Multi-tenant organization capabilities now available in Microsoft 365

Today we're thrilled to announce a robust set of multi-tenant organization capabilities within Microsoft 365, now generally available to enhance your organization's collaboration, communication, and administration across multiple tenants. These capabilities span Microsoft 365 People Search, Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage and Microsoft Defender XDR, which can be enabled via the Microsoft 365 admin center or Microsoft Entra admin center. This segmentation can cause frustration when users need to communicate and collaborate across tenant boundaries, whilst IT admins need to perform the same set of administrative tasks per tenant to maintain their organization. An image showing a synchronized user profile from another tenant in Microsoft 365. Enable Microsoft 365 multi-tenant capabilities with Microsoft Entra ID. Multi-tenant organization platform capabilities are now rolling out to standard production tenants in Microsoft 365. To deliver the above capabilities, administrators can enable multi-tenant capabilities in the Microsoft 365 admin center and configure which users in the organization can take advantage of multi-tenant capabilities using either Microsoft 365 admin center or Microsoft Entra admin center. For a simplified experience, stay in the Microsoft 365 admin center to sync users into multiple tenants in your multi-tenant organization. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3UxhSoi Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft at TechCon365 and PWRCON

Graphic: A collage of all the Microsoft speakers presenting in Seattle, WA. At TechCon365 & PWRCON Seattle, a Microsoft 365 Conference & Power Platform Conference, the subject matter is divided into tracks and each session is designated for beginner, intermediate, advanced or expert. With 2 optional days of workshops and a 3-day conference, you can choose from over 130 sessions in multiple tracks and 25 workshops presented by Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power Platform, Microsoft Teams, Viva, Azure, Copilot & AI's top experts! Whether you are new to Microsoft 365, Power Platform and SharePoint or an experienced power user, admin or developer, TechCon365 has content designed to fit your experience level and area of interest. See how the Microsoft 365, SharePoint Power Platform, Azure, and AI ecosystem is growing and evolving by speaking with technical experts from the local Microsoft field and diverse channels within the Microsoft Partner Network - all in our exhibit hall. Microsoft keynotes and AMA. Hear from Microsoft leadership revealing the latest innovations shaping the flexible, innovative, and secure business environments of the future. Find us in the Community Lounge - A place to connect with Microsoft MVPs, MCM, Microsoft Regional Directors, and user group leaders via Ask the Experts tables and in the Community Lounge when you can pick up some laptop stickers and learn more about community programs in the Exhibit Hall. It is crucial to ensure your organization is technically ready for the full potential of Copilot for Microsoft 365. I hope you will join us in Seattle, WA for what will be a fantastic week in the PNW! We're looking forward to the action alongside the community, MVPs, and Microsoft product members from Copilot, Teams, Office, SharePoint, OneDrive, Loop, Viva, Power Platform, Lists, Planner, and more. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3vW46lZ Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

SharePoint Intranet Festival, May 22, 2024, promoted by SWOOP Analystics in collaboration with Microosft

The event is managed by our partner SWOOP Analytics and is packed with experts and content to help guide your broader employee engagement strategy and org-wide communications decision making. To help kick it off, members of the Microsoft SharePoint product team will kick off each time zone to provide additional product insights and engage in the live discussion. Learn how Microsoft is transforming the authoring experience, for you to create and consume content more easily. We've lots of demos to share, sample guidance and best practices, and recent customer examples - all to help you make the most of your SharePoint-Microsoft 365-based intranet investments. SharePoint powers more and more experience across Microsoft 365 including the latest innovations in OneDrive, Loop, Lists, Stream, SharePoint itself, and more. Join us and industry leaders as we unveil invaluable strategies and share experiences shaping the future of intranet content governance and development! Thank you to our partner SWOOP Analytics with special kudos to Cai Kjaer, Serena Pacifico, and team for organizing the event, wrangling all the content and speakers, and supporting the goodness and value of intranets today and going forward. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4aGTh6r Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Unleash the Power of Productivity: Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 Preview

We are pleased to announce that the commercial preview of Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 is now available for both Windows and Mac. Office LTSC 2024 will include features from past Office releases as well as a subset of new features already available in Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise. Because we know that many customers deploy Office LTSC on only a subset of their devices, we will continue to support the deployment of both Office LTSC and Microsoft 365 Apps to different machines within the same organization using a common set of deployment tools: Click-to-Run on Windows and Apple Package format on Mac, just like Office LTSC 2021. Microsoft 365 continues to deliver the most secure, productive, and cost-effective Office experience, and positions customers to unlock the transformative power of AI with Microsoft Copilot. LTSC 2024 will be a valuable upgrade for customers who need to keep their Office apps on-premises. For instructions on how to install and activate the previews of Office LTSC, Project, and Visio on a Windows device, visit Install Office LTSC Preview. For instructions on how to install and activate the Office LTSC for Mac Preview, visit Overview of Office LTSC for Mac Preview. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4d6epEL Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Tell us your thoughts at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference and earn a $20 gift card

The Microsoft User Researcher team is offering several group sessions that will focus on Copilot, Loop, Mesh, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, and Viva. These 60-75-minute sessions will give you an opportunity to learn about some of our product ideas and provide your own ideas and feedback. To participate, you must complete this survey and sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. The survey includes a brief description of the different session topics available and will take 10-15 minutes to complete. You can choose the sessions that interest you the most and fit your schedule. As a thank you, you will receive a $20 Starbucks card for each session you participate in! We hope to see you at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference and at the Microsoft User Research sessions. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3JqNkP0 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft at the European Collab and Cloud Summit in Wiesbaden, Germany

The European Collab Summit and European Cloud Summit are co-located in 2024 - converging on Wiesbaden, Germany, May 14-16, 2024 - with two pre-event and one post-event workshop days. With nearly 3,000 attendees, the European Collaboration Summit is a big opportunity to learn a lot and meet with Microsoft and MVP experts across numerous areas - your tech community peers included. You'll hear the latest product updates and guidance from over 45 Microsoft product makers - filled with real-world solutions across a combined general keynote, four general sessions, numerous breakout sessions, and pre/post event deep-dive workshops to build your expertise - presented alongside Microsoft MVPs and community experts. Hear from Microsoft leadership revealing the latest innovations shaping the flexible, innovative, and secure business environments of the future. Attendees can expect interactive demos, enlightening discussions, and a deep dive into Microsoft's strategic direction with advances in cloud. You can review each full agenda for Collab sessions and Cloud sessions. I hope you will join us in Germany for what will be a fantastic week! We're looking forward to the action alongside the community, MVPs, and Microsoft product members from Copilot, Teams, Office, SharePoint, OneDrive, Loop, Viva, Power Platform, Lists, Planner, and more. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4aXuJWj Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft OneNote now available on Apple Vision Pro

