Viva Engage, replacing Yammer Communities app for Teams

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 20, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

At Microsoft Inspire, Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, announced Microsoft Viva Engage, the newest app in Microsoft Viva, designed to help people and teams to be their best, have a voice, and feel included in the workplace. Viva Engage brings people together across the organization to connect with leaders and coworkers, find answers to questions, share their unique story, and find belonging at work. Viva Engage builds on Yammer, and brings together Yammer’s experiences—communities, open conversations, and personalized discovery—with new capabilities for self-expression and sharing through storyline and stories, and upcoming innovations. 

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Storyline available for public preview in Yammer and Microsoft Viva Engage beginning late August

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 20, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Beginning in late August, Yammer Network and Verified Admins will be able to opt into the public preview of storyline for Microsoft Viva Engage and Yammer, via a toggle control in Yammer.

Storyline empowers leaders to reach and engage people and enables everyone to connect and contribute while building their personal networks and amplifying their impact. Users share updates, experiences, and perspectives to their storyline to reach followers and colleagues. Through storyline, users can find relevant posts in their feeds and discover interesting people to follow to stay in touch with what they share.

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Ability to manage third-party app subscriptions from Teams Admin

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 20, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

We will soon enable a centralized location in both Teams Admin Center and the Teams app store, where admins and end-users can view and manage all the third-party app subscriptions they’ve purchased. This update improves the existing subscription management flow and makes it easier and more intuitive.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 92484 and 95920.

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Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointment Graph API

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 19, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

The Virtual Appointment Graph API allows developers to create and manage Microsoft hosted Teams Virtual Appointments from any application. Virtual Appointments are designed for business to consumer workflows.

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Teams on Mac Universal Binary PKG and Native Apple Silicon Support

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 19, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Note: If your organization does not use macOS you can safely disregard this message.

We are happy to inform you that the Teams macOS desktop client is set to support Apple Silicon chips natively in the 3rd quarter of the calendar year 2022. This support will be delivered seamlessly to existing users via the usual update process. For new users and installation, the Teams macOS desktop client will come in a Universal Binary PKG which will automatically install natively for Mac devices that run on Intel or Apple Silicon device.

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Assign Seats in Together Mode

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 19, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams users in a meeting will soon have the option to assign seats in Together Mode for all participants in a meeting.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83648

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection – Public preview of Credential SITs

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 19, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Now rolling out to public preview, we’re adding new Sensitive Information Types (SITs) to allow your organization to detect credential patterns (such as access keys, tokens, general passwords), as either individual patterns for specific detection or a bundle of all credential patterns for holistic detection.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88941.

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Dynamically applied media logs settings in Teams

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 19, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

This update is aimed to improve your experience when updating the “Enable logging for meeting diagnostic” Teams settings. Either turned on or turned off, the preference will be dynamically applied right away and will not require a client restart, as it used to.

When this will happen:

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OneDrive/SharePoint: Review mode for Word documents

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 19, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

What is Review mode?

When you open a document that was shared with you for review, you are automatically placed in Review mode.

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Enable media logs remotely with PowerShell cmdlets

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 19, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Teams Media Logging policy can be applied to users and groups and allows IT admin to enable user’s client settings “Enable logging for meeting diagnostic”. Applied via PowerShell cmdlets, the policy overrides client settings and sets Settings > General> Enable logging for meeting diagnostic to “On”. When applied, the setting is displayed as greyed out and can’t be updated via the client.

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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.