Announcing the preview of the software updates page in the Microsoft 365 admin center

Introducing a quick and simple page where you can see the update status for the devices in your organization. The initial launch of the software updates page in the Microsoft 365 admin center will focus on Windows and Office updates. An image providing a sample view of an organization that is behind on some of their Office security updates. An image providing a sample of an organization that is behind on some of their Windows updates. Keeping devices current with the latest security updates is an important part of an IT admin's role. The software updates page in the health section of the Microsoft 365 admin center provides a high-level summary view that informs you of devices that may be behind on taking the latest updates released by Microsoft. We know that it can take a little while to get updates deployed in your environment and so we differentiate between being a single security update behind or being multiple security updates behind. Read more at https://bit.ly/3mhVVb2 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop May 2022

May 2022 brought a lot of new tech to Microsoft 365 - lots of SharePoint and related tech goodness: Site template history panel, Microsoft Stream: View and edit file information, Section templates for SharePoint pages and news, Loop components in Outlook mail, Admin PowerShell control for Loop components, Inspiration Library in Microsoft Viva Insights, Microsoft Lists: Calendar view item drag and drop, Build 2022 news, and more; all listed below with screenshots and links to more details. Marc and team bring great audio and video experiences to the SharePoint files platform - and hence out to you through numerous end points across Microsoft 365 apps. All features listed below began rolling out to Targeted Release customers in Microsoft 365 as of May 2022. Build your intelligent intranet on SharePoint in Microsoft 365 and get the benefits of investing in business outcomes - reducing IT and development costs, increasing business speed and agility, and up-leveling the dynamic, personalized, and welcoming nature of your intranet. 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. Submit your Microsoft Lists ideas and feedback to the Microsoft Feedback portal - easily search filter, upvote, comment, and add items and comments to support and shape the product direction. Read more at https://bit.ly/3mlnGiS Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Updates in Microsoft Teams allows users to create, submit, and review employee updates

Updates in Teams is an out-of-the-box app that enables people to create, submit, and review all their updates, check-ins, and reports in the flow of work. Workers are alerted in Teams that they were assigned an update and can quickly review the details of the request. An image demonstrating a user beginning to submit an update in a chat on a mobile device using the Updates app message extension. Gain more visibility and help your teams stay up to date with Updates in Microsoft Teams. Updates is available for users in Teams on paid commercial SKUs, including F1 and F3 SKUs for frontline workers. Check out more details on how to use Updates in Teams and the app's features and learn more about how to pin and configure Updates for your organization. Continue the conversation by joining us in the Microsoft 365 Tech Community! Whether you have product questions or just want to stay informed with the latest updates on new releases, tools, and blogs, Microsoft 365 Tech Community is your go-to resource to stay connected! Read more at https://bit.ly/38zOWa9 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Refreshing the OneNote app on Windows

In August, we previewed what's coming to OneNote on Windows. Today, we're excited to announce an upcoming refresh to OneNote that will help the app feel both familiar and modern. Now we've made it easier to insert from camera, which launches the Windows camera app and inserts pictures you capture directly into OneNote. On Windows, there are currently two versions: the OneNote app that's installed with Office and the OneNote for Windows 10 app. We are unifying the two apps so you'll have the simplicity of a single OneNote app on Windows. The OneNote app on Windows continues to get new features while absorbing key unique features of OneNote for Windows 10. The focus of this post is on updates to the OneNote app on Windows. Read more at https://bit.ly/3z3G1Zg Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

New accessibility features in Play My Emails

Once you've set up a Siri Shortcut for Play My Emails, go to Back Tap in the Accessibility Touch Settings, choose Double Tap or Triple Tap, and then select Play My Emails from the list of Shortcuts. To learn more about Play My Emails accessibility features for mobile devices see, Accessibility gestures in Play My Emails. Play My Emails is optimized for both Cortana and your screen reader to provide a seamless audible email experience. As Play My Emails continues to evolve, we're committed to creating new features and experiences that are accessible to all our customers. These swipe gestures map to custom action buttons that appear to the left and right of the Play button on the Play My Emails screen. These gestures can be customized to perform different actions, like flag, snooze, delete, and more, by going to Settings > Play My Emails > Swipe Options. You can change the readout speed by going to Settings > Play My Emails > Readout Speed. Read more at https://bit.ly/3MxSxo2 Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Most used SharePoint Framework solutions from the Store

We are excited to see the continuous growth on the submissions of the SharePoint Framework solutions to the app source and on the usage of the SharePoint store. My Links is a SharePoint app where you can add and manage your web links through an intuitive interface. After installing My Links in a SharePoint page and adding your links, you can also install the My Links web part in another location and your original links will be available to you at the new location. Cerkl Broadcast for SharePoint provides unique notifications to employees through your existing SharePoint. SharePoint online has started moving to modern experience developed using HTML, CSS and JavaScript which reduces the page load time compared to post back model from classic SharePoint based on ASP.Net. The customizations in modern sites are supported using SharePoint Framework. 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/3G0xg3W Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Submit your Microsoft Lists ideas to the Microsoft Feedback portal

Today, we're pleased to announce expansion of the Microsoft Feedback portal now ready for your Microsoft Lists feature ideas and feedback. Feedback gives power to your voice to shape the Microsoft Lists roadmap going forward. Submit your Microsoft Lists ideas and feedback to the Microsoft Feedback portal - easily search filter, upvote, comment, and add items and comments to support and shape the product direction. Microsoft Feedback portal has 49 forums and is growing. The Feedback portal is built on Dynamics 365 Customer Service and is a central location for numerous Microsoft products. The Feedback portal allows people to submit their own feedback, browse other ideas, track official Microsoft responses, view top voted customer ideas, upvote the feedback they agree with, and comment on ideas throughout. In Feedback, users will also be able to easily track their favorite ideas through the 'star' icon and receive notifications when those ideas are responded to by Microsoft. Read more at https://bit.ly/3yGLipz Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Teams F SKUs with new default pre-pinned apps tailored to frontline experience

Today, we are excited to roll out a new default Microsoft Teams experience for frontline workers on F SKU licensing that tailors the Teams experience for frontline workflows with pre-pinned apps built with them in mind. Currently, frontline workers have the same default experience as the rest of Teams users with pre-pinned apps: Activity, Chat, Teams, Calendar, Calls. This tailored app experience is a tenant-level policy and is controlled by the Show tailored apps based on licenses organization-wide app setting on the Manage apps page of the Teams admin center. The tailored app experience feature is controlled by the Show tailored apps based on licenses org-wide app setting on the Manage apps page of the Teams admin center. This feature is on by default, so all users in your organization who have an F license will get the tailored app experience by default unless there are any custom app setup policies assigned to users, which would take precedence. In the left navigation of the Microsoft Teams admin center, go to Teams apps > Manage apps, and then select Org-wide app settings. Under Tailored apps, switch the Show tailored apps based on licenses toggle to Off or On. If the feature is enabled, all users with an F license and a global default app set-up policy will receive the tailored app experience. Read more at https://bit.ly/3LmqPJk Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog