Azure Active Directory: Cross-tenant synchronization

Admins will be able to automate creating, updating, and deleting B2B users across tenants within an organization.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Secure collaboration on labeled and encrypted documents with user-defined permissions (U.S. government clouds)

SharePoint and OneDrive can process labeled documents that are encrypted with custom permissions, also referred to as user-defined permissions. As a result, these documents can be searched, inspected for data loss prevention, and used with eDiscovery. They can also be opened, edited, seamlessly co-authored, and support AutoSave in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps on all platforms (includes Office for the web).

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Retirement of apps based on selected templates

We will be retiring the apps based on the following Teams App Templates – Poll, Survey, Checklist, Quiz and Training. Check the app store for alternate options.

Note: If your organization is not using Teams App Templates you can safely disregard this message.

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Introduction of organization insights in Microsoft Viva digest email

The biweekly digest email will carry premium organizational insights for qualifying managers. Initially, these insights will include three rotating areas of focus: after-hour collaboration, meeting culture, and manager 1:1 time. Eventually, this pipeline of insights will grow. 

Users can navigate directly to the Viva Insights app in Teams for a more detailed view.

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Wiki retirement and the future of note taking in Teams Channels

We announcing that Wiki’s will be retired from Teams. We are offering note taking capabilities through Teams Channels powered by OneNote.are

When this will happen:

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Microsoft 365 admin center: New Teams Group Graph API and Teams Team Activity Counts

We are adding new APIs within Microsoft Admin Center to support Microsoft Teams Groups and Teams Activity Counts.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109548

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M365 Admin Center: New Forms Graph APIs to track to help you track Forms activity user, activity,

We are introducing a new Forms Graph API set to help you track Forms activity user, activity, and user detail metric in Usage Reports. Admins can use the API to get Forms related detailed user usage metrics, such as how many designers and how many respondents over a time period.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109557

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Microsoft Lists: Calendar Week Layout

While creating a calendar view, users can now choose between month layout or the new week layout to visualize their list information in a way that works best for them. There is a provision to create multiple calendar views – using both month and week layouts. Week Layout also supports all features from the month layout including the drag and drop operations to reschedule items and conditional formatting to color code items on the canvas.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100504

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New Integration Management Settings for Global Admins in Viva Goals

Viva Goals supports integrations with Microsoft and third-party apps and platforms so that the OKR implementation process is as simple, effective, and seamless as possible. Effective immediately, global administrators can manage which integrations are available to Viva Goals organizations in your tenant. Additionally, Microsoft Planner and Excel integrations with Viva Goals will be available by default.

When this will happen

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Notification Granularity for Teams Mobile through Intune

Customers in fields like finance, healthcare, and law have been asking for a more granular control of what Teams Mobile shows and hides in a notification preview. In response, we are introducing an optional way for admins to control how much detail a user sees in a lock screen notification.

Note: This feature is only available to customers with Intune. If you organization does not use Intune you can safely disregard.

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