SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: December 2022

Below and in the related podcast, you'll find details about all the new offerings: Microsoft Syntex Pay-as-you-go, search video transcript for Stream, SharePoint Apps: Add to teams when enabling an app, OneDrive: Sensitivity labels appear on the sharing dialog, OneDrive sync reports, SharePoint sites search in usage analytics, Microsoft Teams Premium, Microsoft Whiteboard mobile apps, and more. All features listed below began rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of December 2022. As a SharePoint Administrator or Global Administrator in Microsoft 365, you can acquire solutions from the SharePoint Store or distribute custom apps that can be used across SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Viva Connections. From within your tenant's App Center, add SharePoint Framework solution apps more directly to Microsoft Teams. Teamwork updates across SharePoint team sites, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. SharePoint is the intelligent content service that powers teamwork - to better collaborate on proposals, projects, and campaigns throughout your organization - with integration across Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Yammer, Stream, Planner and much more. We are pleased to announce that SharePoint sites are now included within Usage Analytics in the Microsoft 365 Search & Intelligence Admin Center. Read more at https://bit.ly/3VB9h1g Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Notes from the ESPC22 Microsoft keynotes The Intrazone podcast

Catch up on the knowledge and insights from Microsoft leaders spanning Microsoft 365, Teams and Mesh, the development landscape, and the value of being a good mentor - as shared at the European SharePoint Conference 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark and few weeks ago. Sink your ears into highlight clips from each of the four Microsoft keynotes. You'll hear from Jeff Teper covering the approach Microsoft takes in making Microsoft 365 the best productivity offering, from Karuana Gatimu sharing insights about the metaverse in Teams, Scott Hanselman about how many keystrokes you have left, Vesa Juvonen on the continuum of opportunity for developers - no-to-low-to-pro code. Last, a fun selection of questions and answers from the Microsoft AMA. Tons of insights on Microsoft technology for all roles, plus an audible glimpse of the value of content and community. Collage of photos take from each Microsoft keynote + AMA, starting top left and going clockwise: 1) Karuana Gatimu speaks about the metaverse, 2) Jeff Teper, Cathy Dew, Chris McNulty, and Adam Harmetz sharing highlights and value of Microsoft 365, 3) the full Microsoft AMA panel, 4) Scott Hanselman on the importance of sponsorship, and 5) the developer keynote crew: Emily Mancini, Luise Frees, Derek Cash-Peterson, Vesa Juvonen, and Laura Kokkarinen. Stay connected to the SharePoint community blog where we'll share more information per episode, guest insights, and take any questions from our listeners and SharePoint users. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. Read more at https://bit.ly/3hLyDvp Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Simplify deployment of Microsoft 365 with new and updated guides

To help minimize time to deployment and free you up to do more, the Advanced deployment guides & assistance page in the Microsoft 365 admin center along with setup. On the other hand, the Microsoft 365 admin center curates relevant guides specific to your tenant, offering you the most actionable information to help you get your Microsoft 365 apps and services deployed to your organization. Today we are announcing a series of improvements to the deployment guides to help you simplify deployment of Microsoft 365. To help you easily find guides for the services you're deploying, we've updated the search tools, recommendations, and layouts for the Advanced deployment guides & assistance page in the Microsoft 365 admin center and at setup. Microsoft.com is the home for advanced deployment guides outside the Microsoft 365 admin center. New advanced deployment guides available in both Microsoft 365 admin center and setup. We hope you will find these recent enhancements to make for a more user-friendly and navigable environment as you explore and use the Microsoft 365 advanced deployment guides. Read more at https://bit.ly/3FY8Iu1 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Creation and visual collaboration tool in your pocket

As Microsoft Whiteboard continues to evolve, we remain focused on engineering the best experience for our users - delivering an app where collaboration meets creativity in a unified and accessible way. The Whiteboard mobile apps extend vital meeting and collaboration features to iOS and Android devices allowing you to participate in a session while on the go. Start a fresh whiteboard, pick up where you left off and stay connected to your team during collaboration and brainstorming sessions. An animated image depicting panning across a whiteboard from the Whiteboard mobile app, and adding reactions on top of sticky notes. An animated image of an illustration being drawn on a whiteboard and syncing in real time for different users collaborating on a whiteboard from mobile and tablet devices. An animated image demonstrating inserting images through the Create panel from your gallery or device camera on the Whiteboard mobile app. We have reimagined Microsoft Whiteboard, a visual collaboration workspace in Microsoft 365, to do just that. Read more at https://bit.ly/3Y6cJUc Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Using AI and machine learning to deliver the help you need

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. My job is to review trends within our support volume and determine ways with the help of our engineering team to improve experiences or utilizing our self-help platform to provide customers with the information they need to resolve their issue. The magic is powered by an intelligent self-help platform built on Azure that provides relevant and contextual self-help to you using machine learning and service telemetry. The key to all of this is taking historical support ticket data and query input from customers, clustering it, and then using it to train the machine learning models. Within the Microsoft 365 commercial commerce space, we have over 100 buckets that utilize machine learning models. Brian: Amazing, and a great example of how these digital capabilities help customers to quickly get the help they need so they can get back to being productive. 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/3VLlTUe Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Improving interoperability between the Visio web and desktop apps

We've been working diligently to address user feedback about desktop files not opening in the Visio web editor. Today, we're excited to announce that we've made a number of improvements towards a more seamless user experience between the Visio web and desktop apps. An image of a component architecture diagram demonstrating how shapes with gradients appear in Visio for the web. During this session, we show you how to create Visio files that can be accessed by all stakeholders regardless of which Visio version you use. We also discuss how to avoid or quickly address any web alerts that prevent in-browser edits, so you can jump right back into your workflow. We look forward to hearing your feedback and learning more about how we can ensure a more seamless user experience between Visio apps. Check out what features are in development and coming soon on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap homepage or learn more about roadmap item, Improved interoperability between the Visio web and desktop apps. Read more at https://bit.ly/3un1MQd Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: November 2022

Below and in the related podcast, you'll find details about a load of great new offerings: Briefing email enhancements, a new praise compose experience, a new Viva admin experience, SharePoint tenant URL rename, three new SharePoint site templates, updated management for site information, sign language via in Microsoft Teams, Editor using Context IQ in Word, and more. All features listed below began rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of November 2022. Teamwork updates across SharePoint team sites, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. SharePoint is the intelligent content service that powers teamwork - to better collaborate on proposals, projects, and campaigns throughout your organization - with integration across Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Yammer, Stream, Planner and much more. SharePoint admin center: Streamlining management of site information across Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups. SharePoint is updating the site detail panel to include Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups information. Streamline how you manage site information across Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups when working in the SharePoint admin center. Read more at https://bit.ly/3VnMGWI Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Setup of Microsoft 365 Search Connector for Atlassian Confluence Data Center

Many companies use Confluence and as a result there is a lot of information in the wiki pages that you would certainly also like to find via the Microsoft 365 search. Connecting the Search Connector to the Confluence cloud offering is not as difficult as with an on-prem installation. How is it done I will explain here.

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Add to Microsoft OneDrive The Intrazone podcast

Certain Yoda uses OneDrive to store the ancient Jedi texts. On this episode, we hear from Gaia Carini and Katy Erlandson from the OneDrive engineering team. Intrazone guests and hosts during recording via Teams - clockwise from left: Katy Erlandson [guest], Mark Kashman [co-host], and Gaia Carini [guest]. Be sure to visit our show page to hear all the episodes, access the show notes, and get bonus content. Stay connected to the SharePoint community blog where we'll share more information per episode, guest insights, and take any questions from our listeners and SharePoint users. We, too, welcome your ideas for future episodes topics and segments. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. Read more at https://bit.ly/3tPqJn9 Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Most used SharePoint Framework solutions from the Store

We are excited to see the continuous growth on the submissions of the SharePoint Framework solutions to the app source and on the usage of the SharePoint store for extending experiences for SharePoint and Microsoft Viva. Ichicraft Widgets allows users to personalize their digital workplace in SharePoint or Microsoft Teams. Show Stock information on your SharePoint Homepage with a couple of clicks. Navigator 365 for Teams & SharePoint displays aggregated content with rich search, grouping, filtering, and layout capabilities. SharePoint Employee Directory Plus is free, fully featured 30 days trial for one office 365 tenant upto 999 users. Cerkl Broadcast for SharePoint provides unique notifications to employees through your existing SharePoint. Please see following resources around getting started on building extensibility for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint using SharePoint Framework. Read more at https://bit.ly/3EPY8EC Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Upcoming November 2022 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

Happy November, Champions! Join us for our last community call of 2022 on November 22, at either 8:00 AM or 5:00 PM PT. We will be diving into Viva Goals, learning about the benefits and top features, understanding OKRs 101, and demonstrating the in-product experience. As a reminder, we do take a break in December to rest and spend time with friends and family, so there will be no community call next month. Read more at https://bit.ly/3hIKtpR Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

What's new for Microsoft Whiteboard

An image of a user embedding a YouTube video and website link onto the whiteboard from the create panel in Whiteboard. Whiteboard is a new Microsoft Loop endpoint, enabling you to copy and paste Loop components into Whiteboard from Teams chat and soon from Outlook mail and Word for the web. Loop components in Whiteboard help your team continue adding information to lists, tables and more while they brainstorm in Whiteboard. The collaboration doesn't have to end after a synchronous meeting! The whiteboard you and your participants collaborated on can be accessed in the Teams chat under the Whiteboard tab. With the ease of Whiteboard integration in Teams, you and your participants can continue collaborating on the same whiteboard asynchronously. To learn more, visit the Whiteboard product page or the Whiteboard support site. Check out what features are in development or coming soon on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, or view Microsoft Whiteboard roadmap items here. Read more at https://bit.ly/3txPiF6 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Transfer Files will be retired from Office Mobile

