This month we have introduced several capabilities for leaders, corporate communicators, and employees to improve your campaigns, events, and engagement across the platform. This includes:
Viva Pulse is a new employee feedback experience that is available for use with your Viva Suite subscription. Viva Pulse empowers managers and project team leaders to request and receive feedback from their teams at any time. Managers and project leads can choose from research-based templates to quickly create a survey and send it to select inpiduals or groups. They can also track feedback to understand team sentiment over time and show teams they’re being heard by working together to take clear steps to address needs. Viva Pulse General Availability will be on July 20th, 2023.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 117393
Voice calls have proved to be the least secure authentication method; there are far better ways of performing multifactor authentication (MFA), including Microsoft Authenticator (which offers both MFA and Passwordless options), or more secure phishing-resistant methods like Windows Hello for Business and FIDO2 security keys. Although we have encouraged everyone to move away from traditional MFA methods (such as SMS and voice), we understand that some of you are dependent on these methods in order to use MFA. To address this need, we are making an improved version of our voice call method available – introducing “voice one-time password (OTP)”. This method will be combined with the SMS authentication method and as such have two delivery methods (SMS and voice OTP) to allow for delivery method optimization.
When this will happen:
Organizations which have enabled Microsoft Teams EHR Connector can view the usage information of EHR scheduled appointments through EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report. Tenant with EHR connector enabled users who are not designated as admins, now have access to the EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report through the Virtual Appointments App in Microsoft Teams.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 138229
We are rolling out an enhancement to the current Collaborative Annotations experience whereby screen sharers can click through the annotations layer and interact with underlying content without stopping the existing annotation session. After a sharer initiates annotations from their presenter toolbar, sharers will be able to interact with their background to edit their content by default.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 127900.
Users can now easily call their speed dial contacts and get back to their recent calls on Apple CarPlay with Teams after connecting iPhone to vehicles that support Apple CarPlay.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 125556
We are rolling out the expanded view of the topic card for Viva Topics tenants that brings more information on the topic to users. Users can click on the topic name to view the expanded view of the card and learn more about the topic.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118590
This is a follow up of Message Center post MC567478.
Starting July 10th ability for Microsoft Teams users to report messages within Teams as security risk will be turned on by default. Security risk messages could include ones that contain phishing or spam or malicious content, such as phishing URL or malware file, spam content. To learn how end users can report, see User reported message settings in Microsoft Teams.
Compact chat list is a feature addition that is coming to compact mode. Users in compact mode will now have hidden message previews in their chat list. This new design will enable users to keep messages more private, view more chats in their chat list and navigate the chat list more easily. This feature addition to the existing compact mode will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Desktop and Web and will provide a condensed view of the chat list for compact mode users.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 126428
Currently available in preview, we’re rolling out a new action for Data Loss Prevention in Exchange Online called “Deliver the message to the hosted quarantine”.
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