The top ten things as a Collaboration Manager that I learned at Microsoft Ignite 2016

As a Collaboration Manager for a medium sized UK business, I attended Ignite with the principle purpose to learn what was coming from Microsoft and how it would affect my users

Here are the top ten things that I learned from the conference:

1. I finally understood what all the fuss was about Office Groups - they'll be a genuine game changed for working teams to more easily get their work done, shared and found in search
   
2. An Office 365 Group created in Yammer will use Yammer as it's conversation space, but a Group created anywhere else will use Yammer
   
3. Delve is so integral to the Office 365 experience that I want to launch it within my company as soon as possible
   
   
4. The struggle for any company to create an Intranet 'out-of-the-box' should be greatly improved with the advent of 'News' in SharePoint team sites using the new modern pages functionality
   
5. We will be able to effectively lock down access to our Office 365 portal using Intune, domain joined machines and IP ranges - huge boon for security conscious companies
   
6. Modern pages and sites are mobile compliant (responsive) automatically and look fantastic
   
7. Cortana, using the Office Graph, will play a bigger role in organising your day, week and projects in the coming future
   
8. A lot of the really cool features require an E5 licence
9. Microsoft people are really passionate about their products and Microsoft and represent such a dramatic change in reputation, perspective and future than the Microsoft from the days of 'Old IT'
   
10. I'd like a job at Microsoft as a Product Manager!