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, the latest on Microsoft 365 Copilot, Bing Chat Enterprise, and learn about enhancements to the Microsoft 365 admin center. Ms/TurnOffBCE. You will also need to ensure Microsoft Search in Bing setting in the Microsoft 365 admin center is turned on. Let's check out some of the latest features we launched in the Microsoft 365 admin center and how they can help you get things done. Admins can configure this from the Microsoft 365 admin center in the Viva Pulse admin experience. As always, stay current with the latest updates on the Microsoft 365 admin center from the Microsoft 365 roadmap and the message center. We also highlight new feature releases and enhancements released each month in our What's new in the Microsoft 365 admin center article. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3L2lxFH Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Now available: interactive Custom Production Virtual Event Playbook

‎Aug 30 2023 04:24 PM. We're excited to share with you the launch of the interactive version of the Microsoft Custom Production Virtual Event Playbook. This playbook builds on the foundational knowledge in our core Virtual Event Playbook and provides guidance for seasoned event producers to deliver more highly produced events using additional tools. Example scenarios can include executive panels, internal or public conferences and events that include pre-recorded content or multiple remote presenters with a single host as you might see on the nightly news. This document has been reviewed and approved by our joint engineering groups, Microsoft Studios, our marketing partners and by those of us involved in the day to day production of events of all kinds. We intentionally led with our event/audience engagement model and commitment to accessibility. Virtual events are about more than features; they are opportunities to engage and connect. This new interactive version is also localized in nine major languages. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3R08cRW Source: Microsoft Tech Community Driving Adoption Blog

Introducing new SharePoint news for email feature

We are excited to announce that we are currently rolling out a new feature called SharePoint News for Email. This feature enables you to convert your SharePoint News Posts intro distributions that can be read fully in email inboxes. Four pictures - showing the news article in SharePoint - sending email feature - news in the email client - statistics for the view. Selection of the templates for new news article - showing the email ready templates. SharePoint News visible in the SharePoint portal and in the email client. Authors of SharePoint News will now be able to send news posts as emails. View counters for your news articles will include also views of the news article through the email client. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/44uBknB Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Add and Explore Office Add-ins easily with our new entry point

We're excited to announce that a more easy-to-access entry point for Office Add-ins is now available online. By accessing the new entry point in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, you'll have an upgraded experience without worrying about managing all your add-ins or choosing the fit right add-in among the thousands available in AppSource and the Office marketplace. If you already use Word, Excel, and PowerPoint add-ins, the entry point has moved! Now you can find and activate your installed add-ins in two locations, on the Home tab and File tab. You can also find the Word, Excel, PowerPoint Get Add-ins entry point on the File tab as shown in the following image. If you've never used any Word, Excel, and PowerPoint add-ins before, no problem! The new recommendation mechanism provides targeted, expert help no matter which application you use. If at first you don't find the add-in to suit your needs, we encourage you to explore and search apps in the marketplace. If you're interested in building a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint add-in and allow users from all over the world to use it, simply out the Microsoft Office Add-ins registration form to consult with our team. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3YUcsVg Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Updated content for the SharePoint Web UI kit!

‎Aug 24 2023 09:00 AM. We're excited to announce that our UI kit has been updated with some great new additions! The goal of this update is to help you design a broader selection of SharePoint sites and pages quickly and easily. We have updated the guidance across the SharePoint Web UI kit to reflect the additions of team site navigation and smaller view ports including tablet and mobile. You should evaluate if Figma is the right solution for mocking up sites and pages for SharePoint. This UI kit provides SharePoint users with another tool in their toolbox. While building a page in SharePoint is easy, we wanted to provide the ability to mockup sites and pages. To get started with our updated UI kit, simply download the latest version from the Figma Microsoft Community website: SharePoint Web UI Kit - Figma. Please tell us what's missing, what doesn't work for you, and where your biggest challenges are by leaving a comment on the Figma SharePoint Web UI kit page or by visiting the SharePoint Community. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3YLtNiZ Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Adaptive Card-based Loop components

Adaptive Card-based Loop components are live and actionable units of productivity that stay in sync and can move freely across Microsoft 365 apps, starting with Microsoft Teams and Outlook. We're excited to announce that Adaptive Card-based Loop components are now available in public preview! In this article, we want to give you a sneak peek into how you can build your own first set of live, actionable, portable Adaptive Card-based Loop components to bring your business content directly into Teams, Outlook, and other Microsoft 365 apps. Adaptive Card-based Loop components let you build experiences which will allow your users to share and act upon business content across Teams and Outlook. There are three distinct stages in your journey to building Adaptive Card-based Loop components -. ServiceDesk Plus - an IT Service Management solution by the Zoho Corp., is leveraging the power of Adaptive Card-based Loop components to optimize its incident and ticket management use cases. Once you have taken care of the pre-requisites, the next step is to add the special ingredient which makes Adaptive Card-based Loop components live and portable. Weburl property to turn your existing Adaptive Card experiences to Loop component. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3QSnTdU Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft Viva Connections adoption best practices The Intrazone SharePoint product team podcast

On this episode, we chat with Liz Sundet and Luis Enrique Torres who work directly with Microsoft customers to help them best land a variety of technology in the category of 'Corporate Communications excellence' - especially when it comes to leveraging Microsoft Viva tailored to internal communications. We got into common patterns, best practices, and key resources to both assess, plan, and successfully deploy Viva Connections - the gateway to the overall employee experience from Microsoft for business leaders and developers. We also dig into Viva Amplify and how it will complement and extend the overall management and reporting for internal communications excellence. Important on-demand recordings, articles, and events mentioned in this episode. Be sure to visit our show page to hear all episodes, access the show notes, and get bonus content. Stay connected to the SharePoint community blog and the Viva community blog where we'll share more information per episode, guest insights, and take any questions or suggestions from our listeners and SharePoint users. The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/3OMJJwF Source: Microsoft Tech Community SharePoint Blog

Introducing Python in Excel: The Best of Both Worlds for Data Analysis and Visualization

Today, we are excited to introduce the Public Preview of Python in Excel - making it possible to integrate Python and Excel analytics within the same Excel grid for uninterrupted workflow. Python in Excel combines Python's powerful data analysis and visualization libraries with Excel's features you know and love. Now you can do advanced data analysis in the familiar Excel environment by accessing Python directly from the Excel ribbon. Using Excel's built-in connectors and Power Query, you can easily bring external data into Python in Excel workflows. Python in Excel leverages Anaconda Distribution for Python running in Azure, which includes the most popular Python libraries such as pandas for data manipulation, statsmodels for advanced statistical modeling, and Matplotlib and seaborn for data visualization. Teammates can refresh Python in Excel analytics for the most up-to-date information, even if they don't have Python in Excel activated. Super charge your data analysis and tell better stories with Python in Excel. -------------------- Read more at https://bit.ly/47JXaWQ Source: Microsoft Tech Community Microsoft 365 Blog