Today, we are introducing the newest member of the OneNote family, on the Apple Vision Pro. We have worked closely with Apple for many years to bring these experiences to iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Now, with Apple Vision Pro, OneNote will make use of the infinite canvas of spatial computing and can appear side-by-side with other great Microsoft apps like Word, Excel, and Teams at any scale for incredible multitasking. You can plan trips, practice daily habits, and create/edit your task list, all in spatial reality - the OneNote experience on the Apple Vision Pro helps you stay productive, no matter where you are. To learn more about Apple Vision Pro, watch this video from Apple. From your Apple Vision Pro, go to the App Store and search for Microsoft OneNote. Enter your Apple ID and password, if prompted, to start the download. Once the app is installed, tap to launch it. OneNote for Apple Vision Pro only supports personal accounts and work accounts that are not managed by your organization. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3xyBKym Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

SharePoint content sessions to be delivered at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference in Orlando, Florida.

Microsoft is sending over 175 Microsoft product makers - to share and discuss innovation and real-world solutions across keynotes, sessions, and pre/post event deep-dive workshops to build your expertise. Expect clarity on what SharePoint is today AND directions content management and communications for the future. To see all that Microsoft is planning for the event, please review our Microsoft 365 Community Conference event guide. Join us to learn how AI-powered content management in Microsoft 365 enables content intelligence, optimizes critical business processes, improves governance, and prepares your content for Copilot. See the full list of 18 workshops available on the pre days and post day. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3PSJeCU Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Microsoft 365 Community Conference IT session spotlight

If you are an IT admin who is responsible for deploying, configuring, and securing Microsoft 365 in your organization, you don't want to miss this year's Microsoft 365 Community Conference in Orlando, Florida on April 30 - May 2. The conference will feature over 100 sessions covering several topics related to Microsoft 365 and Copilot, such as security, compliance, governance, collaboration, productivity, and more. A healthy, secure, and well-managed tenant significantly increases time to value for generative AI tools like Copilot for Microsoft 365. Whether or not you've purchased Copilot or other AI tools, this session covers best practices on how you can drive data security, privacy, and governance within Microsoft 365 so you can confidently deploy Copilot. Join us for an interactive and engaging conversation with other SMB leaders who are using Copilot for Microsoft 365 to boost their productivity and efficiency. We're excited to have you join us at this year's Microsoft 365 Community Conference! Continue the conversation or start your own in the Small and Medium Businesses community, Microsoft 365 community, or the Copilot for Microsoft 365 community! Make sure to Follow or Subscribe so you don't miss any updates! -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4atzUxs Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Apple Vision Productivity on The Intrazone Microsoft podcast

It's time to unveil the mysteries of productivity within the Apple Vision Pro. John takes us into the realm of spatial computing as it blends with the productivity stack of Microsoft 365. John is an enterprise architect at EY and Microsoft MVP who specializes in Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, Stream, and Virtual Events. Not only is John a great resource to understand the ins and outs of Microsoft 365-based communications and collaboration, but he recently invested in an Apple Vision Pro and started testing the pro'ductivity of Teams and Outlook from within the visionOS experience. We talked about some of the headset features, challenges, and benefits, John's experience using his persona during Teams meetings including the spatial audio experience, we centered on the visionOS experience of Microsoft Teams and Outlook apps, and last - we asked John what he wants to see next, both from Microsoft app integrations for the Vision Pro and what Apple can do to support better integration with other Apple devices. Fun meta fact: We recorded the interview via a normal 1:1 Teams meeting AND John joined in true Teams tech fashion using his Vision Pro + Teams to join. What John Moore saw when wearing the Vision Pro during our Teams meeting recording; you can see I was closing my eyes envisioning that I, too, was wearing a Vision Pro headset ;). John Moore's persona joins the Teams meeting to record The Intrazone with Mark Kashman. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3TWapxN Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Improve cost-effectiveness by utilizing forecasting service in Dynamics 365 Customer Service.

Predict and manage support needs with forecasting in Dynamics 365 Customer Service. The feature considers operational metrics such as service level, shrinkage, and concurrency when forecasting agent demand. By considering these factors, organizations can ensure that the agent ability forecast aligns with service level agreements and operational constraints, maximizing efficiency and customer satisfaction. To enable the case forecasting report, find the Case forecasting row, select Manage, and then toggle Enable case forecasting. To enable the agent forecasting for conversation report, find the Agent forecasting for conversation row, select Manage, and then toggle Enable agent ability forecasting. Requirements: You need customer service license in Dynamics 365 Customer Service to access Forecast Service functionality. This feature is available now to all Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service users. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3J6YKHv Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Easily sign-in to all Microsoft accounts using Outlook app

Now you can use Outlook for Android as a sign-in verification method for your Microsoft apps and services. With Outlook sign-in verification, you don't need to remember or type any passwords or use a onetime SMS code, you can simply use the Outlook app plus a biometric or PIN to approve a sign-in on your phone. This sign-in verification functionality will be automatically enabled when you use the latest version of the Outlook app. Figure 1 Auto enabled when user opens Outlook app on Android. To learn more about the new Outlook sign-in verification feature for Microsoft account and for support, click here. We are rolling this out to all Outlook Android users. Support for Outlook on iOS is on the roadmap, and we will share more details at a future date. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/49s08za Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Brainstorm your next big idea with mind maps in Visio for the web

Mind maps have been a widely requested diagram type in Visio, which is why we're so excited to announce that they are currently rolling out to Visio for the web users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license. In the coming weeks, users will be able to create mind maps in Visio for the web using the newly released Mind Map template. An image of a mind map in Visio for the web demonstrating how to create a mind map using the new Mind Map stencil. An image of a mind map in Visio for the web demonstrating how to customize mind maps using available icons and fill colors. An image of a mind map in the Visio app in Teams demonstrating how to collaborate on mind maps with team members. Whether mind maps are used for project planning, strategic thinking, or managing meetings, users like Alex can leverage mind maps to streamline their workflows, enhance their productivity, and achieve their goals more efficiently. If you have Visio in Microsoft 365, you will need to upgrade to either Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 to create mind maps in Visio for the web. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3VPY4gX Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Most widely used SharePoint Framework ISVs from the Store

We are excited to see the continuous growth on the submissions of the SharePoint Framework solutions to the app source and on the usage of the SharePoint store for extending experiences for SharePoint and Microsoft Viva. It enables the same code to be used easily across the Microsoft 365 with this widely adopted tooling which uses industry standard tech with easy and automatic SSO and hosting. Deprecation of SharePoint add-in and Azure ACS authentication models - UX powered extensibility should be transformed to us SharePoint Framework powered implementations. This deprecation does not impact SharePoint Framework solutions. Additional capabilities and features for SharePoint Framework solutions in Microsoft 365 as part of the SPFx 1.18 release. We are looking forward to more great solutions that enable innovation, and help our customers get more done with Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. Please see following resources around getting started on building extensibility for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint using SharePoint Framework. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4b3BCWn Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Unlocking AI for small and medium-sized business: Microsoft 365 Community Conference 2024

Unlock the knowledge, insights, and skills you need to accelerate your business in the era of AI. Join the small and medium-sized business community at the upcoming Microsoft 365 Community Conference in Orlando, Florida, April 30 - May 2, sponsored by Microsoft. Network with Microsoft experts and product makers, MVPs, industry leaders, and the small and medium-sized business community throughout the week and at the special attendee party hosted at Universal Islands of Adventure. You can review all Microsoft 365 Community Conference sessions here. Microsoft will be hosting a special customer roundtable discussion for small and medium-sized business leaders who are using or considering Copilot for Microsoft 365 to boost productivity and business efficiency. Hear what attendees from last year's event had to say about the Microsoft 365 Community Conference. How to get started with Microsoft 365 Find the right Microsoft 365 business plan for your business. Discount code SMB100 cannot be applied to Microsoft 365 Community Conference workshops and cannot be combined with another offer code. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4cLy5h2 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Microsoft SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop March2024 and The Intrazone podcast

March 2024 brought some great new offerings: SharePoint: New section backgrounds, Answers in Viva content in Microsoft Search, SharePoint Premium: Enable/disable Unstructured, Structured, and Prebuilt Document Processing, Manage SharePoint Embedded containers, Microsoft Lists: New forms experience, New Planner app in Teams, OneDrive: Create with templates, Microsoft Viva Goals: New URL domain, and more. Microsoft SharePoint Embedded, currently in Public Preview, is an API-only solution empowering app developers to leverage the file and document storage in Microsoft 365 to create line-of-business or multitenant applications. Microsoft Loop is an example of a SharePoint Embedded application - and is configured for you by default - and is a great example of what a custom application can do using a SharePoint Embedded repository as its backend storage. It brings together the simplicity of Microsoft To Do, the collaboration of Planner, the power of Microsoft Project, and the intelligence of Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 into a single, simple solution that spans from individual task management and frontline task management to enterprise and professional project management. We are updating the existing Tasks by Planner and To Do app in Microsoft Teams to the new Microsoft Planner app, which will maintain all existing app functionality and add new options and features to help users be more productive. Microsoft Viva Goals: New URL. Like we noted for Microsoft Loop a few roadmaps ago, and as part of the broader effort to bring Microsoft 365 apps and service onto the single cloud. Microsoft 365 public roadmap + pre-filtered URL for SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer and Stream roadmap items. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3vy1SZM 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, the new home for the Health dashboard, and explore the benefits of Microsoft product trials and how you can use them to maximize value from Microsoft 365 by accelerating new tool evaluation. This month, the Microsoft 365 admin center went live on the new domain, and is now accessible at admin. Admins can start trials and assign trial licenses to select users via the Microsoft 365 admin center by navigating to Billing > Your products page. In either case, Microsoft 365 admins retain full control with the ability to disable self-service trials, or take over trial subscriptions through the Microsoft 365 admin center. As always, stay current with the latest updates on the Microsoft 365 admin center from the Microsoft 365 roadmap and the message center. To keep up with the latest on Copilot for Microsoft 365, consider joining our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4aRI16X Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

New features Microsoft announced at Enterprise Connect 2024

By Brenna Robinson, General Manager, Microsoft SMB. At this year's Enterprise Connect conference, Microsoft showcased new products and solutions improving business communications and collaboration. We'd like to share some of the announcements we've made, including new ways to manage your phone calls in Microsoft Teams Phone with the new Queues app. Microsoft Teams Phone is a key addition for a small business already using Microsoft Teams because it's the only cloud telephone solution natively built for Teams. The Queues app will be available as part of Teams Premium in Summer 2024 and requires a Teams Phone subscription. Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Microsoft 365 Business Premium customers can enhance their Teams experience with all these new features and be ready for the new Copilot capabilities as they're released. Just add Teams Premium, Copilot for Microsoft 3651 , and Teams Phone to your subscription. To purchase, enterprise customers must have a license for Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 or Office 365 E3 or E5, and business customers must have a license for Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium, or a version of these suites that no longer includes Microsoft Teams. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3IYk8P6 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

OneDrive security and mobile features now available for Microsoft 365 Basic subscribers

We are excited to announce the addition of ransomware detection and recovery, an expanded Personal Vault, password protected and expiring sharing links, and offline files and folders to Microsoft 365 Basic. With additional security features from OneDrive, Microsoft 365 Basic subscribers will get additional peace of mind for their files and photos, at the same low price. How it helps: Personal Vault in OneDrive provides an extra layer of security with Two-Factor Authentication, helping to ensure that only you can access your critical files. Microsoft 365 Basic subscribers previously could only store 3 files in their Personal Vault. Offline Files and Folders, empowers Microsoft 365 Basic customers with seamless access to your files on the go, whether you're traveling, in a location with poor connectivity, or simply want to save on data. OneDrive will confirm your files are available offline. Storage Considerations: The number and size of files you can store offline are limited by your device's available storage and the Microsoft Basic 100GB storage limit. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3VECc8w Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

Microsoft Loop works with Microsoft Teams and Collaborative notes

Because Collaborative Notes are Microsoft Loop components, they automatically sync across all the places you share them. Since Collaborative Notes are Loop components you can work on them across other Microsoft 365 web apps, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Whiteboard. During a meeting, any participant can use Collaborative Notes to check off or re-order agenda items and take notes and assign follow-up tasks in one central place. Because Collaborative Notes are Loop components, you can add links and other components directly in the notes. Tasks and deadlines created in Collaborative Notes or other Loop components automatically sync with Microsoft Planner and the Microsoft ToDo App. If you're a Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Microsoft 365 Business Premium customer, you can try out Collaborative Notes right now in Microsoft Teams. If you have Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Microsoft 365 Business Premium, you can also purchase Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 as an add-on; Microsoft 365 Business Basic customers will also be able to purchase Copilot. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/43CYHfP Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Use Clipchamp to create accessible and impactful videos

Overall video viewership on the web has increased 25% since 20191, and there are more than three billion internet users accessing video content every day, so video is a medium you don't want to overlook when delivering an impactful message to your current and growing audience. That's why we released Microsoft Clipchamp last November, so that we can help you create professional-grade videos more quickly and easily. Clipchamp has an innovative interface that is purpose-built to make video creation easier, while still delivering polished and professional results. Microsoft Clipchamp autocaptions and text to speech Autocaptions. Clipchamp immediately generates captions for your video, which you can review and edit as needed. Your team can use the new text to speech feature to add voice over tracks to videos without requiring recording equipment or expensive voice layovers in post-production. Autocaptions and text to speech are both perfect examples of the features Clipchamp provides to help businesses make videos simply. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3PGqEO1 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Enable AI and productivity in your organization

Microsoft has put a stake in the ground, a commitment to bring AI and Copilot to everyone, everywhere. We do this in a responsible way and provide you with tools and techniques to use and manage it all in ways that work best for your organization. With Copilot now in Teams, Microsoft 365 Office apps, Windows, and Viva - and coming soon to SharePoint, OneDrive - understanding governance and best practices around piloting, planning, deploying, managing, securing, and driving adoption for Copilot can be a big undertaking. We're sending over 175 Microsoft product makers to the Microsoft 365 Community Conference. With that in mind, I invite you to join me, my team and colleagues April 30th - May 2nd, 2024, at the Dolphin & Swan Hotel in Orlando, Florida. See everything Microsoft is planning for the show, review our Microsoft 365 Community Conference Event Guide - it's got everything from keynote details, general sessions, breakouts, workshops, special events, and more. You'll find content and experts spanning Copilot and AI, Teams, Viva, SharePoint, OneDrive, Power Platform, Planner, and more - a little something for everyone no matter if you're of focus is business, IT, or extensibility. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4a7n9IO Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Act now: Turn on or customize Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies

Since we announced Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies, we've rolled out these policies to more than 500,000 tenants in report-only mode. Customers shared that Microsoft-managed policies impact the number of Conditional Access policies that organizations can create. We've addressed this by making a significant change: Microsoft-managed policies will no longer count towards the Conditional Access policy limit. Another adjustment relates to existing Conditional Access policies. As a result, we have extended the time frame before enforcing the policies for this initial set of policies. For these three policies, you will have more than 90 days to review and customize your Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies before they are automatically enforced. Review these policies in the Conditional Access policies blade. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4cqQL5y Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Introducing New Capabilities for File Viewer in Microsoft 365

Today we're happy to introduce performance, collaboration and interactivity upgrades to the file viewer in Microsoft 365. The file viewer in Microsoft 365 opens by default when you access non-Office files from OneDrive, SharePoint, or Teams. File viewer supports over 300 file types and also allows for some basic image editing and file annotation. Let's take a look at what's new in file viewer. This video shows the before and after changes to the file viewer in Microsoft 365. Copilot: Use Copilot right in file viewer to get file summaries, answer questions about file content, and extract information This seamless integration of Copilot enhances your file experience and helps you get the most out of your files. The file viewer in Microsoft 365 can display and scroll through over 300 different file types. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4anWk2S Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

Collect information like a pro New Microsoft Lists forms experience in Microsoft 365

We are excited to announce that we are currently rolling out the new forms experience in Microsoft Lists for Microsoft 365 work and school. Thus, we are excited to launch a new forms experience built right inside Microsoft Lists - rolling out now. The new Forms experience in Microsoft Lists - showing how you add and edit columns as segments to collect various pieces of information. The new Forms experience in Microsoft Lists - showing how you can select pre-made themes or create your own style. The new Forms experience in Microsoft Lists - showing what a recipient sees when they click on the Form share link - they simply, and only, see the form as you designed it. Coming soon, a new Help article to help you through all the steps on how to create a form in Microsoft Lists. I'll be demo'ing the new Microsoft Lists Forms experience on the upcoming Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community call: Tuesday, April 16th, 2024, at 8:00 AM PDT; it's free to join and it's a great community to learn from. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/48XrxIU Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Microsoft 365 Lighthouse vision and upcoming features

We're thrilled to announce that Microsoft 365 Lighthouse has a brand-new icon. In our earlier Microsoft 365 Lighthouse: 2023 Year in Review blog post, we gave you a sneak peek at features coming in early 2024. Microsoft Copilot opportunities: We added Microsoft Copilot opportunities to Sales Advisor to help you identify customers who are eligible to buy Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Monitor the health of all your customers: Use Lighthouse to support all of your customers, including those with Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, and many more licensing SKUs. Opening up Lighthouse to Indirect providers: We're working to make Lighthouse available to indirect providers so they can manage their direct-bill customers. Later in the year, indirect providers will be able to leverage all features in Lighthouse to keep their Microsoft 365 direct-bill customers safe, secure, and productive. These are just some of the things we're working on to make Lighthouse the best tool for managing and securing all your Microsoft 365 customers. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3vhtWQO Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Remote Event Receivers retirement update

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

Upcoming preview of Microsoft Office LTSC 2024

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

Invest in Tech: Supercharge your frontline with AI

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

Upcoming March 2024 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

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

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

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

Sync Up Episode 09: Creating a New Future with OneDrive

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What's New for SharePoint Server

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

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

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

Evolving user enablement in the era of AI

At Microsoft over the last year, we have been focused on learning how AI is influencing this critical area by listening and learning from customers, partners, and experts around the globe who are taking this journey with us. It covers the three core elements of AI enablement - the leadership journey, user enablement and technical readiness - with real world guidance and tools to support your implementation. You can read the blog in our Microsoft 365 Copilot community or go directly to the experience via our Copilot Hub at adoption. Over the coming months, you will see our existing documentation and guidance materials for other areas such as the new Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva, and others align to this model. Our work is better described by the term user enablement, and you will see this reflected across the Microsoft 365 content going forward, as evidenced first with our Copilot Success Kit resources. In the most successful user enablement programs, there is a lifecycle of reviewing technology capabilities to build technical acumen, applying them to stated business goals through the employee engagement driven by Champions, and ongoing skilling programs. Join us in the upcoming Microsoft 365 Champion community call to hear more discussion on this direction and what's next for our supporting tools across other user enablement opportunities. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3ItEJuk Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Come See What's Next for OneDrive

