Microsoft Viva: Search relevance improvements in Viva Learning

Improvements to relevancy of search results in Viva Learning including attribute boosting, spell correction, exact match, and personalized results based on interests.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams Button to bring Meeting Stage to foreground during meeting

With this feature, users can bring up the meeting stage to the foreground by pressing their Teams Button during a meeting. This allows users to more quickly return to the meeting stage to review chat discussions or the content being shared, especially if the meeting stage was hidden behind other windows. Note: This feature only applies to devices with dedicated Teams Buttons. If the device has a dual-purpose button (both hookswitch and Teams Button), pressing the button will end the call.

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Microsoft Teams: Geo filtering for Teams apps

ISV’s can now target applications to select geographies (countries/regions) via partner center. Thus, users will only see apps relevant for them given their country and region.

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Microsoft Teams: Support Breakout Rooms on VDI

Enable organizer support for Breakout Rooms for VDI users.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer (U.S. Government clouds)

The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer.

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Microsoft Power Platform and Azure Logic Apps – Potential Service Disruption for Twitter Connector Update

On Wednesday, February 1, 2023, Twitter made the following announcement: “Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead”

On February 14th, we first notified you about the possible impact to our service because of these changes. We have been working with Twitter to explore an agreement that would result in uninterrupted service – however at this point, there will be imminent disruption in our service connection with the Twitter API.

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Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android: User Experience Update 1 2023

This update introduces several new features for Teams Rooms on Android that improve the meeting join, content sharing, and hybrid collaboration experiences.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 119621, 119620, and 119622

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Viva Goals: Increased Functionality and Terminology Change of Team Field

Viva Goals currently has a field named “type” while creating and filtering OKRs which designates where the OKR would be created. The terminology is now changing from “type” to “teams.” In addition to the name change, the functionality of the “teams” field will expand to include additional context and faster search capability as OKR owners assign a team to an OKR.

All OKRs created from the My OKRs page will now be set to unassigned by default. OKRs being created from a specific team or organization page will continue to have the current default of the selected team or the organization.

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SharePoint Syntex rebrand on Service health and Message centerSharePoint Syntex rebrand on Service health and Message center

In October we announced at Microsoft Ignite that SharePoint Syntex will be rebranded to become Microsoft Syntex. As a continuation of this, the service listings on Service health and Message center will also be rebranded. In the month of March, the service titled “SharePoint Syntex” will be retitled “Microsoft Syntex”.

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Creating Yammer External Networks Now Require Verified Admin PrivilegesCreating Yammer External Networks Now Require Verified Admin Privileges

Creating external networks in Yammer and Viva Engage will now require verified admin privileges for reasons of security and system reliability.

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