Azure Active Directory (AAD) and Microsoft (MSA) accounts can be linked to earn Microsoft Rewards points

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 14, 2022 Identity Service 0 Comments

Microsoft now offers the ability to link an Azure Active Directory (AAD) work account and a personal Microsoft account (MSA). With this change, AAD users with a linked MSA account can now earn Microsoft Rewards points for Microsoft Bing searches done in their browser or Windows search box while signed in with their AAD account. This expanded Rewards eligibility was made based on user feedback.

The ability to link accounts will be enabled by default so account linking is available to an organization’s employees, but still requires employees to opt-in. The choice to link accounts is in an employee’s hands, and they need to take action to connect their AAD and MSA accounts.

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Announcing Public Preview of Power BI and Microsoft Graph Integration

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 14, 2022 Power BI 0 Comments

Power BI has integrated with Microsoft Graph, so you can actively interact with and view your Power BI content. Your PBI content can be seen through ‘Recommended’ content within Office Hub and search on Office.com, SharePoint Online, and Bing@Work. You will also be able to see the actions taken on Power BI content such as who viewed it, edited it, or shared the content with you. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 102409

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Microsoft Teams: Users ability to delete chats

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 14, 2022 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Users can now delete 1:1 chats, group chats, and meeting chats if they are a participant in Microsoft Teams. This permanently deletes the chat only for the user, other people in the chat and conversation history for them is not impacted.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 90723

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Outlook for the web – End user Reporting integrated with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (Exchange Online Protection)

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 14, 2022 Exchange Online 0 Comments

New built-in report buttons will be added to Outlook on the web (OWA) starting the end of November 2022. Admins can control the appearance and behavior of these buttons that allow users to report emails as phishing/ junk / not junk from the User Reported setting page in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal (security.microsoft.com). Admins can also customize where messages get reported to (custom mailbox, Microsoft, or both) and what the user sees when they report a message from these buttons. 

Information to keep in mind:

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Outlook: View and navigate the organization chart with Org Explorer

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 11, 2022 Microsoft Viva 0 Comments

Org Explorer for Outlook helps you to visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles.

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Microsoft Syntex: Operators on custom number, currency and date columns, and inclusions and exclusions within text-based fields

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 11, 2022 SharePoint Syntex 0 Comments

With this update, you will be able to query , or

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Microsoft Teams: Automatically view up to 49 videos (7×7) in Teams meeting for GCC-High and DoD

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 11, 2022 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams Meetings currently supports a maximum of 9 videos (3×3) on the screen by default (i.e., Gallery view). For seeing more than 9 videos, user needs to manually select the Large Gallery view. With this update, users will be able to automatically see up to 49 videos (7×7) on their screen by default without an explicit action. The actual number of videos seen by a user will depend on hardware/device capabilities.

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Microsoft Forms: Enable image as choice in survey and quiz

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 11, 2022 Microsoft Forms 0 Comments

Now you can add images to create better visualized quizzes or surveys for younger learners and more inclusive to anybody who may need this.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Windows 365 cloud PC advanced deployment guide

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 11, 2022 Windows 365 0 Comments

The Advanced deployment guides page in the Microsoft 365 admin center will have a new guide to help admins plan for, deploy, and scale Windows 365 Enterprise in their organization. This guide will have a checklist of Cloud PC configuration tasks and will include best practices, tools, and recommendations based on the tenant’s configuration.

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Manage Surface Hubs as Teams devices from Teams admin center

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 11, 2022 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

With Microsoft Teams admin center, you’ll now also be able to manage your Surface Hub devices with Microsoft Teams. 

Note: If your organization does not use Surface Hub devices, you can safely disregard this message.

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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.