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