Community Campaigns in Viva Engage

Introducing community campaigns to boost engagement within your community. Now, community admins can easily create campaigns directly within the community. Simply locate the campaign’s right rail, click the plus button, and fill in campaign details like #hashtag, description, and default publisher in the pop-up. 

Campaigns start as drafts, allowing admins to upload cover photos, set goals, and pin links before hitting the publish button. Admins and regular users can view all community campaigns by clicking “View all campaigns” in the right rail. 

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SharePoint Add-In retirement in Microsoft 365

Since the release of SharePoint Add-Ins in 2013, Microsoft has evolved SharePoint extensibility using SharePoint Framework (SPFx) enabling you to write applications that can be used in Microsoft SharePoint, Viva Connections and Microsoft Teams. With our continued investment in SharePoint Framework, Microsoft is retiring SharePoint Add-Ins.

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Azure ACS retirement in Microsoft 365

Since the first use of Azure ACS (Access Control Services) by SharePoint in 2013, Microsoft has evolved the authorization and authentication options for SharePoint Online via Microsoft Entra ID (a.k.a. Azure AD). Using Microsoft Entra ID as auth platform for your SharePoint Online customizations will provide your applications the most secure, compliant and future proof model. With our continued investment in Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft is retiring the use of Azure ACS as auth platform for SharePoint Online.

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Estimating cost of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive , Endpoint

The OCR Cost Estimator allows customers to estimate the potential cost for using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). OCR can scan images for sensitive content and is chargeable based on the number of images scanned.

With the launch of the OCR Cost Estimator, customers can now estimate OCR costs without any pre-requisites. This means that customers will no longer be required to set up an Azure Subscription for billing first and can accurately estimate the cost they would have incurred while using OCR.

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Graph API for SMS notifications in Virtual Appointments

Microsoft Graph API for SMS notifications in Virtual Appointments allows developers to programmatically send confirmation, update, reminder and cancellation SMS notifications to customers. The API support for SMS notifications is currently available in the United States and notifications can be sent to US phone numbers.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: User Submission Automatic Feedback Response

The user submission automatic feedback response enables organizations to automatically respond to end user submissions of phish based on the verdict from the automated investigation. This feature is configurable and allows organizations to dictate in which threat scenarios they would like end users to receive feedback emails. Once enabled, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) will automatically respond to end user submissions based on the investigation verdict and the configured settings.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: AI hub in Microsoft Purview

The AI hub in Microsoft Purview is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts – both for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft AI applications.

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SharePoint: SharePoint Hub Analytics for US Government Clouds

View, Viewer, dwell time and content level analytics aggregated at a SharePoint Hub level. These features are an enhancement to the existing site and page level analytics in SharePoint.

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Azure Active Directory: Cross-tenant manager synchronization

Cross-tenant synchronization will support provisioning a user’s manager across tenants. For existing synchronization configurations that use the default schema (where you haven’t made any customizations to the attribute mappings or scoping rules), the manager will start to provision automatically for new users. For existing synchronization configurations that do not use the default schema, you can add the manager attribute to your attribute mappings.

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Outlook: Image based theming

Outlook for Mac will soon support image-based theming, allowing users to choose an image from a selection available in the General settings.

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