Microsoft 365 admin center: Send email notifications from your own domain

Notifications that cannot be sent from a user’s email account can now be configured to use your own custom verified domain instead of the Microsoft default domain

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Announcing General Availability for Microsoft Shifts UKG Connector

Microsoft Teams Shifts connector for UKG Dimensions is now generally available. This bi-directional, near real-time connector provides a single, seamless interface to simplify scheduling.

When this will happen:

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Get ready for Answers badges in Microsoft Viva.

Answers badges are coming to Viva Engage! People can get recognized by their colleagues through the Answers feature based on the upvotes their questions or answers have earned, or if their answers were marked as the best answer.

These are the 5 different badges that can be earned:

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Teams admin center – Teams Devices: Update Phases for Firmware auto-updates

We’re making some changes to the way firmware auto-updates are managed for Android-based Teams devices.

You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates one or more users in your organization are using Teams devices. Administrators using Teams admin center to manage these devices will see some changes for Phones, panels, displays, and Teams Rooms on Android devices.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Retirement of legacy DLP reporting cmdlets

As announced in November 2022 (MC455898), we’ve recently retired the Reports page from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Beginning in early February, we’re retiring legacy Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention reporting cmdlets. 

Impact to your organization

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New Experiences coming to Viva Engage

Next month, new experiences will be available within Viva Engage for Microsoft Viva customers.

Admins will see new capabilities and service plans in the Admin Center and new experiences in the Viva Engage app in Microsoft Teams, and on Yammer.com. For an overview of these experiences, check out this blog.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: Simulation mode for automatically applied retention labels (U.S. government clouds)

Records Management admins will be able to simulate the results of an auto-apply retention label policy. This feature allows admins to test the policy before deploying it in production. It will work with the Sensitive Information Type (SIT) and KQL properties policy types.

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Microsoft Viva: Engage Premium Analytics

New advanced personal, community, and leader analytics to better understand engagement, reach, insights, and sentiment in communities and storyline posts in Viva Engage.

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Sentiment Analysis in Viva Engage Premium Analytics

Audience Analytics, part of Viva Engage premium, will enable users identified as leaders have access sentiment analysis features powered by Azure Cognitive Services (ACS).

Sentiment in your audience uses ACS sentiment analysis to understand the aggregate sentiment across all public posts and comments on storyline and in communities written by members of the leader’s defined audience.

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Microsoft Teams: Video Filters in Teams Meetings

Video Filters are a new feature in Microsoft Teams meetings that will allow participants to augment their video stream with visual effects, such as frames and styles. These filters are built on the Teams Platform infrastructure and provided by Microsoft first- and third-party partners as apps and displayed as a collection of filters. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86811

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