Viva Pulse Admin Experience: Add a Link to Internal Policies

The Viva Pulse Admin experience will soon have a new admin capability called, ‘Add a link to internal policies’. Currently in the customization set up, survey authors will see a general disclaimer message saying, “Important. Your organization may have policies governing appropriate survey questions for employees. Please ensure you have consulted any such policies before proceeding.” With the new ‘Add a link to internal policies’ feature, you can add a link to your organization’s internal policies in the policy reminder messaging in the Viva Pulse Customization set up.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 22, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Reuse Files in Word to be retired

The Reuse Files feature in Word will no longer be available. Starting August 2023, users will not be able to see Reuse Files on the ribbon in the Word user interface. However, users can use Search in Word to search their files, preview them, and reuse them. By January 2024, the feature will be fully removed from Word and no longer supported.

Microsoft is committed to improving your Microsoft 365 subscription. As a result, we occasionally remove features and benefits that duplicate equivalent offerings that are available to subscribers.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 21, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Tracking and Revocation in Compliance Portal

Users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their sensitivity labeled and encrypted local Office files and revoke access when needed.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 152126

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 18, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Viva Goals: Export OKRs to Powerpoint

Viva Goals is introducing the option to export OKRs to PowerPoint in various templates.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117483

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 17, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Update on Microsoft 365 Defender Vulnerability Management Capabilities for Servers Plan-2

We want to give you a better understanding of the Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management (MDVM) capabilities available to Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) customers, as well as information on some recent changes in behavior, which enables these capabilities only to eligible devices.

Initially, when MDVM premium capabilities were rolled out in Defender for Servers Plan 2, they were enabled across all devices (both clients and servers) for customers with Defender for Servers Plan 2.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 16, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Changes to Customization Controls in Viva Pulse In-App Experience

Currently, there are two customization controls in the Viva Pulse In-App Admin Experience. The ‘Stock Questions’ control allows employees to edit stock questions. The ‘New questions’ control allows employees to create and edit their own questions. We will soon be merging the two controls into one customization control. This one control, when turned ON, will allow employees to edit stock questions and add their own questions in the Pulse survey. All customization capabilities will be turned on when this control is ON, and all customization capabilities will be turned off when this control is OFF.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 16, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Secure Score is Adding New Improvement Actions

We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture. The improvement actions listed below will be added to Microsoft Secure Score. Your score will be updated accordingly.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 10, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Office documents have a new default theme

A new default document theme is coming to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook across your endpoints. The new theme will include the new default font, Aptos, a new color palette, and updated default line weights.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 10, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments