Enhance the diagramming experience in Microsoft Teams with the new Visio app

An image demonstrating how to pin the Visio app in Microsoft Teams by right-clicking the Visio icon. An image demonstrating how to unpin the Visio app in Microsoft Teams by right-clicking the Visio icon. An image demonstrating how to pop out the Visio app in Microsoft Teams in a new window. It's important to note that any Visio files shared via a Teams chat will open in the Visio app in Teams by default. An image of a Visio file shared in a Microsoft Teams chat demonstrating the menu options available to open the file in Teams, the Visio desktop app, or the Visio web app. Microsoft 365 commercial subscribers and Visio Plan 1 and Visio Plan 2 subscribers with a Microsoft Teams license will be able to view, edit, and create Visio files in 31 languages supported by the Visio app in Teams. Check out what features are in development or coming soon on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap or view roadmap item, Visio personal app in Microsoft Teams. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/42r9gjK Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft 365 Lighthouse Deployment Insights

Lighthouse provides a comprehensive security baseline and helps you deploy it across your customers' tenants - which is VERY cool - but what's even cooler is the ability to see the deployment status of every task and every user across every tenant that you manage on a single pane of glass! Previously, even with the comprehensive deployment capabilities of Lighthouse, you would have to look at each tenant, one-by-one, to understand their deployment status, review deployment exceptions, and figure out which tenants you should focus on at any given time. If you're an admin, you can use deployment insights to assign deployment activities across your team and audit deployment exceptions. If you're a service engineer, you can use deployment insights to quantify threats based on user- and task-level deployment progress so you can prioritize your deployment activities. If you're in sales, you can use deployment insights to identify which tenants need additional licenses to complete their deployment plan. Deployment insights can be viewed by tenant or by task. Lighthouse has powerful deployment capabilities that allow you to tailor baselines for each tenant that you manage which means that you need equally powerful reporting capabilities to help you audit and manage deployment exceptions as your tenant management strategies evolve. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3IXW0wp Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Microsoft SharePoint roadmap pitstop May 2023

May 2023 brought great new offerings to SharePoint and Microsoft 365: Customizable Viva Connections mobile dashboard, Syntex image tagger, Syntex prebuilt model for contracts, OneDrive: Simplified sharing, Loop components in Outlook Mobile, and more. In the above podcast episode, we share an audio clip of Rajesh Jha - EVP for experiences and devices at Microsoft when he spoke at the Microsoft 365 Conference about his first time seeing ChatGPT-4 with Bill Gates, Sam Altman, and other members of the senior leadership team - that initial wow impact that laid the foundation for Copilot innovation at Microsoft. 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. 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 in the AI era Design video throughout SharePoint with Microsoft Stream The new OneDrive: fast, organized, and personalized Refreshed user interface Home, people, and meetings views to get back to your work quickly. Microsoft 365 public roadmap + pre-filtered URL for SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer and Stream roadmap items. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3OPVW5C Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Microsoft 365 Admin Monthly Digest

Welcome to the Microsoft 365 IT admin blog, your monthly source of tips, insights, and best practices for managing and optimizing your Microsoft 365 environment. Microsoft developed the Adoption Score and Experience Insights dashboard to help IT departments gain insight into how their users are adopting Microsoft 365 services. Reports Reader: The Reports reader role is for people who need to view usage data and the activity reports in the Microsoft 365 admin center, get access to the Power BI adoption content pack, access sign-in reports and activity in Azure AD, or view data returned by the Microsoft Graph reporting API. Message center reader: People assigned this role can monitor message center notifications, receive weekly email digest of message center posts, share message center posts, read-only access to Azure AD services. For a full list, check out Admin roles in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Microsoft also recently rolled out the Accessibility Baselines to the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center earlier this month. Lastly, on May 25th, we held a Microsoft 365 Insider AMA to discuss the benefits of the Microsoft 365 Insider program and why you should join. While we continue to share IT admin highlights and insights in this blog series, consider also subscribing to Microsoft 365 admin center updates on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/43rFexC Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft Viva Connections solutions are now available in the Microsoft AppSource

Microsoft Viva Connections is your gateway to modern employee experience and is designed to keep everyone engaged and informed on any device through Microsoft Teams. Viva Connections is a customizable app in Microsoft Teams that gives different audiences in your organization a personalized destination to discover other Viva apps your organization is licensed for, relevant news, conversations, and the tools they need to succeed. Viva Connections is a great option for the Microsoft Teams ISV partners to expose their solutions in a new surface with millions of end users. Here's a video showcasing how you can find and acquire Viva Connections apps from the Microsoft AppSource. Viva Connections solutions are powered by the SharePoint Framework, which can be also used for extending other Microsoft 365 experiences like Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 app and more. Here are some resources to get started with the Microsoft Viva Connections and building extensibility for Microsoft Viva with SharePoint Framework. If you are looking to build experiences for Microsoft 365, we strongly recommend joining our community calls and other Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community activities covering Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Teams, Power Platform, Microsoft Viva, OneDrive, SharePoint and more. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3oETOTu Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Tech Community Live Microsoft Ask Microsoft Anything AMA for SharePoint OneDrive Lists and Stream

Four AMAs in one! Join us for a special Ask Microsoft Anything live video stream across four Microsoft content collaboration products: SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, and Stream! Our product teams will be answering your questions about future roadmap and recent innovation - and offering insights on what to expect in the coming months. June 14th, 2023 from 10:00am - 11:30am PT Add to calendar and join live: aka. Each team will present five minutes of content to catch you up on the highlights, and to spark what questions you might ask, and then have 10-15 minutes to take your questions. Microsoft AMA banner with SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, and Stream icons. Get the most out of your files with significant updates to the overall OneDrive user interface - a more simple and personalized experience. Your information collaboration is poised to get more intuitive, focused, and powerful. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/43q2fRy Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Frontline workers using shared Android devices can use Outlook, Edge, Viva Engage, and Power Apps

Companies often provide mobile devices to frontline workers that need to be shared between shifts. Microsoft's shared device mode allows frontline workers to easily authenticate by automatically signing users in and out of all the apps that have enabled this feature. We are announcing the general availability of Outlook, Edge, Viva Engage, and Power Apps on shared Android devices, joining the portfolio of apps including, Microsoft Teams and Managed Home Screen. Once signed into a shared Android device, frontline workers can immediately send and receive emails on Outlook to communicate with team members and their leadership team. On the right is an example of an inventory request in the Power Apps mobile app. With shared device mode support on Edge, frontline workers can now access any web-based app after signing into a shared Android device - they can easily resolve customer issues by bringing up a shipping app to check delivery status or searching internal wikis to answer technical questions. At the end of their shifts, frontline workers can sign-out easily with just one-click, removing all browser information on Edge or personal information on Viva Engage so that they can return it to the device pool for the next person to use. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3WwbVrl Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Public Preview for Network Provider Performance and Availability Reporting

We are thrilled to announce the availability of a Public Preview for network provider performance and availability reporting in the Microsoft 365 admin center. With these new reports, admins can see their users' network performance and availability based on the detected network provider. Network performance and availability relates to the network connectivity between Microsoft 365 users and Microsoft's network. The new reports show tenant-wide information but if you added office network locations, then we provide reports based on office location, as well. Network connectivity reports in the Microsoft 365 admin center. We will be sharing network performance and availability information with network providers and offering suggestions for improvements that relate to the Microsoft 365 user experience. If you are a network provider and want to learn more, see https://aka. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3MLeT7X Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Introducing Favorites in the Microsoft 365 app for Android

Favoriting a file is an easy way to ensure you can always find your favorite files faster. Whether it's a travel document, receipt, or your medical report, you can now favorite the file in the Microsoft 365 app and easily find it in the Favorites tab on the Home page. If these files are stored in your OneDrive, they will be available in your Favorites on www. Navigate to quick actions at the bottom of the file card, tap Favorite, and the file will appear in the Favorites tab. To remove a file from the Favorites tab, tap the Favorite button again to unfavorite. The file will no longer appear in the Favorites tab. Check out what features are in development or coming soon on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, or view roadmap item, OneDrive: Favorite/Unfavorite files. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4229VYV Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Helping Customers Fix Their Own Issues with Microsoft Defender for Office 365

We're excited to welcome one of our Microsoft 365 Supportability team members to talk more about working with Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Alex: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 boosts productivity, simplifies administration, helps prevent and remediate advanced threats, raises employee threat awareness, and keeps a secure posture. We include relevant videos from the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 playlist in self-help insights. An image of the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 playlist on the Microsoft Security YouTube channel. Microsoft 365 Defender for Office 365 documentation has information on permissions you'll need to view features or make changes, detailed instructions on how features work, relevant videos, and other learning content. An image of the start page for the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 setup guide in the Microsoft 365 admin center. If you have questions or feedback about Microsoft Defender for Office 365, engage with the community and Microsoft experts in the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 forum or visit the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Blog in the Security, Compliance, and Identity community. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3o8A0rk Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft Search Connecting You to Knowledge and Expertise

