Microsoft 356 Admin Center: Viva admin center in MAC

The Viva collections experience, within the setup tab in Microsoft admin center, now has a brand-new look, with new functionality where Admins can configure licenses, roles, and individual module pages.

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New simplified flow for Graph connectors for Microsoft Search

Microsoft Graph connectors have introduced a simplified setup process to configure the Enterprise Websites connector. Admins can now try out Graph connectors much more easily using this simplified flow. Some improvements made to the setup process include –

  • Single step process to set up connector for Microsoft Search
  • Automatic creation of search vertical
  • Availability of sample dataset for trial (as pre-filled website URL)
  • Easily switch to advanced connector features if needed
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Quiet Time Settings in Viva, Teams, and Outlook

To help create better boundaries and protect personal time, Viva Insights will offer the ability to configure quiet time to silence notifications from Outlook and Teams mobile applications, outside of working hours. Users will receive personalized insights through the Viva Insights app in Teams and will be able to set quiet time directly from Teams mobile and Outlook mobile applications.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 85627

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Updates coming to Daily Briefing Emails

The Briefing email from Microsoft Viva helps users start their day on track by surfacing information to prepare for upcoming meetings, follow up on outstanding tasks as well as protect time for independent work. A few updates are coming to the daily briefing email to provide users with ways to fine-tune their email.

Favorite & Snooze

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Improvements to SharePoint pages authoring – New and updated web parts

These updates include our new Assignments web part for Education customers and changes to other web parts like Group calendar, Quick links, and Highlighted content. We’re also introducing a new SharePoint site theme.

Note: Most of these changes are being released as part of Teams Class Home page release. 

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Incident & Alert determination – retirement of old values

We recently changed the Incident and alert classification experience, including an updated classification and determination values list, previously supported values “Apt” and “SecurityPersonnel” will soon be retired.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Teams: View attendance report on Microsoft Teams for Android and iOS

You can now configure the availability of attendance report on Teams Mobile for users in your tenant, who can check attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and also the registration information before webinars on Microsoft Teams for Android and iOS as they can do on desktop today.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 97466

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Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): eDiscovery guest reviewer

This feature enables secure and convenient external guest reviewer access to eDiscovery (Premium) review sets within a case. This feature empowers eDiscovery (Premium) admins and managers to follow more traditional collaboration practices that will boost confidence and workflow defensibility by allowing outside counsel to cooperate more directly without increasing cost or risk.

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Microsoft Viva: App type support in the Store for Viva Connections

Improved filters and badges in the SharePoint Store to support Viva Connections ACEs. Users can easily identify and find adaptive cards that work in Viva Connections Dashboard.

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Microsoft Viva: Briefing Email Favorite and Snooze Preferences

Personalize your daily briefing emails via ‘favorite’ and ‘snooze.’ Favorited contents will be prioritized, and Snoozed contents will be deprioritized in your future briefing emails.

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