The Transfer Files feature is being retired, but transferring files is becoming easier in Office Mobile. As we evolve to offer the best of Microsoft 365 on mobile, we are constantly look at new ways to bring value to our users while assuring you remain productive across your devices. To keep the Office app in tune with the needs of our users, the Transfer Files feature is being replaced by OneDrive, which is seamlessly integrated with the Office app. You will be able use the Transfer Files as a legacy feature on Android and iOS in parallel with OneDrive until December 31, 2022. Rest assured that files that have been sent and received using the Transfer Files feature will remain in the Office app and will be unaffected by this change. Read more at https://bit.ly/3E6ZhWP Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Share Nearby will be retired from Office Mobile

As we learn more about how users are sharing their documents, we strive to create functionality to meet user needs in the Office app and to work in tandem with iOS and Android to leverage simple sharing across a variety of apps. We have found that the Share Nearby feature to meet some but not all needs. We will be retiring the Share Nearby feature from the Office app as we evolve to offer the best of Microsoft 365 on mobile. This change will affect users of the Office app on Android and will be effective as of December 31, 2022. We made this decision as we continue to reassess the value our users derive from the Office app, and we aim to offer experiences that are consistent, reliable and allow our users to be productive across their devices. You will still be able to send and receive files using this feature until December 31, 2022. The feature will be removed from the Office app. Read more at https://bit.ly/3hIeXYY Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Making it easier to apply and manage security settings for your users in Microsoft 365

We're excited to welcome one of our Microsoft 365 Supportability team members to talk more about how to manage security settings for users. John: I'd like to share a little background first as part of an ongoing effort to reduce compromised accounts, Microsoft has implemented security policies that ensure our customers are secure by default. The rollout of the Security Defaults policy for newly created Microsoft 365 tenants on all license levels began in 2019 and finished in 2020. Prior to this, and with the rollout of Security Defaults in 2019-2020, our admins had to go to the Azure Portal to manage Security Defaults, some didn't know where to find it initially or weren't expecting MFA-it led to a lot of support calls. With this, admins can manage MFA, Conditional Access policies and security defaults from within Microsoft 365. This setting will apply the Security Defaults policy to your tenant for all users. We believe it's a quick and easy way to secure your tenant using ready-to-apply security settings, such as the Security Defaults or Conditional Access policies depending on your license. Read more at https://bit.ly/3thMBHI Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Server security made simple for small businesses

Server security in Defender for Business is now generally available as an add-on license to Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Defender for Business subscriptions, for customers who have up to 60 server instances within their environment. The Microsoft Defender for Business server add-on brings Windows Server and Linux operating system support to Defender for Business for $3 per server instance per month. Server security is now available within Microsoft Defender for Business with a new add-on license. We launched a preview of server security in Defender for Business on July 13th 2022. Purchase Defender for Business server add-on for $3 per server instance per month to continue securing servers. You can manage Windows Server and Windows client devices with the same wizard-driven onboarding, antivirus, and firewall settings directly from the Microsoft 365 Defender security admin portal. Simplified security admin experiences are available when using Windows Server 2012R2 and later. Read more at https://bit.ly/3WEFg2t Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Microsoft SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop October 2022

October 2022 brought some great new, welcome offerings: Viva Engage GA, Viva Insights: Focus mode in Teams, Stream GA, Excel Live in Teams, OneDrive: Folder backup for macOS, conditional access improvement for Lists for Android, Office app becoming Microsoft 365 app, and more. All features listed below crept out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of October 2022. For playback: You can now watch videos in your favorite work apps, including Microsoft Teams, Yammer, Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and office.com. We are happy to share that Microsoft Lists will now also support the Conditional Access grant control, like other Microsoft 365 apps, such as SharePoint. Microsoft Loop: Create new Loop components in Outlook for Windows, Word for the web, and Microsoft Whiteboard, plus new component types - Polls and Q&A; - go to loop. At Ignite, on October 12, 2022, at Microsoft Ignite we announced that the Office app for web, Windows, iOS, and Android will be rebranded to become the Microsoft 365 app. Apps module - a new apps module connects users to Microsoft 365 apps beyond Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, including third-party apps that have integrated with Microsoft 365. Read more at https://bit.ly/3UnMBRN Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Making it easier to get to the OneNote app on Windows

Now we are making it easier to get the OneNote app on Windows, plus new, faster ways to launch it with the Windows 11 2022 Update. Today we're making it easier to get the right OneNote app on any Windows device by making it available in the Microsoft Store. As we previously announced, we're evolving the OneNote app on Windows, and consolidating the OneNote app on Windows and OneNote for Windows 10 into a single app moving forward. We're simply making it easier to get the OneNote app on any Windows device by making it available for download from the Microsoft Store. OneNote for Windows 10 is going out of support in October 2025, so consider switching to the OneNote app on Windows to continue receiving new feature updates. Installing the OneNote app will not uninstall or change anything on OneNote for Windows 10, nor will it replace OneNote for Windows 10. If you don't want to keep both apps, then you can manually uninstall OneNote for Windows 10 after you verify all your notebooks show up in the OneNote app. Read more at https://bit.ly/3gNb44M Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

A day in the life: Everyday diagramming with Visio

She's an avid user of Visio with a Visio Plan 2 subscription and often creates diagrams to help explain her thoughts and ideas clearly. She also uses the Grid and Snap to Grid features, available in Visio Plan 1 and Visio Plan 2, to easily position and align the shapes on the canvas. Once the diagram is completed, Maya opens it in the Visio desktop app, where she's able to validate the workflow against the BPMN rule set and check for any issues. An image demonstrating available BPMN Basic Shapes in the Shapes pane and an example diagram created in Visio. Minutes before the meeting, Maya creates a new Visio drawing directly from the Files tab in Teams. Maya opens the Visio file directly in Teams and adds the new Mind map stencil to the Shapes pane. With 30+ new Icons stencils-including Nature and Outdoors Icons, Education Icons, and People Icons-and more than 1,000 new shapes available in Visio for the web, Maya finds everything she needs to create a professional-looking infographic. Read more at https://bit.ly/3F2WG29 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Introducing new capabilities in Adoption Score for IT admins and adoption specialists

Today we're excited to announce three new capabilities in Adoption Score, as well as support for new roles focused on adoption, which will be gradually rolling out in public preview to tenants who have activated Adoption Score in the Microsoft 365 admin center. These capabilities help IT admins and adoption specialists maximize their organizations' investment in Microsoft 365 whilst maintaining our strong commitment to user-level privacy. To help IT admins and adoption specialists understand what is working, we are releasing an updated Meetings page under People Experiences. Group-level aggregates enable IT admins and adoption specialists to filter by five Azure Active Directory attributes - Company, Department, Country, State and City - helping to improve transparency on which areas of an organization are adopting recommended practices with Microsoft 365. To help IT admins and adoption specialists take action on both group and organizational insights, we are announcing organizational messages for Adoption Score. Organizational messages in Adoption Score use targeted in-product notifications to advise on Microsoft 365 recommended practices based on Adoption Score insights. Learn more about how to realize value by using Adoption Score and other new intelligent capabilities designed for Microsoft 365 admins and adoption specialists at our Ignite on-demand session. Read more at https://bit.ly/3RSVVf7 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

What's new for Microsoft 365 admins at Microsoft Ignite 2022

To address these needs, we are making continuous investments in Microsoft 365 admin center to help IT admins and other newly emerging roles in the IT department manage day-to-day admin tasks more efficiently, and better prepare for new innovations and service changes, while they help their users get the best experience with Microsoft 365. Getting the most ROI is even more critical for small and medium-sized business customers, and we are adding new capabilities to Microsoft 365 admin center to enable our partners to help them get most of their investments from Microsoft 365. This year at Microsoft Ignite we are announcing new innovations and improvements for IT admins through the Microsoft 365 admin center aligned to the following areas. Realize value through new intelligent capabilities designed for Microsoft 365 admins and adoption sp.... As new products are added to address your organization's needs, we are adding more admin features to manage these new services in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Microsoft 365 monitoring offers powerful health monitoring capabilities for enterprise customers with more than 5,000 Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 licenses. For SMBs, we've also added a new embedded Microsoft 365 admin app in Microsoft Teams which provides an easy-to-use, simplified view that gives admins the capabilities they need in one place, such as onboarding new users, managing Teams settings and privacy, and opening support cases. Stay connected, watch Ignite session recordings, and join us for a post-Ignite Microsoft 365 admin center AMA on Tuesday, November 1st at 9:00 AM PT to ask questions about news from Ignite. Read more at https://bit.ly/3fUboOw Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Adaptive Card-based Loop components: Collaborate on live content in Teams and Outlook

09:00 AM. Adaptive Card-based Loop components are live and actionable units of productivity that stay in sync and can move freely across Microsoft 365 apps, starting with Microsoft Teams and Outlook. Partners like SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Viva Sales are building Teams apps and leveraging AC-based Loop components to share live business data such as a sales order, a sales opportunity or an account information in Teams chat messages and Outlook emails. With access to the latest data and the ability to complete simple actions inline, business teams will be able to easily collaborate on the next steps and resolve work items while staying in the flow of their work in Teams or Outlook. Zoho SDP, Zoho Projects, Smartsheet and a few other partners have made project and task management easier for their users by sharing Loop components with live task related information in Teams chats and Outlook emails. An image demonstrating an adaptive card-based Loop component from partner, Zoho Projects, with task-related information in an email shown in Outlook on the web. Loop components make it easier for teams to collaborate on content from various apps and sources right within communication hubs such as Teams chat and Outlook messages. If you are interested in developing Loop components for your application, stay tuned for more on general availability of AC-based Loop components. Read more at https://bit.ly/3VfQdqx Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams is for everyone!

