Microsoft Intune In Development for March 2024 is now available. The In development page has been updated with a list of features in upcoming releases of Microsoft Intune to assist in your readiness and planning. You can inform your IT staff and helpdesk of the upcoming changes listed on this page.
Starting from early April 2024, SharePoint Online will only show site results from the tenant root site when in the “site search” scope. This update will not affect the search experience if the root site is set as a hub, set as a Viva Connections home site, or configured to show hub or tenant wide results by default. If you want to continue to get all results when searching from the root site, you can configure the default search scope at the root site to show tenant wide results.
Microsoft SharePoint Online is introducing new features that allow authors to add curated image or gradient color backgrounds to page sections. The update includes improved focal points, fill mode, overlay, and opacity settings to ensure accessibility. The rollout will begin in mid-March 2024 for Targeted Release and early April 2024 for Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, and DoD. No action is required to prepare for this rollout. SharePoint Page and News authors can access the new features when editing a page or news section. Note that unsupported section backgrounds will be replaced with SharePoint theme colors in email.
The Teams Meeting Add-in in Outlook will not receive feature updates for Classic Teams after March 31, 2024, as part of the transition to New Teams. Organizations should transition to New Teams for the best experience and update their training and documentation accordingly. Note that the Teams Meeting Add-in can still be used for New Teams.
Microsoft Viva Engage premium digest email will soon include audience analytics for designated leaders and their delegates. The change will roll out from mid-March 2024 to late April 2024 and will only apply to emails viewed in the interactive format in Outlook for the web or the New Outlook for Windows. No action is needed to prepare for this change.
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Microsoft 365 Health Dashboard will soon be available as a view on the Microsoft 365 admin center home page. The change will take place between mid-March and mid-April 2024 and will not affect the Health page. No action is needed to prepare for this rollout. To access the new view, select Health from the View drop-down menu. The Dashboard link on the left navigation will be removed to simplify the interface.
In the quest to deliver low-friction deployment and proactive management for Microsoft Teams Rooms, the Microsoft Teams Rooms for Windows app now automatically checks for, and installs, new application and Windows updates during the initial setup process, ensuring devices are protected and up to date on day one.
Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) is a setting that will allow Global/Tenant and SharePoint Admins to disable organization-wide search and select a set of curated SharePoint sites. These selected sites, along with the users’ OneDrive files and content, will then become accessible in search and in the Copilot experiences. This means that whether you have Enterprise Search or Restricted SharePoint Search enabled, users in your organization will still be able to interact with their OneDrive information in Copilot.
Microsoft Teams is migrating recorded custom greetings for voicemail to a new storage location. 99.94% of customers’ custom greetings have been migrated, but for the remaining 0.06% of users who have not received any voicemail in over six months, default greetings will be played instead of any custom recorded greetings starting from May 2024. No action is required, but users who want to ensure their custom recorded greeting is migrated can do so in March and April 2024. Custom greetings entered by text are not affected by this migration.
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