Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Automated organization, team member, and default admin set-up for new users with M365 groups

New users will now save time with a simplified onboarding experience for setting up organizations, team members, and admins.

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Microsoft Teams: App centric management in Teams Admin Center to manage the Apps access for tenants, end-users, and groups

App centric management introduces new admin settings to control who in the tenant can install Teams apps. First, admins can set a default value for new apps that are published to Teams app store.

Second, admins can edit the availability of an app to ‘All users can install’, ‘Specific users and groups can install’, or ‘No user can install’. This feature evolves the existing app permission policies and provides admins with the ability to manage access to the app individually.

The app permission policies for existing customers are migrated to maintain existing app availability in the tenant.

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Microsoft Forms – Google Forms to Microsoft Forms Migration via Microsoft 365 Admin Center (MMP)

Google Forms migration to Microsoft Forms through Microsoft 365 admin center will be supported, as an addition to the existing migration capability for docs, sheets and slides. Tenant admin will follow the same process as of today for Google Workspace migration in admin center, while Forms files migration will be supported. 

There will be no UI change in the admin center, while Forms data points will be included during pre-migration scan and post-migration report.

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Inking Support Coming to the New Outlook

On a touch-enabled device, add a canvas to your message and draw with your finger, a digital pen, or a mouse in Outlook. Select from different pen styles and edit your drawing to freely express yourself.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 151810

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Workflows replacing Connectors within Microsoft Teams channels menu

Microsoft Teams will be bringing workflows powered by Power Automate into the overflow menu for channels and replacing the Connectors option within the menu.

To make sure Microsoft Teams provides the best workflow experience for our users we are making it easier to configure workflows for channels. From the list of channels users will be able to go into the overflow menu for a specific channel (…) and select “Workflows”. Here they will see a list of workflow templates specific to channels within Teams. Users can then configure these templates to their needs and deploy them to the channel. 

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Power Platform – Two new telemetry data streams are now available in Public Preview

We are announcing the Public Preview of two new telemetry data streams within Power Platform’s integration with Azure Application Insights:

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Improving the pipeline of Identity-related tables in Microsoft 365 Defender Advanced hunting

We’re improving the pipeline of Identity-related tables in Microsoft 365 Defender Advanced hunting. This change is designed to improve the latencies for identity-related data, bringing the delay times to a minimum.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Teams: Auto Install Approved Apps

Microsoft Teams Auto Install Approved Apps uses intelligent signals from your users to install and surface the apps that the admin has already allowed for the tenant. An admin can enable it to help users naturally discover and use apps that are highly relevant to their needs within Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Simplified integration discoverability and set-up experience

Users will be able to easily find and setup integrations to reduce manual check in work.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Schedule a Viva Pulse request to be resent

Schedule and resend pulses to get periodic feedback from your team members.

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