Microsoft Viva: Recommend learning content and track completion progress

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 15, 2021 Microsoft Viva 0 Comments

Recommend a learning course to one or more individuals, with options to set a due date for completion and capture additional information via the ‘notes’. For all recommendations, the recommender can view reported completion progress of each of the recommendees. Recomendees can view recommendations made to them along with information of who recommended, notes from the recommender and Due date. As content is consumed, recomendees can update status of the recommendation to in-progress or Completed. Users get notifications for new recommendations, notifications for recommendations approaching due date and notifications for overdue recommendations.

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Microsoft Viva: Add Viva Learning app to Microsoft Teams

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 15, 2021 Microsoft Viva 0 Comments

Viva Learning will be shipped as a pre-installed app in Microsoft Teams. Users will be able to add the Viva Learning app to Microsoft Teams to discover, share, track, and consume learning content.

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Microsoft Stream: Toggle video or audio features on and off for all viewers

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 15, 2021 Stream 0 Comments

Users with edit permissions to a video or audio file uploaded to SharePoint and OneDrive can toggle features, such as transcript and comments, on or off for all viewers of that video.

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Microsoft Viva: Briefing email for Government Community Cloud

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 14, 2021 Microsoft Viva 0 Comments

The daily briefing email- a personalized, actionable briefing email from Microsoft Viva, automatically delivered to your Outlook inbox to help you start the day on track and stay on top of tasks, will be available for Government Community Cloud (GCC).
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/personal/briefing/be-overview

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Microsoft Information Protection: Extend sensitivity labels to assets in Azure with Microsoft Azure Purview

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 14, 2021 Microsoft 365 compliance center 0 Comments

With Azure Purview, you can now extend the reach of your Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) sensitivity labels and the value from built-in sensitive information types to a much broader set of data locations and data types. Use existing sensitivity labels or create new sensitivity labels via the Microsoft 365 compliance center to extend security and compliance intent to data assets in Azure.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/purview/create-sensitivity-label

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SharePoint: Updated site creation experience

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 14, 2021 SharePoint Online 0 Comments

We’ve updated the site creation experience to make it easier for site creators to select the right type of SharePoint site, understand roles, and site permissions. Updates to this experience include refreshed graphics, expanded site descriptions, and more context for different permission levels in the Site permissions panel.

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Focus time experiences in the Viva Insights Teams App

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 14, 2021 Microsoft Viva, Viva Insights 0 Comments

Viva Insights is enhancing the focus time experience for users of Viva Insights in Microsoft Teams. Users will have the ability to enroll in a focus plan and modify their focus plan settings directly from the Teams app, a function currently accessible from the Viva Insights web dashboard. Additionally, users will have access to a new focus mode experience. Users who have booked focus time will receive a notification as their focus time nears. Upon clicking the notification, the user will enter the focus mode experience in Microsoft Teams. The focus mode experience includes access to Headspace focus music and a focus timer. Users who do not have access to Headspace will have access to a breathing exercise when entering focus mode.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85661.

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Teams Support of Internal Guest User (formerly known as State 3 and State 4 accounts)

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 14, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Teams is adding support for Azure AD’s internal guest users (users whose UserType value is “guest” with credentials managed by the host organization either on-prem or in the cloud). These internal user would sign-into Teams like any other users and would be able to collaborate with other users in the host organization.

Note: This change is to support legacy scenarios (formerly known as guest user state 3 and 4), that may have blocked organizations from utilizing internal guest access previously. This change does not impact existing guest access settings.

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Microsoft Information Protection: Data loss prevention (DLP) integration with Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS)

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 14, 2021 Microsoft Information Protection 0 Comments

Extend data loss prevention (DLP) policies to non-Microsoft cloud apps to monitor and detect when sensitive items are used and shared via non-Microsoft cloud apps.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/dlp-use-policies-non-microsoft-cloud-apps?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning for mobile

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 14, 2021 Microsoft Viva, Viva Learning 0 Comments

Access Viva Learning on the go, anytime, anywhere on your Mobile device.

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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.