Mike Rosoft

Microsoft Viva: Changes to Viva Insights metrics and default report pages for leaders [MC891236]

Coming soon to Microsoft Viva Insights: To enhance reliability and performance, we are transitioning to a more agile, high-performing API. This change will ensure a more consistent and robust user experience. Users will retain access to all reports but will see some design and content changes.

Mike Rosoft 17 September 2024Admin impact, Feature update, Stay informed1

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: Voice isolation will be available for macOS desktops [MC891240]

With voice isolation in Microsoft Teams, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. Voice isolation is an AI-based advanced noise suppression feature that eliminates unwanted background noise, including other human voices. The technology recognizes your voice profile and ensures only your voice is transmitted. Voice isolation can be enabled for calls and meetings. With this rollout, voice isolation will be available on Teams for macOS desktops.

Mike Rosoft 17 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft 365 suite

Changes coming to the Copilot experience for Windows [MC890889]

The Copilot experience on Windows is changing in response to your feedback. Moving forward, users with work or school accounts will access Microsoft Copilot through the Microsoft 365 app. In addition, Microsoft Copilot will offer enterprise data protection (EDP) at no additional cost for all users signed in with an Entra account. This means that security, privacy, and compliance controls and commitments available for Microsoft 365 Copilot will extend to Microsoft Copilot prompts and responses.

Mike Rosoft 16 September 2024Admin impact, Feature update, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: Embed support for Teams town hall [MC889534]

As a part of Team’s ongoing effort to enable our customers to create, manage, and run large scale events, end users can now embed Teams town hall in sites they manage. This capability allows town hall attendees to watch the event instance within a particular website.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft Entra

Take action: Enable multifactor authentication for your tenant before October 15, 2024 [MC889517]

As mentioned in MC862873, starting on or after October 15, 2024, to further increase security, Microsoft will require admins to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) when signing into the Microsoft Azure portal, Microsoft Entra admin center, and Microsoft Intune admin center.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024Admin impact, Plan for change1

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: Volume ratio setting for meeting participants using language interpretation [MC889529]

In Microsoft Teams, meeting participants who use language interpretation will be able to control the volume ratio between the original meeting audio and the interpretation audio after they select the language to listen to in the meeting.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: Increase in meeting passcodes length for added security [MC889520]

Given the recent global security threats on online meetings, Microsoft Teams is taking steps to make your meetings more secure. We are increasing the minimum length of the meeting passcodes from 6 characters to 8 characters. The nature of the passcodes will remain the same, consisting of letters and numbers.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024Feature update, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft 365 suite Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams apps and Microsoft Copilot extensions: New security and certification information [MC889528]

By consolidating information from multiple sources in one place, this feature will provide admins responsible for the Microsoft Teams app and Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 extension deployment with comprehensive security and certification information for faster assessment of compliance with tenant security standards.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Exchange Online

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow/Block List will support IPv6 allow and block entries [MC889519]

Soon, it will be possible to create IPv6 allow and block entries in the Tenant Allow/Block Lists.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed1

Microsoft Dataverse

Microsoft Dataverse – Service Update 9.2.24092.00000 for GBR [MC889232]

We have a minor service update planned for your Microsoft Dataverse environment hosted in GBR. This service update will occur within your region's scheduled maintenance timeline, on the scheduled date listed for Microsoft Dataverse.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024Stay informed1