Draft and Scheduled Posts with POBO (Posts on Behalf of) in Viva Engage

Viva Engage introduces Draft and Scheduled Posts features supporting POBO (post on behalf of) to enhance communication. The Draft feature allows users to save and refine posts at their own pace, ensuring polished and impactful messages. With Scheduled Posts, users can plan ahead and automatically publish content at a chosen date and time, enabling coordinated communication for important events or announcements.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer (Preview)

The Content explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This feature is now available in Public Preview and allows admins to use a new cmdlet within the Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117546

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Announcing Microsoft Search Answer Analytics

We are pleased to announce that Microsoft Search Answer Analytics will soon be available in the Microsoft 365 Search & Intelligence Admin Center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124910

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Suppressing Authenticator Notifications from Risky Sources

The proposed approach seeks to streamline the authentication process by suppressing authenticator notifications for requests originating from unfamiliar locations. By intelligently identifying risky sources like unknown IP addresses, the system can effectively differentiate potential malicious attempts from legitimate ones. This suppression of notifications will apply to both Phone-Sign in and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) notifications.

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New Stream (on SharePoint) web part release

This is an important message for customers who publish videos to SharePoint Pages and news posts. As noted in Message Center post MC561187, the Stream (Classic) webpart in SharePoint will be retired on August 15, 2023.

The Stream (on SharePoint) web part will support configuration of a single video and multiple videos for videos stored in OneDrive or SharePoint.

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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.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Syntex Taxonomy Tagger

Microsoft Syntex gives you the ability to automatically tag documents that reside on SharePoint libraries with terms configured in Taxonomy store using AI. These keywords are stored in a managed metadata (a.k.a Taxonomy) column on the item, making the documents easier to search, sort, filter, and manage.

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Local Contacts Search

With a newly added search bar, you may now search your local contact list in Outlook mobile by typing the name of a contact.

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Microsoft Teams: Live Translated Transcript for Teams Premium Users

Teams’ users will be able to experience a live translated transcript during the meeting on the transcript side-pane. Users can choose their spoken language and translated transcript language.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 126321

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Backfill Viva Amplify

Microsoft Viva Amplify will be made available as a new web experience for licensed users of Microsoft Viva Suite and Microsoft Viva Employee Communications and Communities.

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