Microsoft Search is deeply connected - natively to Microsoft 365 and via Graph Connectors to additional sources - moving beyond disparate silos, enabling discoverability of all important content. Microsoft Search finds information about people, resources, and data in one place, no matter where you search from. Microsoft Search works together with Microsoft Viva and Syntex, enhancing employee experiences and powering rich content intelligence. Below, we focus on three scenarios plus a peek at the near future - to represent the breadth of Search capabilities with Microsoft 365, each with demo videos to see it all in action and to best understand the full value of Microsoft Search. Microsoft Search allows you to bring third-party content in the mix with core Microsoft 365-based content - allowing users to get to all the content they work on in one place. Microsoft Search uses insights from Microsoft Graph to show results that are relevant to each user. Learn more about Microsoft Search, including Search admin documentation. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3BA3Sjy Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Upcoming May 2023 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

Join our next community call on May 23 to talk about Group Level Aggregates and Organizational Messages in Adoption Score, as well as a Community Spotlight segment. We will be starting the call at 5 minutes past the hour for both of our sessions, and it will still end at the top of the hour. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3Id0j6I Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

"Adobe plus Microsoft The Intrazone podcast

We touch on Adobe integration with Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Teams, Edge, SharePoint and more. We, too, take a trip down PDF memory lane and some of the recent Adobe AI announcements coming out of the recent Adobe Summit 2023 AND NAB 2023. Sit back and get up to speed on how two companies are better than one. Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Be sure to visit our show page to hear all 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 or suggestions from our listeners and SharePoint users. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3ObgV2t Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Create and customize your org charts using new capabilities in Visio for the web

Today, we're excited to announce new capabilities to help you quickly create and further customize your org charts to make them even more informative and useful. Visio Plan 1 and Visio Plan 2 subscribers can access a menu of new formatting options from the new Format Org Chart task pane. An image of an org chart in Visio for the web demonstrating how to manually open the new Format Org Chart task pane. An image of an org chart in Visio for the web highlighting the new Node Style options in the Format Org Chart task pane. An image of an org chart in Visio for the web highlighting the new Upload Photos button in the Format Org Chart task pane. An image of an org chart in Visio for the web highlighting the new Employee Fields options in the Format Org Chart task pane. An image of an org chart in Visio for the web demonstrating how to create a new child node using the plus button. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/41Bgq4Q Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Community Spotlight- Meet Sean McEvoy- Business Applications Specialist at Aleron

Welcome to the first of our series: Community Spotlight! Each month we are highlighting Community Superheroes who are giving back to the community by sharing their story in our Community Spotlight Series. Sean leveraged his business and marketing background to understand the organization's needs and rebuilt a net new CRM system from scratch-based on the team's specifications. This achievement caught the attention of the Aleron leadership team, and within eight months, Sean was then given the duties of Dynamics 365 Administrator in the IT department, and promoted to Enterprise Application Analyst. Sean is an excellent example of how an individual with a business background in marketing can succeed in the technology field. A testament to the power of self-learning and the many resources available to individuals looking to break into a new field, Sean leveraged online learning platforms, community resources, and trial and error to develop the skills he needed to transition to a new field. To further advance his skills and provide him with a recognized credential to demonstrate his expertise in the field, Sean is currently working on the Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate course and badge. Community articles and resources: Using these invaluable sources of information to break into a new field, through trial and error, Sean was able to experiment with the technology and learn from his mistakes, developing a deep understanding of how to use the Power Platform effectively. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3MniV6i Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Microsoft 365 Lighthouse helps you secure and improve the health of your customer tenants

Microsoft 365 Lighthouse makes it easier than ever for Managed Service Providers to deliver services to small- and medium-sized customers at scale, with multi-tenant management capabilities that help secure users, devices, apps, and data across customer tenants. With a comprehensive security baseline that ensures your customer tenants are healthy and secure, an intuitive deployment process, and rich deployment insights, Lighthouse helps MSPs spend more time proactively securing their customer tenants and less time reactively resolving security threats or breaches. The Microsoft 365 Lighthouse Security baseline provides standard tenant configurations that deploy core security policies and compliance standards that keep your tenants' users, devices, apps, and data secure. Lighthouse saves you the trouble by checking newly onboarded tenants to see how they're configured and comparing detected configurations to your deployment plan, so you'll know whether and to what degree each task is already done for each tenant before you even begin, helping you configure tenants faster than ever before - lowering your cost to serve and accelerating your journey to managing a Zero-Trust environment across all of your customers' tenants. Securing your customer tenants It's not just about helping you do the right work - it's also helping you do the work right! You can complete tasks by deploying a new configuration to the tenant right from Lighthouse or by helping you edit the existing configurations to meet the task's requirements. Animation showing how to review detected configurations in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3MjNXMc Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

"Jeff Teper is your Copilot" 🎙

Get your wings as we dig into all the announcements from May 2, 2023 - as presented at the Microsoft 365 Conference in Jeff's opening keynote. On today's episode, we drink from the news firehose with Captain Jeff Teper. We grabbed time with Jeff onsite in Vegas shortly after he and his team delivered a 90-minute whirlwind opener of a keynote - one that covered the value of community, the breadth of Copilot technology, the New Teams, big SharePoint disclosures - including Copilot in SharePoint, new OneDrive experiences, Lists goodness, and value for IT with recent admin and security innovation. Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Be sure to visit our show page to hear all 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 or suggestions from our listeners and SharePoint users. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/42uHt2T Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Coordination is the key to spontaneity with these features in Outlook on the web and Teams

Spontaneity in flexible working requires coordination. Today we are highlighting Microsoft 365 features that will bring transparency and focus on where you and your colleagues are working: work hours and location. These features will appear in Outlook on the web and Teams and bring the flexibility of enabling users to share where they are working. The work hours and location features allow you to specify more details about your work schedule and preferences, like from where you're working and whether you work different hours on different days. Set your work hours and location in Outlook and sync with Teams. When your schedule changes, as it often does in a flexible work environment, it is easy to make adjustments to your schedule in Outlook and Teams and have them sync, reducing the number of tools to communicate your presence. These new Outlook and Teams features work together to allow you to easily share where you're working within Microsoft products you're regularly using to communicate other aspects of your schedule. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3Mg5JA6 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Empower your organization to achieve more with the Accessibility Baseline.

Our latest addition to the Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center and Cloud Policy is the Accessibility Baseline. It is a set of accessibility policies and or recommend settings for policies to enable Accessible document creation across tour organization. If you're using Microsoft 365 Apps, you're good to go! This feature is embedded in the Cloud Policy toolset in the Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center and will enable an IT Pro to configure policies which are centered around accessible document creation. Example: Screen shot of the Accessibility Bassline with the current policies filtered and configuring a policy for Microsoft Excel. Office.com with an Excel policy configured. As you can see once the policy is configured the end user cannot turn off Check for accessibility while editing. Screenshot of the Accessibility options in the backstage of Excel showing a policy configured. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/42vchkh Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

The Future of Customer Support: Creativity in Customer Support

Ross Smith: I want to talk about creativity in customer support. There are several ways in which large language models like me can be used to support creative problem-solving in customer support. In summary, while large language models like me may not be able to originate completely new ideas, they can be leveraged to augment human creativity and support agents in generating innovative solutions to customer problems. ChatGPT: Yes, it is possible that future LLMs may be able to inject more nuanced and creative metaphors into their responses to support customer support interactions. In summary, while there are still significant challenges to overcome in enabling machines to generate truly creative and nuanced language, there is promising research and development underway that suggests that future large language models may be able to inject more sophisticated metaphors and values into their responses to support customer support interactions. Modern customer support: Customer support is increasingly becoming more technologically-driven, utilizing AI and automation to improve efficiency and deliver personalized experiences. To build a better future for the next generation, we must foster a culture of creativity and interdisciplinary thinking in all aspects of life, from customer support to the future of work. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3HyTb45 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

SharePoint in the AI Era: Introducing Copilot in SharePoint & 10 more innovations for creators

Today, we're excited to share the latest SharePoint innovations that will make it simpler for everyone to build more compelling and engaging SharePoint sites and pages. Simpler authoring - introducing Copilot in SharePoint, a new SharePoint home page, and coauthoring experiences. Combining the power of Large Language Models, your data in the Microsoft Graph, and our best practices for creating engaging web content, Copilot in SharePoint turns your words into SharePoint sites and pages. The new SharePoint start makes it simple to create SharePoint content. When combined with the new SharePoint start, these improvements make it easier than ever to connect SharePoint to more collaborative team needs. That's why we built SharePoint news, which generates over one billion impressions for SharePoint content every month. Customers rely on SharePoint to provide site and page templating, UX-layer parts and plug-ins using the SharePoint Framework, and data access via Microsoft Graph. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3Vqp2cP Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Experience the New OneDrive: Fast, Organized, and Personalized

