Microsoft Viva: Modern All Company for non-native mode networks

Most Microsoft Viva All Company communities in tenants and networks that are not yet in native mode networks will be automatically migrated to the modern All Company experience. This means that All Company will have all the new community experiences and features. This change will only affect a few Engage networks. Most networks already have the modern All Company experience.

The All Company for non-native mode networks will be automatically migrated to the modern experience. This adds new features to All Company such as community customizations, cover photos, and custom naming. Find out more about the benefits here.

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Microsoft Viva: Code Snippets in Viva Engage

Users will be able to add code snippets to their posts, discussions, replies, questions, polls, and praises on Viva Engage.

Additionally, if customers are licensed for Answers in Viva Engage, this feature will also be available when asking questions on Answers.

To add code snippets, locate the new button on the publisher toolbar.

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SharePoint: Custom image as Section Background

SharePoint lets you customize the sections backgrounds with your own image. We’ve enhanced the focal point and introduced more settings like fill mode, overlay, opacity to help you adhere to accessibility best practices and make sure that your contents are clear and readable with customized background. This gives you more power over the image to make your page beautiful.

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SharePoint: Section Background

SharePoint now allows you to add an image or gradient color to the sections of the page from a new set of options, including image settings to ensure readability. With this release, we’re providing authors to make beautiful pages with featured sections.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Real-time policy tuning analysis

Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time policy alert prediction based on the number of users in a tenant that could potentially match a given set of policy conditions. It helps organizations efficiently adjust the selection of indicators and thresholds of activity occurrence, so they don’t have too few or too many alerts from a policy. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Teams: Tags will be supported in Private Channels

Tags will now be supported in private channels in Microsoft Teams. Users can now use tags to @ mention groups of people in private channels.  

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 373545

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Microsoft Teams: Block users from joining externally hosted Teams meetings

This feature enables tenant admins to control whether some users in their organizations can join any externally hosted Microsoft Teams meetings. When these regulated users are signed in on their Teams clients, their ability to join an externally hosted meeting will be limited based on the policy configuration. This capability can be used by the tenant admins to protect potential data exfiltration from specific user groups within their organization.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 187230

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Tags in Shared Channels for Microsoft Teams

Tags will now be supported in shared channels in Microsoft Teams. Users can now use tags to @ mention groups of people in shared channels. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 373555

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Modern Translator feature in Microsoft 365 Apps

The Modern Translator feature in Microsoft M365 Apps is making changes that may require users and tenant administrators to take steps to ensure continuity of service. We strongly recommend you ensure your installed versions of any of the below release channels or products, Win32 and Mac (Current Channel, Monthly Enterprise Channel, Semi-Annual Channel, Perpetual Channels, Windows Teams Desktop, Teams Android, Teams iOS, OneNote for Windows 10, or Office Store Translator for Outlook) are updated to minimum versions as detailed here: Modern Translator in Microsoft 365.

Note: This change does not impact Outlook on the Web and Word for the Web.

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Microsoft Teams: Chat/Channel Copilot will Preserve Side Pane Preferences

We are excited to announce that Microsoft Copilot in Microsoft Teams chat and channels will soon preserve your side pane preferences for a specific chat thread while the Microsoft Teams app is running. This means that if you open Copilot in one group chat, it will remain open when you return to that chat thread. This feature will be available on desktop and web.  

When this will happen:

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