Microsoft Viva: Connected actions – Viva Pulse integration into Viva Insights Leader deep dive reports

Leaders can send Viva Pulse surveys tailored to new out-of-the-box reports from the Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams at anytime to add additional context to workplace metrics.

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Outlook: Organize and reorder folders in the new Outlook for Windows and web

Users can arrange folders in any desired order effortlessly by dragging and dropping the folders in the position that they want.

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Outlook: OneDrive for Business Opens in-app for Outlook on the web

Quickly access your OneDrive without having to leave Outlook! Previously, the OneDrive button in Outlook opened a new tab for OneDrive; with this change, you will see OneDrive inline for a consistent and fast experience.

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Microsoft Viva Engage: New feature to limit moving of conversations across communities

Starting in January 2024, Microsoft Viva Engage customers will see a new setting to prevent users from moving conversations into a community. 

Community or Engage admins may want to limit the movement of conversations between communities in the network. The new limit move conversation feature helps with that goal. When applied, users cannot move conversations into a community. All users can move conversations out of a community. Regardless of setting status, admins retain the ability to move a conversation anywhere in the network.

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Microsoft Viva: Modern All Company for non-native mode networks

Most Microsoft Viva All Company communities in tenants and networks that are not yet in native mode networks will be automatically migrated to the modern All Company experience. This means that All Company will have all the new community experiences and features. This change will only affect a few Engage networks. Most networks already have the modern All Company experience.

The All Company for non-native mode networks will be automatically migrated to the modern experience. This adds new features to All Company such as community customizations, cover photos, and custom naming. Find out more about the benefits here.

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Microsoft Viva: Code Snippets in Viva Engage

Users will be able to add code snippets to their posts, discussions, replies, questions, polls, and praises on Viva Engage.

Additionally, if customers are licensed for Answers in Viva Engage, this feature will also be available when asking questions on Answers.

To add code snippets, locate the new button on the publisher toolbar.

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SharePoint: Custom image as Section Background

SharePoint lets you customize the sections backgrounds with your own image. We’ve enhanced the focal point and introduced more settings like fill mode, overlay, opacity to help you adhere to accessibility best practices and make sure that your contents are clear and readable with customized background. This gives you more power over the image to make your page beautiful.

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SharePoint: Section Background

SharePoint now allows you to add an image or gradient color to the sections of the page from a new set of options, including image settings to ensure readability. With this release, we’re providing authors to make beautiful pages with featured sections.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Real-time policy tuning analysis

Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time policy alert prediction based on the number of users in a tenant that could potentially match a given set of policy conditions. It helps organizations efficiently adjust the selection of indicators and thresholds of activity occurrence, so they don’t have too few or too many alerts from a policy. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Teams: Tags will be supported in Private Channels

Tags will now be supported in private channels in Microsoft Teams. Users can now use tags to @ mention groups of people in private channels.  

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 373545

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