Microsoft Viva will integrate Glint and Pulse survey results into the Copilot Dashboard, enabling sentiment insights and direct survey initiation. This feature requires specific subscriptions and will roll out in September 2024. Admins should review current settings as existing controls will remain in effect.
Authors can now use Design Ideas in Microsoft Viva Amplify to rearrange and reformat their image section, text section, and banner webpart.
Microsoft Teams has introduced a new admin control to block external access with Teams trial-only tenants. This setting, which defaults to ‘Blocked’, aims to protect against malicious activities. Admins can review and update this setting using PowerShell commands. General availability of this feature started on August 15, 2024.
This feature will allow users utilizing the Windows Narrator screen reader tool to have messages read aloud automatically after opening the email. #newoutlookforwindows
Microsoft Teams for Education now has a new refreshed grid view, wherein you will directly be able to get to your assignments or classwork for your classes in grid view. This feature will make it easier and faster for you to get to your assignments, classwork or channels.
The Copilot for Microsoft 365 team is working on supporting 12 new languages across all M365 Copilot features: Bulgarian?, Croatian?, Estonian?, Greek?, Indonesian?, Latvian?, Lithuanian?, Romanian?, Serbian (Latin)?, Slovak?, Slovenia,? and Vietnamese. They’re also improving the handling of these language variants: Dutch (Belgium), German (Switzerland), English (UK), Spanish (Mexico), and French (Canada).
Copilot for Microsoft 365 will auto-enable installed extensions to support action workflows, allowing users to create, update, or delete records directly. This update, associated with Roadmap ID 384848, will roll out from mid-September to mid-December 2024. Organizations should manage their extension settings and inform users about this change.
The update allows adding a Stream Playlist card to the Viva Connections Dashboard, displaying videos for users to view. It’s linked with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 402190 and will be generally available worldwide from mid to late August 2024. No admin action is required for rollout.
The new Microsoft Outlook will feature a ‘Get diagnostics’ option to submit logs to Microsoft Support. Rolling out late August to late September 2024, it will be available in the Help tab and is initially off by default. Admins can enable it using Cloud Policy. No action is required before the rollout.
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management is introducing enhancements for detecting potential high-impact users, including improved accessibility and detailed reasons for detections on the Alerts page. These updates are associated with Roadmap IDs 156016 and 171720, and will roll out between late August and early September 2024. The feature is on by default and requires no action to enable.
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