Friday, January 15, 2021

30 new posts across 12 Microsoft websites since Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Teams Blog

Connect Guru with Microsoft Teams for a Collaborative Wiki

When communicating with teammates over chat, nothing can slow you down like having to pause your conversation and open up a new window to find the answer to a question or the right piece of informatio…

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

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8 new productivity hacks for frontline workers, managers, and IT

If there’s one thing we learned in 2020, it is that frontline workers are essential in today’s world. As companies realize how important they are, this time, they are bringing them along the digital t…

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

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Approvals in Microsoft Teams, Now Generally Available

Approvals in Microsoft Teams enables everyone, from frontline workers to corporate headquarters employees, to easily create, manage, and share approvals directly from your hub for teamwork. Approvals …

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

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Getting to Microsoft Teams from Skype for Business Server and hybrid configurations

With the retirement of Skype for Business Online in sight, we’re working to ensure customers transition to Microsoft Teams by July 31, 2021, including users homed online in hybrid configurations. But …

Thursday, January 14, 2021

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OneDrive Blog

Gain more flexibility with 250 GB file size support in Microsoft 365

Happy new year and welcome to 2021. We are thrilled to begin this year with some exciting news. As remote work and learning increases so does the need to reliably and securely share large files-4K or …

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

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Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Microsoft 365 PnP Weekly – Episode 109

Consultant, developer MVP Luise Freese joins hosts Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) and Waldek Mastykarz (Microsoft) to discuss thriving in an inclusive community, Luise’s TeamsAdvisor – Microsoft Power App a…

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

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Microsoft Graph Mailbag – Taking advantage of mgt-get component in the Microsoft Graph Toolkit

In today’s Microsoft Graph Mailbag post we will cover one of the most flexible components of the Microsoft Graph Toolkit, the mgt-get component.The post Microsoft Graph Mailbag – Taking advantage of m…

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

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SharePoint Community – January 2021 monthly community call recording

Demos: 1) Update on Learning Pathways – open source and 2) PnP PowerShell Core + Azure Functions = SharePoint and Teams automation. Microsoft 365 Update - Community (PnP) | January 2021, released. …

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

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Microsoft 365 Blog

3 ways retailers can shape the new normal with their frontline workforce

People are at the heart of every organization’s success. The pandemic has brought into sharp focus just how truly essential the frontline retail workforce is to our lives and global economy. Learn how…

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

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Microsoft 365 Blog - Tech Community

Update: Retirement of SharePoint Site Mailboxes in Microsoft 365

Back in 2017, we announced SharePoint site mailboxes in Microsoft 365 were being deprecated, and that new organizations would no longer have access to the feature and existing organizations would no l…

Thursday, January 14, 2021

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AAD Identity Blog

Access Reviews for guests in all Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups is now in public preview

Howdy folks! Today we’re excited to share that you can now enable Azure AD access reviews for your guest users across all Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups in your organization. And as new Team…

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

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Empower your frontline workers with these Azure AD capabilities that just went GA

Howdy folks - (Cross-posting just to make sure you don’t miss the big news.) Today we turned on the GA release of our new features for Frontline workers and Frontline managers. You can learn all abo…

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

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Microsoft Security and Compliance

Announcing GA of machine learning based trainable classifiers for your compliance needs

Remote work has accelerated the growth in volume and variety of data in organizations. Microsoft provides you intelligent solutions to meet the resulting challenges in governing this data. Foundationa…

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

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Enhancements to Microsoft Exact Data Match

Prior to most of us taking off for the holiday break, Microsoft posted a blog about new Information protection capabilities. I am going to cover a bit more in depth the capabilities for Exact Data Mat…

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

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Microsoft Defender for Identity expands support to AD FS servers

We are happy to announce the availability of the Microsoft Defender for Identity sensor for Active Directory Federation Server (AD FS) after successfully piloting the feature with customers in Private…

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

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Microsoft Teams DLP Playbook!!!

This document provides an overview of how enterprise customers can deploy Microsoft Teams-DLP for protecting sensitive information that is traversing with-in or outside of the organization. Unified D…

Thursday, January 14, 2021

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Microsoft Information Protection SDK 1.8: Now Available

We’re pleased to announce that the Microsoft Information Protection SDK version 1.8 is now generally available via NuGet and Download Center. HighlightsThis release of the Microsoft Information Protec…

Thursday, January 14, 2021

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Power Automate Blog

11 New Connectors Released in December 2020!

Eleven brand new connectors were added to the connector lineup within Power Automate in December of 2020, wrapping up a great year for connector additions to the platform….

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

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Approvals app now available on Microsoft Teams

Approvals in Microsoft Teams, now generally available, allows you to easily create, manage, and share approvals….

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

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Process advisor learning materials added to RPA in a Day training

On December 9th, 2020, we announced the preview of process advisor, a process mining capability included in Power Automate. To accelerate customers in adopting Process advisor, we have updated our RPA…

Thursday, January 14, 2021

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PowerApps - Blog

Now available: model-driven app push notifications

With our updated push notification connector, you can now send push notifications to model-driven apps with Power Automate. These notifications can direct users straight to a specific page or section …

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

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On Boarding User External user to tenant through Powerapps portal

External user on boarding to the tenant…

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

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Whether you’re a software developer or someone who uses technology for their job, the way we work has fundamentally changed this year. Much of the workforce was spread out and working remotely. Servin…

Thursday, January 14, 2021

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Use the Innovation Backlog to manage app and flow ideas

We’re excited to introduce you to the Innovation Backlog – a new app that’s part of the Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit. The Innovation Backlog app gives your business users a place to record a…

Thursday, January 14, 2021

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Source code files for Canvas apps

Edit and manage source files for Canvas apps!…

Thursday, January 14, 2021

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Education Blog

Five Essential Tips on Auto-grading for Microsoft Forms Quizzes

We have been delighted to hear that educators around the globe are using Microsoft Forms to create surveys and quizzes for their students’ learning. Whether it is your first time adding branching to c…

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

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Updated Back to School Kit + New EDU Webinar Series

IntroductionThis month, the Microsoft Education Customer Engagement and Support Team is releasing an updated version of the well-received Back To School Kit that was initially released in July 2020. T…

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

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Planner Blog

Personalize your plans with smart backgrounds

Planner enables us to visualize our work in a fun and flexible way. But it can be difficult to identify which plan you are in, especially when you’re a member of 50 different plans that look the same….

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

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Push tasks from corporate to frontline workers with task publishing in Teams

If you’re in retail, healthcare, manufacturing—any industry with a large, disperse frontline workforce—you know how challenging it is to connect people from the top floor to the shop floor. That coord…

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

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Forms Blog

What’s New in Microsoft Forms | January 2021

Entering 2021, Microsoft Forms’ new features aim to streamline your experience of accessing, creating, and distributing forms. From text formatting, specific user sharing, and creating polls for form …

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

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