Microsoft 365 admin center: Viva Insights usage report

This usage report will help IT admins understand the number of daily enabled and active users for Viva Insights.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/activity-reports/activity-reports?view=o365-worldwide#which-activity-reports-are-available-in-the-admin-center

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Improved Teams Guest User Usability

We will be updating guest user functionality within the Microsoft Teams app.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88430.

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Microsoft Teams: Switch between multiple video cameras in Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

This new feature will enable in-room users to switch between multiple video cameras from console on Teams rooms on Windows. For rooms with more than one video camera attached to MTR, users will be able to switch between these cameras during a Teams meeting by selecting camera from the list of available cameras. If the device does not have multiple USB cameras set up with Teams Rooms device in the conference rooms, there will be no difference in experience.

  • You will still be able to utilize default camera setting for peripheral health reporting in Teams Admin Center.
  • Device administrators will also be able to select a default video camera that is used to join Teams meetings.
    • When a default video camera is selected, it’s considered critical to health of the device and Teams Admin center monitors and reports device health based on it.

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Retirement: Display a workbook using gallery view

We will be retiring the Gallery view in SharePoint beginning January 17, 2022. To publish selected parts of a workbook, we recommend the use of Power BI Dashboard which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.

When will this happen:

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OneDrive: Sync client support for Apple Silicon (Preview)

A preview of OneDrive sync that runs natively on Apple silicon is coming to devices in the Current Channel (Preview).

  • Following the preview release to Current Channel (Preview), it will release GA.

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OneDrive: Sync client support for ARM on Windows (Preview)

A preview of OneDrive sync for ARM on Windows is coming to devices in the Current Channel (Preview).

  • Following the preview release to Current Channel (Preview), it will release GA.

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Yammer: Communities Expiry Autorenewal

Yammer activity is now included in activity-based automatic renewal of Microsoft 365 Groups. When a user has viewed a post within a Yammer community, the community will automatically renew group expiration.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/enterprise-users/groups-lifecycle

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to Threat Explorer and Real-time Detections

We are working towards updating the user experience for Threat Explorer and Real-time detections. As part of this update, we will introduce enhancements like All Email view by Default for Explorer, toggling between chart or grid view, single click data export and more. There is no change in functionality when it comes to core experiences like filtering, export, and this is an update to the user experience.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/threat-explorer?view=o365-worldwide

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OneDrive and Microsoft Stream: Sharing Links that block download for most video and audio files is now available

Users can now choose to share most video and audio files with a sharing link that will prevent recipients from being able to download the file. Recipients can still view the file via the web player experiences.
More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/video-formats-you-can-play-on-the-onedrive-website-07c008b2-70e4-4ced-8a9b-f25bed77196a#:~:text=You%20can%20play%20most%20audio,directly%20from%20the%20OneDrive%20website.

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Microsoft Teams: New guest user usability improvements enabling pending invitation decline and show/hide guest tenant list from Teams app account setting

A guest user can now leave an org from Teams app account settings. A guest user can also choose to hide/show guest tenants from the Teams account settings.

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