The Microsoft 365 Community Conference is always a special event for the OneDrive team. Copilot in OneDrive - your AI file management assistant. The full OneDrive experience and capabilities in Teams, Outlook, Microsoft365.com, and Windows File Explorer. A new set of API's and SDK's that enable developers to fully integrate OneDrive into applications and workflows with features like delta query, change notifications, and file handlers. Search for files with natural language, ask open-ended questions or get a file summary with Copilot in OneDrive. We'll have OneDrive sessions on AI, collaboration, and your favorite topics. Join us for vision keynotes and sessions on Copilot, Microsoft 365, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Viva, and our vision on what's next from Jeff Teper and other members of our leadership as well as deep dive sessions from Microsoft engineers and industry experts on a wide range of areas that impact you and your users. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3T3Cxyl Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive 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, review the latest enhancements to bring more insights to customers on their network connectivity, explore the benefits of the Monthly Enterprise Channel, and highlight a new blog where you can catch up on all things Copilot for Microsoft 365. Since early 2020, Microsoft has offered production updates to Microsoft 365 Apps through 3 primary channels: Current Channel, Monthly Enterprise Channel, and Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel. With over 150 sessions covering Copilot for Microsoft 365, Teams, Viva, SharePoint, Windows, and more, this event is ideal for anyone who wants to explore Microsoft's latest AI innovations, connect with product makers, experts, and the community, and deepen their Microsoft 365 and Copilot skills to advance their career in the era of AI. Register here: https://aka. With the speed of enhancements and releases, we're putting together a monthly What's New in Copilot article that will be published on the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. As always, stay current with the latest updates on the Microsoft 365 admin center from the Microsoft 365 roadmap and the message center. To keep up with the latest on Copilot for Microsoft 365, consider joining our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/42YlLp2 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Copilot in OneDrive: A New Wave of File Interaction

Copilot in OneDrive will be accessible directly in OneDrive for web and in the file viewer in Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint. Copilot in OneDrive will transform the way you interact with files in Microsoft 365. Copilot in OneDrive will also be accessible from the file viewer in Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint. Copilot in OneDrive helps you do just this, offering you a quick and intuitive way to extract answers from your documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and other files. Simply give Copilot in OneDrive a prompt, and it will fetch what you need from your files, saving you time by giving you instant access to information contained deep within your files. As you can see, Copilot in OneDrive can help you extract information and find your files with unparalleled ease, so you're not working harder, you're working smarter. As we continue to innovate and push the boundaries of file interaction, Copilot in OneDrive stands out as a new leap forward in enhancing your productivity. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/49zxMUf Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: February 2024

Let's leap into everything that landed this past month: Copilot Dashboard for Viva Insights, SharePoint Premium; Translation, Sample: Custom copilot in SharePoint with SSO, Signaling Viva Topics retirement, Custom document library templates, Updated Lists apps: Sites/Teams/PWA, Copilot in Teams, Microsoft Clipchamp: Automatic captions, Teams: Hide General Channels, Initial Microsoft 365 apps on Apple visionOS, and more. All features listed below began rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of February 2024. It's a great reason to become a SharePoint Premium customer, and one of many capabilities of advanced content management on top of the core of SharePoint in Microsoft 365. The SPFx component, embedded natively in SharePoint sites, acquires a token for the user, and exchanges the token with the copilot, allowing the copilot to access protected data sources, like SharePoint and OneDrive, on the user's behalf. The component included in the sample allows copilots created with Microsoft Copilot Studio to be wrapped and published to SharePoint sites as a floating widget. Viva Topics will be retired on February 22, 2025 and Microsoft won't invest in new feature development for Viva Topics going forward from February 22, 2024. Teamwork updates across SharePoint team sites, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3UVsi1F Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Microsoft 365 Lighthouse and Microsoft Power Platform Integration

We're excited to announce the launch of the Microsoft 365 Lighthouse and Microsoft Power Platform Integration Guide. This guide provides a clear, step-by-step approach to integrating Microsoft 365 Lighthouse and Microsoft Power Platform into your organization and addresses the unique aspects and specific nuances of Microsoft 365 Lighthouse. Power Platform is a suite of business application tools, including Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, and Copilot Studio. We'll not only show you how you can integrate Lighthouse with Power Platform, but we'll take it a step further and demonstrate how to develop your own Lighthouse copilot using Copilot Studio-built on the foundations of Power Virtual Agents and other Power Platform technologies. You'll learn to pull and analyze Lighthouse data in new ways, from crafting personalized reports to setting up smart automations, all enhanced with the savvy insights of AI. Microsoft 365 Lighthouse: A quick recapScreenshot of the Microsoft 365 Lighthouse home page. The Microsoft 365 Lighthouse API, currently in its beta phase and accessible through Microsoft Graph, is available via the OData subnamespace microsoft. With this connector, you'll have a multifactor-authenticated way to pull data from Lighthouse to use in Microsoft Power Automate, store in Dataverse, create Power BI reports, or create a Lighthouse copilot. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3uQYEQy Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

What's new in Microsoft Bookings: Updated homepage

Introducing the updated Microsoft Bookings homepage. Microsoft Bookings is a powerful tool that helps you schedule and manage appointments with your customers, clients, or colleagues. Whether you need to book time to meet people or set aside time for different meetings, Bookings makes it easy and convenient for both you and your attendees. You can create new meeting types or bookings pages, either for yourself or for your team, with minimal clicks. Shared bookings are booking pages that you create and manage for your team. For new users embarking on their Bookings journey, we've introduced an exciting onboarding process designed to familiarize them with the product. The latest update for Microsoft Bookings only brings a fresh perspective to appointment management, with no functional or feature updates. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3UWLqwh Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

New Figma web part components available and feedback requested

Examples of new webparts added to the SharePoint Web UI Kit in the Figma Community. Our SharePoint Web UI kit in Figma has been updated with some great new additions! This update includes more web parts so you have more options when designing your SharePoint sites and pages. We are currently seeking feedback from both 1) those who have used the SharePoint Web UI Kit and 2) those who have not yet had the opportunity but have a need for this toolkit. To get started with our updated UI kit, simply download the latest version from the Figma Microsoft Community website: SharePoint Web UI Kit - Figma. You should evaluate if Figma is the right solution for mocking up sites and pages for SharePoint. Figma gives you the flexibility of reviewing and sharing your designs without having to spend time and resources creating it in SharePoint. You can leave a comment on the Figma SharePoint Web UI kit page or by visiting the SharePoint Community. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3USgoph Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Visually group shapes in your diagrams with containers in Visio for the web

