Microsoft Viva: Goals Bulk OKR Import

Viva Goals allows bulk importing of Objectives, Key Results and Projects using a standard Excel template. Bulk import allows you to take pre-existing lists of OKRs and Projects and quickly add them to Viva Goals.

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OneNote In-App Support Feature in Win32

The OneNote In-App Support feature is now available in Win32. Users can communicate with a support team using the messaging support feature directly.

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Windows and mobile app changes from Office to Microsoft 365

As originally communicated in MC446132 (October ’22), the Office app is becoming the new Microsoft 365 app, your home to find, create, and share your content and ideas. The name change will apply to everyone who uses the Office app for work, school, or personal use. There will be no impact to existing accounts, profiles, subscriptions, or files. The app will update automatically with a new icon and Microsoft 365 name.

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IPv6 coming to Azure AD

With the growing adoption and support of IPv6 across enterprise networks, service providers, and devices, many customers are wondering if their users can continue to access their services and applications from IPv6 clients and IPv6 networks.

Today, we’re excited to announce our plan to bring IPv6 support to Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). This will allow customers to reach the Azure AD services over both IPv4 and IPv6 network protocols (dual stack).

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Actionable Missed call Notification in Activity

Users will have the option to call back on a missed call directly from their activity feed. This will help users complete the underlying task quickly and improve triaging of activities.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 102236

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium): Review set – Add notes to items

We’re rolling out a feature that supports adding notes to items within a review set for the eDiscovery (Premium) solution in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 103623.

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Stream (Classic) Sets Retirement Date of Feb 15, 2024

Microsoft will retire Stream (Classic) on February 15, 2024. Certain parts of the service will retire sooner unless you take action. For example, end users will be blocked from uploading new videos on May 15, 2023 and will not be able to access Stream (Classic) at all after October 15, 2023, unless you delay these changes by using the new migration settings in Stream (Classic) admin center.  These new migration settings will become available to you in February. See the timeline in the link below for more details.

Stream (Classic)’s successor service, Stream (on SharePoint), entered general availability in October 2022. We recommend that you 1) begin using Stream (on SharePoint), 2) direct your users to upload videos SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and Yammer, and 3) put a plan in place for migration. 

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[REMINDER] New details on IE11 desktop application permanent disablement scheduled for February 14, 2023

The out-of-support Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) desktop application is scheduled to be permanently disabled on certain versions of Windows 10 devices on February 14, 2023, through a Microsoft Edge update, not a Windows update as previously communicated. All remaining devices that have not already been redirected from IE11 to Microsoft Edge are scheduled to be redirected with the Microsoft Edge update scheduled for February 14, 2023. Similar to how Windows updates work, redirection from IE11 to Microsoft Edge will be included in all future Microsoft Edge updates and will impact all devices within your organization at the same time with no ability for users to reverse the change. Therefore, if your organization still has dependencies on IE11, you must take steps now to complete your transition before February 14, 2023, or risk business disruption at scale when users lose access to IE11-dependent applications. As a reminder, IE11 has been out of support since June 15, 2022.

The change to use Microsoft Edge update to disable IE is intended to provide a better user experience and help organizations transition their last remaining IE11 users to Microsoft Edge. Users will see a dialogue box when they are transitioned to Microsoft Edge. When they try to click any IE11 icons or other entry points, they will be redirected to Microsoft Edge. Users’ browsing data will be automatically brought over to Microsoft Edge from IE11 so they can seamlessly continue browsing.

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Microsoft Teams: Federated Group Calling

We are releasing the capability for users to easily start a group Teams call with federated colleagues outside of the organization, including video and screensharing, all over an internet connection without any PSTN usage charges.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 103042

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Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint): Create, View and Share Playlists

This feature will allow users to organize their video and audio files into a playlist for easy organization, sharing and playback.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109564

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