09:00 AM. In today's world of hybrid working and learning, PowerPoint Live in Teams makes storytelling more compelling for you - whether you are the presenter or in the audience. The combined power of cameo in PowerPoint Live and Teams helps you easily create personalized and engaging presentations. An animated image demonstrating how to access cameo in PowerPoint Live in a Microsoft Teams meeting. An animated image demonstrating how Magnifier works in PowerPoint Live in a Microsoft Teams meeting. An image demonstrating closed captions in PowerPoint Live in a Microsoft Teams meeting. An animated image demonstrating how high contrast slide conversion works in PowerPoint Live in a Microsoft Teams meeting. PowerPoint Live in Teams combines the best parts of presenting in PowerPoint with the connection and collaboration of Microsoft Teams meetings. Read more at https://bit.ly/3Cpds8Z Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

What's new in Security and Management in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams

In future, we plan to extend this policy to all SharePoint site templates by configuring RAC policy with a security group. Much like oversharing SharePoint sites, users overshare their OneDrive content too especially with external users. Conditional access policies for SharePoint sites, OneDrives, and Teams - General availability. Today we are thrilled to announce the general availability of conditional access policies for SharePoint sites, OneDrives, and Teams. As the sprawl of Teams and SharePoint sites happen in your organization, the digital estate of your organization is growing exponentially. With this capability admins can now create a tailored inactive site policy targeting specific SharePoint sites, perhaps Teams created sites or sites labelled as Public or sites with information segment of Research, and trigger alerts to respective site owners. The new Site History capability in SharePoint admin center aims to address these needs. Read more at https://bit.ly/3CRCi2J Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Microsoft Lists announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2022

09:00 AM. Microsoft Lists is a Microsoft 365 app that helps you track information and organize work. Today, we are pleased to share the next round of Lists innovation, as announced at this year's Microsoft Ignite event - including new integrations with Power Platform, mobile updates, new features in the Lists - MSA Preview, and more. This session includes Lists innovation, alongside OneDrive and Project/Planner announcements - with Steven co-presenting with his peers Mukul Kumar and Irfan Shahdad. It's a wonderful audio-visual summary of all collaborative work management disclosures across Microsoft 365. Microsoft Lists for Android now supports various screen sizes and form factors. The Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview is a lightweight version of the Microsoft Lists app designed for small business and individual use in conjunction with your Microsoft account. Microsoft Lists adoption center including Lists Day-in-the-life guides. The value of existing integrations with the Power Platform continues and expand when you need to further customize list forms with Power Apps, design robust workflows with Power Automate, and analyze your data in Excel or Power BI. And for developers, the power and value of the Lists API extends custom solutions to connect the list data as a source via Microsoft Graph. Read more at https://bit.ly/3SYdM5s Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

"Microsoft Syntex: Content AI in the flow of work" The Intrazone Microsoft podcast

09:01 AM. Microsoft Syntex, announced this week at Microsoft Ignite 2022, brings the power of content management and AI together to transform the way we work. It puts people at the center, with content seamlessly integrated into collaboration and workflows, turning content from a cost into an advantage. Every workday, Microsoft customers add 1.6 billion documents to Microsoft 365. That content is essential - carrying knowledge, decisions, and transactions that are vital to the flow of work. Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. RSS. + Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. Read more at https://bit.ly/3elHCC5 Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Taking screen sharing to the next level

09:00 AM. Until now, sharing spreadsheets within a Microsoft Teams meeting has been a fairly one-sided experience. An image of a Microsoft Teams meeting on Windows desktop demonstrating how to access Excel Live from the Share tray. Everyone in the meeting can now edit the Excel file directly from the meeting screen in Teams. An image of a Microsoft Teams meeting via Attendee View demonstrating how meeting participants are able to edit the Excel spreadsheet from the meeting screen. Participants can follow the presenter, interact, edit the workbook, then sync back to the presenter - without ever leaving the meeting screen. Meeting participants can collaborate with confidence in the worksheet during the meeting and rely on Show Changes to manage edits made to the workbook. Excel Live is also available for participants joining a Teams meeting from mobile and tablet devices. Read more at https://bit.ly/3Vn4XUr Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Track and act on your cloud emissions with the Emissions Impact Dashboard for Microsoft 365, now GA

Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of the Emissions Impact Dashboard for Microsoft 365, and to offer customers new insights into actions they can take to help reduce their cloud carbon footprint. The Emissions Impact Dashboard for Microsoft 365 allows customers to quantify the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their organization's use of Microsoft 365 applications, and to measure the emissions savings already achieved by moving productivity workloads to the cloud. To help light the way forward, we took a deep dive into the carbon intensity data for Microsoft 365 usage worldwide to provide perspective on the actual scale and sources of Microsoft 365 datacenter emissions. Measure your organization's allocation of Microsoft datacenter emissions with the Emissions Impact Dashboards for Microsoft 365 and for Azure and see estimated emissions already avoided by migrating workloads to the cloud. Get started today by downloading the Emissions Impact Dashboard for Microsoft 365 to gain greater insight on your company's cloud carbon footprint. The Emissions Impact Dashboard for Microsoft 365 is available for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 customers for business, enterprise, and education. Emissions categorized as Scope 1 or Scope 2 per the methodology that powers the Emissions Impact Dashboard for Microsoft 365. Read more at https://bit.ly/3CvMgVQ Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft Editor using Context IQ in Outlook on the web and Word for the web coming soon!

09:00 AM. One of the magical experiences with Microsoft 365 is seen with Microsoft Editor leveraging Context IQ. It connects you with the information you need, when and where you need it, so you can stay in the flow of your work. We're excited to announce today that we have started rolling out the preview of Editor leveraging Context IQ in Outlook on the Web and Word for the Web. To begin with, Editor using Context IQ will surface relevant people and files, and over time this will expand to include other useful content, such as: suggesting adding rich content like maps, places on the web, membership numbers, phone numbers, addresses, Viva Topics, message extensions, and more - based on your needs and context. An animated image demonstrating how Microsoft Editor leveraging Context IQ in Outlook on the web surfaces relevant people and files. An animated image demonstrating how Microsoft Editor leveraging Context IQ in Word for the web surfaces relevant people and files. Future of Context IQ. We'll continue to bring the power of Context IQ to other areas throughout Microsoft apps and services in the near future. In summary - Microsoft Editor leveraging Context IQ will help you stay in the flow and be more productive. Read more at https://bit.ly/3RWfvXy Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Introducing Advanced Virtual Appointments in Microsoft Teams Premium

An image demonstrating Microsoft Forms integration with Virtual Appointments in Microsoft Teams with an example of a pre-appointment consultation form on a desktop and mobile device. Teams Premium unlocks the following advanced Virtual Appointments capabilities. Virtual Appointments integrates with Microsoft Bookings and Outlook calendar to reflect real-time availability, prevent double-booking, and show all virtual appointments in one place. Directly from their Teams calendar, schedulers can create a virtual appointment using the Virtual Appointments Teams meeting template. An image of the queue view of scheduled and on-demand appointments in the Virtual Appointments app in Microsoft Teams on a desktop device. Advanced Virtual Appointments features will begin to roll out in December as a part of Teams Premium public preview, with general availability of Teams Premium in February. An image of a Virtual Appointments experience chart comparing features avaialble with any Microsoft 365 and Office 365 license and features available with Teams Premium. Read more at https://bit.ly/3MrzwEj Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Transform your frontline workforce with a single secure platform

Today, this massive challenge is also a massive opportunity for organizations to see the benefits of digitizing their frontline workforce - in fact, frontline workers state that improved technology at work is among their top three stress reducers. We see customers like London-based fashion brand River Island transform their frontline workforce by providing them with Microsoft Teams, which has improved their productivity and customer service through seamless communication and efficient processes. Centralizing access to key resources and tools within a single platform is key to increasing productivity on the frontline. To help frontline workers easily communicate with the right group of audience at scale, we are enhancing the Teams experience so frontline workers can start a chat with groups. Another key challenge to improving the frontline worker experience is keeping the frontline engaged and included across roles and locations. Transform frontline processes inundated by manual, fragmented, and repetitive systems and connect your systems of records onto one platform so your frontline workforce can work smarter and not harder to improve the agility and efficiency of the business. Empowering frontline workers with the right technology not only makes their jobs easier and reduces work-related stress, but also helps companies more easily retain and attract their frontline workforce. Read more at https://bit.ly/3enR9IP Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Announcements for files experiences in Microsoft 365 at Microsoft Ignite

09:00 AM. We're excited to share the latest and greatest in files experiences in Microsoft 365 at this year's Microsoft Ignite. At a time when established patterns of work are undergoing seismic shifts, we want to ensure you can not only access and share files but collaborate with distributed teams in real time from almost any Microsoft 365 app. OneDrive powers file sharing experiences across Microsoft 365. Second, Project Nucleus brings some of the OneDrive sync app's capabilities, like Files On-Demand, directly to the OneDrive web app. You can identify updates to your files by using the activity column, as well as leverage consistent filter pills across OneDrive Home and Shared. You can also switch between document libraries associated with specific Teams channels directly in Microsoft Teams and access your files as you would directly in OneDrive and SharePoint. To help you easily view the status of files that are syncing, we've added OneDrive integration into File Explorer in the new Windows 11 2022 Update. Read more at https://bit.ly/3CP4AL4 Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

