JEFF TEPER:
Welcome to the admins partners and one drive users joining us from around
the world today. I'm Jeff Teper, President of Collaborative Apps and
Platforms here at Microsoft and I'd like to thank
you for helping influence and shape One
Drive over the years from its origins is a simple Cloud storage solution to the file sharing
hub it is today. The first iteration of One Drive provided a
simple way for you to store your files
in the Cloud and then access them on any device. As online versions
of Office apps and Microsoft 365
were developed, your needs around
file storage began to grow beyond simply storing
and accessing content. In response, we built the
second generation of One Drive which added sync
sharing collaboration, and security all
to help you work seamlessly in client
apps and online. Today, one drive hosts
trillions of files with nearly two billion more
added every single day. In the time I just said that, about 200,000 more files
were added to one drive. That is a lot of files. Of course, underpinning
one drives tremendous growth
performance is Sharepoint. The platform that powers
not only one drive but all the content experiences in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, including teams and Stream
Loop, Whiteboard and more. With Sharepoint is
our foundation, we can bring the best security,
compliance, governance, performance, and
collaboration to all files in Microsoft 365 where they live
on a Sharepoint Team site, a team's channel, or in a
personal one drive folder. As we look to the future, we see the world of files
changing yet again and we need tools that can help us
adapt to this new reality. Gone are the days when
our files reside solely on local PC's or within
a single file share. Today, what truly
matters to us extends beyond individual one drives
and personal computers. It now spans our
colleagues One Drives takes access to Sharepoint
document libraries, travels attachments
and e-mail invites, gets exchanged
through Teams chats. To address these
modern challenges, we're now introducing today the third generation
of One Drive. With it, One Drive
becomes your solution for all your files and all your
content you work with, no matter where it lives. It's adaptable and
personalizable to how you choose to find and organize
what's important to you. Another reality of
how we work today is that collaboration has
taken center stage, becoming the standard
rather than the exception. Sharing documents and
remotely accessing your files and apps needs to be as
natural as sending e-mails. To that end, we're going
to show you how easy it is to use the new One Drive to share your files
and collaborate with your partners inside and
outside your organization. We'll also show you
how you can stay productive within the
apps you rely on, especially while
you're on the go. For admins, we understand
how this dynamic era of distributed work
has only increased the challenges of security and manageability for your
organization's files, particularly in the
realm of Cloud storage. You need tools purpose built
for this evolving landscape. Here we'll be taking a look at new enhancements to
One Drive that better help you with the
security and governance of your organization's
Cloud data. Finally, leveraging the latest
strides in generative AI, we can unlock perhaps the biggest leap in
productivity yet. It should be effortless
to locate, organize, and synthesize the
most crucial pieces of information regardless
of where it lives. Today we're very excited to show you what we think is the
biggest change in content collaboration yet Microsoft
365 Copilot in One Drive. Are you ready? Let's dive into the next evolution
of One Drive. [MUSIC] ARWA TYEBKHAN:
Hi everyone. My name is Arwa and today I'm excited to introduce the new and refreshed One
Drive experience. With this experience, One Drive is now your one
stop shop to find access and work with all your
files no matter where they live. It's
faster than ever. It's personalized to you
and it's here today. Let's start by seeing
how the One Drive you know and love is being
visually updated. It's built on Microsoft's new
fluent two design language which has a consistent and
approachable look and feel. One of the goals with
these updates was for your files and folders
to take center stage. To that end, we
reduced the number of containers and overall
geometry on the screen, we revamped the
typography to improve overall legibility and we simplified our commanding
and navigation surfaces, making one drive easier to use. I'd like to welcome you to
your new One Drive home, where we make it easy for you to get started
with your day. This experience is designed
to help you easily find and access your files
across the ecosystem, with AI powered file
recommendations in the For you section, our goal is to surface the
right file at the right time, right at your fingertips
and we're making a snap to quickly get back to
a file you use recently, right from your
recent list and home. Whether that file lives
in your One Drive, has been shared by a
colleague or lives in a Team or document
library, it's all here. You can quickly filter
this list using the filter pills or by entering a name or owner for
the file you're looking for. Now we know that the types of content that you work with has evolved over time and we're here to cater to all
your content needs. One Drive is growing to support modern content types like loops, lists, videos, and more. In addition to all
those classic files we often use like Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
or PDF documents. You'll notice how home guides
you to find the files that are likely important or
relevant to you in the moment. In the For you section, files are shown with clear actions and clicking on them can open the file and take you directly to where your
attention is needed. We know you often create files and folders directly from OneDrive. A new feature we
are pumped to share will help make these
experiences even better. This is our powerful create tool with beautifully
designed templates. This create experience
helps you get started creating high quality, professional looking documents
directly from OneDrive. When you want to
start a new file, you can choose between creating a blank document just as before, or you can select from a set of templates to
jumpstart your work, hover these templates to see a quick preview and confirm that the template
is right for you. We're also bringing
in personalization, enabling you to
express yourself. Now you can choose the
color of your folders, which will help you
stay organized and personalize those
important projects. When you share a
folder with others, your color choice will be reflected with those
that you shared it with. After all, who doesn't need a little more color
in their life? We know that file collaboration
happens in many ways across different apps and with files stored across
different locations. We also understand that this flexibility comes
with complexity. Here's how OneDrive adapts
to your collaboration needs and helps you get back
to your shared content. First, we've updated
the shared view. Here you'll find all the files that have been shared with you, regardless of whether someone
sent the file over e-mail, shared a link with
you and Teams, or sent it directly through
the shared dialogue. As you saw in home, you
can filter this list by folder or file type to find the content
you're looking for. This view includes files across both internal and
external tenants. Of course, it is critical that your content remains safe
and secure at all times. Towards that, only
files that you have access and permission to will ever be presented in this view. There may be times when you're looking for a file but you can't quite remember the exact name or specific details about it, but you can remember
exactly who sent it to you. For those of us who recall
files in a people centric way, OneDrive is introducing
a new people view. This view focuses on the
people you work with and helps you quickly find files you're working
on together. Rich thumbnails and
activity previews help keep you up to speed
on collaboration activity, removing the guesswork, and
finding the right file. Of course, you'll be able to filter and find
the right person. If you want to quickly
get back to them again, you can also pin those people
to the top of the view. Our new meetings
view is all about your collaboration content
across your meetings, from the one off syncs to those that are
regularly scheduled. For instance, you might have
a recurring weekly meeting. This view shows all the
files that were shared in that meeting over time
and all past recordings. This view can also help you get ready for your upcoming
meetings by making it easy to find pre
reading materials that were sent with
the original invite. It's a super handy view for
those of us who spend a lot of our time collaborating
with others in real time. I have a final view that I
am excited to share today, and it's one that we've
heard so many of you ask for across industries
and organizations. We're soon bringing a media view to OneDrive where you can access all your photo and
video assets in one place. With these new views in
OneDrive across home, shared, people,
meetings, and media, we hope that you find
that navigating, finding, and accessing the right file is faster and easier than ever. Let's talk about how
you can better keep those important files so you can easily get back
to them later. Over the last few years, we've introduced the
idea of favoriting files in office to make it easier
to get back to them. Now with OneDrive, we're bringing this
capability to every file across all content types
and everywhere you go. When you see a file or folder that you want
to get back to, you can market as a
favorite right there and get back to it from the
favorites list at any time, and your favorites
files will show consistently across
the M365 ecosystem, including in Teams,
File Explorer, Office apps and more. That's not all. While
favorites makes it easy to get back to files
from your favorites view, we know how many of you
have a need to organize content within your
existing OneDrive folders. With the new OneDrive, we're making it easy to
create a shortcut to a file. This means when you see a file
that was shared with you, you can add it as a link within any folder
in your OneDrive, making it easy to
collect files for your projects regardless
of where they live. Thanks for joining
me on this tour of the new OneDrive experiences
