Planned Maintenance: Viva Goals

Planned Maintenance: Viva Goals

We have maintenance planned for Viva Goals:

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

We’ve released updates to the following update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel
  • Monthly Enterprise Channel
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview)
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

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Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).

No action is required from you.

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Minecraft Education: Trails & Tales Update

This update includes bug fixes to increase reliability of multiplayer connections. We also added fun new mobs and features like camels, bamboo, sniffers, cherry groves, and archeology sites. Create a new world with the redesigned Templates page and write more code with the Agent. Use the Help button to share your feedback with the Minecraft team anytime.

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Microsoft Teams: SMS Notifications in Virtual Appointments Template (Premium)

External guest users will receive SMS text notifications about their appointment, including appointment details and the meeting join link so they can join directly from mobile. Text notifications are sent for appointment confirmation, updates, and a reminder 15 minutes before
the appointment begins. This is available in US only at this time.

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Microsoft Viva: Lightweight management of manually created topics outside the Viva Topics license

Viva Topics provides a central knowledge base for manually created topics and definitions inside apps like Viva Engage.
These topics don’t use Viva Topics’ AI, topic cards and pages but can be selected to classify conversations and posts in Viva Engage.  With this release, we’re proving a way for knowledge admins to edit, create, and delete these “simple” topics without Viva licensing as a way to make
knowledge management more accessible to more users.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect managerial harassment

By combining Communication Compliance classifiers with Azure Active Directory organizational hierarchy data, we are able to detect if offensive/inappropriate communications are occurring in a hierarchical imbalance. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Teams: Proactive monitoring of meeting quality using Real-time telemetry (Premium)

Proactive monitoring capability for admins in the Teams Admin Center (TAC) to identify audio, video and app sharing related quality issues while the meeting is in progress. Admins can define the desired monitoring parameters in TAC, which they will be notified of for investigation of users with poor meeting quality. This monitoring will be based on real-time meeting quality telemetry data available in TAC.

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Forms: Allow respondents edit their responses (for government clouds)

Allow Forms respondents to edit their own responses. The Forms creator can change the settings to allow or prohibit these edits.

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Microsoft Intune: Remote Help for Mac

Provide view-only remote assistance for Mac devices.

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