Most used SharePoint Framework solutions from the Store

03:24 AM. We are excited to see the continuous growth on the submissions of the SharePoint Framework solutions to the app source and on the usage of the SharePoint store for extending experiences for SharePoint and Microsoft Viva. SharePoint Framework is extensibility model for Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. SharePoint Framework 1.16 in autumn 2022 with updates for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint. Support for SharePoint Framework solutions in the Microsoft Teams store - no public schedule. More.... We are looking forward to more great solutions that enable innovation, and help our customers get more done with Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. Cerkl Broadcast for SharePoint provides unique notifications to employees through your existing SharePoint. Please see following resources around getting started on building extensibility for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint using SharePoint Framework. Read more at https://bit.ly/3ExM8rR Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

What's new in supportability for Microsoft 365

10:00 AM. 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. Enable you to self-helpThe Microsoft 365 admin center delivers a comprehensive online support experience, including a robust self-help platform powered by AI and machine learning. As the solutions delivered by Microsoft 365 evolve and incorporate increasingly complex sets of technologies and services, our support services must strive to keep pace and balance the levels of specialization and expertise needed in our support teams. From a supportability perspective, we tend to focus most on effort, because getting issues resolved quickly and with minimal effort correlates well with what customers tell us they want from support and in turn helps to drive higher satisfaction scores at an overall product level. We hope you found this introduction interesting and insightful, and now know a little bit more about a team of passionate individuals working behind the scenes to continually improve and elevate your support experience with Microsoft 365. Brian Stoner is a Director in the Customer Service & Support Modern Work Supportability Team where he leads a team of technical and business program managers. 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/3rCyqw2 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop September 2022

September 2022 brought some great new offerings: Cultural site template for Hispanic Heritage Month, Manage site access based on sensitivity label, Viva Learning cards for the Viva Connections Dashboard, New 'Activity' column in OneDrive, Granular Policies for OneDrive: Request Files, Quick Access to SharePoint document libraries in Office backstage, Schedule send for Teams chat, Video clips in Teams chat, new Stream mobile app - iOS and Android, improved Adobe PDF experience in Microsoft Teams, and more. All features listed below began rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of September 2022. Both Viva experiences can be accessed on mobile and desktop devices in Microsoft Teams and are a part of the Microsoft Viva suite. Teamwork updates across SharePoint team sites, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. SharePoint is the intelligent content service that powers teamwork - to better collaborate on proposals, projects, and campaigns throughout your organization - with integration across Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Yammer, Stream, Planner and much more. Specific to areas of interest to The Intrazone audience, We published the Microsoft Ignite 2022 guide to Viva, Syntex, SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, Stream, Project and more. Microsoft 365 public roadmap + pre-filtered URL for SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer and Stream roadmap items. Read more at https://bit.ly/3RCOqZx Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Create BPMN 2.0 compliant processes in Visio for the web

Today, we're excited to bring that standard to Visio for the web by introducing BPMN Shapes, one of your most requested features. An image of a new blank drawing in Visio for the web demonstrating how to search for the BPMN Shapes stencil. A cropped image of the Shapes pane in Visio for the web demonstrating how to preview the BPMN Shapes stencil. A cropped image of the Shapes pane in Visio for the web demonstrating how to add the BPMN Shapes stencil. A cropped image of the Shapes pane in Visio for the web demonstrating how to access the shapes in the BPMN Shapes stencil. An image of a BPMN diagram in Visio for the web demonstrating how to add a shape to a swimlane. Check out what features are in development or coming soon on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, or view roadmap item BPMN shapes in Visio for the web. Read more at https://bit.ly/3SCLMnY Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Enhance collaboration in Word, Excel and PowerPoint with smart @mention suggestions

Our goal is to provide our users with a blazingly fast, low-touch experience, so they can quickly tag the most relevant person in the context of the document. We have reimagined the people picking experience to make it intelligent, smooth, low-touch and with contextually relevant suggestions. Photos in picker tiles for easy identification Suggestion list before the user types - Zero Query  Blazing fast suggestions results Search, pick, and tag using name, email ID or alias Microsoft Accessibility Standard-complaint picker Accurate, fresh, and comprehensive results. You can also experience it when collaborating on a document, spreadsheet, or presentation in Microsoft Teams. Add a comment from the context menu when you right-click in the body of the document. A preview of the comment thread and document text is provided in the email. Our goal is to make it easier for you to collaborate with your coworkers by quickly tagging them in the context of the document. Read more at https://bit.ly/3CgNu8F Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft 365 admin guide to Ignite 2022

Recently, we've evolved the Microsoft 365 admin center to help IT admins with everything from managing deployments and updates to understanding the adoption and usage across their organization. In this session, Meg and Nick will provide a closer look at new investments in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including the Microsoft 365 Lighthouse admin portal for Managed Service Providers and the Microsoft 365 Admin mobile app and Admin app in Microsoft Teams, and the new Business Advisor program, designed to help our partners and SMB customers drive operational efficiency and ensure a secure environment for users. How to optimize your environment and manage change using Microsoft 365 admin center. Based on your feedback over the last year, we've continued to improve admin experiences to help you keep your Microsoft 365 environment healthy, and effectively manage change. Sandhya, Maryam, and team will give you an overview of the latest Microsoft 365 admin center innovations for managing your day-to-day efficiency with features like Global Search and ServiceNow integration, reducing security risks through greater visibility into updates, managing change for users more effectively, and improvements we've made to make tracking system health and monitoring your Microsoft 365 environment. Roundtable sessions: A closer look at new Microsoft 365 admin center capabilities. Join us for a post-Ignite Microsoft 365 admin center AMA on Tuesday, November 1st at 10:00 AM PT to ask questions about news from Ignite. Read more at https://bit.ly/3RnMi7Q Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

New improved contacts on Outlook Web App

Self-updating contacts to always keep contacts up to date. New contact editor to add, update, and manage contacts. All the new contacts you add from the people card of a person belonging to your organization will be self-updating contacts. An image of the People card demonstrating the new self-updating contact feature in OWA. Organize contacts using Categories. Categories are just like tags; you can apply these tags to contacts to group contacts into desired categories. The new contact editor allows you to create, update, and categorize contacts, and manage them from the email, calendar, and People hub so you can focus on your core job while simultaneously managing your contacts. The abovementioned new experiences and the Outlook Web App People hub are powered by the new, rich, and intelligent contacts schema. Read more at https://bit.ly/3RfVNGd Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft Ignite 2022 guide to Viva, Syntex, SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, Stream, Visio and more

Microsoft Ignite offers global experiences, localized content, in-person opportunities, and more-it's a new kind of Ignite. ' To help, the Viva, Syntex, SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, Planner/Project, Stream, Project, Visio, and more groups are prepping speakers and content - fired up and ready to help dig in - to ignite your passion and help you shift into the high-learning gear! This blog is your guide loaded with related keynotes, breakout sessions, on-demand sessions, and more - to help you navigate this subset of content within the whole of Ignite - both digital and onsite at SCC. We'll keep it up to date - before, during and after Ignite. Below is a subset of Ignite content to hear more and learn more about Viva, Syntex, SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, Stream, Visio and related technologies. On-demand sessions are the double-click into soaking up more knowledge, seeing more of the 'what's next' - in context. Level up your skills as Microsoft, industry, and partner experts guide you through the latest technology with immersive demos and live sessions. Plus, check out the Microsoft Ignite Spotlights - A new experience with connection opportunities that help you gain insights from local leaders, partner experts, and your community. Read more at https://bit.ly/3DXVLQh Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

The power of the Microsoft Power Platform The Intrazone podcast

07:30 AM. Citizen developers, unite! Buckle up! It's time to dig into the Power Platform apps, to see how you can analyze data, build solutions, automate processes, and create virtual agents. April is also a Power Platform MVP alumni, a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and previously a SharePoint developer out of Tulsa, OK. This episode brings the live Intrazone breakout session from 365 EduCon - Dallas right into your Intrazone ears. We asked April to share insights and best practices for user experiences designed to build 'sticky apps', plus her take on new Power Platform innovations: covering Power Pages, Power Automate: the Pay-as-you-go model, modern commanding, RPA, and governance with 'Managed Environments'. Be sure to visit our show page to hear all the episodes, access the show notes, and get bonus content. Stay connected to the SharePoint community blog where we'll share more information per episode, guest insights, and take any questions from our listeners and SharePoint users. We, too, welcome your ideas for future episodes topics and segments. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. Read more at https://bit.ly/3SnaVmj Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Microsoft Tech Community

We're pleased to introduce Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview for iOS - now available for testing using the TestFlight app. Microsoft Lists at the tap of your fingertips - a fully functional information tracker while on the go. We have been using Lists for iOS here at Microsoft to plan morale events, gifts, roadmap items, travel expenses, and more - and we love it! We hope you enjoy it, too. You can access the Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview for iOS app for free using your MSA account. Currently Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview for iOS is limited to 10,000 installs via this method of preview. A: The current production app in the App Store is Microsoft Lists which supports logging in with your work or school account - for commercial Microsoft 365 customers. The Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview for iOS allows signing in with your Microsoft account. Read more at https://bit.ly/3RiPH7Y Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft Stream is moving to Microsoft 365!

