Announcing de-duplication of contacts in Outlook Web

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 21, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Duplicate contacts are hard to remove manually and as a result people information often remains scattered across contacts. Microsoft is offering end users of Outlook Web App (OWA) the ability to discover duplicate contacts and merge information for a profile into one contact. As a tenant admin of an organization, you are receiving this message because your end users may be introduced to duplicate contact merge suggestions in OWA.

This means that our service will proactively detect duplicate contacts for users of your tenant and will present merge suggestions in OWA. All user merged contacts will appear subsequently in Outlook Desktop and Mobile. As part of feature completeness, we provide an option to control the audience within your organization. You can control the audience for this feature by disabling/enabling the service for a part of your organization or for your entire organization. For details, please refer to the ‘What you need to do to prepare’ section below.

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Microsoft Viva: MyAnalytics dashboard redirects to Viva Insights web app

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 21, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

MyAnalytics dashboard users will be automatically redirected to the Viva Insights web app as a central place to explore work-pattern insights alongside actionable experiences to improve productivity and wellbeing. Select MyAnalytics functionality (focus time booking and insights, quiet time settings and insights, meeting habits, and settings) will continue to be available as a part of the Viva Insights apps in Teams and web. Additional functionality from MyAnalytics (including some personal network and collaboration insights) will be included in the Viva Insights web app with future updates.

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New praise compose experience in Teams and praise trends in Viva Insights

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 21, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Praise in Microsoft Teams is designed to appreciate the effort that goes into the wide-ranging, collaborative work that Teams users do. Users can send praise to their colleagues through the messaging extension pinned to the Teams messaging bar or through the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams. For both, admins can use the Microsoft Teams admin center to enable/disable Praise.

The praise composer and praise card design will be updated for all Teams users. The praise composer – accessible through the messaging extension pinned to the Teams messaging bar or through the Viva Insights app in Teams – is being refreshed to replace praise badges with emojis, introduce the ability to select gradient backgrounds. Additionally, in the Viva Insights app in Teams, praise trends are being introduced, privately surfacing analytics such as counts of praise sent and received, your top fans and top praises received.

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Microsoft Teams: Sign Language View and always-on captions in meetings

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 20, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Prioritize up to two other participants’ videos for sign language in meetings so they stay visible even while content is shared and set captions to stay on across all meetings.

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Reminder: Announcement of automatic deletion of inactive Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environments

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 20, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

As previously announced in MC415083 (August ’22), the Microsoft Power Platform is introducing a cleanup mechanism that will automatically remove inactive Dataverse for Teams environments from your tenant. Dataverse for Teams environments will be first disabled after being inactive for 90 days, the environment will then be deleted after 30 days of being disabled if no action is taken by the administrators. A disabled or deleted Dataverse for Teams environment will not affect any other Microsoft Teams assets (teams, channels, SharePoint sites, Teams-connected sites…etc.) and applies only to Dataverse integrations.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections 1st party apps for Desktop and Mobile available in GCC

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 19, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Viva Connections desktop and mobile experiences are now available in GCC.

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Configure labels independently on files and emails

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 19, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Admins can scope labels to apply to email or files independently. Configure label policy in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to be applicable to emails only, files only, or both.

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Microsoft Teams: Support PSTN dial-in, dial-out, and call-me attendees in meetings to join Breakout Rooms

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 19, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Enabling dial-in, dial-out and call-me PSTN participants to join breakout rooms and come back to the main room when breakout rooms end.

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Microsoft Graph: Cloud Site List Management Graph APIs

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 19, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

New Graph APIs that allow admins in organizations to create, manage, and publish their site lists for Internet Explorer mode in the cloud.

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Alert/sms retirement update

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 19, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

We are retiring the ability to trigger Alerts/SMS content messages through the Defender for Cloud Apps portal. Instead, we recommend the utilization of Microsoft Power Automate, which is 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.