We are releasing the capability for users to easily start a group Teams call with federated colleagues outside of the organization, including video and screensharing, all over an internet connection without any PSTN usage charges.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 103042
This feature will allow users to organize their video and audio files into a playlist for easy organization, sharing and playback.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109564
Shared device mode is a feature of Azure Active Directory that allows you to use applications that support frontline workers and enable shared device mode on the devices deployed to them
Your frontline workers can preview Outlook on their shared Android devices until full rollout begins. Enabling frontline worker workflows includes challenges not usually presented by typical information workers. Such challenges can include high turnover rate and less familiarity with an organization’s core productivity tools. To empower their frontline workers, organizations are adopting different strategies. Some are adopting a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategy in which their employees use business apps on their personal phone, while others provide their employees with shared devices like iPads or Android tablets.
We are excited to announce that Customer Lockbox for Power Platform and Dynamics 365 is now generally available (GA) in public clouds. Customer Lockbox provides a set of capabilities to help you govern Microsoft access to your data.
When will this happen?
The progressive rollout of the GA enhancements started this week and will be complete by January 20, 2023. Depending on the home region of your tenant, you can use the newly announced capabilities starting right away!
The biweekly digest email will carry premium organizational insights for qualifying managers. Initially, these insights will include three rotating areas of focus: after-hour collaboration, meeting culture, and manager 1:1 time. Eventually, this pipeline of insights will grow.
Users can navigate directly to the Viva Insights app in Teams for a more detailed view.
We are adding new APIs within Microsoft Admin Center to support Microsoft Teams Groups and Teams Activity Counts.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109548
We are introducing a new Forms Graph API set to help you track Forms activity user, activity, and user detail metric in Usage Reports. Admins can use the API to get Forms related detailed user usage metrics, such as how many designers and how many respondents over a time period.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109557
Viva Goals supports integrations with Microsoft and third-party apps and platforms so that the OKR implementation process is as simple, effective, and seamless as possible. Effective immediately, global administrators can manage which integrations are available to Viva Goals organizations in your tenant. Additionally, Microsoft Planner and Excel integrations with Viva Goals will be available by default.
When this will happen
While creating a calendar view, users can now choose between month layout or the new week layout to visualize their list information in a way that works best for them. There is a provision to create multiple calendar views – using both month and week layouts. Week Layout also supports all features from the month layout including the drag and drop operations to reschedule items and conditional formatting to color code items on the canvas.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100504
Customers in fields like finance, healthcare, and law have been asking for a more granular control of what Teams Mobile shows and hides in a notification preview. In response, we are introducing an optional way for admins to control how much detail a user sees in a lock screen notification.
Note: This feature is only available to customers with Intune. If you organization does not use Intune you can safely disregard.
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