We are excited to announce a new OneDrive experience for work and school that starts with the OneDrive home page and spans file experiences across Microsoft 365. The new features and upgraded design make it faster to get to all your personal, shared, and team files in OneDrive so you can be more productive. The new OneDrive Home experience reduces the time to find your files so you can spend more time doing. The best newsthis new home experience in now available in OneDrive for work and school, with AI file recommendations coming soon! Find and work with your files effortlessly with the new OneDrive for Web home experience. Now, you can easily favorite files in OneDrive using the familiar 'star-tap' experience found in Microsoft 365 apps. We're optimizing the unified file sharing experience OneDrive delivers across Microsoft 365. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3nuAXtA Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

New era in content management and security in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams

As the sprawl of Teams and SharePoint sites contribute to the exponential growth of your organization's digital estate, it's important to identify the top sites that require close attention. SharePoint admin views SharePoint data access governance insights and triggers site access reviews to site owners, and restricts access for an overshared site, Project Apollo. Users who are not the current members of the specified security groups will be denied access even if the site or its content was previously shared with them by breaking inheritance from the site permission. It empowers SharePoint admins to control the list of third-party applications allowed access to a given SharePoint site or OneDrive. For sites connected to Teams, the inactivity status will be determined by evaluating user actions in both Teams and the SharePoint site. SharePoint admin creates an inactive site policy in SharePoint admin center and site owner responds to the policy notification. Organization lifecycle management SharePoint cross-tenant sites content migration - Private preview. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/44oOG67 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft Lists: Easier, Better, Faster, Stronger

Microsoft Lists is designed to unlock your team's full potential by reducing the strain and drudgery of keeping everybody organized, on the same page, and moving forward together. We're proud to announce a batch of changes coming later this year that make Lists faster and more powerful than ever before. This much-lauded feature from Lists MSA is coming to all Lists this summer! Everybody should experience the magic of sharing a list in a meeting and seeing those recipients file in and start moving around the list making updates with you. We are making it easier to collect and gather information through a new forms experience built right inside Microsoft Lists. Microsoft Lists first and foremost is about empowering normal people to create versatile and efficient databases to run their teams. For those of you using the Lists MSA preview to organize information for your personal life, your small business, or your side hustle - rest assured, the changes described in this post are coming to those lists as well. We're also proud to announce that Lists MSA support is coming to the Lists iOS app by the end of May, and Android app support is coming by the end of June. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/41VYbYN Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft launches the Teams Payments app for small businesses

Our vision for Microsoft Teams has always been to bring together communication and collaboration tools in one place, from chat and meetings to apps and files-and now payments. The new Payments app, currently in public preview in the Teams Store, allows small businesses in the United States and Canada to easily manage and collect payments from within Teams on your desktop or mobile device during a meeting. We have partnered with some of the largest players in the payments space to combine the core collaboration capabilities in Teams with powerful commerce features in the first-of-its-kind app that allows you to accept payment during business conversations. Once the Payments app is configured and you've established a connection to your GoDaddy Payments, PayPal, and Stripe account(s), you can send a payment request to your customers during a meeting in just a few clicks. An at-a-glance view of payments you have received, and those still outstanding, helps you manage payments from customers. The Payments app is available in public preview in the Teams Store for Teams Essentials and Microsoft 365 business subscribers at no charge. Learn more about how Microsoft is serving SMBs in our National Small Business Week blog: Microsoft 365 innovations across AI, payments, and collaboration tools to help small and medium businesses grow. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3ViudM5 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Microsoft 365 Admin Monthly Digest

In this month's Microsoft 365 Admin Digest issue, we'll dive into Microsoft's latest AI research, a new case study about change management with Microsoft 365, Microsoft's latest AI research, show you where to find relevant trainings for your users, and share details about important changes coming to Exchange Online. Since those roles are often the first to receive notifications of upcoming changes in the Message center, their feedback through the Microsoft 365 admin center can influence future roadmap items. We've already covered some of the tools in the Microsoft 365 admin center that can support this, like Adoption Score and Experience Insights, through greater insights into productivity. The technical upskilling and Microsoft certifications in last month's Admin Digest blog post can help the latter determine the best ways to use AI for their orgs. Microsoft domain that will bring authenticated, user-facing Microsoft 365 apps and services onto a single, consistent and cohesive domain. While we continue share IT admin highlights and insights in this blog series, consider also subscribing to Microsoft 365 admin center updates from the Microsoft 365 Roadmap. We also highlight new feature releases and enhancements released each month in our What's new in the Microsoft 365 admin center article. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3LmtyET Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop April 2023 The Intrazone

April 2022 brought some great new offerings: Project integration in Viva Goals, Viva Connections: Mobile SharePoint site navigation, improved Graph Connector content results, eDiscovery document version shared, Microsoft Lists: Applied filters, Microsoft Loop:.fluid >. Teamwork updates across SharePoint team sites, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. Create SharePoint pages and news, and other content types, right from within the SharePoint app bar. From the SharePoint app bar, select the Create button and then select an option from SharePoint News post or SharePoint page, right alongside existing ability to create SharePoint sites, new Microsoft Lists or the Microsoft 365 app files - Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote), and more. Our overall solution blends Microsoft Syntex, SharePoint, Microsoft Viva, and Microsoft Teams - compelling to adopt and pleased to be recognized by Forrester. Since the release of SharePoint workflows, Microsoft has evolved workflow orchestration to not only encompass SharePoint, but all the productivity services you use with Microsoft 365 and beyond. Starting April 2nd, 2026, Microsoft will remove the ability to run, or create and execute SharePoint 2013 workflows for existing tenants. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3LebzA8 Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Set up GDAP

Through an experience designed specifically for MSPs, Lighthouse simplifies the process of setting up delegated access and empowers MSPs to set up GDAP end-to-end. Lighthouse offers GDAP templates to help MSPs save time and reapply GDAP settings as new customers are onboarded. To segment permissions across customers, we've enabled the capability to set up multiple GDAP templates. Setting up GDAP means your customers and users are set up for success. Migrate to GDAP using Lighthouse's recommendations before key milestonesMicrosoft will begin automatically migrating DAP relationships to GDAP relationships with a limited set of roles at the end of May 2023. Ahead of these dates, we recommend that MSPs use Lighthouse's GDAP setup wizard to transition their customers to GDAP and adopt our recommendations to ensure customer access isn't disrupted. For a limited time, Lighthouse makes it possible to set up GDAP relationships automatically for any customer tenant that still has DAP. After DAP is deprecated, MSPs will require customer approval for new GDAP relationships. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3HsN2WW Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Introducing cloud.microsoft: a unified domain for Microsoft 365 apps and services

As Microsoft cloud services have grown over the years, the domain space they live on has grown as well - into the hundreds. An image depicting a word cloud of dozens of different URLs on several different domains, all for existing Microsoft apps and services. That's why today we're excited to announce that Microsoft is beginning to reduce this fragmentation by bringing authenticated, user-facing Microsoft 365 apps and services onto a single, consistent and cohesive domain: cloud. Consolidating authenticated user-facing Microsoft 365 experiences onto a single domain will benefit customers in several ways. Microsoft TLD. Exclusive ownership enables enhanced security protocols and governance controls, and the value of security investments done at the top-level domain seamlessly accrue to the apps. Microsoft domain can be assumed to be legitimate and authentic: anyone attempting domain spoofing would have to go through Microsoft itself, as we are both the registry operator and sole registrant for this exclusive, trusted namespace. To learn more, visit Managing Microsoft 365 endpoints, and be sure to join us for an Ask Microsoft Anything on Wednesday, May 24th at 8:00 AM Pacific time to chat further with the leaders of this initiative about what to expect. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4473s1e Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Cloud Policy service adds the ability to apply policies to everyone

Today begins the rollout for a new feature in the Cloud Policy service that allows you to create a policy configuration that applies to all users. This new option does not require you to select a group or worry about managing group membership, simply choose the option 'This policy configuration applies to all users' and the policies you configure will be applied to all users and the apps they use that support those policies. 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/41VC304 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Access your Microsoft 365 cloud emissions data with the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability API

