Viva Topics Cards in Viva Connection

Microsoft Viva is rolling out Topics action cards in Viva Connections to encourage knowledge discoverability, engagement, and sharing. Users will be able to engage with topics with the Adaptive Topics Cards. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100253

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OneDrive Android: Extract PDF Pages

Users of OneDrive for Android can now split PDFs and have PDFs saved back to OneDrive.

When this will happen:

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Access the Office add-ins from the Home tab and File Menu

The Office extensibility “get add-in” button will be moved from the Insert tab to the Home Tab. We also aligned the extensibility experience across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams with a consistent logo and a flyout where users can easily find their installed add-ins while browsing the recommended add-ins at the same time. 

Microsoft has a comprehensive extensibility ecosystem. You can gain access to a large number of our 1st-party add-ins and 3rd-party add-ins provided by our professional partners to enhance the capabilities of your Office suite. Today, we have over 2000 add-ins from various service providers to meet your specific needs, ranging from translation, bibliography, templates, graphing tools, multi-media contents, interactive components, and even professional finance and legal tools. 

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Viva Topics: Update to the experience for collecting feedback on AI quality and correctness through the Topic Card

You will soon see an updated experience on the Topic Card to better request feedback from users on the quality of a suggested highlight on SharePoint modern pages, and the quality of a suggested topics and its suggested properties. The questions have not changed, but the experience is more noticeable and has a new option to respond with “Not sure”. You can learn more about Topic curation and feedback here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/topics/topic-experiences-discovery-curation#topic-curation-and-feedback

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98113

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Power Platform admin center – Planned maintenance impacting support case creation

We have maintenance planned for the Power Platform admin center.

Maintenance window start: 3 December 2022, 16:00 UTC

Maintenance window end: 4 December 2022, 00:00 UTC

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Microsoft Edge: TLS server certificate verification changes

In Microsoft Edge version 110, the certificate trust list and the certificate verifier will be decoupled from the host operating system’s root store.  Instead the default certificate trust list and the certificate verifier will be provided by and shipped with the browser. 

The MicrosoftRootStoreEnabled policy is available for testing to control when the built-in root store and certificate verifier are used until the planned policy deprecation. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-security-cert-verification

More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-security-cert-verification

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Microsoft Teams: Support for Tabs for anonymous users in meetings

Developers now have the ability to show tab experiences for anonymous users in Teams meetings.

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Microsoft Teams: Support for Co-organizer to manage Breakout Rooms

Co-organizers can create, manage and move between Breakout Rooms like meeting Organizers.

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting Toolbar Usability Improvements

The updated Microsoft Teams meeting toolbar makes navigating meetings and discovering new features and capabilities easier than ever, including the ability to seamlessly switch between views and menu options.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: New ways to find advanced deployment guides

The Advanced deployment guides & assistance page in the Microsoft 365 admin center and the setup.microsoft.com website are both getting new looks and additional features. We’re updating the search tools, recommendations, and layout of both locations so it’ll be easier to find guides for the product you’re deploying. Included in the new layout are views that highlight guides for Secure Score, Compliance Score, and Adoption Score improvement. You’ll also see new guides on setup.microsoft.com that are currently available only within the Microsoft 365 admin center.

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