Product-wide disablement of email to private message feature in Viva Engage (Yammer)

After 13th November 2023, Viva Engage (Yammer) will no longer support the creation of private messages through email. It will still be possible for users to post messages to communities through email.

Today, users can create private messages by emailing user alias+network name@yammer.com. This flow will soon stop working. Users must instead go to the Engage app or browser experience to create private messages.

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Pin based verification process for support callers

In 2020, we added a PIN-based verification step to our existing phone-based verification process, to better protect your organization. If you call support, the Microsoft support representative will send a verification code to your registered email or phone in your Admin Center profile. Provide this code to the support representative to grant them access to your organization’s account.

How this will affect your organization:

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New security capabilities of Event Tracing for Windows

Whether you’re in cybersecurity, IT, performance, or software development, improved resources can help you diagnose cybersecurity threats. While you could previously use Event Tracing for Windows for limited audit functions, nine events have recently been improved for better insight. Specifically, several security-related events now show Process ID and Process Start Key in the event schema, allowing you to confirm the causal process of these events. We’ve also increased the event version as events are updated over time, following the application compatibility policy.  
 

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Syntex OCR is generally available

With this update, the Syntex OCR feature will move from public preview to generally available.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Syntex is available in the non-primary region of multi-geo tenants

With this release, Syntex capabilities such as document processing, image tagging, taxonomy tagging, content assembly, and OCR are available in the non-primary region of multi-geo tenants.

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Outlook: Pick a local folder for saving attachments

Users are now able to pick a folder when saving an attachment in the new Outlook for Windows.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Manage ownerless Microsoft 365 groups and teams

Teams, Outlook groups, Team Sites etc. powered by Microsoft 365 Groups supports two roles: members and owners. Members can collaborate with others in the group through files, emails, messages etc. Owners manage the group membership and monitor content and conversations. When employees leave an organization or switch projects internally, it results in their existing user accounts getting deleted. If such employees were group owners, keeping track of their groups becomes critical to ensure accountability within the organization. We have introduced a new ownership governance policy to help automate the management of ownerless groups by requesting active members to become owners of the group. Admins can define who is eligible for these notifications and configure what notifications and how often these notifications are sent to active group members. Users, who are members of the ownerless groups can simply accept or decline request via the actionable email message.

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Microsoft Teams: Workflows Message Extension: New Default Actions

The Microsoft Teams Workflows Message Extension will include new default actions to assist user collaboration. These actions will simplify collaboration within a conversation by enabling users to kick off common workflows and post adaptive cards to conversations.

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OneNote: Copilot in OneNote

Copilot in OneNote helps you revolutionize the way you plan and organize by staying better
prepared and proactively taking action from notes. Now you can gain deeper insights on your notes by asking comprehensive questions, generating summaries of your content, asking Copilot to generate content for you, and helping make your writing clearer.

More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot-onenote

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management improved search for rooms

The new search for rooms function in the Rooms Pro Management Portal will be available in the room view to allow users to easily search and capture data within small sets of rooms based on specified criteria.

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