Today, we are pleased to announce that customers can access their Microsoft 365 cloud emissions data via the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability API. An image of the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability API web portal demonstrating the new Microsoft 365 data source, availability status and connection button that you can toggle on or off. The Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability API allows you to access greenhouse gas emissions associated with your usage of Azure and Microsoft 365 services by scope type, month, year and region. For Microsoft 365, the data pulled through the API is consistent with the Emissions Impact Dashboard for Microsoft 365: datacenter emissions associated with your organization's usage of Exchange Online, Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This calculation is market-based, meaning that it takes into account Microsoft's renewable energy power purchases. Along with the general availability announcement of the Emissions Impact Dashboard for Microsoft 365 last fall, we also published guidance in this Microsoft 365 Sustainability whitepaper on how admins and end users can act to help influence Microsoft 365 datacenter emissions. Organizations can now configure access to both emissions related to usage of Microsoft 365 services as well as emissions related to Azure usage from the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability API portal, discoverable on the Microsoft Cloud Solutions Center. Microsoft 365 admins can enable access to their data across the organization with role-based permissions. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/43O9vr4 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Upcoming April 2023 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

Join our next community call on April 25 to dive into the Microsoft 365 Experience Insights dashboard. We will be starting the call at 5 minutes past the hour, and it will still end at 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM PT, respectively. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/41jQL1b Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Support update for SharePoint 2013 workflow in Microsoft 365

As part of this evolution of Microsoft 365 solutions, we retired SharePoint 2010 workflow as of November 1, 2020. In continuation with this, we will be retiring SharePoint 2013 workflow and believe Microsoft 365 customers will be better served by modern workflow solutions. If you are using SharePoint 2013 workflow, we recommend migrating to Power Automate or other supported workflow orchestration solutions such as those from Preferred members of our Microsoft 365 Business Apps Partner Program. If your tenant is using a 3rd party workflow engine, you should also inquire if it has a dependency on Workflow 2013 and work through options to migrate to a future offering of the workflow engine. To understand if your organization is using SharePoint 2013 workflow or begin planning migration to Power Automate or other 3rd party orchestration tools, we recommend that customers run the Microsoft 365 Assessment tool to scan their tenants for SharePoint 2013 workflows usage. Using the Workflow Report along with site information, tenant administrators can plan the migration of SharePoint 2013 workflows with minimal impact to the users. Since the release of SharePoint workflows, Microsoft has evolved workflow orchestration to not only encompass SharePoint, but all the productivity services you use with Microsoft 365 and extend to 3rd parties. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3GP48hJ Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

New solutions to transform the manufacturing workforce with Microsoft Teams

AI-infused virtual agents will be readily available in all Power Apps, allowing frontline manufacturing workers to easily find intelligent answers within the context of their manufacturing applications. This new capability allows frontline workers to harness the power of data and AI to quickly identify manufacturing problems and solutions with PVA in Power Platform and Teams. Expanding the value of our partnership capabilities for frontline manufacturing workers, Microsoft Teams and RealWear have improved the app to enhance zooming capabilities, now with four levels of digital zoom within Teams on RealWear Navigator® 500. With information access being so critical to the safety and success of the manufacturing workforce, we're excited to announce that Microsoft Viva Connections pre-configuration for frontline workers is now generally available. This year at HMI, we're excited to announce that Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) shared device mode support for Microsoft Outlook, Edge, Yammer, and Power Apps on Android devices will be generally available in May, joining the portfolio of apps including Teams that can be securely accessed through Microsoft Intune. CTA. Learn more about products and capabilities purpose-built for frontline manufacturing workers at the Teams for frontline workers website. Explore innovative end-to-end manufacturing solutions and stay updated on announcements from the Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing by reading the latest blog post and visiting the Cloud for Manufacturing website. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3KZmX4h Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Transform patient care with virtual visits

From virtual visits to AI-infused virtual agents, Microsoft's latest healthcare solutions are designed to streamline patient care and increase engagement. Virtual Appointments in Microsoft Teams provides an out-of-the-box solution for clinicians to make patient-care team interactions as easy and personalized as possible, now generally available. With Teams Premium, you can facilitate a seamless care experience that allows your patients to receive text reminders and join custom branded virtual appointments through their mobile devices-without downloading Teams. Schedule and launch virtual visits with Microsoft Teams EHR connector. For healthcare organizations using Epic* or Oracle Cerner**, the Microsoft Teams EHR Connector enables care teams to schedule and launch Teams virtual visits directly from their electronic health record system. The connector gives patients flexibility with the option to join virtual visits via browser, the Teams app, patient provider portals, or SMS, and offers support for group visits. To help relieve the burden on care teams, at Microsoft Ignite 2022, we introduced our partnership with UKG, a leader in human capital and workforce management with over 70,000 customers in 150 countries. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/41gTMyS Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Request external files into SharePoint document libraries

Now we have extended the same capability for SharePoint - specifically requesting file into document libraries. A file request can start from a link in your email signature, a link in a chat, a hyperlink that is a part of your intake or onboarding processes with customers, clients, and vendors. To start, you simply select a folder you want the recipient to place documents into and click Request Files. The recipient clicks on the link, picks her or his files, and uploads - only able to see the files they upload. The original requestor will get an email when new files are added - seeing the new files with the name of the person who uploaded them. Once guest sharing is enabled, site owners and members can select a folder to request files into - after which you can send a unique link or email direct from the SharePoint user interface. What a recipient sees when they click on a request files link - a web page with a simple browse and upload experience; no access or visibility to anything else in the sender's SharePoint environment. Admins can use the SharePoint Online Management Shell to disable or enable the Request Files feature on OneDrive or SharePoint sites. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3GzuJ28 Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Develop Applications that use Sites.Selected permissions for SPO sites.

Microsoft Graph APIs have improved consistently over the years. Step II, Give Target Application the permission for Graph API and/or SharePoint API in Azure Portal depending on whether you will access the site resource withGraph API, like, https://graph. If you need to use SharePoint APIs, for example, SPO Rest API, SPO CSOM, you give SharePoint API permissions. Selected Application permission, you can use Graph API to access the site. Selected Application permission, you can use SharePoint Rest API or CSOM to access the site. NOTE, For SharePoint APIs, you cannot use just client secret to do the authentication, you have to setup certificate to gain Access Token. To Test the access to specific site, you can use following sample PowerShell script to get App Only Access Token and retrieve the site with Graph API, see reference https://learn. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3ZVLGum Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Join us April 20 for an insider look into the Microsoft Teams Emergency Operations Center

The Microsoft Teams Emergency Operations Center solution template leverages the power of the Microsoft 365 platform to centralize incident response, information sharing and field communications using powerful services like Microsoft Lists, SharePoint, and more. An open-source solution supported by Microsoft, it provides core functionality out of the box or can be extended to meet specific agency requirements. Join experts for a live chat throughout the webinar to learn how the Teams for Emergency Operations Center tool can help enable your public safety organization to streamline operations. This webinar is suitable for emergency management personnel and public safety to learn about these key capabilities. Leveraging this template will accelerate your collaboration framework in Emergency Management Operations. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3MufUBA Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

OneNote Copilot

We are thrilled to announce that the Microsoft 365 Copilot is coming to OneNote. That's why Copilot is being integrated directly into OneNote. An animated image demonstrating how to use Copilot to make a to-do list in OneNote. Copilot in OneNote Your digital notebook reimagined with Copilot. Copilot in OneNote helps you create, capture, organize, and recall information with confidence. Microsoft 365 Copilot is designed for the needs of the enterprise. Copilot automatically inherits your organization's security, compliance, and privacy policies for Microsoft 365. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/439H06P Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Support for Microsoft 365 Groups added to the Cloud Policy service

Today we begin rolling out support for Microsoft 365 Groups within the Cloud Policy service, allowing administrators the ability to target these groups for policy delivery. Stay tuned as we plan to make additional enhancements to group support such as targeting all users on the tenant without having to manage any groups. 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/40I6lU3 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Get more done in less time with these 10 popular Word add-ins

In this article, we'll introduce you to some of the popular add-ins in Microsoft AppSource that can assist with both writing and inserting new content in Microsoft Word. An image providing 10 examples of add-ins mentioned in this blog post. An animated image demonstrating how to use Grammarly for Microsoft Word add-in. In addition to writing assistance and content insertion add-ins, there are other kinds of popular add-ins that help streamline your workflow and make you more efficient and effective. An animated image demonstrating how to use the DocuSign for Word add-in. An animated image demonstrating how to install add-ins in Word. If you are interested in developing add-ins yourself, check out this helpful article: Word add-ins overview. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3nBkhAo Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

The Intrazone Microsoft SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop April 2023

We have two guests on the podcast: 1) Matt McKenzie, Director of Microsoft 365 product marketing, shares insights about the upcoming Microsoft 365 Conference in Vegas, and 2) Sudha Narayanan explains how Microsoft Lists supports approval scenarios natively within info tracking incorporating the Approvals app in Teams. All features listed below began rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of March 2023. 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. As part of the Adobe and Microsoft collaboration to re-envision the future workplace and digital experiences, we are natively embedding the Adobe Acrobat PDF engine into the Microsoft Edge built-in PDF reader. Whether you need to approve a purchase order, a vacation request, or a blog post, Microsoft Approvals in Microsoft Lists can help you streamline the process and collaborate with your team. 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. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3ZATFgf Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Microsoft 365 Admin Monthly Digest

