New home experience for Viva Connections desktop

A new desktop experience is being released for Viva Connections that’s easier and faster to set up and optimizes content to deliver a modern employee experience. The new Viva Connections desktop design serves as a new home experience option that centers essential job tasks, personalized content, easy access to other Viva experiences, and better aligns with the mobile experience.

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Focus Mode in Viva Insights Teams App

The focus time experience in Microsoft Teams is being enhanced for users with Viva Insights subscriptions. Users that have booked time through focus plan will receive a notification as their focus time nears. Upon clicking the notification, the user will enter a new focus mode experience. Focus mode will allow users to set a timer to balance short bursts of productivity with breaks, manage their task list, and tap into mindfulness exercises during their breaks. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100977

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The Office app is becoming the Microsoft 365 app

On October 12, 2022 at Microsoft Ignite we announced that the Office app for web (office.com), Windows, iOS, and Android will be rebranded to become the Microsoft 365 app. In the coming months, these apps will automatically update to the Microsoft 365 app, which will include a new icon, styling, and features. 

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Exchange: Message Recall Option to Disable the Recalling of Read Messages

Updated October 14, 2022: We have updated the content below to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.

We are releasing a new Message Recall for Exchange Online feature that will recall messages that are flagged as “read” – the classic Message Recall in Outlook doesn’t recall read messages. Before we release the new feature, we want to let you know that tenant admins now have the option to disable the recalling of read messages for your organization.

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Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Support for complex conditions (GA)

Currently available in public preview for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (MC420054), we’re introducing support for complex conditions as part of a new DLP rule authoring experience. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93274.

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Announcing Managed Environments for Microsoft Power Platform

We are excited to announce that Managed Environments for Power Platform is now available in public clouds. Managed Environments offer a set of enhanced governance capabilities that will simplify, automate, and streamline IT administration of the Power Platform at scale.

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Announcing Payments in Microsoft Teams

The Payments app in the Microsoft Teams app store will help you to get paid by customers for appointments, classes, or events hosted on Teams. The Payments app is free to use with your Teams or M365 subscription as a tool for small businesses – or businesses of any size – looking to grow their revenue. At launch, the app will only be supported for businesses registered in the United States and Canada.

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Teams admin center: View users and groups assigned to a policy

The Microsoft Teams admin center provides an ability to admins to view the list of users and groups that are assigned to a policy. This capability will help admins to better manage policies and get an understanding of which policies are in use and are assigned to whom all.

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Outlook: Reactions to Email Messages

With reactions in Outlook, you can now react to an email message sent from someone in the same tenant without having to send a reply email. Show your appreciation and empathy with one click or tap. 

Users will see a reactions icon (a face) in a message for any messages sent from someone inside the same tenant. They can hover over or tap it to see all of the possible reactions to select from. 

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Microsoft Teams: Browser Screen Pop for Incoming PSTN Calls

An automatic browser screen will now launch for users when an incoming PSTN call is accepted in Microsoft Teams. The browser screen will display relevant information to the user (CRM data, case data, etc.).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98054

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