Mike Rosoft

Microsoft SharePoint: Design Ideas is now available [MC908121]

Authors can now use Design Ideas in Microsoft SharePoint to rearrange and reformat their image section, text section, and banner webpart.

Mike Rosoft 11 October 2024New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Project for the web

Project for the Web Email Notification Update [MC908110]

Our team has made an update to the behavior of email notifications in Project for the web. When a project or roadmap is shared with a Microsoft 365 group, only if the group has 50 or less members will an email notification be sent to each member of the group notifying them a plan or roadmap has been shared with them.

Mike Rosoft 10 October 2024Admin impact, Feature update, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: New calendar experience [MC908116]

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams. The New Calendar app aims to provide a single, modern, intelligent, and coherent calendar for both Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook users. This new opt-in experience will be available in Teams, allowing users to toggle to the New Calendar interface. This message applies to Teams on Windows and Mac desktops.

Mike Rosoft 10 October 2024New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft 365 suite

New Outlook for Windows: Auto-reading emails with Microsoft Windows Narrator [MC908113]

Coming soon to new Microsoft Outlook for Windows desktops: This feature will allow people who use the Microsoft Windows Narrator screen reader tool to have emails automatically read aloud to them after pressing Enter to open an email.

Mike Rosoft 10 October 2024New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Dynamics 365 Apps

Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Create custom summaries for any record type in Customer Service [MC907920]

We are announcing the Create custom summaries for any record type in Customer Service feature for Dynamics 365 Customer Service. This feature allows customer service representatives to generate AI-based summaries of any record types within Dynamics 365 Customer Service.

Mike Rosoft 10 October 2024New feature, Stay informed1

Microsoft Dataverse

Microsoft Dataverse – Service Update 9.2.24101.00000 for GBR [MC907729]

We have a minor service update planned for your Microsoft Dataverse environment hosted in GBR.

Mike Rosoft 10 October 2024Stay informed1

Microsoft 365 suite

Microsoft Edge Mobile: Updated Weather and Wallpaper on the New tab page (Microsoft Entra ID users) [MC907533]

Two new features are coming soon for Microsoft Entra ID users on the New tab page in Microsoft Edge for Android and iOS devices:

Mike Rosoft 10 October 2024Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva Pulse: New Pulse tenant admin dashboard for users with Pulse admin access [MC907535]

Human Resources and IT departments need a way to track user telemetry and usage to ensure that Microsoft Viva Pulse is being used effectively and has a strong return on investment. They also want to identify any issues related to user adoption that hinder the rollout of Pulse in an organization.

Mike Rosoft 10 October 2024Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impact1

SharePoint Online

Microsoft Syntex optical character recognition (OCR) will support PDF files with images [MC907534]

We are pleased to announce a new enhancement coming soon to the Microsoft Syntex optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Online: We will support hybrid PDF files that contain both text and images.

Mike Rosoft 10 October 2024Feature update, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft 365 (Office) apps: The Feed feature will retire starting November 1, 2024 [MC907532]

As part of our ongoing efforts to streamline and enhance user experiences, we will retire the Feed feature from the Microsoft 365 app, which affects www.microsoft365.com and www.office.com, as well as the Windows app (Microsoft 365 (Office).

Mike Rosoft 10 October 2024Plan for change, Retirement, User impact1