OneDrive: Sharing Experiences – Improved external sharing in the sharing control

Originally posted by Microsoft May 23, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

In the current sharing control, if your admin or organization allows external sharing, you’re required to go to the sharing settings and select the right link type in order to successfully share externally. In the new experience, we make things a lot easier for you: as soon as you choose an external person to share with using a company link, we will display a prompt to confirm your choice. If confirmed, the link will automatically change from an internal-only link to a “Specific People” link, and you can simply proceed to share. Otherwise, we will display a simple error message that says, “This link won’t work for people outside of your organization.” As always, this new experience respects the organization’s settings around external sharing and default link types.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100713

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Leverage advanced classification

Originally posted by Microsoft May 22, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Communication Compliance policies now support detection of inappropriate sharing of the following sensitive information types: named entities (full names/physical addresses/medical terms), credentials (login credentials/passwords), and exact data match. These new sensitive information types will be accessible to designated administrators during policy configuration. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect business conduct and 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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OneNote: Editor Text Predictions

Originally posted by Microsoft May 22, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

When you compose or edit content in OneNote, Editor Text Predictions anticipates your writing and suggests a suitable word or phrase inline. This saves time and helps you reduce typos.

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Create a distinct experience in Viva Connections for different audiences in the Microsoft 365 admin center

Originally posted by Microsoft May 22, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

A new feature will be available soon for Viva Connections that enables you to create and manage multiple Connections experiences and home sites that are targeted to specific audiences for your organization through the Microsoft 365 admin center. This feature is ideal for subsidiaries and conglomerates that want to provide distinct, audience targeted experiences with relevant and personalized information, resources, and apps to their employees.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 99916, 117421

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Teams Personal Tabs in Outlook for iOS

Originally posted by Microsoft May 22, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Teams Personal Tabs will soon appear on Outlook for iOS. This will complete the changes announced in Oct 2022 in the Outlook Blog.

Teams apps must be validated to work on the mobile form factor. After the user or admin installs the app on Teams or Outlook, the personal tab will now appear automatically in Outlook for iOS. 

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Yammer: Bulk Community Member Import for Viva Engage GA

Originally posted by Microsoft May 22, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

As a Viva Engage community manager, one of the most important and time-consuming tasks is managing members, especially in large organizations where efficiency matters. If you’re a community manager for an Engage community in a Native Mode network, we are introducing a feature that will allow managers to bulk add multiple members to their community using a CSV file. This will help community managers establish their initial community membership, bring over members from another community, or migrate from another community platform. Community managers can add up to 20,000 members and the upload can take up to 24 hours to process.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 103096

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Group Policy Assignment Support for Additional Policies in Teams Powershell Module

Originally posted by Microsoft May 22, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft is now extending group policy assignment support to additional policy types via Teams PowerShell Module (TPM). Admins can create new groups in Microsoft 365 admin center or can use existing groups to assign custom policies for various policy types in Teams PowerShell Module.

As your organization expands, your requirements become increasingly nuanced and multifaceted. A “one size fits all” approach is no longer tenable. Therefore, this capability will enable your organization to have different custom policies for various policy types assigned to user groups for specific needs. You will not have to rely on global (org-wide default) policies or direct policy assignments via manual user selections.

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Planned Maintenance: Viva Goals

Originally posted by Microsoft May 22, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

We have maintenance planned for Viva Goals:

  • Starting 05/25/2023 5:30 AM UTC.
  • Ending 05/25/2023 6:00 AM UTC.

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Follow up MC515531: Pronouns on Profile Cards in Microsoft Teams and Outlook Web

Originally posted by Microsoft May 22, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

This is a follow up to MC515531 (February ’23) as we continue working on rolling this out to all environments.

We’re adding a new feature to the profile card in Microsoft 365. Users in your organization will soon be able to add pronouns directly to their profile card in Outlook on the web and Teams. Pronouns are the words we use to replace someone’s name in a sentence, such as “he,” “she,” or “they” in English.

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Group Policy Assignment Support to Additional Policy Types in Microsoft Teams admin center

Originally posted by Microsoft May 19, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft is extending group policy assignment support to additional policy types via Teams admin center. Admins can create new groups in Microsoft 365 admin center or can use existing groups to assign custom policies for various policy types in Teams admin center.

This capability will enable your organization to have different custom policies for various policy types assigned to user groups for specific needs and inherited through group memberships. You will not have to rely on global (org-wide default) policies or direct policy assignments via manual user selections.

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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.