Microsoft Teams: Scoped Search for Viva Connections in Teams
When searching in the Viva Connections app in Teams using the Teams search bar, users will get results based on the Viva Connections tenant wide search experience.

When searching in the Viva Connections app in Teams using the Teams search bar, users will get results based on the Viva Connections tenant wide search experience.

Announcements allows you to create and share time-sensitive messages in Viva Connections. You can set up, manage, and schedule announcements from your organization’s SharePoint home site or the Viva Connections app in Teams desktop.

The interface of Search Box in Outlook is being upgraded, making it more prominent and discoverable, with higher color contrast on the input area, border, and font, along with fine tunes on all themes, as well as light and dark modes.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 151024

Starting September 11, 2023, adding Microsoft 365 Apps to Yammer/Viva Engage communities via Microsoft 365 connectors will no longer be supported. This functionality was limited to classic Yammer only and was not implemented in new Yammer.
How this will affect your organization:

We are pleased to announce that we will soon support the Microsoft Teams Shared Device license on the Teams Android mobile application. The Teams Shared Device license offers a shared identity-based , common area phone experience, including basic and advanced calling, people search, voicemail and walkie talkie.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 126706

If your organization is not using the Twitter web part or has disabled it via PowerShell (Use the Twitter web part) in SharePoint in Microsoft 365 this notification may be safely disregarded.
Due to a change in Twitter’s terms of use for third-party access, the Twitter web part in SharePoint in Microsoft 365 will no longer be supported and will be removed from the web part toolbox, as well as from any Microsoft-produced site templates.

We are making some changes to the search experience in Viva Connections app to make it easier to search in Viva Connections.

Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management, the multi-OS, multi-brand device management service that is included with the Teams Rooms Pro license, now supports customers using the Microsoft Government Community Cloud (GCC) tenant so they have a complete meeting, collaboration, and Teams Rooms device management solution.

We will make some minor experience changes for when a user has been detected as a potential high impact user whose activities may lead to potential data security incidents. These changes will include improving accessibility and providing more prominent highlighting of the reasons for being detected as a potential high impact user.
Additionally, we will provide additional descriptors regarding how the risk score booster is applied to the user. 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.