We're not shy about using our own products and services internally here at Microsoft, and as such, we're already taking advantage of recently moving our internal video platform-Microsoft Stream-under the Microsoft 365 umbrella. The transformation of our corporate video platform has made it easier for our employees to create, upload, edit, and publish enterprise videos, says Marc Mroz, a product manager for Microsoft's Office Media group, who explained that the new, modern Microsoft Stream experience is benefitting from now being located within SharePoint specifically. The Microsoft Digital Employee Experience team has been working with Mroz and the product group team on deploying the modern Microsoft Stream experience across the company, with the team that publishes the company's internal employee portal among those taking the lead on trying it first. Folding Microsoft Stream directly into Microsoft 365 and SharePoint using OneDrive for storage has made it more useable and accessible within Microsoft, Mroz says, adding that it also ensures that the product stays more current. To learn more and to find out how you can deploy the modern Microsoft Stream experience at your company, read the full story here: Corporate video at Microsoft gets a big upgrade thanks to the modern Microsoft Stream experience. When moving from classic to the modern Microsoft Stream experience, take stock of your current inventory, especially if you have a large archive of Microsoft Teams recordings. Thanks to the way SharePoint sites populate content, you can elegantly use parent and child sites to share content to targeted audiences without having to duplicate efforts Keep your SharePoint organized; this was true before Microsoft Stream came to Windows 365 and it's still true after Video is a great way to onboard new employees or offer just-in-time training. Read more at https://bit.ly/3r93C5P Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft's HRWeb portal runs on SharePoint in Microsoft 365

Microsoft's own human resources portal - known internally as HRWeb - gets personal, thanks to the modern SharePoint experience in Microsoft 365. Microsoft employees use HRWeb to check on benefits, adjust withholdings, find a specific company policy, and more. I use it to check health benefits, get career guidance, learn about official company holidays, and print out tax info when it's tax season here in the US. HRWeb is a one-stop shop internal human resources site that serves a variety of important employment information for all 160,000+ employees worldwide. The homepage of Microsoft's HR portal running on modern SharePoint in Microsoft 365. The full article shares more about the strategy and execution of how Microsoft found just the right fit - plus a little custom code and Jay Clem about how Microsoft adjusts its practices and technology to improve the employee experience for 160K full-time Microsoft employees around the world - including insights abouth the very same HRWeb. If you have any questions about the tech, the strategy, and any feedback for the team, please leave a comment and I'll do my best to either answer inline or loop the right person in to carry the discussion forward. Read more at https://bit.ly/3BiBT7w Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

What's new and what's next for SharePoint Server

SharePoint Online is Microsoft's premier SharePoint experience thanks to the rich integration that is possible with cloud services and the ability to rapidly innovate with a cloud-focused engineering model; however, we also recognize that SharePoint Server has been and will continue to be a critical part of the collaboration and business process strategy for many of our customers. Last year we showed our commitment to our on-premises customers with the release of SharePoint Server Subscription Edition and today we'd like to share some exciting news about new investments we're making in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, as well as other updates to the SharePoint Server ecosystem. Instead of waiting for the next major version of SharePoint Server to be released, new feature experiences will now be introduced to SharePoint Server Subscription Edition on a regular basis via updates. The feature update released in the second half of calendar year 2022 is called SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Version 22H2. A feature update released in the first half of calendar year 2023 is called SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Version 23H1. Today we're pleased to announce that the Version 22H2 feature update is now available as part of the September 2022 Public Update for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. As a reminder, SharePoint 2010 workflows will only be supported on SharePoint Server Subscription Edition through July 14, 2026, and that our recommended alternatives are SharePoint 2013 workflows or Power Automate. To ensure you can continue to use SharePoint 2013 workflows with your SharePoint Server environments, we will soon be releasing a new SharePoint Workflow Manager application to replace Service Bus and Microsoft Workflow Manager. In addition to these updates to SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, we're also excited to announce that the SharePoint Server Technology Adoption Program is accepting nominations! The TAP provides an opportunity for you to help shape the future of SharePoint Server, and is open to customers, ISVs, consultants, MVPs, and other partners. Read more at https://bit.ly/3dj4iCs Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

New cultural site template: Hispanic Heritage Month

Across the globe we see the celebration of wonderful cultural moments. We are introducing Diversity and Inclusion cultural site templates. Our second cultural template we are delivering celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month. This leverages the modern experience built on SharePoint in Microsoft 365. Home page with a unique theme Page template Pre-populated content and web parts Mobile ready. You will be able to quickly create communication to. To learn more about how to create the Hispanic Heritage Employee Resource Group site for your Microsoft 365 tenant, visit the related help article on docs. Read more at https://bit.ly/3LdnbDb Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Most used SharePoint Framework solutions from the Store

We are excited to see the continuous growth on the submissions of the SharePoint Framework solutions to the app source and on the usage of the SharePoint store. SharePoint Framework 1.16 in autumn 2022 with updates for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint Native support of Microsoft Teams JavaScript SDK v2 for SPFx solutions Viva Connections product type in AppSource for easier acquire of the Viva apps to your environment - no ETA Support for SharePoint Framework solutions in the Microsoft Teams store - no ETA Support SharePoint Framework extensibility for list and library new, edit and view panels and more.... We are looking forward to more great solutions that enable innovation, and help our customers get more done with Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. Ichicraft Widgets allows users to personalize their digital workplace in SharePoint or Microsoft Teams. Cerkl Broadcast for SharePoint provides unique notifications to employees through your existing SharePoint. SharePoint Employee Directory Plus is free, fully featured 30 days trial for one office 365 tenant upto 999 users. Beyond Intranet SharePoint Employee Directory software makes your life easier if you must manage information about your office employees at one place and want to quickly access them anytime. Please see following resources around getting started on building extensibility for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint using SharePoint Framework. Read more at https://bit.ly/3S00vsl Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Update under lock: Improved update experience for Microsoft 365 Apps

We refer to this feature as update under lock, and it uses Click-To-Run technology. Update under lock helps you reach compliance within your timeframes without disrupting your internal users, and potentially reduces the need for abrupt forced updates, making updates more reliable by saving app state before closing. If there are running Office apps, update under lock will try to shut them down only when safe to do so, apply the pending update, and restore any closed apps to their previous state. Microsoft 365 subscriptions, Visio, Project, but not Microsoft Teams, which has its own update process Retail consumer/perpetual Office 2016, 2019, and 2021. If apps cannot shut down safely, updates are applied normally. Microsoft is always optimizing your updates experience, and this thoroughly tested feature lives under the hood to make your life easier. Continue the conversation by joining us in the Microsoft 365 Tech Community! Whether you have product questions or just want to stay informed with the latest updates on new releases, tools, and blogs, Microsoft 365 Tech Community is your go-to resource to stay connected! Read more at https://bit.ly/3BykhFS Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop August 2022

Exciting news from the Microsoft Viva world landed this past month, plus several new creator experiences across the SharePoint team site landscape. August 2022 brought tech goodness of all kinds: Viva Goals GA, Viva Engage GA, Viva Insights updates, Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview for iOS, new SharePoint team site templates, new web parts and site theme, co-authoring encrypted documents on mobile, new OneDrive home experience, To Do in Outlook for Windows, and more. All features listed below began rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of August 2022. Build your intelligent intranet on SharePoint in Microsoft 365 and get the benefits of investing in business outcomes - reducing IT and development costs, increasing business speed and agility, and up-leveling the dynamic, personalized, and welcoming nature of your intranet. Ms/ListsiOSMSA. Teamwork updates across SharePoint team sites, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. SharePoint is an intelligent content service that powers teamwork - to better collaborate on proposals, projects, and campaigns throughout your organization - with integration across Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Yammer, Stream, Planner and much more. IPv6 is now the default for SharePoint in Microsoft 365, to ensure seamless customer and user experiences over the Internet from any location, from any device. Read more at https://bit.ly/3KTiTRe Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Think globally, act locally The Intrazone podcast

High performance computing, and fast and reliable access to Microsoft services - that's Microsoft datacenters worldwide in a nutshell. We highlight news about the recent opening of a new datacenter in Qatar, and the value of operating Microsoft datacenters at scale across various product groups, partners, and ultimately out to customer. Intrazone guests and hosts during recording via Teams - clockwise from top left: Sean Emam [guest], Jon Farmer [guest], Chris McNulty [co-host], and Mark Kashman [co-host]. Be sure to visit our show page to hear all the episodes, access the show notes, and get bonus content. Stay connected to the SharePoint community blog where we'll share more information per episode, guest insights, and take any questions from our listeners and SharePoint users. Left to right : Chris McNulty, director and Mark Kashman, senior product manager. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. Read more at https://bit.ly/3ADTtSU Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

helping customers get the most out of Microsoft 365

Today, we are pleased to introduce Adoption Score, a set of metrics and tools for Microsoft 365 admins and IT leaders to improve the everyday experiences of their workforce and to help organizations get the most out of their investment in Microsoft 365. Importantly, Adoption Score is backed by Microsoft's continued commitment to user-level privacy - meaning no one in a customer's organization can use Adoption Score to access data about how an individual user is using apps and services in Microsoft 365. The anonymized metrics in Adoption Score help IT admins understand and optimize Microsoft 365 usage patterns in support of their digital transformation journey. Over the coming months, we will be releasing additional new functionality to Adoption Score that aims to change how IT admins support their workforce and help their organizations to get more out of Microsoft 365, all while maintaining our commitment to user level privacy. Adoption Score is available as a capability within the Microsoft 365 admin center. We're excited for the role Adoption Score will play in helping organizations get the most out of their investment in Microsoft 365. Check out what features are in development or coming soon on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap or, learn more about the Time trends roadmap item: Time trends for Adoption Score people experiences. Read more at https://bit.ly/3wvDYeE Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Use Microsoft Lists for your next marketing campaign