In case you missed it, Microsoft 365 Copilot combines the power of large language models, Microsoft Graph, and Microsoft 365 Apps. Check out Administration of Microsoft 365 in the new era of AI for more, including the FAQ. More details will undoubtedly be released on Copilot and we'll provide close coverage on all things related to AI and Microsoft 365 administration in future blog posts in this series. Accessible through the Microsoft 365 admin center, it's designed to be a more intuitive and connected admin experience to help you set up and configure Viva Topics. Now, you can integrate Microsoft 365 self-help content with your ServiceNow instance so you can resolve incidents, find reported issues, and complete tasks using Microsoft recommended solutions. The Admin app enables users with the Global admin role to discover and use helpful features, update most frequently used settings, and perform core management tasks across Teams and Microsoft 365 without having to go to the Microsoft 365 admin center. Microsoft will once again be a Diamond Sponsor at the Microsoft 365 Conference in Las Vegas, May 2-4. While we continue sharing highlights and insights that benefit IT admins through this blog series, consider subscribing to updates on specific items in the Microsoft 365 Roadmap and look out for communications published in the Message center in the Microsoft 365 admin center. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3Gd0hKP Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Big protection for small businesses-the latest in Microsoft security innovation

Microsoft continues to develop a comprehensive set of security solutions that are easy to use, cost-effective, and specifically designed for small businesses including Microsoft 365 Business Premium, and Microsoft Defender for Business. Simplified security for iOS and Android without device management or add-ons - in preview. Detect malicious Android apps that could disrupt the device or steal data with App Security. Now with Microsoft Defender for Business, data can be kept secure on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices, no matter where employees are. Adding Mobile security without device management in Defender for Business standalone gives you comprehensive device security for Windows, MacOS, and now iOS and Android devices which goes far beyond the capabilities of traditional antivirus solutions that typically only protect a fraction of your business needs. Better understand status of security and identify areas for improvement across devices. These updates will help you to protect mobile devices from cyber-attacks, gain insights into your investments, and enable IT partners to manage security for customers more efficiently. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3K3Rrlc Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

The Service That SharePoint Built

Now, in 2023, a new tale emerges - one that is sure to rise to the top of the Tech PDF charts. Imagine, two IT Pros floating in the sky looking down at a Microsoft 365 data center. This is not your typical technical PDF. It is a tech parody intended to bring the giggles while learning a thing or two about the glue that binds - that many Microsoft 365 applications are powered by SharePoint: Loop, OneDrive, Sites, Designer, Syntex, Office, Teams, Viva, Stream, Whiteboard, Search, Yammer, and Lists. Ms/Story/BuiltBySharePoint to experience this wonderful cumulative tale of a service that is both platform and app. That is stored in the service that SharePoint built. That was tagged with the metadata - powered by Syntex. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3nwVGwH Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Celebrating Women's History Month

An image of a collage of women working at Microsoft. In honor of Women's History Month, we decided to interview a few of the women who are a part of our Modern Work Supportability Women's group. A few years later, the Women at Microsoft group in Charlotte was created and I began to attend their events. In March 2020, I attended the annual WAM conference in New York, which was a fun and enriching experience to meet many women in different roles across Microsoft. RossS leads the worldwide Modern Work Supportability team in the Customer Service & Support organization at Microsoft. JessicaDarby is a Supportability Program Manager on the CSS Modern Work Supportability team focused on commercial accounts, billing, purchase, and subscription management with Microsoft 365. 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/3nqB4pO Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft 365 Conference event guide to keynotes, AMA, sessions, and more

The Microsoft 365 Conference returns to Las Vegas, NV, May 2-4, 2023 - with two pre-event and one post-event workshop days. It's a wonderful event dedicated to AI, SharePoint, Teams, Viva, Syntex, Power Platform, and related Microsoft 365 apps and services. Our new AI track will focus on Copilot across Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and more. Microsoft keynotes and AMA. Hear from Microsoft leadership revealing the latest innovations shaping the flexible, innovative, and secure business environments of the future. Take a deep dive into technology to help refine your practices and bring learnings back to your team and organization to extend the application and use of your Microsoft 365 investment. All Microsoft 365 Conference workshops either take place pre-event on Sunday or Monday or post-event on Friday. Remember, Microsoft customers can use the discount code MSCUST150 for $150 off your conference registration. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3FVTdC8 Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

What's Next for SharePoint Join us at the Microsoft 365 Conference in Las Vegas on May 2-4, 2023

This event defined the product visuals we know today as modern SharePoint, introduced the SharePoint Framework as a durable way of extending SharePoint and Microsoft 365 UX, integrated SharePoint and the Power Platform, and ushered in multiple years of product delivery and community-fueled inspiration as SharePoint matured and new products like Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Search, Microsoft Viva, and Microsoft Syntex emerged - all powered by the flexible SharePoint platform. The SharePoint product team catching up with the community at The Future of SharePoint event in 2016. Our ambitions for the next era of SharePoint are as bold as they were in 2016. Every new employee on the SharePoint product team learns about the power of our community. It gives us purpose when we enable the success of so many who bet their careers on SharePoint and Microsoft 365. We can't wait for you to join us! We'll be there May 2-4 in Las Vegas for the Microsoft 365 Conference - you'll learn best practices you can apply to your current projects, get a peek at the future of SharePoint at a critical moment in its product history, and make connections with the best community in tech. SharePoint can't wait to see you in Las Vegas and to share the news. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3nkRjVa Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Big protection for small businesses-the latest in Microsoft security innovation

Microsoft continues to develop a comprehensive set of security solutions that are easy to use, cost-effective, and specifically designed for small businesses including Microsoft 365 Business Premium, and Microsoft Defender for Business. Simplified security for iOS and Android without device management or add-ons - in preview. Detect malicious Android apps that could disrupt the device or steal data with App Security. Now with Microsoft Defender for Business, data can be kept secure on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices, no matter where employees are. Adding Mobile security without device management in Defender for Business standalone gives you comprehensive device security for Windows, MacOS, and now iOS and Android devices which goes far beyond the capabilities of traditional antivirus solutions that typically only protect a fraction of your business needs. Better understand status of security and identify areas for improvement across devices. These updates will help you to protect mobile devices from cyber-attacks, gain insights into your investments, and enable IT partners to manage security for customers more efficiently. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3K3Rrlc Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Learn how to enable the Microsoft Loop app, now in Public Preview

An image of the Microsoft Loop app on a desktop device. We are excited to announce that Microsoft Loop is now in Public Preview! The Loop app is opt-in during our Public Preview, so as an IT Admin, you need to follow the steps below for your users to experience it, otherwise it is disabled. With Loop, you can create and share Loop components-portable pieces of content that sync across all the places they have been shared including, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word for the web, Whiteboard, and the Loop app. Learn more about the end-user value of the Loop app here in our announcement blog. Create a security group that will contain all the users in your organization who you want to grant access to the Loop app during Public Preview. Create a Cloud Policy, scoped to the security group you created above, to enable the Loop app. In the image example below, we used the previously created Loop app Security Group. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3LHy2aE Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Reinventing collaboration with AI in Microsoft Loop

An image of the Experiments tab within the Loop app settings providing toggles to enable or disable Copilot and Jumpstart Workspace. Participants in our initial feedback sessions love that they can continue to work with Copilot even after it generates initial text - and we think you will too. While we guide you towards writing requests with our examples, these should not limit how you use Copilot in Loop. Spin up new content and tweak it - Copilot can help you draft a newsletter or come up with a list of ideas to get the ball rolling. If you need to explore some options before getting more eyes on a draft - just use Copilot to sample different tones and help you rephrase content based on your intent. Copilot in Loop builds on our existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise. Copilot automatically inherits your organization's security, compliance, and privacy policies for Microsoft 365. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/42oyn8a Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

The SharePoint storage platform supports the Loop app

Today marks the start of the Microsoft Loop app journey. The Loop app is now available in public preview! Loop is about people - people who want to create together with ease, no matter where they are or what tools they use. SharePoint provides the underlying storage and collaboration technology for Loop. Enabling products like Loop to build and innovate quickly on the SharePoint platform requires significant planning and work. Leveraging B-Tree graph nodes allows us to unlock powerful collaboration capabilities and unmatched flexibility in a data structure that works for existing file types but also natively supports Fluid Framework, the underlying tech for Microsoft Loop. Security and Compliance - By building on the core SharePoint platform, Loop components, pages, and workspaces inherit all of SharePoint's industry-leading work on compliance and security. Congratulations and thank you to our Loop colleagues! We love being in the Loop. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/42AHbI7 Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Upcoming March 2023 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

Join us for a special topic in our next community call on March 28! Based on feedback from our last call, we will be starting at 5 minutes past the hour instead. We apologize for the disjointed experience last time and are always trying to improve. The meeting will still end at 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM PT, respectively. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3LC5Ypj Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Update your policy configurations to target different groups