The Visio desktop app has long supported containers, and now Visio for the web does, too! Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license use containers in Visio for the web to create diagrams that are better organized and easier to understand and navigate. A video of a flowchart in Visio for the web demonstrates how to add shapes to an underlying container. A video of a flowchart in Visio for the web demonstrates how to add the new Container stencil to the Shapes pane. Containers can be used to group related shapes in an architecture diagram. An image of an Azure architecture diagram in Visio for the web demonstrates how to use containers to group components in DevTest and Production subscriptions. Learn more about how to clarify the structure of diagrams by using containers in Visio for the web. We are listening! We look forward to hearing your feedback and learning more about how you use containers in Visio for the web. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3SI7BUt Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Upcoming February 2024 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

‎Feb 13 2024 03:22 PM. Join our next community call on February 27 to dive into the immersive 3D world of Microsoft Mesh. 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/42CPhAu Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Introducing a new community hub for Content Management

A new hub for content services across Microsoft 365. With the scope of content management solutions within our portfolio expanding, it is important to keep our communities connected and informed with a space that encompasses all of our solutions under one central hub. We are excited to introduce the new Content Management hub- bringing together our already thriving and enthusiastic SharePoint group, and adding a few new spaces to evolve our community and conversations. Content processing - better organize your content to maximize its value with AI-driven automation and intelligence to build, classify & tag documents and prepare content for Copilot. Content governance - maintain security and compliance by managing the content lifecycle and control access with simple yet powerful tools. With the addition of new spaces including SharePoint Embedded, Microsoft 365 Backup, and Microsoft 365 Archive, we are looking forward to growing the community to continue driving engaging conversations and rich content. With Microsoft 365's collection of AI-powered content management services you will add value to what you create and put the content to work for you. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/49c2VNj Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

FastTrack can help you get AI-ready for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365

FastTrack assistance is available for customer tenants with 150 or more licenses from one of the eligible plans from the following Microsoft product families: Microsoft 365, Office 365, Microsoft Viva, Enterprise Mobility & Security, and Windows 10/11. FastTrack is a benefit that supports the readiness of customers to prepare for Copilot enablement. With FastTrack, you can confirm that you meet the minimum required prerequisites to enable Copilot across your users and find opportunities for optimizing the Copilot experience. As part of this process, FastTrack can also recommend best practices for driving healthy usage across your organization. Copilot also simplifies the creation of meeting summaries, making it easier to catch up and collaborate asynchronously. Don't miss out on the opportunity to unleash the power of generative AI at work with Copilot for Microsoft 365. Get started today with FastTrack and optimize your Copilot for Microsoft 365 experience. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3OILLiq Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Deep Dive of Microsoft-managed Conditional Access Policies in Microsoft Entra ID

This blog was originally published on the Entra ID blog on 2/6. In November 2023 at Microsoft Ignite, we announced Microsoft-managed policies and the auto-rollout of multifactor authentication-related Conditional Access policies in customer tenants. This policy targets Microsoft Entra ID P1 and P2 tenants, where security defaults aren't enabled. This policy targets licensed users with Entra ID P1 and P2, where the security defaults policy isn't enabled and there are less than 500 per-user MFA enabled enabled/enforced users. Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies have been created in all eligible tenants in Report-only mode. These policies are suggestions from Microsoft that organizations can adapt and use for their own environment. Administrators can view and review these policies in the Conditional Access policies blade. Enable the Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies now and/or customize the Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies according to your organizational needs. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/49v9H0q Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Sync Up Podcast Engineering Excellence with Steven Bailey and John Selbie

Ms/SyncUp/RSS. As always, thank you for listening to the Sync Up Podcast! If you've got questions you'd like to see us tackle on the show, let us know in the comments below! -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3HQsRSP Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

Introducing the new Microsoft 365 Document Collaboration Partner Program

That's why we are excited to introduce the Microsoft 365 Document Collaboration Partner Program, a new opportunity for eligible platform providers to integrate Microsoft 365 apps into their platforms. Whether it's a presentation, a spreadsheet, or a document, the program can enable users to share, edit, and coauthor, without switching between apps or losing context. The Microsoft 365 Document Collaboration Partner Program allows eligible communication and collaboration ISVs to integrate Microsoft 365 experiences into their communication and collaboration platforms. There are two options of the program available - a web app and live app option. We're excited to announce that Zoom is one of the first organizations to explore the collaboration options of the MDCPP program. To be eligible for the program, your company must be a cloud communication and collaboration platform provider. If you want to learn more about the program and how to apply, please visit the application page and register your interest. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3uswDyw Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Top 10 reasons to attend the Microsoft 365 Community Conference

Last year at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference, we unveiled our new vision for the SharePoint user experience - including Copilot in SharePoint. I'm currently deep in planning as the Co-Lead of the event's Steering Committee and I'm super excited to make it the best conference for anyone who works with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power Platform, Viva, Copilot and is interested in how AI is transforming the workplace. Skilling content about every nook and cranny of Microsoft 365. There is more depth here - form product makers at Microsoft and the community - than anywhere else. Numerous Microsoft MVPs will be on hand - people tried and tested in smart technical implementation and successful business outcomes. Learn how Microsoft employees approach AI product making. It's hard to describe that perfect magic that is the Microsoft 365 people. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3OPfsyr Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Announcing edit support for.vsd files in Visio for the web

Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license can now edit. Microsoft Visio Drawing file format is the native format for Visio files created in the desktop app prior to version 2013. These files were not fully supported previously and could only be opened in view mode in Visio for the web; users would have to open a.vsd file in the desktop app to edit the file. Vsd files in Visio for the web-just like you would edit any other Visio file. An image of a diagram in view mode in Visio for the web demonstrating how to open and edit a file in the browser by selecting the Edit in Browser button in the Message Bar. An image of a diagram in view mode in Visio for the web demonstrating how to open and edit a file in the browser by selecting the Edit in Browser option from the Edit Diagram drop-down in the ribbon. If you have Visio in Microsoft 365, you will have to upgrade to either Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 to edit. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/49ik3AJ Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

How Microsoft 365 Delivers Trustworthy AI Blog Post

How Microsoft 365 Delivers Trustworthy AI is a comprehensive document providing regulators, IT pros, risk officers, compliance professionals, security architects, and other interested parties with an overview of the many ways in which Microsoft mitigates risk within the artificial intelligence product lifecycle. The commitments and standards conveyed in this paper operate at the Microsoft cloud level - these promises and processes apply to AI activity across Microsoft. Where the paper becomes product specific, its sole focus is Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Please reach out to your Microsoft contacts if you have questions regarding this content; thank you for your continued support and utilization of Microsoft AI. Download the Whitepaper. We hope this whitepaper has provided you with valuable insights into how Microsoft delivers trustworthy AI across its products and services. You will also find detailed information on how Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 adheres to these principles and practices. Download the whitepaper today and discover how Microsoft can help you achieve your AI goals with confidence and trust. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3ugXYng Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: January 2024