The below video provides context for how Microsoft Lists + Power Automate + Teams helps streamline people + information across date-driven milestones. Add the list to the active Microsoft Teams marketing campaign channel. Work with Lists in Microsoft Teams and start conversations tied to individual list items. Learn more about getting started with Lists in Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Lists supports the ability to color-code rows, columns, and views - in a statis fashion or when certain conditions are met. Good luck with your next marketing campaign - knowing Microsoft Lists has your back as you plan, collaborate, and execute what matters most. A summary of value across Microsoft Lists as you use the app in Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, in SharePoint and while on the go with Lists for Android and iOS. Learn more about Microsoft Lists - visit our Lists resource center and provide feedback on any features or updates you'd like to see in the future. Read more at https://bit.ly/3KafFsn Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

15 reasons to love OneDrive

All your files, from Office docs to photos-even files others have shared with you-are always on your OneDrive. Easily access Teams and SharePoint files from right inside OneDrive. Create, access, view, edit, and share files on the go with the OneDrive mobile app. If you're working on an important video project for a client or a 3D model for a computer design class, you can upload file sizes up to 250GB in OneDrive. With OneDrive Files On-Demand, you can access your work or school files in the cloud without using valuable file storage space on your Windows or Mac device. If you lose your device or are subject to a cyberattack, OneDrive has your back, allowing you to recover your files and minimize any loss of work. If you're using a free or paid OneDrive consumer plan or Microsoft 365 Personal or Family plan, you can create family or friend groups to share photos, videos, and other files with. Read more at https://bit.ly/3QLUA9K Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

Most used SharePoint Framework solutions from the Store

We are excited to see the continuous growth on the submissions of the SharePoint Framework solutions to the app source and on the usage of the SharePoint store. SharePoint Framework 1.16 in autumn 2022 with updates for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint Native support of Microsoft Teams JavaScript SDK v2 for SPFx solutions Viva Connections product type in AppSource for easier acquire of the Viva apps to your environment - no ETA Support for SharePoint Framework solutions in the Microsoft Teams store - no ETA Support SharePoint Framework extensibility for list and library new, edit and view panels and more.... We are looking forward to more great solutions that enable innovation, and help our customers get more done with Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. Ichicraft Widgets allows users to personalize their digital workplace in SharePoint or Microsoft Teams. Cerkl Broadcast for SharePoint provides unique notifications to employees through your existing SharePoint. My Links is a SharePoint app where you can add and manage your web links through an intuitive interface. After installing My Links in a SharePoint page and adding your links, you can also install the My Links web part in another location and your original links will be available to you at the new location. Please see following resources around getting started on building extensibility for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint using SharePoint Framework. Read more at https://bit.ly/3JQCyRy Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Microsoft OneDrive turns 15 The Intrazone podcast

It's OneDrive's 15th birthday, and all the presents are for you. On this episode, Ankita Kirti and I chat with Arwa Tyebkhan and Steven Bailey to celebrate both OneDrive's 15th lap around the sun AND to hear more about the new OneDrive Home experience. Exe and SharePoint Workspaces, and land on OneDrive as we know it today. We also discover that it's not only OneDrive's birthday the team has been hard at work redesigning the OneDrive Home experience to help you easily resume your work and catch up on what you missed while you were away - everything at-a-glance and easy to prioritize where to start working. Intrazone guests + hosts, clockwise starting top left: Steven Bailey [co-host], Ankita Kirti [co-host], and Arwa Tyebkhan [guest] - recording the guest segment via Microsoft Teams. Stay connected to the SharePoint community blog where we'll share more information per episode, guest insights, and take any questions from our listeners and SharePoint users. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. Read more at https://bit.ly/3Pafn5I Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Introducing Preview of Experience insights for Microsoft 365

Here, as with many other Microsoft 365 reports, Experience insights are aggregated at the tenant level only; no user-level data is available. An image of the Experience insights dashboard home screen in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Experience insights help you quickly understand key user experience signals from select Microsoft 365 apps and services. Now, anytime a user in your organization submits feedback through Microsoft 365 apps or services or completes an NPS survey, we share that information back to you through Experience insights. Today, Experience insights is optimized for organizations with higher volumes of data, but we are working on bringing the experience to smaller organizations in the future. To learn more about this new dashboard, check out the Microsoft Docs article: Microsoft 365 Experience insights dashboard - Microsoft 365 admin. We're excited to bring this new experience to you and hope it will be a useful tool to help you understand and improve the user experience with Microsoft 365 in your organization. Read more at https://bit.ly/3P4Ap5v Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft Teams Open-Source App Templates

We have several updates to share around our open-source app templates that the team manages. Localized in 12 languages Arabic, Chinese, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish Localization uses Microsoft Teams language settings Ability to approve/reject multiple Champion onboarding requests at one time from approval screen. Mobile responsive UI. New card layouts for both Champion and non-champion leaderboard views. Ability to schedule 1:1 calendar scheduling for Champion <-> non-Champion introductions off the card layout screen. Ability to start multiple tournaments at the same time. Ability to upload image from local machine for use in message send. Ability to format the summary text using markdown language. Read more at https://bit.ly/3vI4roV Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Microsoft SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop July 2022

Microsoft Ignite 2022 dates have been announced: October 12-14. Microsoft continues to ship new updates and releases leading up to the event - one sure to be full of new disclosures. All features listed below began rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of July 2022. Build your intelligent intranet on SharePoint in Microsoft 365 and get the benefits of investing in business outcomes - reducing IT and development costs, increasing business speed and agility, and up-leveling the dynamic, personalized, and welcoming nature of your intranet. Microsoft 365 customers can now make demos, explainer videos, and videos to post in chats directly in Microsoft 365 with the new Stream camera. Teamwork updates across SharePoint team sites, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. SharePoint is an intelligent content service that powers teamwork - to better collaborate on proposals, projects, and campaigns throughout your organization - with integration across Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Yammer, Stream, Planner and much more. Read more at https://bit.ly/3vydYyL Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Get your OKRs on with Viva Goals The Intrazone Microsoft podcast

On this episode, Chris and Mark chat with Lucy Hitz and Kevin Shively to celebrate the general availability for Viva Goals and learn a lot more behind the scenes. Intrazone guests + host, left-to-right: Lucy Hitz [guest], Kevin Shively, and Mark Kashman [host] - recording the guest segment via Microsoft Teams. Hosts, guests, and related products Articles and sites. Be sure to visit our show page to hear all the episodes, access the show notes, and get bonus content. Stay connected to the SharePoint community blog where we'll share more information per episode, guest insights, and take any questions from our listeners and SharePoint users. Left to right : Chris McNulty, director and Mark Kashman, senior product manager. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. Read more at https://bit.ly/3vrgren Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Transform Microsoft Teams meetings with real-time collaboration

An image of a Microsoft Teams meeting on Windows desktop demonstrating how to access Excel Live from the Share tray. An image of a Microsoft Teams meeting on Windows desktop demonstrating how to share an Excel file by selecting the workbook and clicking the Share button. An image of a Microsoft Teams meeting via Attendee View demonstrating how meeting participants are able to edit the Excel spreadsheet from the meeting screen. If you have a workbook open that you want to share in a Teams meeting, just click Share, then Work together in Teams. Make your Teams meetings more engaging and productive. Simplifies collaboration by eliminating the need to switch between programs Saves time spent after meetings trying to capture/consolidate content Promotes inclusiveness and encourages contribution among team members Drives productivity. If you're a Microsoft Insider, we hope you'll try out the Excel Live co-editing experience in one of your upcoming Teams meetings. Read more at https://bit.ly/3B1jUUj Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Managing browser security easily with Microsoft 365 Lighthouse and Microsoft Edge

With so many customers to manage and browser security ever evolving, it can be quite a challenge for managed service providers to keep up with the latest security recommendations and secure devices and data across their customer base. Announced at Ignite 2020, Microsoft 365 Lighthouse is a platform that allows MSPs to scale the management of their small and medium-sized business customers in a single, comprehensive portal, available at no additional cost for eligible MSPs. With Lighthouse, MSPs can get recommended security configuration baselines tailored to SMB customers, quickly find and investigate risks, and proactively take action to get their customers to a healthy and secure state. The addition of the Microsoft Edge policy to the default baseline will make it easier for MSPs to consistently deploy Microsoft Edge security settings to users across SMB customers, saving them time and giving customers peace of mind that their users and their data are protected. MSPs have the challenging task of managing customers across the customer lifecycle, from onboarding to troubleshooting to managing operational improvements. To simplify this challenge, Lighthouse provides recommended settings and policies, including Microsoft Edge security settings. A GIF demonstrating how to deploy Microsoft Edge security settings in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse. Continue the conversation by joining us in the Microsoft 365 Tech Community! Whether you have product questions or just want to stay informed with the latest updates on new releases, tools, and blogs, Microsoft 365 Tech Community is your go-to resource to stay connected! Read more at https://bit.ly/3PICCV7 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Project Orland for Microsoft 365

Last July we introduced the private preview of Project Orland for Microsoft 365, a new experience in Partner Center that empowers CSP partners to proactively engage with and nurture their customers. Today we are delighted to announce that this October we will release the Public Preview of Project Orland, further democratizing access to AI-powered insights and recommendations, empowering CSP partners to support the business and technology needs of their customers, helping them to thrive. Project Orland is a new digital experience that looks at your CSP customer base and applies data models built by Microsoft data scientists to s surface prioritized growth opportunities for your customer success and sales leaders to act upon. Project Orland uses AI to identity potential opportunities for you to pursue with your customers to acquire new users, minimize churn and harvest growth. Project Orland overview identifies opportunities across customer lifecycle. With customer specific insights and recommendations, you can further understand the opportunity and why Project Orland is suggesting you act. You are enrolled in the Cloud Solution Provider program with an active MPN agreement You are a direct-bill or indirect reseller with a minimum of 100 Microsoft 365 customers Your sales team is ready and able to benefit from this experience. Read more at https://bit.ly/3RKc1bM Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Microsoft Defender for Business servers

