Microsoft Power Automate – DocuSign premium connector

Microsoft recently announced a new pay-as-you-go program where Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can pay for the usage of their connectors by customers.

We are excited to announce that DocuSign has entered this program and as a result, the DocuSign connector, which is a premium connector, is available to be used by any users in your organization.

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Announcing General Availability for Customer Lockbox

We are excited to announce that Customer Lockbox for Power Platform and Dynamics 365 is now generally available (GA) in public clouds. Customer Lockbox provides a set of capabilities to help you govern Microsoft access to your data.

When will this happen?

The progressive rollout of the GA enhancements started this week and will be complete by January 20, 2023. Depending on the home region of your tenant, you can use the newly announced capabilities starting right away!

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Outlook: Desktop accessibility ribbon

Adding a new Accessibility Ribbon tab will make it easier for authors to make their messages more accessible. All the tools you need to make your message accessible, together in one place, so you don’t need to go find them.

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Azure Active Directory: Cross-tenant synchronization

Admins will be able to automate creating, updating, and deleting B2B users across tenants within an organization.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Secure collaboration on labeled and encrypted documents with user-defined permissions (U.S. government clouds)

SharePoint and OneDrive can process labeled documents that are encrypted with custom permissions, also referred to as user-defined permissions. As a result, these documents can be searched, inspected for data loss prevention, and used with eDiscovery. They can also be opened, edited, seamlessly co-authored, and support AutoSave in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps on all platforms (includes Office for the web).

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Retirement of apps based on selected templates

We will be retiring the apps based on the following Teams App Templates – Poll, Survey, Checklist, Quiz and Training. Check the app store for alternate options.

Note: If your organization is not using Teams App Templates you can safely disregard this message.

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Introduction of organization insights in Microsoft Viva digest email

The biweekly digest email will carry premium organizational insights for qualifying managers. Initially, these insights will include three rotating areas of focus: after-hour collaboration, meeting culture, and manager 1:1 time. Eventually, this pipeline of insights will grow. 

Users can navigate directly to the Viva Insights app in Teams for a more detailed view.

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Wiki retirement and the future of note taking in Teams Channels

We announcing that Wiki’s will be retired from Teams. We are offering note taking capabilities through Teams Channels powered by OneNote.are

When this will happen:

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Microsoft 365 admin center: New Teams Group Graph API and Teams Team Activity Counts

We are adding new APIs within Microsoft Admin Center to support Microsoft Teams Groups and Teams Activity Counts.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109548

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M365 Admin Center: New Forms Graph APIs to track to help you track Forms activity user, activity,

We are introducing a new Forms Graph API set to help you track Forms activity user, activity, and user detail metric in Usage Reports. Admins can use the API to get Forms related detailed user usage metrics, such as how many designers and how many respondents over a time period.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109557

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