Retirement of storyline “Preview Features” for Viva Engage and Yammer

The “Preview Features” toggle enabled customers to get an advanced peek at four premium storyline features, prior to them being generally available. These features are now generally released and are available to users with a Viva Suite license, so this preview is no longer necessary. The features available through the preview included:

• Users can see conversation insights for their storyline posts.
• Users can upload a custom cover photo to their user profile page in Viva Engage and Yammer
• Delegates can post to storyline on behalf of their delegee.
• User can receive a weekly storyline digest, which aggregates all of the storyline content for the people the user follow.

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Yammer Rebranding to Viva Engage

As we announced a few months ago, all Yammer surfaces will be undergoing a transformation and will now be known as Viva Engage. Users will experience the new Viva Engage branding across the remaining surfaces, including the website, integrations, SharePoint, Progressive Web App (PWA), embed, email notifications and email digest.

The last step remaining is the URL update, which will occur at the end of this year. We will provide more details as we get closer to that milestone. Our team is working tirelessly to ensure a seamless transition, minimizing disruption to your workflow. We appreciate your continued support and patience throughout this rebranding journey.

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Microsoft Teams: App Suggestions by Task in In-Context Stores

Users think about which tasks they need to complete, such as creating a survey, inside Microsoft Teams. Soon, app suggestions will be organized by tasks that the apps support as opposed to conventional categories (productivity, project management). As a result, the new categorization will reduce the amount of time users need to spend learning about these apps – helping them to work more effectively.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122527

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Microsoft Teams: Set your Work Hours and Location

Set your work location for the day in Microsoft Teams so your team can learn about your availability for in-office and remote collaboration.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 125375

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Stream Classic webpart retirement and new Stream (on SharePoint) webpart availability

This is an important message for customers who use the Stream (Classic) webpart to add videos to SharePoint Pages and news posts. Microsoft will retire the Stream (Classic) webpart on Aug 15, 2023 and it will no longer be available for use after this date. The Stream (Classic) webpart will be replaced by the new Stream (on SharePoint) webpart.

This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap: 124800

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IT Admin Webinar Usage Report in TAC with Updates

Webinar usage reports will be available for IT admins to view all webinars created by users in your tenant who are able to create webinars (AllowWebinar set to ON). In addition to this new reports we are enhancing IT admin experience with following updates:

• Teams Admin Center UX to configure event policy settings without using PowerShell
• New event policy setting called AllowedQuestionTypesInRegistrationForm to allow control of which registration form question types can be used by the webinar users to add to webinar registration page

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Microsoft Teams: Block Meeting Chat Access in External, Non-Trusted Meeting Joins

Microsoft Teams IT Admins will soon be able to block internal users from accessing chats when these users join meetings organized on external non-trusted tenants, including cross-cloud join. This release of Microsoft Teams’ new meeting chat setting will be rolling out across MS Teams Desktop, Mobile and Web and will provide a new way for tenants to manage users’ chat access in meetings hosted on external non-trusted tenants.

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Microsoft Teams: Updating the Bookings app to the Virtual Appointments app

Bookings is supported across multiple entry points spanning Web, Teams and Outlook, however there is lack of parity in the feature set across these entry points leading to an inconsistent user experience. This fragmented experience has resulted in high DSAT for customers that has provided feedback to Microsoft to unify and provide feature parity in Bookings across all entry points.  

The Bookings experience in Teams will soon be updated to match the web version on https://book.ms, ensuring consistent features across all endpoints. However, certain features like Forms, Queuing & scheduler-initiated SMS reminders for appointments will be available only on the new Virtual Appointments app on Teams.

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Label footers enhancement for emails

Coming soon to Microsoft Purview Information Protection, we’re updating the configuration of email footers generated by sensitivity labels.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124816.

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps: “Non Blockable” Applications

In order to prevent critical security services downtime, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps will not support the ability to natively block the specific services from its product (not from the UI nor via policies).

When this will happen:

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