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Monday, March 18, 2024

Remote Event Receivers retirement update

As part of this change of Microsoft 365 solutions, we announced on November 27, 2023 that both the SharePoint Add-In extensibility model and the use of Azure ACS for SharePoint Online authentication needs are retired as we believe Microsoft 365 customers will benefit more from modern SharePoint extensibility models and modern authentication offered by Microsoft Entra ID. The retirement of SharePoint Remote Event Receivers is part of these announcements, but we want to address the feedback we've received from our partner ecosystem and offer a better transition path from Remote Event Receivers. If you are deploying a Remote Event Receiver as part of a SharePoint Add-In or if you're using Remote Event Receivers registered using Azure ACS as the authentication system, then these Remote Event Receivers will follow the same retirement timeline as the one communicated for SharePoint Add-Ins and Azure ACS use for SharePoint Online. If you are registering your Remote Event Receivers using an Entra application that uses the sites. Selected role for getting granular access to one or more site collections, then those Remote Event Receivers will continue working until July 1st, 2027. To learn more about this approach you can read the Use remote event receivers without Azure ACS dependency article. Today Remote Event Receivers support a synchronous and asynchronous model, whereas web hooks are designed to be asynchronous. We are not planning to support synchronous web hooks, we recommend partners to redesign business flows that depend on synchronous operations. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4cnZxkv Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Friday, March 15, 2024

Upcoming preview of Microsoft Office LTSC 2024

Today we are pleased to announce that the commercial preview of the next Office LTSC release - Office LTSC 2024 - will begin next month, with general availability to follow later this year. Like earlier perpetual versions of Office, Office LTSC 2024 will include only a subset of the value found in Microsoft 365 Apps, building on the features included in past releases. Office LTSC 2024 will not ship with Microsoft Publisher, which is being retired, or with the Microsoft Teams app, which is available to download separately. While Office LTSC 2024 offers many significant improvements over the previous Office LTSC release, as an on-premises product it will not offer the cloud-based capabilities of Microsoft 365 Apps, like real-time collaboration; AI-driven automation in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; or cloud-backed security and compliance capabilities that give added confidence in a hybrid world. Because we know that many customers deploy Office LTSC on only a subset of their devices, we will continue to support the deployment of both Office LTSC and Microsoft 365 Apps to different machines within the same organization using a common set of deployment tools. Office LTSC is a specialty product that Microsoft has committed to maintaining for use in exceptional circumstances, and the 2024 release provides substantial new feature value for those scenarios. To support continued innovation in this niche space, Microsoft will increase the price of Office LTSC Professional Plus, Office LTSC Standard, Office LTSC Embedded, and the individual apps by up to 10% at the time of general availability. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3v4vRs7 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Invest in Tech: Supercharge your frontline with AI

There is a golden opportunity for business leaders to invest in technology that will power their frontline workforce to improve worker productivity, business process efficiency, and employee retention. A key part of the opportunity to uplevel your frontline workers is by transforming the way they work with next generation AI. An image providing statistics about how next-generation AI is transforming productivity across most workforces. Now AI is helping your frontline workers get answers quickly, spend less time on operations, and improve customer interactions. An image demonstrating examples of copilot prompts retail frontline workers input on the Microsoft Teams mobile app. Data from our Work Trend Index shows that over 60% of frontline workers struggle with repetitive and tedious tasks that take time away from valuable work like providing quality customer service and efficiently fulfilling meaningful components of their work. For frontline workers who work in the Microsoft 365 apps millions of people use every day like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more, you can enable them with an AI assistant at work. This AI addition will enhance frontline worker and manager productivity by combining powerful large language models with their work content and context to help them deliver at a higher level. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4cdsOhQ Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Upcoming March 2024 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

‎Mar 13 2024 05:43 PM. Join our next community call on March 26 to learn more about Microsoft Copilot for Sales. We will be starting the call at 5 minutes past the hour for both of our sessions, and it will still end at the top of the hour. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3v2jmgG Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Behind the Scenes: Talking AI and Copilot with Microsoft Customer Support Engineers

The Microsoft 365 Commercial Support team resolves customer support cases and provides support to help you be successful and realize the full potential and value of your purchase. We're excited to welcome two members from our Microsoft 365 and Windows Commercial Support Engineering team to talk about their journeys with AI and experience assisting commercial customers using Copilot for Microsoft 365. Our Microsoft 365 support teams have been using and getting ready for Copilot for many months and have been helping customers of all types and sizes get the assistance they need so they can stay productive. Today, it's my pleasure to welcome two accomplished individuals from our Microsoft 365 Support Engineering team to talk about their own journeys with AI, their experience and insights from supporting commercial customers using Copilot for Microsoft 365, and some of their best practices for implementing AI into support operations. Nelson: Thank you, Ross, great to be here! I'm a Partner Technical Advisor working in our Latin America region helping Microsoft 365 support teams deliver world-class support to enterprise customers. Ross: We'd love to hear about a specific project or experience where you've used AI in your job and where other support engineers could benefit. The CSS Modern Work Supportability team delivers innovative self-help solutions and diagnostics, in-service enhancements, and support programs to help customers get maximum value from their Microsoft 365 commercial subscriptions and create an easy-to-use, connected support experience. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3Tzze3w Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Sync Up Episode 09: Creating a New Future with OneDrive

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What's New for SharePoint Server

Today we're delighted to share the latest steps in our evergreen journey for SharePoint Server with the release of the Version 24H1 feature update for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. The initial RTM release of SharePoint Server Subscription Edition introduced several new features that were designed to improve the security and manageability of SharePoint Server. Starting with the SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Version 24H1 feature update, the OpenID Connect nonce cookie certificate is now integrated into the SharePoint certificate management experience. A new SharePoint Health Analyzer health rule has also been added to notify administrators if the nonce cookie certificate isn't being managed through SharePoint certificate management. Starting with the SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Version 24H1 feature update, an optional survey will appear to SharePoint farm administrators from time to time when they visit the SharePoint Central Administration site. The end of support for SharePoint Server 2016 and SharePoint Server 2019 is just over 2 years away. Upgrade to SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, which is the latest version of SharePoint Server. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3Piot2Y Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Monday, March 11, 2024

Microsoft 365 Community Conference event guide Opening Keynote, AMA, sessions, and more

The Microsoft 365 Community Conference returns to Orlando, FL, April 30 - May 2, 2024 - with two pre-event and one post-event workshop days. It's a wonderful event dedicated to Copilot and AI, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Viva, Power Platform, and related Microsoft 365 apps and services. You'll hear the latest product updates and guidance from over 175 Microsoft product makers - filled with real-world solutions across keynotes, sessions, and pre/post event deep-dive workshops to build your expertise - presented alongside Microsoft MVPs and community experts. We hope you join in to learn, share, and engage -including evening gatherings, the attendee party, and Microsoft will have a dedicated, fully-staffed product booth and community space within the Expo Hall alongside all the wonderful event sponsors. Microsoft keynote, general sessions, and AMA. Hear from Microsoft leadership revealing the latest innovations shaping the flexible, innovative, and secure business environments of the future. Here's a quick rundown of sessions to learn more about Microsoft Viva, the employee experience platform built for the AI era. All Microsoft 365 Conference workshops either take place pre-event on Sunday or Monday or post-event on Friday. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4c7Qbtb Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

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