OneNote: Product Update 2023

Continue reading to learn more!(While the OneNote experience continues to be improved across all your devices, this article will address only the OneNote on Windows app. We encourage all users on OneNote for Windows 10 to begin transitioning to the OneNote on Windows app for the latest features and best sync. For those who love the left-sided layout on OneNote for the web, OneNote for Mac, and OneNote for iPad, you'll be thrilled to hear that we've brought this experience to the OneNote on Windows app! Using the new Vertical Tabs layout option under the View menu, you can use a navigation experience similar to other Microsoft 365 apps and services, such as Outlook and Teams. We want to remind you that these updates are only for the OneNote app, not the OneNote for Windows 10 app. If you're still using the OneNote for Windows 10 app, we highly recommend you switch to the OneNote app as soon as possible. The OneNote for Windows 10 app will no longer be supported in 2025. The latest OneNote Windows app is available as part of Microsoft 365, it may already be included as part of Microsoft 365 on new Windows 11 devices and can also be downloaded as a free standalone version from the Microsoft Store. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3SiBSKV Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 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. In this edition, we cover the upcoming AMA on Microsoft 365 Copilot, general availability of the new Teams desktop app, take a peek into the impact of hybrid work on carbon emissions, and explore new and upcoming features in the Microsoft 365 admin center including enhancements to Migration Manager, device management, and new RBAC roles in Microsoft Purview. We'll be hosting the next AMA on Microsoft 365 Copilot tomorrow on Thursday, November 9, in the Microsoft 365 Copilot Tech Community. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced a new Emissions Impact Dashboard for Microsoft 365 that can help admins and IT leaders track emissions from their Microsoft 365 use. Migration Manager is a powerful tool, hosted within the setup page of Microsoft 365 admin center, that helps seamlessly transfer data from various file sources, such as BOX, Google Drive, Dropbox, and File Share, to Microsoft 365. Currently rolling out, Microsoft is improving how admins manage user device update channels in the Microsoft 365 admin center to simplify getting ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot and manage devices in general. As always, stay current with the latest updates on the Microsoft 365 admin center from the Microsoft 365 roadmap and the message center. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/49aQwtL Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop October 2023

October 2023 brought some spooky new offerings: Power Apps leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Applications Platform, Video search improvements, new Intelligence & Search admin homepage, OneDrive colorful folders, New Microsoft Teams, Viva Goals + Planner, SharePoint: BCS retirement in Microsoft 365, and more. All features listed below began reanimating, I mean, rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of October 2023. The new homepage provides you with a single-entry point to access a range of Microsoft Search features and functions, such as Graph connectors, user feedback, Microsoft Search educational content, and more. Welcome to the new Microsoft Search and Intelligence admin center - to tailor the Microsoft Search experience for your organization. Teamwork updates across SharePoint team sites, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. To simplify these options and provide the best experience for these scenarios going forward, Microsoft is announcing its plan to retire Business Connectivity Services in Microsoft 365 and focus on Microsoft Power Apps as its replacement technology. January 8, 2024: Microsoft will block Business Connectivity Services features in new Microsoft 365 tenants by default, as well as in tenants who haven't used the feature since October 30, 2023. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3QC6OED Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Work faster and smarter with Bing Chat Enterprise

Bing Chat Enterprise is an AI-powered web chat that will you get instant answers, insights, and creative inspiration for your team's business needs-all while security and data protection you expect from Microsoft. Bing Chat Enterprise is designed to protect your data. Bing Chat Enterprise uses natural, conversational language to help you explore new concepts, get answers to questions, and generate ideas. Based on the information you've given, Bing Chat Enterprise will provide you with a sample of your product's most important features and various ways to better market them to your customer base, such as suggesting a video as an effective marketing option. Bing Chat Enterprise can answer that question by scouring the web for video marketers' success statistics. Bing Chat Enterprise can compare your numbers and channels and analyze the impact a marketing video could have on your customers' engagement. Bing Chat Enterprise is available for no additional charge to all customers with Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Microsoft 365 Business Premium licenses. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3FybJQz Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Organize the components in your diagrams with layers in Visio for the web

Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license can now use layers to group a related set of shapes in a drawing and change properties of all the layer members at once. A cropped image of a network diagram in Visio for the web highlighting the new Layers menu button on the Home tab. An image of a network diagram in Visio for the web showing the new Layers pane open to the right of the canvas. A cropped image of a network diagram in Visio for the web highlighting the + Add New Layer button at the top of the Layers pane. A cropped image of a network diagram in Visio for the web demonstrating how to access more options for layers in the Layers pane. Learn more about how to add a layer and use layers to set properties for multiple shapes in Visio for the web. We look forward to hearing your feedback and learning more about how you utilize layers in Visio for the web. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/476Qe5i Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

European SharePoint Conference ESPC23 Amsterdam, Netherlands Event guide Microsoft 365 Azure

Amsterdam is one of the most vibrant and diverse cities in Europe - and primed for in-person depth and breadth learning during the European SharePoint Conference - now simply branded as: ESPC23 - in Amsterdam, Netherlands - November 27-30, 2023. You'll find content delivered by the world's best Microsoft 365 and Azure experts, including many Microsoft leaders and employees from the product teams. A unique page of all Microsoft speakers and activities during ESPC23. Jeff Teper, Karuana Gatimu, Dona Sarkar, and Rafal Lukawiecki will be leading four keynotes that span topics, plus Microsoft speakers delivering breakout sessions among thought leaders and members of the community from around the world. Microsoft keynotes/AMA, breakout sessions, and developer-focused sessions. Microsoft breakout sessions(All times represented in CEST (local Amsterdam time. Shout out to event leads and community members Sarah McNamara, Kevin Monahan and the #ESPC23 team for putting together ESPC23, corralling all speakers and content, and for supporting and promoting the knowledge and expertise to promote the world-class Microsoft 365 tech community around the world. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/473h9ij Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Discover and assign the Microsoft 365 E3 Extra Features license

IMPORTANT. This article only applies if you bought a Microsoft 365 E3 Original subscription through an Enterprise Agreement. If this applies to you, you now see the Microsoft 365 E3 Extra Features product on the Licenses page in the Microsoft 365 admin center. As part of your Microsoft 365 E3 Original subscription, your organization now has access to the Microsoft 365 E3 Extra Features license at no additional cost. Microsoft Clipchamp - A video editing tool for anyone to create professional-looking videos, even with no prior experience. Microsoft Loop - A co-creation app that lets teams bring together all the parts of a project in one place and collaborate across the apps and devices they already use. To use any of the features provided by Microsoft 365 E3 Extra Features, you must assign a license for it to your Microsoft 365 E3 users. We recommend that you assign the license to your users as soon as possible, so that they can use the features and improve their Microsoft 365 experience. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3SeL7vC Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

The power of the SharePoint web part The Intrazone podcast a Microsoft podcast

Ask anyone, web parts make the intranet go 'round. In the world of SharePoint web parts, Pat and team build and deliver useful ones. Our chat focuses on developing web parts - past and present, some of their productivity-focused web part solutions, and tips and tricks for both developers and intranet managers. You can never get too much information about a good web part - be it one you use out of the box, one you procure from a partner, or one you build and design, and customize for your business. The Intrazone host and guest, left-to-right: Mark Kashman with Pat McGown [guest] - during the interview hosted via Teams. Stay connected to the SharePoint community blog and 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/3Fui4fQ Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Feature Deep Dive: Favorites and Shortcuts in OneDrive

Favorites is now available worldwide in OneDrive for work, school, GCC, and DoD. Favorites offers a single list view that you can access from OneDrive and many other Microsoft 365 apps. The Favorites view in OneDrive for Web shows all the files you have favorited from OneDrive, SharePoint and other Microsoft 365 apps. You can easily add content to your Favorites list in OneDrive and SharePoint by clicking the star icon :star: which appears next to the folder or file name or by clicking the Favorite command when a file is selected. While folder short cuts get added to the My Files area of your OneDrive by default, you can then move them to any area of your OneDrive. Folder shortcuts will appear in your My Files area of OneDrive and they're badged with an arrow on the folder icon. Soon we will roll out shortcuts for files in OneDrive so that you can keep shared files alongside your own content in OneDrive folders. File shortcuts will allow you to easily organize shared files alongside your own files in OneDrive. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3Q8zlQP Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

Create Your Own Baselines in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse

Microsoft 365 Lighthouse helps them realize that vision and execute that strategy, at scale, better than ever before, with the ability to customize baselines based on their unique expertise and tailored to their customers' needs. One of the best things about Lighthouse is the default baseline we provide that makes it easy for you to deploy a standardized set of configurations to your customers' tenants that make them healthy, secure, and productive. By creating your own baselines, you can define your standards for security, compliance, and productivity and leverage the power of Lighthouse to deploy those standards across your customers' tenants - and enforce them. Your baselines can include any combination of tasks from the default baseline and configurations extracted from other tenants you manage such as conditional access policies, device management policies and profiles, Windows Autopilot profiles, and more. There are many reasons to create your own baselines. To start creating your own baselines, navigate to the Baselines page in the Microsoft 365 Lighthouse portal. Assign your baseline to your customers' tenants so that Lighthouse can scan the tenants to tell you whether and to what degree they are already compliant with your new baseline. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3tPscx2 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Reduce Support Costs with Business Assist Forecast Service Excel Add-in

Business Assist Forecast is a tool that enables quick and confident forecasting of future support volume based on historical data, which can save time compared to manually analyzing past trends and volume levels. By selecting the Add button, you can quickly install and activate the Add-in for Business Assist Forecast in less than a minute. With this add-in, users can forecast upcoming cases and conversation volumes based on historical traffic data, which can help with staff management and reduce support costs. Users can visualize forecast volumes on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis for a time range of up to six months. Select the Business Assist Forecast Add-in and then, from the right flyout panel, select the forecast end date and seasonality from the drop-down menu. Forecast is the mean value and those low and high numbers they represent the 95th percentile of the mean value. The Business Assist Forecast Add-in for Excel is a powerful tool that can help businesses forecast customer support volume, manage staffing levels, and reduce support costs using the advanced statistical model that Microsoft uses to manage their own support forecasts. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/46ICHkr Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Upcoming October 2023 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

‎Oct 17 2023 04:00 PM. Join our next community call on October 24 to deep dive into Power Pages. 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/3rSA6W3 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Simplifying Directory Navigation with PowerShell

Have you ever found yourself stuck trying to locate a specific Windows directory while using PowerShell? If so, don't worry, because there's an easy solution that can save you time and frustration. In this article, we'll explore how to find specific Windows directories using PowerShell and discuss the handy `Environment.GetFolderPath` method and the `Environment.SpecialFolder` enumeration.

Fall 2023 update: Introducing new icons, shapes, and templates in Microsoft Visio for the web

The Visio team is excited to share a roundup of the newest icons, shapes, and templates available in Visio for the web, but before we dive into all the new content, let's look back on the first half of 2023, when we introduced new capabilities to help you create and further customize your org charts in Visio for the web, the Visio app in Microsoft Teams to further enable collaborative diagramming, the new Visio Templates page on Microsoft365.com to improve the start experience, and new capabilities to view and edit shape data in Visio for the web. Read on to learn about new icons, shapes, templates and sample diagrams, and color themes-now available to Visio for the web users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license, unless noted otherwise. These icons are available for Visio for the web users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license. These shapes are available for Visio for the web users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license. Last month, we expanded on these diagramming capabilities by introducing the new Audit Diagram template in parallel with the launch of the new Visio Templates page. These sample diagrams are available for users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license and can be accessed from the Visio Templates page at www. Again, these sample diagrams are available for users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license and can be accessed from the Visio Templates page at www. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3FgUEdI Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Community Spotlight- Meet Tanya Caruana- Director/Senior Digital Experience Specialist at BMO Harris

Tanya Caruana works for BMO Harris Bank, one of the top five biggest banks in Canada with a presence in the United States and throughout Europe and Asia. She is the Director and Senior Digital Experience Specialist that works on the enterprise employee experience for their enterprise-wide technologies. Her programs provide peer-to-peer learning, training, support, and inspiration through storytelling and a curated digital experience. Tanya has grown her team from a team of one to a large team to adoption and employee experience. In 2020, Tanya launched the community of champions at BMO Harris called the Digital Insiders. When Digital Insiders first began, her managers wanted to appoint people to join Digital Insiders, one from each team. Tanya wants to continue to excel and help the content in the Digital Insiders get to the next level. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3ZFExQv Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: September 2023

