Microsoft Edge for Business: Customize organizational branding using the Microsoft Edge management service

Microsoft Edge for Business will allow admins to customize organizational branding assets onto Edge for Business through the Microsoft Edge management service starting late March 2024. Admins can control, preview, and customize the organization’s name, accent color, logo, and Edge for Business taskbar icon overlay. Default branding can be enabled through specific policies. Users signed in with an Entra ID will see the selected organization branding on individual browser components. Admins must navigate to the Microsoft Edge management service to customize and configure organization assets.

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Microsoft Exchange Online: Release of View Another Mailbox feature in the new Exchange admin center (EAC)

Microsoft Exchange Online will release the View Another Mailbox feature in the new Exchange admin center (EAC) in late February 2024, with worldwide rollout expected to complete in late March 2024. The new feature allows users to manage all mailboxes they have permissions for and offers a modern, faster, and easier-to-use experience. Admins can access the new experience by clicking the ‘View another mailbox’ link, and the old EAC experience will be deprecated mid-2024.

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Reminder: Stream (Classic) retires on April 15, 2024, and all unmigrated videos will be deleted

Stream (Classic) will be retired on April 15, 2024, and all unmigrated videos will be deleted. Admins must migrate their tenant’s Stream (Classic) data to Stream (on SharePoint) before the retirement date to prevent data loss. Stream (on SharePoint) offers many capabilities of Stream (Classic) and allows users to record and play videos directly in many everyday work and school apps. It also enables users to easily manage video files with the same security, admin controls, multi-geo support, compliance, permissions, and sharing controls as the rest of their files in SharePoint and OneDrive. A migration tool has been created to transfer videos to SharePoint while also bringing over metadata, links, and permissions associated with the videos.

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European Digital Markets Act (DMA) Impact on LinkedIn in Microsoft 365 profile card experiences

Starting from March 2024, LinkedIn members in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland will have the option to choose whether their LinkedIn profile data appears in Microsoft 365 profile card experiences due to the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The new visibility setting will be off by default, and if the LinkedIn member is based in the EEA or Switzerland, the ability to view their information within the Microsoft profile card in Microsoft 365 experiences will be limited until they take the action to change the new privacy setting on LinkedIn.com to allow this access. For more information, visit the LinkedIn help article and Admin consent for LinkedIn account connections.

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Expanding invitations to move to Windows 11 to more people

If your organization relies on Microsoft to manage Windows updates, you’ll start seeing a new user interface on eligible Windows 10 devices soon. Starting with the April 2024 security update, a new message will appear after signing in and usually following a reboot. It will invite users to “Upgrade for free to the latest Windows 11.” For more details, read Expanding invitations to move to Windows 11 to more people
 

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in endpoint

This release will extend OCR support from standalone images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, and PDF) to images embedded inside the following files and file types: Office files (XLSX, DOCX, PPTX), container files (zip, rar, 7z, and more), and PDF files. Image-only PDF files are already supported, and this this release will support hybrid PDF files containing images and searchable text.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – New enhancements in Workday integration

Admins can now use advance mapping options to link AAD and Workday.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint -Update UI/UX admin experience

Update UI/UX admin experience for advanced configuration settings.

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Microsoft Teams: Reactions in Town halls (Premium)

Participants can use reactions (like, love, applause, laugh, surprised) to express themselves during a town hall and the reactions appear as a continuous stream on the side of the screen.

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Update to Get-CsOnlineUser and Get-CsUserPolicyAssignment cmdlet in the Teams PowerShell Module

The message announces an update to the Teams PowerShell Module. The LocationPolicy, OptionFlags, and VoicePolicy attributes will be retired from Get-CsOnlineUser and Get-CsUserPolicyAssignment cmdlets. This change will be implemented in March 2024. Administrators will need to use the Teams PowerShell Module cmdlets to get LocationPolicy and VoicePolicy information. Detailed instructions are provided in the message.

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