created exclusive demos from the engineers behind new and upcoming capabilities. Check out the list below for all the videos related to the event.The Mobile and Intelligent Intranet: SharePoint Sites and PowerAppsYour Intranet in Your Pocket: The SharePoint mobile appEffortless File Sharing on Any Device: OneDrive for Business and SharePointSecurity, Privacy and Compliance for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business Accelerating Innovation with Hybrid: SharePoint Server 2016 and Office 365Foundation for the Future: SharePoint Server 2016Open and Connected Platform: The SharePoint Framework

OneDrive for Business as part of Office 365, is designed to provide effortless, powerful file sharing and collaboration across all your devices with integrated security, privacy and compliance controls. Watch as OneDrive Director, Reuben Krippner, gives you a tour of the new and upcoming capabilities that make OneDrive the window to all your files in Office 365 regardless of whether they are in OneDrive, Office 365 Groups or SharePoint. Also, don't miss a first look at new intelligent experiences for trending and suggested content as well as insights into the impact and reach of your work.As part the Future of SharePoint event, we created exclusive demos from the engineers behind new and upcoming capabilities. Check out the list below for all the videos related to the event.The Mobile and Intelligent Intranet: SharePoint Sites and PowerAppsYour Intranet in Your Pocket: The SharePoint mobile appEffortless File Sharing on Any Device: OneDrive for Business and SharePointSecurity, Privacy and Compliance for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business Accelerating Innovation with Hybrid: SharePoint Server 2016 and Office 365Foundation for the Future: SharePoint Server 2016Open and Connected Platform: The SharePoint Framework

See a demo-rich overview of the new SharePoint mobile app to access and stay connected to the content that matters most to you across your intranet while you're on the go; and how this translates to the new SharePoint home. Watch as principal engineer, Andy Haon walks you through the key elements that bring your Intranet into the cloud first, mobile first world, so that you can: navigate your sites and portals, and access important content, information and people.As part the Future of SharePoint event, we created exclusive demos from the engineers behind new and upcoming capabilities. Check out the list below for all the videos related to the event.The Mobile and Intelligent Intranet: SharePoint Sites and PowerAppsYour Intranet in Your Pocket: The SharePoint mobile appEffortless File Sharing on Any Device: OneDrive for Business and SharePointSecurity, Privacy and Compliance for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business Accelerating Innovation with Hybrid: SharePoint Server 2016 and Office 365Foundation for the Future: SharePoint Server 2016Open and Connected Platform: The SharePoint Framework

Take a demo-rich, first look tour of how the SharePoint team plans to transform your intranet into a mobile and intelligence powered experience. One that combines the productivity of SharePoint team sites, the broadcast reach of publishing sites and portals, and the seamless integration of business apps, so that you can find and access content wherever you are and on any device.As part the Future of SharePoint event, we created exclusive demos from the engineers behind new and upcoming capabilities. Check out the list below for all the videos related to the event.The Mobile and Intelligent Intranet: SharePoint Sites and PowerAppsYour Intranet in Your Pocket: The SharePoint mobile appEffortless File Sharing on Any Device: OneDrive for Business and SharePointSecurity, Privacy and Compliance for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business Accelerating Innovation with Hybrid: SharePoint Server 2016 and Office 365Foundation for the Future: SharePoint Server 2016Open and Connected Platform: The SharePoint Framework

Skype for Business Mac Public Preview is rolling out in stages over the coming months. You can request an invite to test the Mac client at www.SkypePreview.com. This this demonstration, Madhuri Tondepu, program manager from the Skype engineering team, provides a comprehensive overview of the current preview experience. She demonstrates the updated user experience, discovering, joining and participating in Skype meetings, and the work the team has done to modernize the client from the ground up .

Want to know what's new with System Center 2016? In this episode, we share the latest support for Windows Server 2016 with updates for Shielded VMs and Nano Server; building Hyper-converged clusters with Storage Spaces Direct; Tuned alerting and better discoverability of Management Packs with Operations Manager and what's coming for hybrid management across your data center and the Cloud. You can try System Center 2016 for yourself at: aka.ms/trysystemcenter2016.

Sr. Product Manager, Javier Nino from Microsoft, offers a quick overview of the new free Microsoft IT Pro Cloud Essentials program and its benefits including: access to professional training; extended Cloud services trials; free credit for Microsoft Azure; career guidance and prioritized expert level support. If you are an IT Professional, you can subscribe at Itprocloudessentials.com