We're pleased to announce that endpoint security for Windows and Linux Servers for small and medium-sized businesses is now available to preview within Microsoft Defender for Business as, Microsoft Defender for Business servers. At that time, a Microsoft Defender for Business servers license must be purchased for each onboarded server, or those servers can be offboarded. Figure 1: Start using the Preview of Microsoft Defender for Business servers by switching on Preview Features and onboarding servers. Microsoft CSP partners using Lighthouse can view security alerts, incidents, and the device list across multiple customers with client and servers onboarded to Defender for Business, from a single admin experience. Purchasing server security with Defender for Business servers. At general availability, Microsoft Defender for Business servers will be made available as an add-on priced at $3 per server instance per month. Subscriptions can be added to Microsoft 365 Business Premium or Microsoft Defender for Business standalone, as server licensing is not included in those base plans. Read more at https://bit.ly/3ANfdxt Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Enhancing the collaboration and diagramming experiences with new tools, shapes in Visio for the web

More recently, we've been focused on enhancing the diagramming experience for Visio in Microsoft 365, Visio Plan 1, and Visio Plan 2 users to include new diagram types. New collaboration and diagramming tools in Visio for the web. Format Options pane: The new Format Options pane in Visio for the web brings Fill, Line, and new Dimension options right next to your diagram. Improved interoperability between the Visio web and desktop apps: With this update, Visio for the web users can open files that were previously not supported for editing in Visio for the web and edit shapes with certain properties such as rectangular gradients and those containing OLE objects. An image demonstrating how a user can open and edit a Visio file consisting of shapes with gradients in Visio for the web. Grid and Snap to Grid: Previously available only in the Visio desktop app, the Grid and Snap to Grid options are currently rolling out to Visio Plan 1 and Visio Plan 2 subscribers only in Visio for the web. We will continue to add new diagram types to enhance the diagramming experience in Visio for the web. Read more at https://bit.ly/3yYAq65 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Refreshing the OneNote app on Android mobile

The Home page displays your recent Notebook pages, Sticky Notes, and Samsung Notes from all your signed-in accounts in a single unified view. You can tap on a note card to view or edit the note or long press on it to take a quick action. Sort your notes by Updated Date, Created Date or Alphabetically, and use the filter options to filter notes by note type, Notebook Page, Sticky Note, Samsung Note, or by signed in account. A GIF image demonstrating how to filter notes by note type in the OneNote app on an Android mobile device. Swipe down to sync your notes and long press the note cards to take quick actions, such as deleting, moving, copying, sharing, or adding notes to your mobile device's home screen. A GIF image demonstrating the Quick Action feature by moving a note from one notebook to another notebook in the OneNote app on an Android mobile device. The new quick capture bar at the bottom of the page allows you to easily take notes within the mobile app in your preferred modality with a single click. Read more at https://bit.ly/3yz4ofA Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Introducing the Microsoft 365 Health dashboard: an easy way to view key health information

Your feedback to us was that it's difficult to understand the complete health of your Microsoft 365 environment because the information you need is spread out across many pages in the Microsoft 365 admin center. We heard you! So, we created a new dashboard that pulls this information together, giving you an at-a-glance view of key health information. An image providing a complete view of the Health dashboard page in the Microsoft 365 admin center. An image of the Service health and usage section on the Health dashboard with a table providing examples of health status, average daily users, and license utilization for each service. To help you succeed in this ongoing effort, the Health dashboard provides an at-a-glance view of whether Microsoft 365 desktop apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are up to date. An image of the Microsoft 365 app updates section of the Health dashboard providing a examples of device counts for devices that are on: Latest build, One build behind, and Two or more builds behind. An image demonstrating the new Dashboard menu option in the left navigation menu on the Health dashboard page in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Read more at https://bit.ly/3yz4oMC Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Most used SharePoint Framework solutions from the Store

We are excited to see the continuous growth on the submissions of the SharePoint Framework solutions to the app source and on the usage of the SharePoint store. SharePoint Framework 1.16 in autumn 2022 with updates for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint Viva Connections product type in AppSource for easier acquire of the Viva apps to your environment - no ETA Support for SharePoint Framework solutions in the Microsoft Teams store - no ETA Support SharePoint Framework extensibility for list and library new, edit and view panels and more.... We are looking forward to more great solutions that enable innovation, and help our customers get more done with Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. Cerkl Broadcast for SharePoint provides unique notifications to employees through your existing SharePoint. My Links is a SharePoint app where you can add and manage your web links through an intuitive interface. After installing My Links in a SharePoint page and adding your links, you can also install the My Links web part in another location and your original links will be available to you at the new location. My Links can be installed in multiple SharePoint locations, always providing you quick access to your original links list. Please see following resources around getting started on building extensibility for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint using SharePoint Framework. Read more at https://bit.ly/3Ijq187 Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Announcing the availability of Quick Access filters in Office app for Android

The Office Mobile team is excited to announce the availability of Quick Access filters in Office Mobile on Android phones and tablets! This feature can help you increase your productivity while customizing Office on your Android mobile device, so it works best for you. Locate your content easily with Quick Access filters. Quick Access filters provide you with easy navigation and personalization options, helping you locate your content more quickly. Users can personalize their home screen by adding, removing, or organizing these filters for quick access. Open the Office app on your Android device and locate the Quick Access options at the top of your home screen. An image demonstrating the Quick Access options available on the Office app home screen on an Android device. Tap on a Quick Access option to see filtered content based on the filter you choose. Read more at https://bit.ly/3a5cog8 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop June 2022 The Intrazone

Beyond prepping for Microsoft Inspire next month, we saw June 2022 bring a lot of new tech to Microsoft 365 - lots of SharePoint and related tech goodness: The LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group site template in time for this year's Pride month, Viva Topics in Teams chat, inline playback of videos in Hero web part, updated site logo management, multilingual UI when editing team sites, rename Add to OneDrive Shortcuts, OneDrive: Pin and unpin shared libraries, Planner cards in team site activity feed, SPS'2013 Workflows migration assessment tool, Teams chat with self, and more. Full-screen view of the main home page from the LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group site template once deployed as a site within your tenant. To help keep that engagement with your content and communications, when someone clicks to play a video in the Hero web part section of a SharePoint site, the video will now play inline. Site owners will be able to navigate to the 'Header' panel from the 'Change the Look' settings, and then scroll to the bottom of the panel where the site logo options will be located. Teamwork updates across SharePoint team sites, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. Streamlining the SharePoint multilingual user interface when editing team sites. Planner cards now appear within the SharePoint team site activity feed. Read more at https://bit.ly/3bsAAtd Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Join Family Insiders and make your voice heard!

Family Insiders get the opportunity to connect with Microsoft decision makers who are building new family experiences for the products you use every day. Microsoft teams take Insiders behind-the-scenes on virtual monthly community calls where product leads, designers, engineers, and researchers present new family experiences and learn about Insiders' unique perspectives. Family Insiders have tested Microsoft Defender for Individuals before public release, shared feedback about the new Family widget on Windows, and virtually met with Family Safety, OneDrive, Lists, Edge, and Education teams to share what matters most to them and their family. Connect with Microsoft teams to improve product experiences for families everywhere. Preview new designs and test upcoming features before general release. Get tips and tutorials for making the most of your Microsoft products. Earn Microsoft swag for engaging with the community and sharing your feedback! Read more at https://bit.ly/3QWdtYp Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

OneDrive Roadmap Roundup Q2 CY2022

The OneDrive team is excited to share all the recent OneDrive updates and feature releases we've released between April and June 2022. You can now use Add shortcut to OneDrive in Teams to give yourself quick access in OneDrive to the Teams files you work with most frequently. OneDrive Sync Admin Reports for macOS give you more visibility into who in your organization is running the OneDrive Sync client on macOS and any errors they might be experiencing. When you open the OneDrive Sync health dashboard, you'll see an executive summary of what's going on with OneDrive Sync in your organization. The OneDrive File Picker lets you connect your custom web apps to content stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. Register here: What's new in OneDrive: Q2 roadmap roundup. You can stay up-to-date on all things via the OneDrive Blog and the OneDrive release notes. Read more at https://bit.ly/3nlC636 Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

Announcing the general availability of idle session timeout for Microsoft 365 web apps

One of the ways users accomplish tasks, such as checking email, collaborating with others in a Word document, or replying to a chat, is by using Microsoft 365 web apps on their personal devices or on public kiosk devices. Today, we are super pleased to announce the general availability of idle session timeout for Microsoft 365 web apps. IT admins can now configure a tenant-wide timeout policy to automatically sign out users after a period of inactivity on Microsoft 365 web apps. From June to August 2022, this functionality will be rolled out in Microsoft 365 worldwide cloud environments of Office.com, Word, Excel, PowerPoint for the web, Outlook on the web, OneDrive for the web, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365 admin center. Based on multiple customer conversations and feedback sessions, it became evident that our customers were looking for a more predictable and coherent solution covering the entirety of Microsoft 365 web apps. One day as he was checking emails in Outlook on the web and accessing sensitive data on the Microsoft Teams web client, he received a work page that immediately required his presence in the emergency ward. To learn more about the idle session timeout functionality and how to configure it for your organization, check out this helpful Microsoft Docs article: Idle session timeout for Microsoft 365. Read more at https://bit.ly/3nu9EvP Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

OneDrive Webinar: Q2 Roadmap Roundup

As people adjust to the new normal-whether that's working in a hybrid environment or going back to an office that's undergone some changes since pre-pandemic times-we're continuing to innovate new features and services in OneDrive that make storing, syncing, and sharing files easier, no matter where people are working. In the past quarter our main theme has been- Search less, do more. Join our free webinar to learn all about new Q2 feature releases that will help simplify access and discovery for you while providing consistent files experience across Microsoft Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint. Time: 9 am PT. Registration link: What's new in OneDrive: Q2 roadmap roundup. Read more at https://bit.ly/3OBpsIN Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

Privacy changes and API support for Microsoft 365 usage reports

At Microsoft, we are committed to both data-driven insights and user privacy. As part of that commitment, we made a change in September 2021 to Microsoft 365 usage analytics to conceal user group and site names by default. Starting on June 23rd, we will conceal the GroupID variable in the Groups Activity section of the Microsoft 365 Active Users report and Microsoft 365 Apps usage report. At the same time, we will be introducing an API to assist global admins to manage data privacy controls for Microsoft 365 Reports. An image providing an example of how to change report settings via the API. The report will only contain a Privacy Setting property. When concealing user group and site names are disabled, admin roles and Reports reader roles will be able to see identifiable user-level information. Check out what features are in development or coming soon on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap. Read more at https://bit.ly/3zVqZ8A Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

OneDrive File Picker v8 now Generally Available!

