SharePoint: Improvements to the authoring experience in SharePoint Pages

We’re making changes to the editing experience for SharePoint pages. This change will make it easier for users to understand where they are in a page by adding labels to each content area. These changes also reduce clutter by consolidating web part editing actions into a single toolbar and placing authors into focus mode by default to remove visual distractions while editing.

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Redesigned Microsoft Teams Store Experience

With the newly redesigned Teams Store, you’ll find a landing page optimized for ease of discoverability with rotating banners at the top that spotlights interesting apps and scenarios. You’ll also see intelligent recommendations for apps that are popular amongst your colleagues and across all users on Teams. We’ve also added new curated surfaces that showcase collections of apps that address common scenarios from apps to get you started in Teams. We have also updated app categories to make it easier to find the apps you’re searching for – from those built by your org and colleagues to those built for certain functions and industries.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86186.

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Meeting Activities in Teams Audit Log

This update to the Microsoft Teams audit log adds Meeting Activities to further help organizations effectively respond to security events, forensic investigations, internal investigations, and compliance obligations.

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Feature “Related content” is retiring from Classic Yammer

At this time, we recommend using the new Yammer experience and capabilities that are available for our current Yammer App users as we will be retiring the feature Related contentfrom Classic Yammer after December 20, 2021.

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View Only Attendee Guidance Update

Microsoft Teams provides several different ways to deliver meeting experiences. Selecting the right option depends on factors like expected attendance numbers and required capabilities. To follow up on an earlier communication (MC282774 -Sept), Microsoft would like to clarify the guidance around which experiences to use for meetings and events above 1,000 users.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 65952

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Viva Connections is now generally available!

Viva Connections, part of Microsoft Viva, is your gateway to a modern employee experience. The Viva Connections app incorporates a customizable dashboard, the feed, and relevant resources all in one experience in the Microsoft Teams mobile, web and desktop.

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Modern lookup columns

This new feature, Lookup columns, will allow you to connect a list to a column from another list you have on your site. Once connected, you can easily “lookup” other information and include this in your new list. This makes it easy to maintain team-level, centralized lists that contain information you use repeatedly.

Note: You can now create look up columns in modern list and document library UI.

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Upcoming change to Power Apps apps within a developer environment

Beginning mid-December, 2021, apps launched in a developer environment will begin displaying a notification that the app is running in a developer environment, and is intended for development and testing purposes.

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Update to Mail Flow status summary report

We are bringing an updated view the the Mail Flow status summary report. we will be merging the Funnel view and the Tech view into one consolidated view called the “Mail flow” view.

We believe that with the new view it will be easier for Admins to visualize the flow of emails through our filtering system.

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Classic site collection usage reports moved to a new link

We previously announced in MC244687 (March ’21) that we were relocating classic usage and popularity reports in the SharePoint admin center classic site collection settings. We have now completed this change and apologize for the delay.

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