View and present content in a Skype for Business Meeting
When connected to a Skype for Business (Lync) Meeting from Skype for Business (Lync), you can’t upload content or start sharing your screen. But you can view sharing sessions and PowerPoint presentations and even take control of the content, if you are a presenter.
Change your view
When viewing the shared content, you can control how it’s displayed in your meeting window. Tap or click the stage to see the Actual Size and Fit to View options in the lower-right corner of the stage area.
Actual Size displays the content in the same size as that on the PC of the person sharing it.
Fit to View resizes it to fit the size of your screen.
For example, if the person sharing the content has a monitor that’s larger than yours, with Actual Size, you’ll see just the content that fits on your screen and you’ll have to scroll to see the other parts of the shared content.
With Fit to View, the shared content shrinks to fit your smaller screen. You can switch between the two display options and choose what works best for you.
You can also use the entire screen area to display the shared content. Double-tap or double-click the stage area to change the display to Full Screen view and back.
View and Present PowerPoint
If someone else has uploaded and started sharing a PowerPoint presentation, you can move ahead or back to view the slides privately, or take control of the presentation. Please note that you must be designated as a presenter to do this.
View slides privately
Tap or click the slide, then use the arrows at the bottom of the meeting to move through the slides.
This won’t interrupt the meeting, and you’ll be able to return to the slide that the presenter is currently showing at any time. Just select Return to Presenter’s View.
Take Over as Presenter
You can advance the slides in the meeting if the current presenter gives you permission.
1.Tap or click the slide, then select the icon in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
2.Select Take Over as Presenter.
A notification is sent to the presenter to give you access.
You also receive a notification when permission is given. Start advancing the slides by selecting the arrows at the bottom of the presentations.
Take control of desktop or program sharing
Although you can’t start desktop or program sharing from a Skype for Business (Lync) Meeting, you can request control of a sharing session that was started by another presenter.
When someone else is sharing a program or desktop:
1.Tap or click the sharing area, then select the icon in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
2. Take Over as Presenter icon
3.Select the Request Control button.
• The presenter receives a notification and can give you control, or deny access.
• When the presenter accepts the request, you receive a notification and can control the sharing session on their computer.
• When you are done presenting, select the dots at the bottom of the screen to release control.
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Share right from your document with a click of a button. Or use the new modern attachments in Outlook—attach files from OneDrive and automatically configure permission without leaving Outlook.
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We regularly mention the app launcher in our 365 Ninja posts–it’s where you’ll point to access most Office 365 apps and services, and you probably click on it multiple times a day as you move through your mail, calendar, and other tasks. But did you know you can move the tiles around on the app launcher, and even pin other applications to it?
Administrators can add apps to the My Apps page, which then allows any user to pin to the app launcher. You can view a demonstration of this in the video above, or the steps below.
To add a tile to the My Apps page so it can be pinned to the app launcher:
1.From the admin center, select Company Profile.
2.Choose Custom Tiles.
3.Click the + icon to open the Add or edit a custom tile window.
4.Enter a Name, URL, Description, and Image URL. The name will appear on the tile, and the description will be shown when you select the tile from the My apps page to pin to the launcher. The URL is the location where users will go when they select the tile. If you want to direct users to a SharePoint site, copy the URL here; the format may appear like https://.sharepoint.com. The Image URL, according to Microsoft, “The image should be 50×50 pixels, stored in SharePoint Online, and shared with everyone. You can, for example, put it in a library on your team site then generate an anonymous guest link and use that as the URL. If you can’t generate an anonymous link, make sure external sharing is enabled in SharePoint Online.”
5.Click Submit.
To pin a tile to the app launcher:
1.Select the app launcher and click the My apps link.
2.Choose the tile/app to add, and click the …
3.Click Pin to app launcher.
Live and on-demand: Cloud fuels transformation in broadcasting
Posted September 10, 2015 by Rainer Kellerhals - Senior Business Development Manager, Worldwide Industry & Global Accounts, as written on Microsoft.com
A few years ago, pioneers in the media and cable industry began exploring cloud technologies, with early efforts largely focused on facilitating on-demand scenarios at lower cost.
This week at IBC, the cloud is everywhere. Media companies all over the world are adopting cloud strategies, not just for on-demand video, but also for live sports events and live entertainment, content management, editorial collaboration, audience analytics, and ad scheduling — from the back office, through production, to interactions with viewers themselves.
Moving operations to the cloud allows companies to set up a new program or even a new channel in a very short timeframe — without investing tens of millions of dollars. That elasticity is a key advantage, and so is the ability to support the multitude of content formats necessary today across smartphones, tablets, PCs, set-top boxes and gaming consoles. Through the cloud, companies can leave these formerly expensive technical challenges to their providers and focus on delivering great content and experiences.
If there’s one point that illustrates this shift, it’s the emergence of live broadcasting on cloud platforms. When something goes wrong with an on-demand movie, it can be annoying to say the least, but ultimately, viewers can always start the movie over again. That’s not the case with a live soccer match — interrupt that broadcast, and you may have a riot on your hands.
Sporting events don’t get much bigger than the FIFA World Cup Championship, which was streamed live by broadcast partner HBS using the innovative Diva player designed by Italian solution-provider deltatre.
Another European institution also made its way to the cloud this year, when Austrian broadcaster ORF and the European Broadcasting Union were able to stand up the entire infrastructure for the vastly popular Eurovision Song Contest, which is broadcast across 45 networks and reaches 200 million people worldwide. Using Office 365, Yammer and Microsoft Azure for the back-end infrastructure, ORF and EBU delivered apps for audience voting online, supported more than 1,700 journalists covering the event, and connected hundreds of volunteers along with countless TV stations and other partners.
These kinds of events are only getting easier. Recently, Imagine Communications, a global market leader in broadcast solutions, announced a partnership with Microsoft to make its studio-quality encoding and workflow engine Zenium available as a component of Azure Media Services. This new cloud-based solution will be demonstrated this week at IBC as the new Azure Media Services Premium Encoder, giving broadcasters a new tool to stream content to virtually any type of device, anywhere in the world. (Microsoft is announcing other new services and partnerships at IBC.)
Cloud technologies are also empowering broadcast journalists to achieve more when it comes to creating content. The cloud powers the x.news news-gathering engine from Austrian firm x.art. Technologies like Skype TX are enabling instant live coverage and live interviews from across the globe. The BBC and several broadcasters in Germany are using SharePoint-based solutions like the BBC’s Journalism Portal for editorial planning and collaboration across teams, sites and channels.
Historically such organizations have relied on separate editorial teams for online, television and radio services. Using standard productivity tools like Office 365, they can bring those processes together into one platform to share story proposals and coordinate content development for multiple channels, formats and languages.
Behind the screen, the cloud is also supporting business processes for media companies. One big theme we’re seeing in this regard is business intelligence. At IBC, the IM Group is showing a solution that can mine audience data, such as how many people have been watching a certain program, at what time, the viewers’ locations, what channel they tuned in from and what channel they switched to next.
IM Group’s solution can also combine that data with information from other sources such as social networks to analyze viewership and determine which audiences — age groups, genders, income brackets — have been watching a certain program, and what kind of social media resonance that program is creating. During a political debate, for example, IM Group is able to analyze spikes in activity on Facebook and Twitter around certain keywords and perform sentiment analysis on those comments.
With this capability, broadcasters can understand granular details, such as which plots people like or which characters they identify with, and actually use that information to adjust a show’s narrative and story arc. At the end of the day, it’s all about making their programming more commercially successful, increasing viewership and generating more revenue.
And that commercial side of the business — such as rights and royalties management, program planning and media sales — is also benefitting from the cloud. In addition to its Azure media encoder, Imagine Communications has launched CloudXtream, a cloud-based media and playout solution spanning advertising, traffic and billing, automation, and multiservice. Imagine has also announced its first customer running its Landmark advertising management solution, one of the most widely used in the industry, in the cloud.
In the old days when it cost $20 million to set up a new broadcast channel and purchase all the hardware, the satellite dish connections or the cable lines, the kind of agility we’re seeing today was simply not possible. But now, with the cloud, broadcasters have an entirely new world of technologies and tools to work with — and new ways of connecting with their audiences and monetizing their services.
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Microsoft Azure Government Becomes First Major Gov Cloud to Achieve FedRAMP JAB P-ATO
This week, Microsoft announced new compliance milestones for Azure Government which included a number of key security safeguards, from FedRAMP JAB P-ATO to Microsoft contractually committing to meeting HIPAA requirements in Azure Government (by offering a Business Associates Agreement (BAA) to supporting compliance with IRS 1075 safeguards for processing accessing federal tax information in the cloud.
All of these are important – for governments of all sizes. And each of these on their own are significant milestones in the lifetime of Azure Government, which has only been generally available to customer since last December. It shows Microsoft’s commitment to recognizing the security and compliance standards that are important to our customers and to driving towards alignment with each of them.
I’d like to focus on one that is particularly notable in the Federal space, namely the FedRAMP JAB P-ATO, confirmed by FedRAMP this month as approved for use by all U.S. government agencies. This achievement is particularly significant as Azure Government is the first major government cloud platform to receive a FedRAMP JAB P-ATO for its Iaas and PaaS solutions. This is essentially the “gold seal” of approval on security controls for our Azure Government platform. JAB approval means that our solution had to pass muster with the JAB board consisting of approvals from GSA, DHS, and DoD technical reviewers.
This announcement comes on the heels of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) granting a FedRAMP ATO for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Government cloud. Together, these important milestones build on Microsoft’s commitment to providing the most complete and trusted cloud environment to its customers.
It also rounds out our Gov cloud with Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online Government. The JAB and Agency approved cloud workloads and partner solutions ready to go NOW is unmatched in the Federal industry. In fact, Microsoft is the only major cloud vendor that offers a hybrid cloud solution that is designed to support the rigorous compliance and security demands of government, healthcare, public safety and defense agencies.
Microsoft Azure Government is a government-community cloud that offers hyper-scale compute, storage, networking, and identity management services, with world-class security. A physical and network-isolated instance of Microsoft Azure, operated by screened U.S. persons, Azure Government enables new forms of cross-agency collaboration and rich cloud service integration. Learn more.
The Azure Government 90 day trial includes $500 per month to spend on all Azure Government services. This is a non-renewable, fixed term free trial agreement. Customers and partners who wish to continue to use Azure Government after 90 days must have a Volume Licensing agreement in place.
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