Microsoft Viva Pulse Admin Led Trial is now available in the Microsoft Admin Center. Admin trials offer 25 users in an organization access to Viva Pulse for 30 days. The trial will be live worldwide in mid-March 2024. To activate the trial, the Microsoft 365 Global Admin or the Billing Admin can assign licenses and inform trial users to access Viva Pulse through Microsoft Teams or the web browser. Resources are available on Microsoft Learn.
Microsoft Defender for Identity recommendation ‘Remove the attribute ‘password never expires’ from accounts in your domain’ will be gradually withdrawn from Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions starting mid-March 2024. No action is needed from users to prepare for this rollout.
Microsoft Viva Insights will pause sending Digest emails to users starting April 1, 2024. Users can use the Viva Insights app in Teams and web or the Viva Insights Outlook add-in instead. Users should review and assess the impact on their organization and end-users, and update their documentation as appropriate.
The message announces an update to the Teams PowerShell Module. The LocationPolicy, OptionFlags, and VoicePolicy attributes will be retired from Get-CsOnlineUser and Get-CsUserPolicyAssignment cmdlets. This change will be implemented in March 2024. Administrators will need to use the Teams PowerShell Module cmdlets to get LocationPolicy and VoicePolicy information. Detailed instructions are provided in the message.
The Microsoft Teams admin center search bar will now support resource accounts. The rollout will begin in early March 2024 and will affect a wide range of entities. No action is needed to prepare for this rollout.
We would like to inform you of an upcoming change that affects how a subset of users post and reply to conversations via email. The ability to create a new post or reply to an existing post directly using email will be retired from Viva Engage starting on March 31st, 2024. Interactive emails in Outlook provide the richest way to stay engaged in Viva Engage conversations, polls, questions, and praise, without leaving the Outlook inbox.
Historically, users could create new posts in a Viva Engage community by sending an email to a specific email address for that community. Additionally, users can reply to an existing post via an email sent to that conversation. These flows will stop working. Users must instead utilize one of the options listed below for their scenario.
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