Yammer is evolving into Viva Engage

Today we are announcing our intention to rebrand Yammer into Viva Engage in order to provide a consistent and delightful experience to our customers. This change will happen across all existing Yammer surfaces– including web, mobile, and integrations (Embed, SharePoint and Outlook) and will occur throughout 2023. In the coming months you can expect Yammer to become Viva Engage through the update of brand elements like logo, app icon and name. 

When this will happen: 

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M365 Apps on windows support new compliance configuration for scoping labels based on files vs. emails

Word, Excel, PowerPoint clients and Outlook email clients will support admin setting to have a different set of sensitivity labels.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 99939

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New OneDrive Shared Experience

We have made updated to the Shared experience in the left nav in OneDrive which will help users quickly get back to shared content. The Shared with you view within Shared will show files and folders shared across various Microsoft 365 apps so that users can find files shared with them over email, chats, and meetings all in one place. In addition, users can identify updates to files by using the activity column, as well as leverage filter pills to easily find files. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117426

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Enabling New Call Controls with Survivable Branch ApplianceEnabling New Call Controls with Survivable Branch Appliance

In the event of a network outage, users will soon have access to new call controls with Survivable Branch Appliance. Users will be able to use contact search, dial by name, and initiate a call from their call history. When connected to the same SBA and network, VoIP calls to peers will be routed through PSTN if the call recipient has an associated phone number.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 111421

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Microsoft Syntex Pay-as-you-go Preview Update

As announced at Ignite and MC477853 (December ’22), Microsoft Syntex is a new family of products that utilizes AI advancements to transform how content is created, processed, and discovered. The free preview of Microsoft Syntex pay-as-you-go is coming to an end in March.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 101512

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Extend sensitivity labels to meetings (GA)

Currently available in public preview (MC462922), sensitivity labeling will soon be generally available for meetings.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 102408.

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OneDrive: New Shared Experience

We are updating the Shared experience in OneDrive for web which can be found in the left nav pane. The new experience will show files and folders shared across various Microsoft 365 apps so that users can find files shared with them over email, chats, and meetings all in one place. In addition, users can identify updates to files by using the activity column, as well as leverage the new filtering pills to quickly find shared files.

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Windows 365: Downsizing a Cloud PC (Direct Assigned Licenses)

,An administrator will have the ability to downsize a user’s Cloud PC, provided that the admin has licenses in inventory to perform the downgrade. Only available for direct assigned licenses. Downsizing is only supported for vCPU/RAM – not storage.

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Whiteboard: Voting

This feature will bring a more formalized voting function to Whiteboard. This can be used in order to gather feedback from participants to come to conclusions during various activities. This will have the ability to be anonymous or not.

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Windows 365: Windows 365 Frontline

A Windows 365 offering designed for organizations to provide Cloud PCs for shift workers or part time workers that only need a Cloud PC for a limited amount of time each day or week.

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