designed to help you find and organize
your content with ease. Next, Gaia will walk through how OneDrive simplifies your
sharing workflow and enables you to be
more productive with your files no matter which apps you prefer to work with in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. GAIA CARINI:
Thanks, Arwa. I'm thrilled to share the latest innovation to
make it easier than ever to work with your
files in OneDrive with a familiar and
coherent experience across all the apps you use. Let's start with sharing files. We want to make sharing and collaboration with OneDrive
as simple as possible, which is why we've
completely revamped the share dialogue across
all of Microsoft 365. This new simplified sharing
experience is more secure, faster, and easier to
use than ever before. We've streamlined the
sharing UI to allow you to focus on the
people that you want to share with and made it faster to copy links
to your clipboard. You can then paste the
link into a Teams chat or a channel where you will see a beautiful preview of the file. We also know that
being able to manage permissions on shared
content is critical. Our new manage access experience makes it easy to see
the people or groups who have access
to your files and manage their permissions
with more granular control. We've also streamlined how
you can share files with external co workers while still respecting your organization's
sharing policies. If the default link type doesn't work for
external people, don't worry, all you
need to do is quickly confirm and we'll take
care of the rest for you. Next up, for users who
work with files in the OneDrive and share
point web apps or in Teams, we've heard the need to
be able to open and edit non office files in
desktop applications. With Open an App,
users can easily open a PDF, a cat file, an illustrator file, or
any other file type, and it will immediately
launch into the desktop application
ready to edit. After making a change, the file sings up to the Cloud, leveraging the
OneDrive sync app, and when you open it on the web, the latest version
is already there. When working with OneDrive, fast experiences make
you more productive. We are bringing you the best in class performance and speeding up your everyday interactions. This includes loading OneDrive, navigating around the app, sorting content, and
scrolling through files, no matter your connection speed. With these changes, you'll get consistently fast experiences
even on slower connections, allowing you to accomplish your tasks more
efficiently than before. What's more, the new web
experiences Arwa showed earlier will continue to work
even when you're offline, thanks to the power of sync. You'll be able to launch
OneDrive in the browser, see all your files, and even open local files, all without any
internet connection. With these
transformative changes, we're also bringing you files
on demand to the browser. You can mark a files available offline so you can access
that right from the browser, even when you're working
without any internet. Any changes you make while
you're offline will be later synced up to the Cloud
when you're connected again. Of course, we're bringing all the innovation we've shown you today across the
Microsoft 365 ecosystem, so that you can
access your files in a coherent and familiar way
no matter where you are. Whether that's in Teams, an Outlook in Office or Windows. Today we're excited
to announce that the files app
experience access from the left navigation in Teams is being upgraded to leverage
the OneDrive app. This will ensure teams users benefit from all the
performance improvements, new views and feature enhancements that
we've shared today. Outlook, we're soon adding the OneDrive app to the
left navigation as well. This will create a simple and convenient bridge
from your mail and calendar to your files so that
you can save attachments, open and share files, all without having
to switch apps. Finally, in File
Explorer and Windows 11, we've brought you the latest
share dialogue improvements to make collaboration easier. The home view with AI powered
file recommendations, favorite and recent files, surfacing the most relevant
content at your fingertips, and the new details pane
with the file activity related files and conversations to help you find what
you're looking for. This is just the
beginning of bringing all of the power of OneDrive
to Windows users. I hope you're as excited as I am about all the
innovation to make OneDrive simpler than ever
to use across Microsoft 365. Next, Sesha will walk through the latest
features to ensure security and governance for all your content in
OneDrive in SharePoint. SESHA MANI:
Thank you, Gaia. All the awesome features outlined earlier are
going to help you create, store, and collaborate with content seamlessly
in your OneDrive, but we are not stopping there. We also empower
admins with tools to secure and govern
all the content in OneDrive accounts so
that they are protected from intentional or
unintentional overexposure. With our new set of admin
capabilities spanning across actionable insights
to advanced access policies, you can now secure and manage specific OneDrive accounts
at a whole new level. Let's start with
collaboration insights. As the name implies, these insights can
