Microsoft Teams: Group Policy Assignment Rank Assistance

As an admin, you use policies to control Microsoft Teams features that are available to users in your organization. To easily manage different types of user needs, Teams provides group policy assignment, which lets you assign custom policies to user groups. 

Effective policy for a user is determined by precedence rules. If a user isn’t directly assigned a policy of a given type, the policy assigned to a group that the user is a member of takes precedence. If a user is a member of multiple groups, the policy that has the highest (group assignment ranking) for the given policy type takes precedence.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Viva: Drafts & Scheduled posts supporting POBO (post on behalf of)

Users and their delegates can now save their posts as drafts to be accessed later, and even schedule them to be posted at a later date and time.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 10, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Workflows App

All workflow capabilities in Teams (powered by Power Automate) will be consolidated under the new Workflows app. Within the Workflows personal app you’ll be able to manage all Teams related workflows. Users will also be able to create and kick off workflows through the Message Extension, a new entry point in addition to Message Actions.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 10, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Simplifying Meeting Join Experiences on Mobile

We are improving the meeting join experience on mobile by 1) streamlining the meeting join process by reducing the number of steps it takes to join the meeting, particularly for users joining from externally of the organization, 2) users who join without signing in will now have the capability to preset and preview video / audio settings prior to joining the meeting, and 3) simplifying the join process for users with multiple accounts by improving the account switching user experience.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 10, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft 365 app: Office documents have a new default theme

A new default theme is coming to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook across your endpoints. The new theme will include the new default font, Aptos, a new color palette, and updated default line weights.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 10, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Suppressing Authenticator Notifications from Risky Sources

The proposed approach seeks to streamline the authentication process by suppressing authenticator notifications for requests originating from unfamiliar locations. By intelligently identifying risky sources like unknown IP addresses, the system can effectively differentiate potential malicious attempts from legitimate ones. This suppression of notifications will apply to both Phone-Sign in and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) notifications.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 10, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Optimized Multifactor Authentication text message delivery through WhatsApp

Today, Entra ID (Azure AD) Multifactor Authentication supports delivering one-time passcodes (OTPs) via text message. These texts get sent to the default messaging app on a user’s phone depending on the phone’s operating system. To help deliver OTPs to users on their preferred messaging platform, Entra ID will roll out delivery to WhatsApp in select regions. 

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 10, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Secure Score is Adding New Improvement Actions

We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture. The improvement actions listed below will be added to Microsoft Secure Score. Your score will be updated accordingly.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 10, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

New Stream (on SharePoint) web part release

This is an important message for customers who publish videos to SharePoint Pages and news posts. As noted in Message Center post MC561187, the Stream (Classic) webpart in SharePoint will be retired on August 15, 2023.

The Stream (on SharePoint) web part will support configuration of a single video and multiple videos for videos stored in OneDrive or SharePoint.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 10, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Office documents have a new default theme

A new default document theme is coming to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook across your endpoints. The new theme will include the new default font, Aptos, a new color palette, and updated default line weights.

When this will happen:

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 10, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments