Viva Goals – Roll out for Improved team settings experience

As a part of this release Team owners will have a simplified team settings experience. In addition, Team owners will also have the ability to create custom time-periods by default. The organization owners will have the option in the organization admin page, to configure this custom time-period creation permissions for team owners.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 165682

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Power Platform – Announcing general availability of the modern hierarchy security editor interface

We are announcing the general availability of the modern hierarchy security editor interface within Microsoft Power Platform, available now in all geographic regions.

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Power Platform – Announcing Public Preview of the Modern Business Unit Editor Interface

We are announcing the Public Preview of the Modern Business Unit Editor User Interface for Microsoft Power Platform. In addition to carrying over the functionality of the classic interface, the Modern User Interface provides an additional set of rich features that will enhance an Administrator’s governance experience in Power Platform admin center (PPAC).

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Plan for Windows 10 EOS with Windows 11, Windows 365, and ESU

See your options to keep your organization and its data secure as Windows 10 is nearing end of support (EOS) on October 14, 2025. At that time, Microsoft will no longer provide bug fixes for issues, security fixes for vulnerabilities, time zone updates, or technical support for problems that might occur. To start modernizing your infrastructure now, upgrade eligible PCs to Windows 11, purchase new Windows 11 Pro PCs, or make Windows 11 available in the cloud through a Windows 365 subscription. 
 

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Microsoft Teams: Control your activity notifications from the activity card

Users will be able to control what shows in their activity feed by clicking on the ellipsis from the activity card, helping them to stay on top of the information that matters most to them.

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Microsoft Viva: MyTopics for all users in a Topics tenant

If your tenant has completed AI-indexing, a very small subset of topics will now be available to all users, even without an assigned Topics license. Any user in your organization will be able to view their associated “MyTopics” that appear in their “suggested” and “confirmed” connection webparts of Topic Center home, the Topic adaptive card for Viva Connections, and the People Profile card. They can confirm or remove these associations.

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Decorate your background in Teams Meetings (Premium)

Teams Premium users will be able to use “Decorate your background,” leveraging gen-AI to augment your real-life surroundings. It creates a personalized atmosphere for your video calls.

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IntelliFrame experiences on new Teams app and Recognition expansion

This is a two-part update, with: 

  1. IntelliFrame experiences availability on new Teams app for Desktop, 
  2. Expanding recognition support to cover scenarios such as meeting invite forwarding and Teams meeting nudge among others (Please See below for details)
    • IntelliFrame experiences from Edge cameras like Yealink Smartvision 60 are currently available on Teams Desktop platform. With this update, we want to announce the availability of IntelliFrame on New Teams app.
    • Recognition expansion: This update applies to both existing and new Teams desktop app. Previously recognition was only supported when an organizer invited the meeting room with Intelligent camera connected. With this update, we are able to support the following scenarios.
      • Meeting forward (both one time and recurring meetings)
      • Teams nudge (using Roster>add participant)
      • Join by meeting ID (Using MTR to join a meeting by ID)
  3. Also, under “Recognition” feature, we heard our users and renamed unrecognized users from “Guest” to “Participant”. Moving forward, with this update anyone who is unrecognized will see their name label as “Participant.”

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Cross-tenant manager synchronization

Cross-tenant synchronization now supports provisioning the manager attribute.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 186222

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Tracking and Revocation in Compliance Portal

Users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their sensitivity labeled and encrypted local Office files and revoke access when needed.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 177890

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