September 2023 brought some great news and new offerings: Answer Analytics in Microsoft Search, introduction of Microsoft 365 Chat, a GA date for Microsoft 365 Copilot, introduction of Copilot in Microsoft Stream, Favorite and Unfavorite additional file types and folders in OneDrive and SharePoint document libraries, Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview support on iOS and Android, Planner Loop Component, and more. All features listed below began rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of September 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. Highlights from the AI/Copilot event in NYC. Let's break down the recent NYC event, On Sep 21, Microsoft announced a series of exciting updates, including the Microsoft 365 Copilot general availability date: November 1, 2023, and that Microsoft Copilot in Windows will be begin rolling out in preview to commercial customers beginning September 26. Teamwork updates across SharePoint team sites, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. SharePoint is the intelligent content service that powers teamwork - to better collaborate on proposals, projects, and campaigns throughout your organization - with integration across Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Yammer, Stream, Planner and much more. We're pleased to announce support for the Microsoft Lists - MSA Preview within Microsoft Lists for iOS and Android - now available. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3rBUDhg Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Unveiling the Next Generation of OneDrive

Today, we're officially unveiling the next generation of OneDrive where all your files are at your fingertips. The next generation of OneDrive includes new file views, governance controls, creation tools, and Copilot to help you quickly search, organize and extract information from your files. Let's take a look at the next generation of OneDrive. The next generation of OneDrive offers simple and fast access to your files and shared files. OneDrive home: We've redesigned the home experience in OneDrive for Web to help you swiftly retrieve your files no matter where they live in your organization. OneDrive in Teams: Part of the reinvention of OneDrive is a new approach to working with files in Teams. The restricted access control policy for OneDrive lets you block people from accessing shared files in specific OneDrive accounts by limiting OneDrive access to members of a specific security group. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3F2CDjl Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

Reminder: Create GDAP templates in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse

As detailed previously, Lighthouse provides a way to create GDAP templates that can be easily applied across all your customers, with built-in role recommendations and the ability to automatically complete role assignments once a customer has approved the relationship. A screenshot of creating GDAP templates in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse. Microsoft has already created GDAP relationships for all existing DAP relationships as part of the Microsoft-led DAP to GDAP transition. Instead, these relationships will have default GDAP relationships, requiring action to assign GDAP roles to security groups for these customers. Using GDAP templates in Lighthouse, you can quickly add new customers to an existing template to accelerate this process. Start using GDAP templates in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse today Get started by registering for Lighthouse, logging in with the required roles, and using GDAP to configure delegated access. We're also working on new features to allow you to manage your users easily, update your GDAP templates, and create new GDAP relationships as you onboard new customers. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3F3kGkw Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Support update for Business Connectivity Services in Microsoft 365

To simplify these options and provide the best experience for these scenarios going forward, Microsoft is announcing its plan to retire Business Connectivity Services in Microsoft 365 and focus on Microsoft Power Apps as its replacement technology. All Business Connectivity Services features will be retired in SharePoint in Microsoft 365. Microsoft encourages customers to explore using Power Apps to replace their Business Connectivity Services solutions in SharePoint in Microsoft 365. Although there's no direct migration from Business Connectivity Services to Power Apps, it supports a modern, cloud-first external data connectivity experience. October 30, 2023: Microsoft will begin blocking Business Connectivity Services features based on the tenant property set by the customer. January 8, 2024: Microsoft will block Business Connectivity Services features in new Microsoft 365 tenants by default, as well as in tenants who haven't used the feature since October 30, 2023. Customers should only set this property once they've confirmed there's no business need to use the Business Connectivity Services features. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/48yNiQn Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Making it easier for small and medium businesses to stay secure

As we mark the 20th anniversary of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we see security becoming an increasing focus for small and medium business customers. At Microsoft, we believe in security for all and are committed to bringing enterprise security innovation to SMBs. With Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Microsoft Defender for Business, we brought enterprise-grade security to SMB customers that is affordable and easy to use. Microsoft 365 Business Premium brings the best of Office apps, Microsoft 365 services and Teams, with a comprehensive security suite to SMBs- offering protection across identity and access with Microsoft Entra ID Plan 1, endpoint security with Defender for Business, protection across email, Teams, OneDrive with Defender for Office 365, data protection with Azure Information protection and device management with Microsoft Intune. At Microsoft, we are committed to making our solutions accessible and affordable for SMBs. As part of cybersecurity month, we're offering a 10% price promotion for Microsoft 365 Business Premium annual subscriptions for new customers through October- available via our website in the US, UK and Canada. For businesses looking to purchase through partners, Business Premium promotions for new customers are also available through partners in select markets. Partners can now see an aggregate view of the Secure Score of all their managed tenants, with the ability to view each managed tenants' individual secure score and trend directly in M365 Lighthouse. Partners can access training resources, customer decks and deployment checklists from our Business Premium partner playbook and Defender for Business Partner kit. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/46eJKkw Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog