New Viva admin experience in M365 Admin Center

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 31, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

The Viva collections experience now has a brand-new look where you can configure licenses, roles, and access individual app configuration pages. Admins will be able to deploy Viva from a common place within the Microsoft 365 admin center and find guidance on how best to configure their tenants.

Viva is now discoverable via search making it easier than ever to discover Viva apps within the Microsoft 365 admin center. Admins can also navigate to the experience via the setup tab, and then click on the Viva collection. From the new Viva suite setup page, you can see details about the Viva apps in your tenant, including plan type and the admins assigned with permissions to manage a specific app. Now it’s easier than ever to see who from your organization will help in the deployment journey for Viva

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PowerPoint Live in Teams: Magnify Slide

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 31, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

When a deck is presented via PowerPoint Live in a Microsoft Teams meeting, all meeting attendees can use the Magnify Slide feature to privately zoom into the presentation while maintaining full fidelity of the slide content. When a meeting attendee magnifies a slide, it doesn’t change how the presenter or the other meeting attendees view the slides. The “Sync to presenter” button will also appear, which allows the meeting attendee to resume following the presenter. When the meeting presenter uses the Magnify Slide feature, the zoomed in presentation content is displayed to all meeting attendees to see and follow along. The initial roll out of Magnify slide in PowerPoint Live will only be available for Microsoft Teams Desktop.

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Outlook: Suggested replies expansion to GCC high

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 28, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Outlook on the web, Outlook mobile, and Outlook for Windows are adding suggested replies for GCC high customers.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 28, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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

  • Current Channel

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IE11 desktop app will be permanently disabled as part of the February 2023 Windows security update (“B”) release

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 28, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

As previously announced, the Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) desktop app has been retired as of June 15, 2022. IE11 retirement is occurring through two phases:

  1. A redirection phase, currently in progress with devices progressively redirected from IE11 to Microsoft Edge
  2. An upcoming Windows Update phase that includes IE11 being permanently disabled. The Windows security update (“B”) release that will permanently disable IE11 is scheduled to be available for roll out on February 14, 2023.

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Users Can Upload Documents from OneDrive for Business in E-sign in Approvals

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 28, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Users will now be able to upload documents from OneDrive for Business when creating an e-signature request in E-sign in Approvals. We apologize for the delay in communication and any inconveniences caused.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 99971

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Outlook for Windows: Cloud Signatures Coming Soon

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 28, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Upgrades to how your email signatures are managed will be launching soon. These enhancements change where the signature data is stored from per-device to per-account. This means the same set of signatures will be available on any Windows (Microsoft 365) or Web version of Outlook, and you will no longer need to reconfigure your signatures when getting a new device.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 60371

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Sign Language View

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 27, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

We are introducing a new Sign Language experience in Teams Meetings to help meeting participants who use sign language to prioritize interpreters and other sign language users so that they remain visible in in a static, central location on the meeting stage, with higher video quality. Specific sign language users inside the organization that you work with regularly – such as regular interpreters – can be prioritized across all meetings by adding them to a prioritized signer list under Settings > Accessibility in the Teams app. Sign language view is a personal, user-level setting, and is visible only for those who have turned it on. It will not be shown to the rest of the meeting participants. The feature is presently available only on Teams Desktop.   

Sign Language View addresses three key concerns raised by Deaf/hard of hearing users:  

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Change in Item Insights behaviour in Delve and the Microsoft Graph Trending API

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 27, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

We’re making some changes to the user experience in Delve and how it relates to the Item Insights toggle.

Until now, users (or groups of users) who have had item insights turned off have not themselves been able to use collaborative experiences like Delve. As an example, when a user who has disabled item insights opens the Delve home page, it has shown an empty page. This will change on December 1, 2022. 

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My Activity retirement in Teams desktop and web clients

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 26, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

As announced in MC411679 (August ’22) we are retiring “My Activity” feature within the Activity app from Microsoft Teams desktop and web clients.

Activity will now support only activities directed to you (the option to view activities initiated by you will be retired), where we will continue to invest our development resources.

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Joao Ferreira

I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.