Over the next few days, we will be rolling out an update to the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 that allows administrators to change the group that a policy configuration is targeted to. No more cloning needed, just click on the policy configuration you want to change, navigate to the Scope page and you will be able to remove the group and replace it with a different group. In the future we plan to make additional enhancements to group support such as targeting multiple groups and targeting all users on the tenant so stay tuned. 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/3yVZsCe Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft Viva Topics is Viva Engaged The Intrazone Microsoft podcast

Viva Topics in Engage doubles the impact and access of your knowledge at your fingertips - and how you pay it forward to others. On today's episode, we hear from Raj Jain about all things topical about Viva Topics, specifically - the role of Viva Topics within your Viva Engage community discussions, questions, and announcements posts. The real value gives you a built-in knowledge management system that balances and refines the length of your internal communications without sacrificing the depth you pay forward to each person that reads your comm. Thanks for listening! If you like what you hear, we'd love for you to Subscribe, Rate and Review on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to visit our show page to hear all 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 or suggestions from our listeners and SharePoint users. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3JxVSmM Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Play My Emails in Outlook now available in more languages

Hourra! ¡Estamos entusiasmados! We're excited! Play My Emails is now available in French and Spanish. To use Play My Emails, you must be running Outlook for iOS or Android. You'll need an Office 365 work account, an Outlook account, or a Gmail account signed in to Outlook mobile. An animated image demonstrating Play My Emails in Outlook in French on a mobile device. An animated image demonstrating Play Conversation in Outlook in French on a mobile device. An animated image demonstrating Play My Emails in Outlook in Spanish on a mobile device. An animated image demonstrating Play Conversation in Outlook in Spanish on a mobile device. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3FBq678 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Administration of Microsoft 365 in the new era of AI

Today we introduced Microsoft 365 Copilot, which combines the power of large language models with your data in Microsoft Graph and Microsoft 365 apps to turn words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet. Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 and automatically inherits all your company's valuable security, compliance, and privacy policies and processes. Whether you are working with our AI solutions in Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, the Power Platform, or other Microsoft cloud services, we have designed these experiences with compliance, privacy, and security at the core. Be sure to stay connected in the Microsoft 365 community for future updates. Copilot presents only data that each individual can access using the same underlying controls for data access used in other Microsoft 365 services. Microsoft has been on a Responsible AI journey since 2017, when we defined our principles and approach to ensuring this technology is used in a way that is driven by ethical principles that put people first. You can also check the Microsoft 365 Roadmap for the latest information. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/42g573r Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

What's new for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition

When we launched SharePoint Server Subscription Edition in November 2021, we shared our vision of a server built for continuous innovation, which emphasized the specific needs of our on-premises customers including new features to help simplify management, improve your security posture, and streamline your upgrade from earlier versions of SharePoint Server. In keeping with our commitment to make SharePoint Server Subscription Edition the foundation for our evolution of SharePoint Server, today we're delighted to share the next step on this journey: the new 23H1 feature update for SharePoint, built on these same principles as the 22H2 feature update. To simplify the process for updating your SharePoint Server Subscription Edition environments, we're introducing a single update each month for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, starting with the March 2023 public update. To expand the customization scenarios that SharePoint Server Subscription Edition supports, the 23H1 feature update adds support for SharePoint Framework version 1.5.1. As the long-term foundation for SharePoint Server, we continue to invest in keeping SharePoint Server Subscription Edition updated with modern technologies. SharePoint Server Subscription Edition introduced a new certificate management feature that allows SharePoint farm administrators to directly manage the deployment and lifecycle of SSL/TLS certificates in their SharePoint Server farms. As SharePoint Server Subscription Edition evolves with the new continuous release model, our product servicing policy also evolves with it. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/42fzXsR Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

The Retro Terminal - Looking good in 8-Bit | Part 3

Since my last two articles, PowerShell, as well as the terminal itself, has evolved. It is therefore time to bring Retro PowerShell up to date. Where the first two parts cover Windows PowerShell, this article is an update for PowerShell Core and Windows Terminal and will show you how to let your Terminal look like a Commodore 64.

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The Future of customer support: Empathy and compassion. An interview with ChatGPT

A series of discussions with Ross Smith and OpenAI's ChatGPT about the future of customer support. At the same time, it will be important for companies to invest in training and development programs that help support agents cultivate empathy and compassion, as these traits will continue to be critical to providing high-quality customer support. ChatGPT: AI can help improve customer empathy by providing support agents with more information and insights about customers, allowing them to better understand their needs and emotions. Predictive insights: AI can analyze customer behavior and data to provide support agents with predictive insights about what a customer is likely to need or want. By providing support agents with more information and tools, AI can help improve customer empathy and enhance the overall customer experience. It's important to note that AI cannot replace the human touch and that support agents will continue to play a critical role in providing empathetic and compassionate customer support. ChatGPT: It's difficult to determine which of the 10 ways AI and human customer support agents can work together will have the most impact on the customer experience, as it will depend on the specific needs and preferences of each customer. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/41MASB7 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft Visio Viewer app for iOS will be retired from the App Store

Since the introduction of Visio for the web more than six years ago, we've continuously improved the viewing and file sharing experience for Visio drawings stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. On August 14, 2023, the Microsoft Visio Viewer app will be retired and removed from the Apple App Store, so that our team can focus our energy on making Visio for the web even better. If you are an admin and received a notification in the Microsoft 365 Message center, it means one or more people in your organization are using the Visio Viewer app for iOS. This blog post aims to provide guidance on how current users of the Visio Viewer app for iOS can access, view, and share Visio files moving forward. Users with a Microsoft 365 subscription can access and view Visio files through a web browser by signing in to visio. Transitioning from the Visio Viewer app on iOS to Visio for the web is easy. To learn more about which browsers work with Visio for the web, or how to view and comment on diagrams created with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 subscription, visit our Visio for the web FAQ. Thank you to those who used the Visio Viewer app for iOS and provided reviews over the years. Your feedback has helped to shape the Visio viewing and file sharing experience on iOS devices and has helped us to understand areas where we can improve the experience across Visio. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3IW2Y3V Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Enabling partners to scale across their SMB customers with Microsoft 365 Lighthouse

Microsoft 365 Lighthouse is a first party multi-tenant solution targeting manage service providers who are looking for a secure solution that helps them streamline and automate the management of their Microsoft 365 customers at scale. It helps partners operationalize and scale their SMB security practices by applying consistent policies and settings targeted at SMB; quickly identify drifts and threats across users, data and devices to proactively take action; and help them adopt a zero-trust model for themselves and their customers inclusive of adopting least privileged roles as they manage on behalf of their customers. Microsoft 365 Lighthouse makes it easy to leverage the value across the Microsoft 365 portfolio rapidly, assisting you in keeping services, data, apps, and devices secure across all customers. By leveraging the powerful features and benefits of Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, MSPs can securely and effectively manage SMB customers at scale, helping them build successful, long-lasting relationships with their customers. Scale your MSP with standard configuration across your customerAn image of deployment insights across the customers partner manages within Microsoft 365 Lighthouse. You can now establish GDAP relationships with multiple SMB customers at once from the Microsoft 365 Lighthouse and assign users in the partner tenant to security groups with various roles and levels of permissions. Over the next few months, we will be diving into more details about the above areas plus sharing so much more on how Microsoft 365 Lighthouse can help you secure and manage your SMB customers at scale, while making them more productive. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3mi1BVz Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Microsoft 365 admin digest

How we're supplying feature release status for each new and updated feature announcement in the Message center in the Microsoft 365 admin center to help you track feature availability, specifically for your organization. If you're an admin overseeing a larger company looking to deploy Microsoft 365, we recently updated the search tools, recommendations, and layouts for the Advanced deployment guides & assistance page in the Microsoft 365 admin center and at setup. If you're in the Global Admin or Global Reader role, you'll see Experience insights on the top right of the Microsoft 365 admin center. An image demonstrating how to view Experience insights in the Microsoft 365 admin center. We recently completed the migration of our Office 365 community to the Microsoft 365 community on Tech Community. We're particularly excited to have the Microsoft 365 admin center discussion space to create focus for admin discussions. While we continue sharing highlights and insights that benefit IT admins through this blog series, consider subscribing to updates on specific items in the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, and look out for communications published in the Message center in the Microsoft 365 admin center. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3xYVKXX Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Upcoming February 2023 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

Join us for our next community call on February 28, where we will be discussing the new Adoption Score. Our monthly community calls are every 4th Tuesday of the month and will shift to 8:10 AM and 5:10 PM PT, to follow best practices. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3IOEjzN Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Simplifying change management of Microsoft 365