help you identify user centric patterns of collaboration and sharing
across your organization. For example, quickly glancing over the top OneDrive
collaborators report, you identify that Meghan Baud
collaborates frequently. If you want to get
into the details, you can download the
detailed report to dive into what sites and users each top collaborators
are working with. Now, some of these top collaborators may work with confidential documents. You may want to fine tune the access requirement for them so that they don't accidentally leak
sensitive information. With the simple
one-step configuration of granular control
access policy, you can now achieve that. Let me show you how. Here
is Megan's OneDrive. You can see that she can sign in with a single-factor
authentication. But given that she often works
with confidential files, you may want to ensure she goes through multi-factor
authentication like one-time passcode or Microsoft Authenticator
application. To achieve that, all
you have to execute is one easy PowerShell
command setting the authentication context with multi-factor authentication
as required for her OneDrive. Voila. Now when she tries
to access OneDrive again, she gets prompted for
a one-time passcode, which is sent to her phone. Note that she's
prompted only when she accesses her content
in her OneDrive. This applies not only to Megan, but also to all
her collaborators who access shared files
from Megan's OneDrive. Now that is granular
access control and it protects content without
disrupting productivity. Now as an admin, you may wonder who has access
to Megan's shared files in OneDrive and is there
a way to control who, both internal and external, can access her shared
OneDrive files? Well, now there is. We
are excited to introduce restricted access control policy for individual
OneDrive accounts, and let me show you
how it plays out. Take the scenario where Megan accidentally overshared
her files with Daniel, who is an external user. You as the admin notice this overshare via collaboration
insights and want to fine tune access to Megan's shared files such that only internal
users have access. You can now do this
instantly through SharePoint PowerShell
by simply enabling restricted access
control policy for a specific OneDrive account and indicating the security group that you want to
allow access to. Anyone that is not part of the specified security group will lose access immediately. Here we go, Daniel,
the external user, can no longer access the shared files from
Megan's OneDrive. Now, if your organization
has recently gone through a merger or
acquisition or divestiture, you may have a need to move OneDrive accounts from
one tenant to another. We have an answer for you. Yes, you heard it right. You can now move OneDrive
accounts across tenants. Today, we are thrilled to announce cross-tenant
OneDrive migration. Let's see how it works. The fictional scenario is PharmaTech acquires part
of Contoso HealthTeck, and Shobha is one
of the users in Contoso HealthTeck that
gets moved to PharmaTech. You create Shobha as
a user in PharmaTech, and then with one simple
command-let start SPOCrossTenantUserContentMove, you can instantly move or schedule the move
of Shobha's OneDrive. Now sit back and watch
the magic happen. As the move gets scheduled, it completes and her OneDrive is moved across the tenants. Looking at the URL, notice that Shobha's OneDrive has been
migrated to PharmaTech. One additional gem here, which is, what happens
to the sharing links? All the existing sharing
links will continue to work with the new
redirect site feature. What a seamless experience
for the collaborators. That was a wild in tour of new capabilities in security
and governance for OneDrive. Now, Jason will show you
how OneDrive is set for another transformational change
when it comes to finding, organizing, and experiencing
what's important to you. Jason, all to you. JASON MOORE:
Thanks, Sasha. From what we've shown today, OneDrive has come a long
way since its humble days as the simple Cloud
storage solution Jeff spoke about earlier. It's evolved over
the years to meet your needs in this ever-changing
technology landscape. Fast forward to today with
the latest AI innovations, we have another
exciting opportunity to transform the way you
interact with OneDrive. Let's spend a few
moments to see how AI and OneDrive will
make it intuitive, insightful, and
maybe even a little magical for you at
work and in life. Your photos are your memories, and finding photos
should be as easy as remembering the joyful
moments they capture. The people we care
about are some of the most important
photos we have, which is why we're
enabling you to search by people in OneDrive. With your permission,
OneDrive will group your photos by your
friends and family. You can easily put
a name to a face. OneDrive makes it easy
to see all of the photos of the people you care
about right in one place. Next, we want to show off our new photo search
experience powered by OneDrive semantic
understanding of your media. This allows you to search and find photos using
natural language. That's just a fancy
way of saying you can type what you're looking for and OneDrive is
going to find it. Guess what? It works
with people too, so you can quickly find any moment with the
