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Microsoft Viva Engage: Mute conversations in feeds and digests [MC922624]

Coming soon for Microsoft Viva Engage: Network admins and corporate communicators will be able to use the new Mute conversations feature to remove individual conversation threads from the Home Feed and email digests.

Mike Rosoft 31 October 2024Admin impact, Feature update, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva Insights: Users can request delegate access [MC922625]

Coming soon for Microsoft Viva Insights: Users will be able to request delegate access from a manager. This message applies to the Viva app on the web and the Viva Insights app in Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, Teams on the web, and Teams for iOS/Android.

Mike Rosoft 31 October 2024Feature update, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft 365 suite

Microsoft Copilot extending to Teams and Outlook [MC922627]

In mid-November, Microsoft Copilot will become available to users with an Entra account in Microsoft Teams and Outlook. If pinned, Entra users will be able to access the Microsoft Copilot app directly from the left rail in Outlook and Teams.

Mike Rosoft 31 October 2024Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft 365 suite OneDrive for Business

Microsoft OneDrive: We will remove the “EnableHoldTheFile” group policy [MC922630]

We will remove the EnableHoldTheFile group policy for Microsoft OneDrive from the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Mike Rosoft 31 October 2024Admin impact, Feature update, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft Forms

Microsoft Forms: New streamlined and modernized experience [MC922626]

Microsoft Forms is updating the end-to-end experience with a new appearance for the portal page, form creation, and response analysis. Users can toggle between upgraded templates as they create their form and then view insights and suggested actions when the responses come in.

Mike Rosoft 31 October 2024New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Copilot 365 in Viva Glint will support the summarization of employee survey comments [MC922629]

Starting in November 2024, Microsoft Copilot 365 in Glint will support the summarization of employee survey comments.

Mike Rosoft 31 October 2024Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft Places app ON by default [MC922620]

The Microsoft Places app helps users coordinate their in-office days with colleagues. When work location is shared from OWA or the new Outlook Calendar, users will see others' work locations and can decide the best days to be in the office for in-person collaboration.

Mike Rosoft 31 October 2024Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impact1

OneDrive for Business

Microsoft OneDrive: The Enable OCSI for Tenants group policy is being removed [MC921916]

We're removing the EnableAllOcsiClients OneDrive group policy in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Mike Rosoft 30 October 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft Power Automate Microsoft Power Automate in Microsoft 365 Power Apps

Retirement of the SharePoint SendEmail API [MC921752]

We will be retiring the Utility.SendEmail API from SharePoint. The SP.Utilities.Utility.SendEmail could be used to send emails from custom applications or processes within SharePoint Online, including Power Automate, and custom workflows.

Mike Rosoft 30 October 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impact1

Microsoft 365 apps Microsoft 365 for the web

Microsoft PowerPoint: Web viewer add-in retires December 2024 [MC921112]

We will retire the Web Viewer add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint and remove it from Microsoft App Source on December 2, 2024. After this date, the add-in will be unavailable for download or use. Existing files will not be affected, although the add-in's functionality in existing slides will end.

Mike Rosoft 29 October 2024Plan for change, User impact