Microsoft Viva: Lightweight management of manually created topics outside the Viva Topics license

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Viva Topics provides a central knowledge base for manually created topics and definitions inside apps like Viva Engage.
These topics don’t use Viva Topics’ AI, topic cards and pages but can be selected to classify conversations and posts in Viva Engage.  With this release, we’re proving a way for knowledge admins to edit, create, and delete these “simple” topics without Viva licensing as a way to make
knowledge management more accessible to more users.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect managerial harassment

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

By combining Communication Compliance classifiers with Azure Active Directory organizational hierarchy data, we are able to detect if offensive/inappropriate communications are occurring in a hierarchical imbalance. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Teams: Proactive monitoring of meeting quality using Real-time telemetry (Premium)

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Proactive monitoring capability for admins in the Teams Admin Center (TAC) to identify audio, video and app sharing related quality issues while the meeting is in progress. Admins can define the desired monitoring parameters in TAC, which they will be notified of for investigation of users with poor meeting quality. This monitoring will be based on real-time meeting quality telemetry data available in TAC.

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Forms: Allow respondents edit their responses (for government clouds)

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Allow Forms respondents to edit their own responses. The Forms creator can change the settings to allow or prohibit these edits.

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Microsoft Intune: Remote Help for Mac

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Provide view-only remote assistance for Mac devices.

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Microsoft Teams: Intelligent camera support on Teams Rooms on Windows

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

IntelliFrame enables multi-stream video, face recognition of in-room participants, active speaker recognition, attributed voice-based transcription, and panoramic video on front-of-room (180-degree view) and center-of-room (360-degree view) cameras, taking Teams Rooms on Windows cameras to the next level of intelligence. IntelliFrame is available only with the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license.

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Microsoft Stream: View & Edit mode toggle

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

This feature allows users with editing permissions on videos to toggle between View and Edit modes when viewing a Stream video. In View mode users can only view the video. In Edit mode users with edit permission can edit the video metadata such as title, description, chapters, and transcript. The default mode will be View. The View/Edit mode toggle is designed to prevent accidental edits to video metadata.

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Microsoft Viva: Using Topics in Viva Engage will grant limited access to Viva Topic Names

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

As part of the Viva Engage (Yammer) transition to the Viva Topics platform, Viva Engage posts (conversations, questions, polls, announcements, storyline posts) will be considered as Viva Topic resources. As a result, topic names will be applied to posts and will grant limited access to the topic for all users with access to the post.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams Rooms Pro Management – Insights Report

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

The Insights Report is available in the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management portal.  The report summarizes issues, remediation steps taken, time savings, and proactively alerts IT to
issues before they become a problem for users. Previously available only via a managed service, now all Teams Rooms Pro customers can take advantage of this report.

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Lightweight management of manually created topics outside the Viva Topics license

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Viva Topics provides a central knowledge base for manually created topics and definitions inside apps like Viva Engage. These topics don’t use Viva Topics’ AI, topic cards, or pages, but can be selected to classify conversations and posts in Viva Engage.

With this release, we are providing a way for Viva Engage admins to edit, create, and delete these “simple” topics without Viva licensing as a way to make knowledge management more accessible to more users. Please visit the ‘Manage topics’ page via the URL below:

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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.