The Microsoft 365 Roadmap, offers great visibility into upcoming changes to Microsoft 365 apps and services right at the time they are announced. Going forward, we are committed to offering you a set of capabilities to further simplify change management while adopting Microsoft 365 services. Initially, the release status* will be available for a limited number of Microsoft Teams, Outlook on the web and Microsoft 365 admin center feature announcements. Targeted Release now available for GCC, GCC High, and DoD. Targeted release is another way Microsoft helps customers establish effective change management practices. These customers will be able to opt-in to Targeted Release and get early access for OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, Outlook for the Web, Microsoft 365 admin center features and some Exchange features, with information about other apps and services also available in future. To opt-in to Targeted Release, follow these steps in the Microsoft 365 admin center: Go to Settings -> Org Settings -> Organization profile -> Release preferences. Previously, the opt-in for Targeted Release provided early access to high quality releases for OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, Office for the web, Microsoft 365 admin center features, and some Exchange features. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3lS9UqZ Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Announcing the release of SharePoint Workflow Manager for SharePoint Server

SharePoint 2013 Workflows are a key scenario for SharePoint Server customers as they power many critical business processes and can operate in purely on-premises deployments. Today, Microsoft is pleased to announce the release of SharePoint Workflow Manager, a new workflow engine to power the SharePoint 2013 Workflows platform for SharePoint Server and replace Service Bus and Microsoft Workflow Manager. We recommend that all SharePoint Server customers using SharePoint 2013 Workflows upgrade to SharePoint Workflow Manager as soon as they're able to. Microsoft will focus all future investments and maintenance on SharePoint Workflow Manager rather than Microsoft Workflow Manager, including providing support beyond the year 2026. Microsoft will continue to provide technical support for existing deployments of Service Bus and Microsoft Workflow Manager until the version of SharePoint Server they're being used with reaches end of support, or until July 14, 2026, whichever comes first. Customers who need new SharePoint 2013 workflow engine installations can only install SharePoint Workflow Manager. We look forward to sharing more examples soon with the upcoming release of SharePoint Server Subscription Edition Version 23H1, the next feature update for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3KfOoa4 Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Use Playlists to create collections of video or audio files in Microsoft 365

Today, we're introducing Playlists - a new and simple way to curate and share video or audio collections within Microsoft 365. With playlists in Microsoft 365, you add content using the new 'Playlist' template in Microsoft Lists. A published Playlist makes it easy to view and share a collection of audio and video files. Users can add any video and audio files to a playlist that they have edit access to. People with access to the playlist and to the files in the playlist can view the videos in order or skip back and forth between items in the playlist. Playlists can be used to create an organized collection of podcasts, training videos, product demo videos, Teams meeting recordings, or other audio/video content. We, too, expect to enable notification functionality to alert you when any new video is added to playlists that you are subscribed to. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3jTxkMh Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Building beautiful sites with purpose: Part 2

As you are building out your site one of the ways that you can add visual interest to your site is through your choice of images. TIP: All images should have alternate or decorative text applied to them to make your images and sites fully accessible. There are a few core differences between a communication and team site that will require us to make different choices to make our sites look beautiful. For the homepage of the communication site, we started out with a full-width section that utilized an image web part to display a high impact garden image with our prominent headline for our homepage included on the image. Team sites do not allow full-width sections and web parts. As you looked in detail at both of the sites created, you might have noticed that some of these had some extra pieces in them that made the site stand out a bit more and are not available directly out of the box. There are so many options for ways that you can customize your sites with images and designs, let your imagination run wild and create something beautiful. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3IloDnh Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

The future of customer support: How technology is changing the game: A discussion with ChatGPT

In this blog post, we will explore some of the ways technology is changing the way customer support is provided and what the future of customer support may look like. Social media has become an essential tool for customer support as it enables customers to reach out to companies in real-time, and companies can respond quickly, providing an excellent customer experience. One of the key benefits of virtual customer support agents is that they can be available 24/7, providing support to customers at any time. Virtual customer support agents can be programmed to provide assistance in multiple languages, making it easier for companies to support customers from around the world. Virtual customer support agents can also provide support in virtual environments, such as virtual stores, which can help customers navigate products and services more easily. Overall, the future of customer support looks very promising, with technology advancements set to change the way customer support is provided. As we continue to see new technologies emerge, the customer support landscape will continue to evolve, and it will be exciting to see how companies will leverage these technologies to provide better customer support. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3Xu42RR Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Introducing OneDrive customer office hours

The OneDrive product and engineering team now offers monthly customer office hours for commercial and education customers as well as partners. IT Admins can join this one-hour Teams meeting to ask us questions, share feedback, and learn more about the features we're releasing soon and our roadmap. In office hours you are welcome to ask how to questions, raise issues and report bugs. Office hours is not an official support tool. To open support tickets, go to see Get support for Microsoft 365. Support for educators and education customers is available at https://aka. A note on privacy: OneDrive customer office hours is conducted via Microsoft Teams and all meeting participants including Microsoft employees will be able to see each other's name and work email address while in the office hours meeting and in the meeting chat. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3RVWs1t Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

AI, roadmap, community, and more at the Microsoft 365 Conference

There has never been more exciting time to be in tech and the Microsoft 365 Conference in Las Vegas on May 2-4th is the best place to learn about the latest collaboration tools and AI capabilities that are transforming the workplace and can help you grow your impact and career. Sharing the latest Microsoft 365 product roadmap - including the artificial intelligence revolution. This Microsoft 365 Conference will have it all - content for end users, developers IT across Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Office, Viva, Syntex, Loop, and more including integration with Power Platform and Azure. You'll be able to hear from, ask questions of, and give feedback directly to Microsoft product leaders - including me! We also have an amazing partner ecosystem innovating to deliver solutions for your needs built on the Microsoft Cloud platform. Learning with the Microsoft 365 Community - the best community in tech. This is where the Microsoft 365 Conference comes in - bringing together a diverse community to learn from each other on how to apply the technologies to unlock the potential of every person and organization. I have been to many community events in my career - from SharePoint Conferences to Ignite, from Build to Microsoft 365 events around the world. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3YryygH Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft Viva Engage has the answers on The Intrazone podcast

On today's episode, we chat with Michael Holste and Steve Nguyen who focus on Microsoft Viva Engage and all the goodness it brings - with many exciting announcements disclosed today. You're going to hear about things geared toward leadership communications, ways to host and run internal AMAs, and the general notion of getting answers to your questions when using Microsoft Viva, what you'll hear referred to as Answers in Viva. Plus, you'll hear a little future news on Yammer branding it's a packed episode that will warm the community part of your heart. Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Be sure to visit our show page to hear all 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 or suggestions from our listeners and SharePoint users. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3E6pshk Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Building beautiful sites with purpose: Part 1

For many people getting started with your pages and sites is the hard part. In this blog we will utilize the Bonnie's Community Garden volunteer site as our basis to take a deep dive into how you can build out a beautiful site using the tools available to you in today's Modern SharePoint Online sites. In this blog we will build out both a Communication site and a Team site to highlight 2 different ways that you can build a beautiful site using modern SharePoint and to learn more tips and tricks for making these sites in your organization. As you decide between Communication site and Team site the best news is that you can build beautiful sites with either. Communication sites can become a home site for your organization and are often utilized for Viva Connections. These sites might call for a one-off site theme for a special purpose or event. Our Designing sites with beautiful headers blog gives you more details about what you should do in your site header. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/40uOtMy Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Templates, site templates, lists templates The Intrazone a Microsoft podcast

It's a templates world, from start to finish - if you want to finish on time. In this episode, we first chat with Cathy Dew, senior product manager on the SharePoint team, about the value and design of SharePoint templates, Microsoft 365 templates, Lists templates, and more. We then connect with two of our partners from Pointwork in Copenhagen, Denmark: Peter Larsen, their CTO, and Lars Kristensen, a Principal consultant; we drill down into the real-world use and adoption of templates + governance and hear how they help streamline your business in production. Thanks for listening! If you like what you hear, we'd love for you to Subscribe, Rate and Review on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to visit our show page to hear all 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 or suggestions from our listeners and SharePoint users. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3HImWyF Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Create a Microsoft List list across Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 app SharePoint app bar SharePoint itself Microsoft Teams Microsoft Lists app for iOS and Android. Let's create a list right here - a 'blog list' of all the places within Microsoft 365 where you can create a list, or where one gets created for you. Click the + New list button at the top for the Microsoft Lists app in Microsoft 365. Once on Microsoft365.com, click the + Create button in the upper left side of the screen AND home and personal that takes you directly into the Lists app to create a list, right into the common create list experience. Once you have configured the tab and have a list with list items, you can start a conversation about individual list items, view your list in the Teams mobile app, or access the list from the Lists app in Microsoft 365. Beyond viewing and editing existing lists and list items, you can create new lists while sipping coffee - create an Issue tracker list, or when in the passenger's seat headed to a work event - create a blank list to capture all your new people contacts. From here it's the same as if you're using Lists app in Microsoft 365: give your list a name, description, icon, color, and then choose where you wish to create the list - in your personal space or in a team workspace. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3l64et0 Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Share Your Feedback: Community Insights Survey

