Microsoft 365 Admin Monthly Digest

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

Microsoft Viva Connections solutions are now available in the Microsoft AppSource

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

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

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

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

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

Public Preview for Network Provider Performance and Availability Reporting

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

Introducing Favorites in the Microsoft 365 app for Android

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

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

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

Microsoft Search Connecting You to Knowledge and Expertise

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