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