people you care about. With OneDrive, your memories
are just a query away. We're starting to roll out
these photo AI features to consumers in limited
preview today. We're looking forward to
all of your feedback and bringing you new ways to make
the most of your memories. As you just saw, the
upcoming changes in OneDrive make it easier
than ever to find, organize, and collaborate on the files you care about most. When Microsoft introduced
Copilot earlier this year, you saw how it gives
you superpowers when it comes to
creating documents, presentations, and working with spreadsheets in Microsoft 365. Today, we want to show you how Copilot and
OneDrive can give you new superpowers when it comes to finding
the right content, staying organized, or even getting caught up
on useful information. Let's start with a search. Since Copilot understands
intent and context, you can use natural language to get exactly what
you're looking for. What's even better is that
Copilot can help you answer questions on this
set of documents to help you stay in the flow. For example, instead of opening a document to confirm whether
it relates to your search, you can simply ask Copilot to summarize the key takeaways. Copilot can answer
questions not just on a single file but
multiple files, even an entire folder
or document library. But searching for files
is often only the start. Copilot understands intent, so it can even
recommend next steps. Since Copilot
understands you may benefit from finding these
files easily in the future, it suggests adding these
files to a new folder, and this is the fun part. Because you're in a folder with files related to a project, Copilot can recommend
other files and content related to this project that you can then choose to
add to this folder. In just a matter of minutes, what started as a simple
search has resulted in your very own knowledge
library on this project. Whenever you're ready
to collaborate, Copilot is aware that
some other people in your team that's
working with you, making sharing a truly
magical experience. Let's pause here and switch our point of
view for a minute. Now imagine this folder
was shared with you, but not just this folder. Since your last
log into OneDrive, there have been multiple files that have been shared with you, along with new revisions made by others to your documents, new comments that need your
attention, and a lot more. In this world of
active collaboration, staying on top of your files can feel like a never-ending task. Well, not anymore. The new catch up feature on OneDrive will give
you a daily digest that helps you quickly glance at summaries of new files that
have been shared with you, changes that have been made to files you've shared with others, a summarized look
at new comments, a prioritized list of documents, upcoming meetings,
and a whole lot more. Copilot intelligently
organizes these updates based on context and relevance. If you have an upcoming meeting
where a document will be a key part of the discussion,
you'll see that atop. Copilot can help you with
follow-up questions, suggested actions
on these updates, and give you the flexibility
to do a deeper dive. This is a small sample
of what we mean when we say we want to transform the
way you work with files. We're incredibly excited about this journey and we
can't wait to share more new features with you over the upcoming months.
Back to you, Jeff. SESHA MANI:
My colleagues just walked us through a ton of exciting new
additions to OneDrive, and I hope you're as
excited as I am to try them out and you can do that today. To try out the new OneDrive, go to onedrive.com and log in with your
business credentials. When you do, you'll see first how the new
experience enables you to find and organize
all the content that's important to you
no matter where it is. Second, you'll see how
collaboration is central to the experience
with features like our updated sharing
experience and, in the future, you'll see
how it is super charged with great new features like open an app and offline capabilities. Third, if you're an admin, you'll see how
OneDrive gives you even more control
when it comes to intentional or unintentional
oversharing of files in your organization and makes
governance much easier. Finally, while it's a
little bit further off, we can't wait to
bring you Microsoft 365 Copilot in OneDrive. With it, you'll be far more effective when it comes
staying organized and up-to-date with all
the knowledge and information that's important
to you in your organization. If you want to learn more
about what we covered today, you can download and share
our quick start guide to help introduce OneDrive to
others in your organization. To stay on top of the latest
features in release dates, don't forget to subscribe
to our newsletter where you'll be pointed to all
sorts of great resources. Also remember to join
us in November at our annual conference,
Microsoft Ignite. There, we'll be
sharing the latest OneDrive experiences as well as some exciting new SharePoint content
platform innovations. Thank you so much for joining us today and thank you
for your support, comments, and insights on
OneDrive through the years. Stay tuned next for a live Q&A with members of
the OneDrive product team. [MUSIC]
