Microsoft Viva Insights: Enroll in Focus plan from the Insights app in Teams

Viva Insights is introducing updates to better enable users to protect time for focus from the Viva Insights Teams app. These updates to the protect time page will allow users to enroll in a focus plan and adjust preferences to auto book focus time on one’s calendar from within the Insights app in Teams. Users enrolled in a focus plan will also see insights about their progress towards their focus time goals.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88957.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams device store in Teams admin center

Teams device store provides direct procurement through Teams admin center, where admins can discover, purchase and provision Teams certified devices. The functionality will be available to small and medium sized organizations in US and Canada. This will be extended to more customers in the future.

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Admin Pinning for Message Extensions

Admin pinning for apps will allow admins to pre-pin and surface applications, specifically message extensions, relevant for their tenant.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87506.

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Enhancements to Yammer’s interactive email notifications

Based on customer feedback, we will soon be releasing enhancements to Yammer’s existing interactive email notifications across all Outlook clients to provide further value to the users. The enhancements would include user experience changes to help with information density of the content for ease of consumption and engagement within Yammer’s the interactive emails as well as enable users to discover recommended conversations within these emails.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88967.

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Yammer: Enhancements to Yammer’s interactive email notifications

The enhancements would include user experience changes to help with information density of the content for ease of consumption and engagement within Yammer’s the interactive emails as well as enable users to discover recommended conversations within these emails.

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Microsoft Viva: Briefing email support for 16 additional languages

The daily Briefing email from Microsoft Viva helps users start their day on track by surfacing information to prepare for upcoming meetings, follow up on outstanding tasks, and protect time for independent work. With this update, the Briefing email will be available in the following additional languages: Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Norwegian (Bokmal), Korean, Chinese Traditional, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese (Portugal), Thai, Hebrew, Czech, Arabic, and Hungarian.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/personal/Briefing/be-overview

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Yammer: Dark mode in Yammer

Dark mode can be enabled to view lighter text on a dark background.

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Yammer: Bookmarks in Yammer

Bookmark threads in Yammer to easily find and read them later.

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Microsoft Teams: New default settings when opening Office files For Government clouds

Users can set a default of browser, desktop or Teams when opening Office files (Word, Excel, and Power Point) that are shared in Teams.  The desktop setting can be selected, if the user has Office version 16 or newer installed and activated.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Out-of-the-box assessments for non-Microsoft 365 assets (US Government clouds)

Introducing pre-configured templates that extend Compliance Manager capabilities beyond Microsoft 365 assets.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/compliance-manager?view=o365-worldwide

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