SharePoint: Content Pane for SharePoint Pages and News

The content pane surfaces relevant authoring tools that help authors quickly browse and add content to SharePoint pages. With this new feature, authors can easily drag and drop web parts, media, and section templates for creating rich and engaging pages.

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SharePoint: Application Site Creation without Sites.FullControl.All

Currently an application requires Sites.FullControl.All to create new site collections within a tenant. This work will allow applications to use a new scope, Sites.Create.All, to create new site collections without accessing any existing content. During the site creation process the application can request access to the new site, allowing for provisioning scenarios with reduced tenant permissions.

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SharePoint: New SharePoint Start

New SharePoint start experience aims to inspire content creators to use their platform. By emphasizing a user-friendly approach that minimizes clicks, it’s now easier to create websites, pages, news, and intranet content. Creators can return to the start experience hub to refine drafts, review past work, and monitor engagement metrics

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Microsoft SharePoint: Resource Specific Consent

Introduction of new .Selected permissions and APIs to support granting applications permissions at all of the levels where it is possible to break inheritance today. This will apply to applications operating in either delegated or app-only mode.

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Change to the Teams Live Event Attendee experience for users with guest access

We have recently pushed new updates to the Teams Live Event Attendee experience to support the new RTMP-In scenario for Teams. We have identified an issue that will cause us to change how we currently support Teams Live Event Attendees that join using guest access via the Web. Starting in May, we will no longer support guest users joining on the Web as a Teams Live Event Attendee.

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Viva Engage iOS and Android apps: Navigation Updates

We are updating the Viva Engage mobile app’s navigation to make it easier for users to jump to their profile, catch up on their inbox and notifications, access their Bookmarks, and view and adjust Settings.

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Configuration Change – Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps threat protection policies

We’re making some changes to the default Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps threat protection policies. 

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Microsoft Teams: New Channels Experience

A new channels experience in Microsoft Teams has been built with an intuitive design that allows teams to focus and stay on tasks, bring everyone up to speed, and actively engage in real-time. The following features will be rolling out:

  • The compose box and recent posts will appear at the top of the page. It’ll now be much easier to start a new post, keep up with the latest conversations and participate – giving users the confidence that they’ve not missed anything.  
  • Every post is now a true conversation that users can focus on. Users can navigate to a conversation view that makes the discussion more engaging and synchronous, just like a chat. Users can also pop out the post, keep an eye on the discussion, while continuing to work on other topics. 
  • A streamlined information pane will include all the important contextual information like channel’s members and pinned posts so new team members can quickly on-board and for all members to find the information they need, right in the channel.
  • Pin posts to make it easy for everyone to know what’s important in the channel and quickly reference it. 
  • Simplified badging is making it easier for users to understand when there are new unread activities in teams. In addition, the simplified design helps users focus on the specific channels which requires the most attention, like channels in which the user was @mentioned. 

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Upcoming changes to the Power Apps Maker Portal admin settings

The Power Apps Maker Portal Learn Seach API utilizes a global endpoint, and the user search term is being sent to that endpoint. This could cause issues with European Union Data Boundary (EUDB) compliance as the user search term should stay within the user’s selected data boundary. To be EUDB compliant, we are changing the default tenant admin setting value for PowerPlatform.Search.disableDocsSearch from false to true.

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Multi account support will be available for Microsoft To Do on iOS

You will now be able to use multiple accounts with Microsoft To Do iOS. You will only see data from one account at a time. Easily switch between account from the settings page.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98121

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