All features listed below began rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of January 2024. 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. Since the release of SharePoint Add-Ins in 2013, Microsoft has evolved SharePoint extensibility using the SharePoint Framework enabling you to write applications that can be used in Microsoft SharePoint, Viva Connections and Microsoft Teams. With our continued investment in SharePoint Framework, Microsoft is retiring SharePoint Add-Ins. At its core, SharePoint Premium enriches, organizes, and secures content to improve Copilot experiences through services like document tagging to extract metadata from images and documents, manage and secure SharePoint sites and libraries, and protect and archive information across Microsoft 365, and more. Microsoft published a compilation of new capabilities planned to be released between April 2024 and September 2024. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4827KHP Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Microsoft 365 in Apple Vision Pro

We have some exciting news to share with you: the Microsoft productivity apps that help you with your personal and professional tasks and our new everyday AI companion Copilot, will be available on Apple Vision Pro. Transform the way you use Excel with the infinite canvas on Apple Vision Pro to enable you to set up the perfect workspace and be even more productive with all-new ways to multitask. With Apple Vision Pro Immersive Environments and Word's focus mode, you can block out any distractions and fully immerse yourself in the document you are working on. Enjoy your favorite capabilities of Microsoft Teams - meet, chat, call, collaborate, and engage with business processes - with the ease, mobility, and infinite canvas that Apple Vision Pro enables. Teams video calls in Apple Vision Pro use the persona feature to create an authentic representation of your face when you are wearing the headset. You will be able to create, analyze and connect, using your own words and voice, with Copilot while using Apple Vision Pro. This is a sample of how you can work with Microsoft productivity apps and Copilot on Apple Vision Pro. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/4906pT9 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

New Year, New Look for OneDrive for personal use

With a sleek new interface and powerful new features, OneDrive is here to help you simplify your life and get more done in less time. The new features and upgraded design make it faster to get to all your personal and shared files in OneDrive so you can focus your time on things that matter most to you. Spend less time finding files and more time doing what you need with the improved OneDrive. People view: The new view organizes files by the people in your life you collaborate with. Find your content faster than ever before! With our new file filters, you can quickly find what you need with just a single click. Once you've filtered your view to a certain file type you can then search within that view to find the exact file you need. We've streamlined creation for both uploading to OneDrive and starting a new document. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3uhy6b0 Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

Network provider connectivity attribution in the Microsoft 365 admin center

In the list of locations, you should see a Network Providers column that shows you the network providers used at each location. In the Network Traffic tab where you see the list of providers at the tenant level, you can click on any network provider and a flyout panel appears with an option to View Locations that you can click to view the list of automatically filtered locations for this provider. View Locations is not shown when we can't identify the office locations where the network provider is used. We depend on location information from Windows Location Services to discover your location, it's possible that WLS is not enabled on your user's devices, or you chose to not share the location information with Microsoft in the Settings for Network Connectivity in Microsoft 365 admin center. In the network telemetry we have information like your LAN Subnet ID, Egress IP address that enables us to show all your locations from where your users are connecting to Microsoft 365. You added a location using /20 LAN subnet, we received a LAN subnet attribute containing /24 in the network assessment, we will map this network assessment to the location based on the /20 supernet definition. You can use the NPI chart to find top performing network providers and view their performance assessment at a given location, such as your office location or any other location from where users connect to Microsoft 365. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3SE1AJC Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Auto Rollout of Conditional Access Policies in Microsoft Entra ID

We are sharing it again on the SMB Tech Community blog channel to ensure that all of our partners, who manage customer tenants and their conditional access policies, are informed about the upcoming policy changes. Microsoft announced the automatic rollout of Conditional Access polices in Entra ID back in November 2023. This feature automatically creates new Conditional Access policies in report-only mode for eligible customers of Microsoft Entra ID P1/P2. Between November 9th, 2023, and December 31st, 2023, policies were created in all eligible tenants. Customers will have at least 90 days to review the policy's impact, manage exclusions, turn the policy on, or turn it off if necessary. Review the effects and benefits of the new policies. Customize these policies according to your specific needs, such as excluding emergency access accounts. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3OlgQbI Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Embark on a Seamless Journey to Microsoft 365 with Our Latest Enhancements to Migration Manager

Migration Manager is a powerful tool, hosted within the setup page of the Microsoft 365 admin center, that helps seamlessly transfer data from various sources, such as BOX, Google Drive, Dropbox, and file shares, to Microsoft 365. We're excited to share some enhancements to Migration Manager to make migrations simpler, more seamless and more secure. That's why we're thrilled to announce that Migration Manager now supports migrating Google Forms definitions and results to Microsoft Forms so that customers can preserve access to this important data on the Microsoft 365 platform. While migrating content from Google Drive to Microsoft 365, Migration Manager is already able to convert Google Sheets spreadsheets into Microsoft Excel documents. To help you better migrate Box content, Migration Manager now supports the automatic conversion of Box Notes to Microsoft Word files during the migration process. With the introduction of new features such as multi-project support, guided first run experience, a migration time estimator, and flexible migration filters, you will have a refined user experience that empowers you throughout the migration process. We're committed to continually improving Migration Manager as your trusted cloud migration service. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3OfWv7t Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Feature Deep Dive: Open in App

In the My files view in OneDrive or a SharePoint document library, right-click on a file, then select Open > Open in app. Seamlessly open your files in a desktop app by selecting Open in app in the My files view in OneDrive for Web. Open SharePoint files in their desktop apps by selecting Open in app in SharePoint. To open your OneDrive files in their native apps from Teams, navigate to the My files view, right-click on a file and select Open > Open in app. Open your files in their native desktop apps from the My files view in the Teams client by selecting Open in app. To open your teams' shared files in their native apps from Teams, navigate to a channel, select the Files pivot, right-click on a file and select Open > Open in app. If there is a default app available to open the file, then the Open in app option automatically chooses that app to open your file. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/48UYRko Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

10 Essential Tips for Using OneDrive at Work or School

If you spend your day working in Microsoft Teams, chatting, meeting, and collaborating with colleagues, you can save time and stay in the context of your work by accessing your OneDrive files directly through the OneDrive app in Teams. Try it-> In Teams, select Files or OneDrive on the left sidebar. Whatever the reason, you can use version history to restore any OneDrive file to a previous point in time, up to 30 days after the file was modified. Shortcuts in OneDrive let you keep shared files alongside your own content in OneDrive, making it easy to get back to shared files. Try it-> In OneDrive for Web right-click on any shared file or folder, and then select Add shortcut. Depending on your needs, you may want all your OneDrive files saved locally, all your files in the cloud only, or a mix of both. Getting Started -> To use Files On-Demand, select the OneDrive cloud icon in your system tray, select the Settings icon, and then select Settings, then select advanced settings. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/48UvVJ4 Source: Microsoft Tech Community OneDrive Blog