Today, we're excited to announce the general release of OneDrive File Picker v8, which enables you to directly integrate Microsoft 365 services into your own web applications. The OneDrive File Picker lets you connect your custom web apps to content stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. File Picker provides a consistent, familiar UI for your web app users to open, save, and share files stored in OneDrive or SharePoint. Get a file or folder ID for a file that can be used with Microsoft Graph to perform actions on the file. The development team at ClearPeople is using the latest version of OneDrive File Picker to create a user-friendly publishing flow via an Add It option in SharePoint or the Add It Teams app. Users who wanted to publish a private file for a broader audience-think of an HR manager who wants to publish a new policy document on the company's intranet site-were required to download the file from Teams, OneDrive, or SharePoint onto their device, and then upload the file from the device to the intranet. Now, Atlas developers have incorporated the OneDrive File Picker, so users can easily navigate to the file stored directly in their OneDrive, Teams channel, or SharePoint site and select it for publishing. Read more at https://bit.ly/3n6XDwi Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

Microsoft Loop components: Extending capabilities in Microsoft Teams and Outlook

Microsoft Loop components extend the capabilities of Microsoft Teams and Outlook, supporting small-group collaboration and flexibility so you can remain in sync-anywhere, anytime. Loop components are live and can be copied and pasted across Teams and Outlook - staying in sync in all the places they exist. An image providing an example of the Loop components pop-up menu in Microsoft Teams. These components are available in Microsoft Teams chat and coming soon to Outlook. An image providing an example of available permission settings for Loop components in Microsoft Teams. Some users find that using a Loop component is preferable to saving a Word document for just a few sentences because Loop components are less formal, and people feel more comfortable making suggestions or changes. Loop components allow groups to collaborate wherever they are, whether it's across town or spanning multiple time zones-all with a single click within a Teams chat or Outlook email. Read more at https://bit.ly/3Nd2FC0 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

New site template updates: new templates and the template history panel

It's been exciting to see how all of you are using SharePoint site templates since we released the feature last year. As with all of our other Microsoft-provided site templates, these are automatically available in SharePoint tenants and can be applied by users with site owner permissions or higher. Select Browse templates to see Microsoft templates and templates from your organization. Or apply a template to an existing site by navigating to Settings and then select Apply a site template. We've released the site template history panel. Site owners will be able to access the Site information panel from within Settings, and then select View template history. A history of all site templates previously applied to the site will then be displayed. Read more at https://bit.ly/3n5JPlH Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

New Feature for Servicing Profiles

Based on input from admins from around the world, we added and extended controls for Servicing profiles. If you haven't yet, check out our documentation or introduction video for Servicing profiles. Wave Customization enables you as an admin to create customized deployment rings and stagger the rollout of updates Rollback by Groups acts as a safety net in case of regressions Exclude Devices allows you to exclude devices from automated updates Option to target all devices simplifies the configuration of Servicing profiles if you simply want to go all in Adjusted disk space control removes the lower limit of a minimum 5 GB free disk space for updates. By default, Servicing profiles staggers an update deployment across four days, updating a random subset of devices each day. Servicing profiles offer you controls to target devices e.g. based on the update channel, usage of macros and more. Devices with less free disk space were excluded from Servicing profiles managing the monthly updates. If you haven't before, please take a look at Servicing profiles. Read more at https://bit.ly/3bePAe1 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Tech therapy with Sue Hanley The Intrazone Microsoftpodcast

Let the knowledge transfer begin! And never stop - with confidence to go, go, go. On this episode, Chris and I chat with Sue Hanley and her customer, Carol Zollinger - whose organization provides a safe environment to meet the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs of children from all across Ohio. Be sure to visit our show page to hear all the episodes, access the show notes, and get bonus content. Stay connected to the SharePoint community blog where we'll share more information per episode, guest insights, and take any questions from our listeners and SharePoint users. We, too, welcome your ideas for future episodes topics and segments. Keep the discussion going in comments below; we're hear to listen and grow. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. Read more at https://bit.ly/3babvmY Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Working with templates in Microsoft Lists

You can save a lot of time using templates when creating new Microsoft Lists. Take a scroll and learn more about working with templates in Microsoft Lists. Our hope is that these templates will save you time and cover many of the common scenarios for using Microsoft Lists. Learn more about ready-made templates for Microsoft Lists in Microsoft 365. Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview is a lightweight version of the Microsoft Lists app designed for small business and individual use in conjunction with your Microsoft account. Learn more the Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview and try it today - go to lists. To learn more about Lists throughout the year, please visit our Microsoft Lists resource center for blogs, demos, help content, videos, podcasts, and more. Read more at https://bit.ly/3b4LaXm Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Submit your application to be a Microsoft Community Board Officer

Every person is eligible but successful candidates will have some experience within the community directly and/or community event organizing skills. Community Board voting members hold working volunteer positions on behalf of the community. Active recruitment into the community of members, sponsors and event organizers. Organizing Microsoft Community Days events in their home region. Driving awareness of the MCAB initiative and Microsoft Community Days events through social media, speaking engagements and publications. Adherence to the Microsoft Community Code of Conduct in all interactions. Applications are open until June 30th. The shortlist of candidates will present to the broader community at our next General Session meeting. Read more at https://bit.ly/3OjCdrv Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Most used SharePoint Framework solutions from the Store

We are excited to see the continuous growth on the submissions of the SharePoint Framework solutions to the app source and on the usage of the SharePoint store. My Links is a SharePoint app where you can add and manage your web links through an intuitive interface. After installing My Links in a SharePoint page and adding your links, you can also install the My Links web part in another location and your original links will be available to you at the new location. My Links can be installed in multiple SharePoint locations, always providing you quick access to your original links list. Cerkl Broadcast for SharePoint provides unique notifications to employees through your existing SharePoint. SharePoint Employee Directory Plus is free, fully featured 30 days trial for one office 365 tenant upto 999 users. Please see following resources around getting started on building extensibility for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint using SharePoint Framework. Read more at https://bit.ly/3mHx7JT Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Create M365 Group with Sensitivity Label programmatically

Creating the M365 group with Sensitivity Label starts the modern Team site with desired protection. This can be done with SPO Rest API or Microsoft Graph API, both require delegated permissions. The following sample scripts use AAD App ROPC authentication flow, which is documented in https://docs. Read more at https://bit.ly/3HhPRZT Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Microsoft 365 Assessment tool helps scan for active SharePoint 2013 workflows

Since the release of SharePoint workflows, Microsoft has evolved orchestration to not only encompass SharePoint, but all the productivity services you use within Microsoft 365 and extend to 3rd party apps, through Power Automate. Power Automate for workflow orchestration connects to all Microsoft 365 services and over 220 other services to let an enterprise build custom workflows. SharePoint 2010 Workflows was retired as of November 1st, 2020 with the notice that we would also retire SharePoint Workflow 2013 in the future. Although we currently do not have a timeline to announce for SharePoint 2013 Workflow retirement, it is strongly recommended to move 2013 workflows to the Power Automate platform or some other modern workflow orchestration solution. To help, a new, open-source Microsoft 365 Assessment tool is available to help you identify and evaluate the usage of SharePoint 2013 workflows in your tenant. To understand if your organization is using any SharePoint 2013 Workflows or begin planning migration to Power Automate, we recommend that customers run the Microsoft 365 Assessment tool to scan your tenants for active 2013 workflows. Identify all SharePoint 2013 workflows in the tenant, per site collection and site Evaluate the recency and volume of usage of SharePoint 2013 workflows Identify the Lists, libraries and content types that use the 2013 workflows Power Automate upgradability score indicating if the detected actions in the workflows are upgradable to flows on Power Automate. Read more at https://bit.ly/39sQa7t Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Calling macOS Admins: OneDrive Sync Reports are in Public Preview!

With so many people working in a hybrid environment and relying on cloud services like OneDrive and SharePoint, it's critical to have insights into the health of OneDrive sync across your organization. Today we're excited to announce the public preview of OneDrive Sync Admin Reports for macOS in Microsoft 365 Apps admin center. IT admins can now use sync health reports to get an overview of the sync client across both macOS and Windows. Check out some of the key benefits of Sync Admin reports for macOS devices. When you open the OneDrive Sync health dashboard, you'll see an executive summary of what's going on with OneDrive sync app in your organization. The OneDrive Sync health dashboard also shows you what percentage of macOS devices have these folders syncing to OneDrive. You can stay up-to-date on all things via the OneDrive Blog and the OneDrive release notes. Read more at https://bit.ly/3NVgh5K Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog