Microsoft Lists: Calendar Week Layout

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 11, 2023 Microsoft Lists 0 Comments

While creating a calendar view, users can now choose between month layout or the new week layout to visualize their list information in a way that works best for them. There is a provision to create multiple calendar views – using both month and week layouts. Week Layout also supports all features from the month layout including the drag and drop operations to reschedule items and conditional formatting to color code items on the canvas.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100504

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New Integration Management Settings for Global Admins in Viva Goals

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 11, 2023 Viva Connections 0 Comments

Viva Goals supports integrations with Microsoft and third-party apps and platforms so that the OKR implementation process is as simple, effective, and seamless as possible. Effective immediately, global administrators can manage which integrations are available to Viva Goals organizations in your tenant. Additionally, Microsoft Planner and Excel integrations with Viva Goals will be available by default.

When this will happen

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Notification Granularity for Teams Mobile through Intune

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 11, 2023 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Customers in fields like finance, healthcare, and law have been asking for a more granular control of what Teams Mobile shows and hides in a notification preview. In response, we are introducing an optional way for admins to control how much detail a user sees in a lock screen notification.

Note: This feature is only available to customers with Intune. If you organization does not use Intune you can safely disregard.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 11, 2023 Microsoft 365 Apps 0 Comments

We’ve released updates to the following update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel
  • Monthly Enterprise Channel
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview)
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

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Microsoft Project: Additional Timeline Zoom Options

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2023 Microsoft Project 0 Comments

Four new options to the zoom feature in the Timeline view will enable you to view your long-term projects at 18 months and 2, 3, and 6 years.

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Microsoft Viva: Elevated Teams Integration

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2023 Microsoft Viva 0 Comments

Fully featured Viva Goals app in Team, complete with check-ins within the app.

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2023 Microsoft 365 admin center 0 Comments

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2023 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

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.

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Get ready for Answers badges in Microsoft Viva.

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2023 Viva Engage, Yammer 0 Comments

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2023 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

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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