App User Interface update for Microsoft Whiteboard

This update will visually refresh the Microsoft Whiteboard app user interface for laptops, desktops and tablets while simultaneously making whiteboarding tools upfront and toolbar at the bottom of the screen to improve engagement, discoverability & ease of whiteboarding.

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Create a distinct experience in Viva Connections for different audiences in the Microsoft 365 admin center

A new feature will be available soon for Viva Connections that enables you to create and manage multiple Connections experiences and home sites that are targeted to specific audiences for your organization through the Microsoft 365 admin center. This feature is ideal for subsidiaries and conglomerates that want to provide distinct, audience targeted experiences with relevant and personalized information, resources, and apps to their employees.

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Yammer: Bulk Community Member Import for Viva Engage GA

As a Viva Engage community manager, one of the most important and time-consuming tasks is managing members, especially in large organizations where efficiency matters. If you’re a community manager for an Engage community in a Native Mode network, we are introducing a feature that will allow managers to bulk add multiple members to their community using a CSV file. This will help community managers establish their initial community membership, bring over members from another community, or migrate from another community platform. Community managers can add up to 20,000 members and the upload can take up to 24 hours to process.

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Follow up MC515531: Pronouns on Profile Cards in Microsoft Teams and Outlook Web

This is a follow up to MC515531 (February ’23) as we continue working on rolling this out to all environments.

We’re adding a new feature to the profile card in Microsoft 365. Users in your organization will soon be able to add pronouns directly to their profile card in Outlook on the web and Teams. Pronouns are the words we use to replace someone’s name in a sentence, such as “he,” “she,” or “they” in English.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New and updated Sensitive Information Types (SITs)

In our continued efforts to improve the coverage and accuracy of out-of-the-box sensitive information types (SITs), we have added 7 new SITs and updated the definition of 2 existing SITs. 

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Teams: A new default home screen and an enhanced custom background feature for Teams Rooms on Windows

The latest version of Teams Rooms on Windows app 4.17 update includes new and improved home screen features, including:  

  • New default home screen experience with modern UI update 
  • Enhanced custom background feature for Teams Rooms Pro users. 

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Microsoft To Do: Apple Watch app for To Do iOS

Microsoft To Do users will soon be able to add tasks and view their To Do lists from the Apple Watch app.

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Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Stageview

Users can now open app content in a separate Teams window that’s been built for collaboration.

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Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance empowers end users to report inappropriate messages in Microsoft Teams

Coming soon, the ability for Microsoft Teams users to report concerning messages within Teams will be turned on by default for your organization. Concerning messages could include ones that contain potential regulatory policy violations or security-related concerns, such as improper sharing of sensitive business information, messages containing harassing or threatening language, or adult content.

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New features in the new EAC

There are a few new features/updates in Exchange Admin Center that we are announcing:

The Dynamic Distribution Groups (DDGs) Report is now available in the new EAC. This report is designed to bring insight into your organization’s DDGs usage to help better manage your DDGs. You can query the usage for used/unused or all DDGs for a selected timeframe up to 90 days.

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