Introducing custom shapes in Visio for the web

The Microsoft Visio team is excited to announce that Visio for the web will now support custom shapes, a feature that many of you have been asking for! Users with a Visio Plan 2 license will be able to import custom shapes in the form of a Visio stencil file, which can be created using the Visio desktop app or downloaded from a third-party source. Adding custom shapes in Visio for the web is simple, but please note that a Visio Plan 2 license is required. A cropped image of a blank drawing in Visio for the web highlighting the new Custom Shapes tab in the Shapes pane. Select the Add Custom Shapes drop-down, then select the appropriate option for uploading a custom shapes stencil file from a OneDrive folder or local device. A cropped image of a blank drawing in Visio for the web demonstrating how to add a new custom shapes stencil. Upload multiple stencil files and use them in the same diagram or use your custom shapes along with the built-in shapes available in Visio for the web. The process for sharing your diagrams created with custom shapes is no different than sharing any diagram created in Visio for the web. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3vITt5y Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

WWSD What would Sue do for your Microsoft 365 based intranet The Intrazone podcast

On this episode, we hear from Sue Hanley who expertly focuses on change - evolving and improving your intranet. Sue is an information architect, a Knowledge Management expert, and she doesn't shy away from the word: Portals. Sue is steeped in all sorts of governance and collaboration consultation in the grandiose enterprise content services and app: SharePoint. We grabbed time with Sue recently at 365 EduCon - Chicago - to see what she was up to and to ask her a few questions everyone would benefit from in hearing her answers - especially when it comes to establishing and revamping intranets. Employees need to find things quickly and get things done - or your intranet doesn't get a second visit. The Intrazone guest: Sue Hanley presenting her intranet expertise at a 365 EduCon event. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3HkOmLp Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Upcoming January 2024 Microsoft 365 Champion Community Call

‎Jan 16 2024 02:35 PM. Happy 2024 and welcome back! Join our first call of the new year on January 23 to dive into Microsoft Teams Town Halls. 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/3SvljLz Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Unlock the Copilot opportunity and grow your CSP business with Microsoft 365 Lighthouse

Copilot has generated a lot of customer enthusiasm, offering a great opportunity for CSPs who have a clear go-to-market strategy. Since Copilot is new in the CSP channel, the first step is to build a plan to inform your customers and get them excited about Copilot. Sales Advisor can quickly identify the best customers to engage, helping you identify eligible Copilot customers and customers with a high likelihood of benefiting from enhanced productivity. For customers who aren't initially eligible for Copilot, Lighthouse can help identify those customers who are ready to upgrade to one of the prerequisite offerings, such as Microsoft 365 Business Premium or Microsoft 365 E3/E5. These insights let you take the proactive steps needed to get your customers AI-ready and ensure they're prepared to take advantage of Copilot in the future. Getting customers licensed for Copilot is important, but equally important is supporting them in the setup process to get them ready to use Copilot. These new roles significantly increase the flexibility you have in determining how you and your teams access and manage customer data in Lighthouse. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3TY6SR1 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business Blog

Enabling security and management across all your SMB customers with Microsoft 365 Lighthouse

One of the common adoption blockers we have heard of from our partners is that they cannot standardize their security and management practices on Microsoft 365 Lighthouse because they cannot manage all their customers using it. While we made it simple to search and discover users across the SMB customers you were managing in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, you still needed a second process for the customers you were not managing in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse. Learn more: Introducing Sales Advisor - unlock your customer's potential in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse - Microsoft...Screenshot of Microsoft 365 Lighthouse Opportunities page with AI-powered insights and recommendations to grow a customer. In addition to basic user management, Lighthouse adds value by providing management views across your Microsoft SMB customers that allow you to quickly identify and act on inactive accounts, Global Admin accounts, risky user behavior, and multi-factor authentication. Lighthouse lets you quickly and securely access other Microsoft admin portals for each of your SMB customers in the context of your partner tenant credentials using GDAP. Lighthouse users can leverage our security and management scenarios and seamlessly jump to another Microsoft admin portal when necessary. Screenshot of Microsoft 365 Lighthouse showing how to navigate into a customer's Microsoft Entra admin portal. We want to enable you to manage all your active Microsoft 365 SMB customer tenants in Lighthouse. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3NWCBhS Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Business 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 Copilot for Microsoft 365, the latest enhancements to the Microsoft 365 mobile app and how admins can deploy it to support secure flexible work, and talk about the latest enhancements and updates relevant to Microsoft 365 admins including how admins can send Copilot feedback to Microsoft, and test connectivity of your tenant if you're on 21vianet. Microsoft 365 has several policies to help admins manage feedback collected from users when using Microsoft 365 applications to not only keep you informed of what your users are experiencing, but also simplify how that feedback is passed on to Microsoft. Preview of Microsoft 365 connectivity test tool for Microsoft 365 operated by 21vianet. For customers using Microsoft 365 operated by 21vianet, we recently announced the Preview of the Microsoft 365 connectivity test tool to help aid in the diagnostics and enhancement of your Microsoft 365 service. As always, stay current with the latest updates on the Microsoft 365 admin center from the Microsoft 365 roadmap and the message center. To keep up with the latest on Copilot for Microsoft 365, consider joining our Copilot for Microsoft 365 Tech Community. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3RTfvtp Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Most widely used SharePoint Framework ISVs from the Store

We are excited to see the continuous growth on the submissions of the SharePoint Framework solutions to the app source and on the usage of the SharePoint store for extending experiences for SharePoint and Microsoft Viva. It enables the same code to be used easily across the Microsoft 365 with this widely adopted tooling which uses industry standard tech with easy and automatic SSO and hosting. Deprecation of SharePoint add-in and Azure ACS authentication models - UX powered extensibility should be transformed to us SharePoint Framework powered implementations. Add-in model was introduced back in 2012 and has not really evolved since. Additional capabilities and features for SharePoint Framework solutions in Microsoft 365 as part of the SPFx 1.18 release. We are looking forward to more great solutions that enable innovation, and help our customers get more done with Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. Please see following resources around getting started on building extensibility for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva and SharePoint using SharePoint Framework. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3SaV2Sz Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog