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Microsoft are rolling out new features and changes to the Microsoft 365 services frequently.
Microsoft Viva: Briefing email enhancements
- Roadmap ID: 100709
- November 2022
The Briefing email from Microsoft Viva helps users start their day on track by surfacing information to prepare for upcoming meetings, follow up on outstanding tasks as well as protect time for independent work. A few updates are coming to the daily briefing email to highlight suggested tasks from 1:1 Teams chats and to highlight key information from Viva Learning directly in your inbox.
New praise compose experience in Teams and praise trends in Viva Insights
- Roadmap ID: 101161
- November 2022
This is accessible through the messaging extension pinned to the Teams messaging bar or through the Viva Insights app in Teams - and it's getting a refresh to replace praise badges with emojis, introduce the ability to select gradient backgrounds. Additionally, in the Viva Insights app in Teams, praise trends are being introduced, privately surfacing analytics such as counts of praise sent and received, your top fans and top praises received.
New Viva admin experience in M365 Admin Center
- Roadmap ID: 93435
- November 2022
The Viva collections experience now has a brand-new look where you can configure licenses, roles, and access individual app configuration pages. Admins will be able to deploy Viva from a common place within the Microsoft 365 admin center and find guidance on how best to configure their tenants.
SharePoint Tenant URL Rename - General Availability
- Roadmap ID: NIL
- November 2022
This capability is now generally available to organizations that have less than 10,000 total sites (including OneDrive and SharePoint sites).
New SharePoint site templates - including a new one for Microsoft Syntex users
- Roadmap ID: 102380
- November 2022
We are introducing 3 new SharePoint site templates dedicated to helping you create sites for your HR department, to showcase Events, and a template powered by Microsoft Syntex to do contract management.
SharePoint admin center: Streamlining management of site information across Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups
- Roadmap ID: 100053
- November 2022
SharePoint is updating the site detail panel to include Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups information. Admins that have permissions to SharePoint, Teams and Groups admin centers can now manage all related attributes (membership, group name, description, etc.) from a single site detail panel in the SharePoint admin center 'Active Sites' tab.
Sign Language View for Microsoft Teams
- Roadmap ID: 99452
- November 2022
We are introducing a new Sign Language experience in Teams Meetings to help meeting participants who use sign language to prioritize interpreters and other sign language users so that they remain visible in in a static, central location on the meeting stage, with higher video quality.
Editor Using Context IQ: Inline Search Within Documents in Word for the Web
- Roadmap ID: 103098
- November 2022
Editor using Context IQ allows users to easily search for and insert entities like People, Files, Viva Topics, or Loops in documents in Word for the Web while staying in flow. When users type the “@“ key, a menu will appear that allows them to search for, filter, and insert entities that exist across their M365 account.
Users Can Upload Documents from OneDrive for Business in E-sign in Approvals
- Roadmap ID: 99971
- November 2022
Users can upload documents directly from OneDrive for Business and request E-signatures when a new approval request is created. If users receive an e-signature request, they can also cancel and decline the request.
Outlook for Windows: Cloud Signatures Coming Soon
- Roadmap ID: 60371
- November 2022
These enhancements change where the signature data is stored from per-device to per-account. This means the same set of signatures will be available on any Windows (Microsoft 365) or Web version of Outlook, and you will no longer need to reconfigure your signatures when getting a new device.
