New themes in the new Microsoft Outlook for Windows and web

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 29, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Outlook for Windows and web will release 10 new themes in addition to the existing 55 themes. Users can access these themes in the Appearance page of Settings. The release will begin in early March 2024 and complete by late March 2024. Users within the tenant will have 10 new options when selecting themes. If the organization wants to prevent users from accessing these new themes, they can disable them and set their own theme in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

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Microsoft Purview: Audit Search with Microsoft Graph API

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 29, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Purview will have a new Audit Log Query API available through Microsoft Graph API, allowing admins to programmatically access audit logs. Rollout will begin in mid-March 2024 and is expected to complete by late March 2024. To access the new API, register your application with Microsoft Graph and add relevant permissions. Notify users and update documentation as necessary. Microsoft Purview Audit enables centralized visualization of cloud log data for security events, forensic investigations, internal investigations, and compliance obligations.

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 29, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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)

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 29, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 29, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 29, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 29, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 28, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 28, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 28, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Update UI/UX admin experience for advanced configuration settings.

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Joao Ferreira

I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.