Microsoft Viva Insights App in Teams: UI Updates, Insights Web App Updates, and End-User Opt Out

The Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams is being updated to deliver a simplified user experience. The Viva Insights web Home page, discoverable via insights.viva.office.com and the Microsoft 365 app launcher on Office.com, is being updated to match the Viva Insights app in Teams.

Additionally, the MyAnalytics web dashboard will be updated to reflect the Viva Insights brand and be accessible via a link from the Viva Insights app in Teams. A new privacy setting will allow end users to opt out of Viva Insights Team application and will allow them to stop receiving personal insights across all surfaces

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OneDrive: Sharing Experience – Share Menu Dropdown – by 21Vianet

We’re updating the Share button in Microsoft OneDrive to provide easy access to additional sharing options. When you select Share in OneDrive for Business on Web, you’ll see a contextual menu with all choices available to you for sharing files or folders with your teammates.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Teams: Camera On/Off feature

Beginning July 2022, any certified Teams Peripherals supporting the Camera On/Off feature will allow a user to more efficiently turn on or off their Video during a call or meeting. Instead of fumbling with your mouse or keypad to bring up the Meeting Stage and then press the Video icon, a simple click of a button will allow the user to quickly control their video state.

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Language Interpretation in Microsoft Teams

Language interpretation will allow professional language interpreters to translate what the speaker says into another language in real time without disrupting the original flow of delivery of the speaker. This will allow more inclusive and efficient meetings, where participants who may not speak the same language can fully collaborate with each other without waiting for an interpreter to repeat what was said after the fact.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87547

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Restrict egress activities when accessing sensitive websites in Microsoft Edge 

This capability allows restricting common egress activities as users navigate protected sites or access sensitive content via Microsoft Edge. With this new capability, organizations will be able to designate groups of protected sites and apply different restrictions; and monitor or restrict common egress activities when users visit protected sites with audit, block, and block override controls.

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Microsoft Teams: Collaborate in Teams with Excel Live

Collaborate easily in Teams with our new Excel Live feature. You can easily collaborate with all meeting participants on your Excel worksheet during the meeting. Select the file you want to share, grant permissions to meeting participants, and enable all meeting participants to edit the document right from the meeting window.
Preview date: August CY2022

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Support for Graph Connectors content

Microsoft 365 admins can now connect third-party applications into their environments via Graph Connectors. With this update this content will now be available for eDiscovery workflows including collections, review, and export.

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Yammer: Storyline in Microsoft Viva Engage

Storyline empowers leaders to reach and engage people and enables everyone to connect and contribute while building their personal networks and amplifying their impact. Users share updates, experiences, and perspectives to their storyline to reach followers and colleagues. Through storyline, users can find relevant posts in their feeds and discover interesting people to follow to stay in touch with what they share.

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Microsoft Viva: Meeting category insights coming to the Viva Insights app in Teams

Meeting category insights can help you align time spent in meetings with your goals by giving you visibility into the categories of meetings where you spend your time.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/personal/teams/viva-teams-app

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Office app and OneNote: Dictation in DoD

We are bringing the capabilities of dictation to DoD. DoD users will be able to use speech to text technology in Office apps to draft documents, emails, and notes.

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