Copilot in the Microsoft Edge mobile application is being retired for Entra ID users

The Copilot feature in the Microsoft Edge mobile app for Entra ID users will be retired with version 128 in late August 2024. Users should use the Microsoft 365 mobile app for work and web chat instead. No action is required, but informing users is recommended.

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Viva Amplify – Required approval

Coming soon, you’ll be able to require approval at the campaign level for all your Amplify publications. The require approval feature brings compliance, accountability, and workflows to Lightweight Approvals in Amplify. By enabling required approval for a campaign, stakeholders can ensure that all campaign content adheres to organizational standards and receive the necessary approval before publishing, thus minimizing risks and errors.

You can require approval at the campaign level so that all Amplify publications within the campaign go through the approval process before the content is published. This is an optional setting that a user can choose to apply to a campaign. By requiring approval, organizations can apply a significant level of quality and security to their content, ensuring every piece of content aligns perfectly with their standards and expectations before it is published.

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Viva Pulse – Pulse administrators can export Pulse data?

Viva Pulse administrators can now search for and export a user’s Pulse report, user level, and tenant-level data to a .xlsx file.

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Viva Pulse – Notifications management for administrators to configure where Pulse notifications are delivered

Pulse administrators can configure where Pulse notifications are delivered.

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Viva Engage – Verified Answers

Certain users like experts and admins will be able to mark answers to questions as verified answers to signal a credible and accurate answer. Questions with verified answers will receive its own special verified label and badge at the top of the question and on the verified answer. The goal of verified answers is to help enhance the trust and utility of knowledge in Viva Engage.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Questions surfacing in Copilot results

Viva Engage questions from communities, storyline, and Answers will surface in Copilot results.

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Microsoft Teams: User uploaded custom background images for the new VDI solution for Microsoft Teams

If users want to change what appears behind them in their video meeting or call, they can either blur their background, use Teams virtual background templates, or with a Teams Premium license, they can change their Teams meeting background to a branded logo or image specific to their company. With this new feature, now users on the new VDI solution for Teams can also replace their background entirely with any image they want by uploading it through the ‘Video effects and Settings’ option.

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Viva Engage – Engage content surfacing in Copilot results

Community discussion posts from Viva Engage will surface in Copilot results.

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Microsoft Viva: Import HRIS data in Viva Glint from Microsoft Admin Center

Customers will be able to use various connectors to HRIS tools to import HRIS data into Viva Glint from Microsoft Admin Center.

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Microsoft 365: Multi-Geo In-Region Routing

Multi-Geo In-Region Routing enables customers with regional data compliance requirements to control the routing of inbound mail so that the mail enters Exchange Online in the geo-region hosting a specific user and the mail is fully processed and stored in the user’s region, even if that user is in a different geo-region than the user’s tenant.

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