Microsoft Viva: Share Viva Goals OKRs directly to teams chats/channels

Users can now copy and paste links to OKRs in Teams chats and channels, and the links will automatically be replaced to display a card with OKR details.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Windows 365 cloud PC advanced deployment guide

The Advanced deployment guides & assistance page in the Microsoft 365 admin center and the setup.microsoft.com website will have a new guide to help admins plan, deploy, and scale Windows 365 Enterprise in their organization. Windows 365 is a cloud-based service that provisions and hosts Cloud PCs as virtual machines for users. The guide includes a checklist with Cloud PC configuration tasks, best practices, tools, and recommendations based on a tenant’s configuration.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 102406

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Microsoft Teams: Ultrasound Howling Detection in Teams Meetings

Currently in Microsoft Teams, when multiple users are in a Teams meeting in the same room, a feedback loop is created, causing an echo. With this update, if multiple users are participating with laptops from the same location, Teams will notify the user that another Teams device has been detected nearby and is already included with audio in the current meeting. Teams will automatically mute the microphone and speakers of the person that joined when a user joins with audio on.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 92391.

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Service Health Integration for the Microsoft 365 Support Integration app in ServiceNow

Microsoft 365 support integration app for ServiceNow, enables you to integrate Microsoft 365 service health and support with ServiceNow. You can research Microsoft known and reported issues, resolve incidents, and complete tasks using Microsoft recommended solutions and if necessary, escalate to Microsoft support agents.

In the latest update (version 2.1) to the app, we have introduced a feature that allows customers to configure the app to create ServiceNow incidents whenever Microsoft generates a service health incident.

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Improvements to SharePoint pages authoring

We are making some updates to improve SharePoint pages authoring. These updates include two changes to the text web part from multilingual proofing to better control over line spacing, and a change to how external images are handled in hero web part.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 117365

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Secure Power Platform Environment Maker and Basic User security roles

Beginning in March 2023, Power Platform Environment Maker and Basic User security roles will be made non-customizable. The update will be fully deployed by mid-April following our normal update process. For more information you can visit the Service Updates schedule.

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Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2023 release wave 1 early access

We are excited to announce that early access updates for the 2023 release wave 1 for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform will be available starting on February 6, 2023, 9:00 AM Pacific Time.

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Microsoft Intune: Microsoft Tunnel Mobile Application Management (iOS)

A light weight VPN solution for secure access to premises resources from iOS mobile devices that does not require device enrollment.

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Microsoft Edge: Enhanced security mode improvements

Enhanced security mode will support WebAssembly for macOS x64 and Linux x64. Additional cross-platform (ARM64) support is expected in the future.

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Microsoft Viva: Verified Topic badges

Users can now mark published topics as verified and add a specific group of SMEs as editors to the topic. Verification helps readers identify topics with added reliability. Topics that are verified are identified by a special badge and indicate the content is reviewed for accuracy and are regularly updated by assigned editors.

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