Improved management of Teams apps with capabilities extended to Outlook and the Microsoft 365 app via Integrated Apps

In January 2023, Microsoft released the feature to manage Teams Apps with certain capabilities that extend to Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App (formerly known as Office.com) via the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Now, we are introducing controls at an app and tenant level, for admins to define which users in their organization can install and use these apps on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App via Integrated Apps in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center.

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In-product announcements for the Yammer website rebrand to Viva Engage

We are thrilled to share the exciting news that the rebranding of Yammer and all its surfaces is nearly complete! The Yammer website, the SharePoint and embed integrations, as well as the Power Automate integration rebranding will take place during the last week of June of 2023.

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Microsoft Purview – Data Lifecycle and Records Management – Scope the administration of retention and label policies

To assist in the implementation of security best practices, we are introducing new way to assign administrative privileges in the Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management and Microsoft Purview Records Management solutions that will provide admins the least privilege access required for their job duties.

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Introducing Support for Concurrent Exchange Online License Assignments

We recently enabled a new feature in Office 365, which allows tenant admins to assign more than one Exchange Online license per AAD user. This provides license stacking support and automatic license feature upgrades and downgrades based on the most superior Exchange Online license pack assigned to a user.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Topics Teams app

Viva Topics Teams app as the new destination for discovering new and trending topics in the organization, providing feedback on suggested topics, catching up on activities on topics of interest and more.

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Outlook: SMS on Outlook Lite

Available only in India. Outlook Lite now presents a modern, powerful SMS experience for users who prefer to have all their messaging needs in one compact platform/

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Microsoft Viva: Follow a topic

Users can now follow topics from experiences across Microsoft 365 and the Viva suite to receive personalized experiences and notifications of activities around topics of interest.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Configure display colors for sensitivity labels (U.S. Government clouds)

This feature will simplify the policy management experience by enabling administrators to set a label color in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal for their sensitivity labels. Once applied, labels will display this coloring within first-party and third-party applications that support reading the color property, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (Win32 native apps), or Power BI.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Visibility into configuration and policy sync status of devices

Provide visibility to admins about configuration status and solution health in addition to providing policy update sync status.

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Microsoft Teams Admin Center: New widget for unspent Azure consumption commitment

New widget in the Microsoft Teams admin center (TAC) helps admins quickly view unspent Microsoft Azure consumption commitment (MACC) that they can apply when making purchase of Teams apps that are Azure benefit eligible. It will only be available to organizations that have an existing MACC agreement with Microsoft.

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