There are many Community Managers inside Microsoft who would love to hear your feedback about the way we support our communities. Now is your chance to share your ideas and priorities with us by taking just a few minutes to fill out our Community Insights Survey. This survey is anonymous and open to all community members regardless of how long you've been participating or your area of expertise. After we have compiled your insights, we will be sharing them back with the community during of our monthly General Sessions for our Microsoft Global Community Initiative. You'll hear about these results, what is happening with events and speaker support and so much more coming from our amazing Board of external community professionals. Please share our survey link with other community members so they can be included. We can't wait to see what you will share with us and how we can make the Microsoft Community experience even more amazing! -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3XWaK4k Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Let's Talk Education

The Microsoft Education commercial support team can help you find the right educational support, at a time that fits your schedule. Brian: Thank you, and I see you are a leader on our Microsoft 365 Education team. Brad: Three years ago, or so, I joined customer success engineering where I lead a team that looks at consumer, small business, and education audiences, like EDU IT admins, teachers and educators, students, and parents of students across the Microsoft 365 usage and support funnel. Brad: This program started a couple years ago, and it was derived in the same way that most of the best things are - from customer feedback! The voice of our customers and what we learned looking at in-product feedback and support feedback was that education IT admins specifically could really use support experiences from a team that not just understands Microsoft 365 - our support teams, do they understand Microsoft 365 very well - but really understood Microsoft 365 education nuances and the uniqueness of the education IT admin workflow. What we developed was this hypothesis, this idea, that a Microsoft 365 Education Generalist team, that is to say a team that understands the whole product suite, not just a couple of parts of it well, but the whole suite, and specialized on Education IT admin workflows within that product suite specifically, could deliver a world class support experience. They all have that base knowledge and on top of that, they have very deep understanding of the education nuances, such as, how Teams Commercial is different from Teams Education. Imagine a seasonally relevant experience where education IT admins receive a differentiated in-product and Microsoft 365 admin center experience to help guide them through all the best practices to ensure a successful school year. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3kWFqUu Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: January 2023

All features listed below began rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of January 2023. 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 Feed provides users with a mix of relevant content from across Microsoft 365 that helps users discover and learn about people and interests relevant at work. 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. Microsoft delivers two integrated solutions to address our customers' broad insight engines' needs, Microsoft Search available to customers of Microsoft 365 and Azure Cognitive Search available as a platform as-a-service with Microsoft Azure. Whether you're already a customer of Microsoft 365 or you're a professional developer or data scientist, we hope that you can use Microsoft Search and Azure Cognitive Search services to build impactful AI-powered search solutions that solve complex problems and enhance customer experience. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3YaxRb3 Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Creating connections: How Microsoft BookwithMe can help your business grow

I want to take a moment to share an amazing Microsoft product from Microsoft Bookings, BookwithMe, that will increase your productivity and customer satisfaction, making it the perfect solution to improve customer connections. In today's fast-paced business world, connecting with customers is more important than ever. That's why BookwithMe, the appointment scheduling software, is a game changer for businesses looking to establish and maintain strong connections with their customers. BookwithMe finds the best times for meetings based on the availability of all participants, saving both you and your customer valuable time. BookwithMe can be accessed by any device, making it easy for customers to schedule a meeting wherever they are. In a nutshell, BookwithMe helps businesses save time, improve customer satisfaction, and ultimately, grow their business. BookwithMe is the ultimate tool for creating connections and building strong relationships with your customers. Read more at https://bit.ly/3j3Tfjs Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Set aside time for 1:1 with Microsoft Bookings in Outlook!

Microsoft Bookings in Outlook is coming to help you reduce the back and forth in scheduling, while helping you maintain control of your calendar. You'll be able to set custom bookable time to share with others so they can easily find a time to schedule a 1:1 meeting with you according to your availability and preferences. . We recently came across many customers whose employees are using Microsoft Bookings to reserve time for 1:1 with their team members. To help their employees book 1:1 time, they configured Microsoft Bookings in Outlook for the task. An image demonstrating how to book a 1:1 meeting via Bookings in Outlook on the web. An image demonstrating how to share your bookable time once the event has been created in Bookings in Outlook on the web. Now, team members can come to the Bookings page and book time for a 1:1 meeting without any back-and-forth conversation. Read more at https://bit.ly/3Hplxy1 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft 365 admin digest

Back in September at Ignite, we highlighted various features launched in the Microsoft 365 admin center, specifically aimed at benefiting admins. We reintroduced Adoption Score as a set of anonymized metrics for IT admins and adoption specialists to better understand your organization's Microsoft 365 usage patterns. Learn more about the Microsoft 365 Admin mobile app here. For SMB customers, we've also added a new embedded Microsoft 365 Admin app in Microsoft Teams (available in the Microsoft Teams app store), which provides a simplified view that gives admins the capabilities they might often need in one place, such as onboarding new users, managing Teams settings and privacy, and opening support cases. An image demonstrating a setup task that completed in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Our areas of investment will continue to focus on delivering rich and useful experiences for IT admins across their range of responsibilities within the Microsoft 365 admin center and keeping up with the evolving needs of the role. Consider subscribing to updates on specific items in the Microsoft 365 Roadmap and look out for communications published to the Message Center in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Read more at https://bit.ly/3XOoAVN Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Create multiple staff appointments with Microsoft Bookings

As one of the most requested features for Microsoft Bookings, we are pleased to share that you can now create a multiple staff appointment! Previously, Bookings only supported the creation of a single staff service where an appointment is scheduled with a single staff member. With the new multiple staff appointments feature, you can create service with more than one staff member in a single appointment. Your end customers will now be able to create appointments using the multiple staff service and meet all staff members together. Multiple staff: When selected, the booking will be scheduled with all the assigned staff members of the service. An image demonstrating two service type options available for staff: Single staff and Multiple staff. It's also important to note that in the case of Multiple staff service, your end customers will be able to book an appointment only when all the staff members of the service are available to attend. This feature is called a N:N service - a service between multiple staff and multiple attendees. Read more at https://bit.ly/3Wp4Uqk Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Office Insider is now Microsoft 365 Insider!

The Office Insider program is now the Microsoft 365 Insider program, in alignment with the transition from Office to Microsoft 365. We will continue to expand our blog to include features, apps, and services under the Microsoft 365 umbrella. An image demonstrating the new homepage of the Microsoft 365 Insider website. Apps in Current Channel and Beta Channel will continue to receive Insider updates automatically. Unless otherwise noted, Insider updates are delivered through Beta Channel and Current Channel. Check out our Microsoft 365 Insider Handbook to find out everything you need to know about being a Microsoft 365 Insider. Continue the conversation in the new Microsoft 365 Insider discussion space! Share best practices, discuss latest trends and stay updated on news and announcements for the Microsoft 365 Insider program. Read more at https://bit.ly/3HbXdzF Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Bookable time coming soon to Outlook

Microsoft Bookings in Outlook is coming to help you reduce the back and forth in scheduling, while helping you maintain control of your calendar. You'll be able to keep custom bookable time to share with others so they can easily find a time to schedule a 1:1 meeting with you according to your availability and preferences. When someone books a time slot with you using your personal booking page, you will both receive an email confirmation. All users with the following subscriptions will have access to Bookable time in Outlook by default:  . From Outlook on the web, click on the calendar tab on the left navigation menu, click the New Event button, and select Bookable time. An image demonstrating where to find the Bookable time feature in Outlook on the web. An image demonstrating how to change your meeting availability from Bookable time in Outlook on the web. Read more at https://bit.ly/3XkXeGw Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

New solutions to deploy, integrate and extend solutions at scale for your frontline workforce

Today, IT admins often need to complete many discrete setup steps and navigate multiple platforms to roll out, integrate and automate solutions for their frontline workforce. With group mailboxes, IT admins can give each frontline department across locations a unified voice, allowing frontline teams to contact each other with ease. Learn more about how to get started with deploying Outlook at scale, which will be in public preview starting in February, to help IT admins create a Teams structure that maps the frontline workforces' real-world into digital world and centrally manage their frontline locations. This new home experience enables frontline workers a quick way to access these key workflows and resources in the flow of work with a centralized location to find key information. The completion of tasks is a fundamental element of operations on the frontline and providing a single source of truth for the work to be completed lets workers complete those tasks more efficiently and focus on additional value-add activities. First, we're adding Business Scenario capabilities, designed for integrations where tasks for a frontline team should be created or updated based on external sources and signals. With Microsoft 365 and Teams, IT admins have a simplified experience to create the right environment and solution for frontline workers to communicate, collaborate and get work done. Read more at https://bit.ly/3GyyKCY Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog