Microsoft Viva: Manager insights in Microsoft Viva Insights app, Outlook and Office.com for GCC

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2022 Microsoft Viva 0 Comments

To empower managers to foster productivity and wellbeing for teams – large or small – new insights and tools are being introduced in the “My team” tab of the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams for GCC, as well as in manager cards in the daily briefing and monthly digest emails from Microsoft Viva. These will help managers explore and improve their personal habits and team culture. Further, a new Viva Insights team home page will be discoverable at Office.com.

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Microsoft Stream: Add or Edit captions and transcript for a video in SharePoint or OneDrive

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2022 Stream 0 Comments

This new feature will enable users, with edit permission to a video stored in OneDrive for Business or a SharePoint document library, to upload, download, and delete captions in the WebVTT file format. This feature will also let users download a Teams Live Transcript as a WebVTT file. They will then be able to edit that file in a text or VTT editor and re-upload it to provide more accurate captions and transcript for their recording.

Any viewer of the video with a transcript will be able to display it as closed captions inside the video player and as a transcript in the transcript pane next to the video .

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Update to the Conversations vertical in Microsoft Search in Bing

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

As users of Microsoft Search in Bing, you are already familiar with finding Teams and Yammer conversations via the Conversations vertical. We are pleased to inform that the Conversations vertical experience in Microsoft Search in Bing will be enhanced with Email messages. Going forward the Conversations vertical will contain Teams conversations and Email Messages. We expect that this feature will bring additional value to Microsoft Search in Bing experience for the users in your organization and make it more complete search experience.

Search results from Yammer, that is currently supported within the Conversations vertical in Microsoft Search in Bing, will appear in its own vertical. A future enhancement on the Yammer vertical will bring in a richer search experience.

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Yammer Cross-geo external collaboration support on External Networks for the EU

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2022 Yammer 0 Comments

With this release, members from Yammer networks located in the European Union will be able to be invited to Yammer External Networks hosted by a Yammer network located in the United States.

Note: For the subset of users of EU networks who had previously been active members of external networks, using an organization’s old network in the US geo, are reinvited to the external networks, their old profile will be marked as “deleted” without deleting any of the user’s content in those external networks.

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Microsoft Lists: Board View

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2022 Microsoft Lists 0 Comments

This new feature, Microsoft Lists: Board View, will allow users to work with list data in a board format. This view is ideal when users want to track items as they move forward in a process or workflow.

  • Moving items through stages is as easy as dragging and dropping.
  • Users will be able to configure which columns from the list are displayed in the cards and in what order.

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Mute Notifications During Meetings

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2022 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

The current experience of receiving notifications during meetings is highly distracting and there is no easy way to turn off these notifications making it highly painful for users. This feature will introduce a setting to help the user turn OFF notifications during meetings.

  • Global Setting to turn OFF notifications during meetings – A user can find this settings by clicking on the ellipsis next to the profile picture -> Going to global settings -> Notifications -> Meetings. This will turn off notifications for all the meetings
  • Allow/Mute Notifications through the uBar – A user can wish to turn ON/OFF notifications on a per meeting basis through the setting provided in the meeting tray.

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Outlook: Contact lists

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 7, 2022 Outlook 0 Comments

The new Outlook for Mac is adding support for Contact lists (aka Personal Distribution Lists).

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SharePoint and Microsoft Teams Connected Templates

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 7, 2022 Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online 0 Comments

We are announcing the upcoming release of Connected Templates with Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. The connected templates will offer a new way of combining Microsoft Teams templates with SharePoint templates. Prior to this integration, clients needed to deploy Microsoft Teams or SharePoint-specific templates.

  • Microsoft Team Templates allow administrators to easily deploy consistent teams across their organization using predefined or customized team templates across their organization.
  • SharePoint templates offer a straightforward way for admins to build sites with pre-populated pages, page templates, news post templates, and web parts that can be customized to fit the needs of their organization.

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SharePoint: Section Templates for SharePoint Pages

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 6, 2022 SharePoint Online 0 Comments

When you add a new section to a page, you can select a blank template with popular image and text combinations for a quick start.

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Microsoft Teams: Give Take Control for Citrix on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 6, 2022 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

User on Citrix will be able to give and take control during calls and meetings. Give control: If you want another meeting participant to change a file, help you present, or demonstrate something, you can give control to that person. You will both be in control of the sharing, and you can take back control anytime. Take control: To take control while another person is sharing, select Request control. The person sharing can then approve or deny your request. While you have control, you can make selections, edits, and other modifications to the shared screen. When you’re done, select Release control to stop sharing control.

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Joao Ferreira

I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.