Microsoft Viva: Editors cohort for topics

Knowledge managers can now select and assign a group of SMEs to a topic and invite them to validate and contribute to suggested, confirmed and published topics.

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Yammer: Rebranding to Viva Engage

To provide a consistent and delightful experience to our customers and users, Yammer across all its surfaces: web, mobile, and integrations (Embed, SharePoint and Outlook) will be rebranded to Viva Engage by late 2023. In the coming months you can expect Yammer to become Viva Engage through the update of brand elements like logo, app icon and name.

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Microsoft Viva: Trending Topics

Viva Topics brings a new way to discover and learn about important and relevant topics in your organization through the trending topics experiences across M365.

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Microsoft Viva: Adding Viva Goals team members through AAD Groups

With this capability, team admins can add members to teams by selecting AAD Groups (SG, DLs, etc.); This will enable roll outs and deployment across all teams as well as multiple group support at an organizational level.

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Microsoft Viva: Ask me anything events

All users can create moderated Q&A events from their storyline page. AMAs include question upvoting & sorting, best answer, and optional anonymous submission.

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Microsoft Teams: Support apps in Channel Meetings

Meeting organizers and participants can now add apps to meetings in Teams channels for better collaboration and engagement across a variety of scenarios.

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Microsoft Viva Engage: Storyline Announcements

Official leaders can create ‘announcement’ storyline posts that reach their audience directly in email and Teams notifications. Post on behalf of another user allows the user to assign a delegate who can post to their storyline on their behalf.

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Microsoft Viva: Social campaigns in Viva Engage

Corporate communicators can create official hashtags for campaigns that inspire participation and aggregate campaign activity with following, leader sponsorship, theming, and supporting resources.

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Outlook: iOS – Forward an email as an attachment

Easily forward an email as an attachment to another email.

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Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management and Records Management – Microsoft Graph APIs for extensibility

As a part of our extensibility vision and first release to Microsoft Graph, we are introducing three new APIs for retention labels, events, and event types in the Microsoft Graph beta environment. These APIs will enable you to customize and extend on what we have built in the product so far.

These APIs can be used by compliance admins and developers to manage retention labels in Data Lifecycle and Records Management solutions.  

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