Microsoft Syntex OCR for SharePoint and OneDrive

Syntex provides the ability to extract text from images in your tenant. Once the text is extracted, you can use it for scenarios such as, end-user search and it is also available for information protection policies in Microsoft Purview.

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Viva Pulse – New Viva Suite application available on July 20th

Viva Pulse is a new employee feedback experience that is available for use with your Viva Suite subscription. Viva Pulse empowers managers and project team leaders to request and receive feedback from their teams at any time. Managers and project leads can choose from research-based templates to quickly create a survey and send it to select inpiduals or groups. They can also track feedback to understand team sentiment over time and show teams they’re being heard by working together to take clear steps to address needs. Viva Pulse General Availability will be on July 20th, 2023.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 117393

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Take advantage of new Viva Engage capabilities for leaders and communicators

This month we have introduced several capabilities for leaders, corporate communicators, and employees to improve your campaigns, events, and engagement across the platform. This includes:  

  • Featured conversations and leader announcements that can be highlighted as Top Posts
  • See all featured Leadership Corner Feeds.
  • Sort and filter the Leadership Corner Feed
  • Campaign discovery hub updates 

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Microsoft Viva: Amplify Campaign Creation & Management

Create communications campaigns, invite collaborations from colleagues as communicators, reviewers and editors. Set up your campaign brief with key goals and messages. Manage your communications as part of the campaign..

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Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Favorite Channels

Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. Through this new functionality, users can now pin up to 5 favorite channels on the walkie talkie home screen, enabling users to quickly switch between these preselected channels to listen to incoming transmission or initiate PTT transmissions.

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Use double-key encryption to protect your most sensitive files and emails in Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows

To protect your most sensitive content, users of Microsoft 365 Apps can now use Double Key Encryption (DKE) for files and emails using the built-in labeling client. With DKE, Microsoft stores one key in Microsoft Azure and you hold the other key, ensuring that only you can ever decrypt protected content, under all circumstances. Sensitivity labels configured with DKE in Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal are now available for users in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook to publish or consume content protected with DKE.

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Introducing Voice One Time Password (OTP)

Voice calls have proved to be the least secure authentication method; there are far better ways of performing multifactor authentication (MFA), including Microsoft Authenticator (which offers both MFA and Passwordless options), or more secure phishing-resistant methods like Windows Hello for Business and FIDO2 security keys. Although we have encouraged everyone to move away from traditional MFA methods (such as SMS and voice), we understand that some of you are dependent on these methods in order to use MFA. To address this need, we are making an improved version of our voice call method available – introducing “voice one-time password (OTP)”. This method will be combined with the SMS authentication method and as such have two delivery methods (SMS and voice OTP) to allow for delivery method optimization.

When this will happen:

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Click Through Collaborative Annotations Layer in Teams Meetings

We are rolling out an enhancement to the current Collaborative Annotations experience whereby screen sharers can click through the annotations layer and interact with underlying content without stopping the existing annotation session. After a sharer initiates annotations from their presenter toolbar, sharers will be able to interact with their background to edit their content by default.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 127900.

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Microsoft Teams: EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report for user access

Organizations which have enabled Microsoft Teams EHR Connector can view the usage information of EHR scheduled appointments through EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report. Tenant with EHR connector enabled users who are not designated as admins, now have access to the EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report through the Virtual Appointments App in Microsoft Teams. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 138229

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Make calls through speed dial and call history on Apple CarPlay

Users can now easily call their speed dial contacts and get back to their recent calls on Apple CarPlay with Teams after connecting iPhone to vehicles that support Apple CarPlay.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 125556

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