Are you keeping up with Microsoft updates? The Microsoft Mondays: Microsoft Service Updates series from Total Solutions is here for your needs, and remember that Total Solutions also provides tailored, expert guidance during our consulting process. We are highlighting a few of the Microsoft announced upcoming updates from April:
- Microsoft Search: Video Search in Bing, Office.com, SharePoint, and Stream
- Microsoft 365 admin center: Viva Goals Usage Report
- Applied Filters in Microsoft Lists
- Microsoft Teams: Spatial audio in Teams meetings
- Outlook for Android will require Android 9.0 or above starting July 10, 2023
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*Updates posted here originally posted by Microsoft in the Microsoft 365 Message Center
Microsoft Search: Video Search in Bing, Office.com, SharePoint, and Stream
[MC541645 · Published Apr 14, 2023]: Microsoft’s new Video tab will improve video search in your organization by having a dedicated place to search through Stream, OneDrive, SharePoint videos. This Video tab will appear on Microsoft Search in Bing/Office/SharePoint and Stream.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117552
When this will happen:
Microsoft will begin rolling out in late April in Microsoft Search in Bing and this update will come to Office.com, SharePoint, and Stream within 3 months of it being released in Bing.
How this will affect your organization: Users in your organization will be able to search for videos in the new Videos tab. It will not affect any existing workflows.
ADMINS – What you need to do to prepare:
You may want to notify your users about this change and update your training and documentation as appropriate.
Microsoft 365 admin center: Viva Goals Usage Report
[MC541159 · Published Apr 13, 2023]: A new report will be made available to help you understand how Viva Goals is used within your organization. The new usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center will provide metrics on the number of active users including trial and paid licenses and platform distribution (Teams, Slack, Azure DevOps, and Web) with the ability to view 7/30/90/180 day timeframes.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117599
When this will happen:
Rollout will begin in late April and is expected to be complete by late May.
How this will affect your organization: Using the Viva Goals usage report, Admins will be able to view metrics for how people in your organization are using Viva Goals and in which platforms.
ADMINS – What you need to do to prepare:
Admins can assign the available licenses in their tenant to individual users based on their usage and license requests, via the Microsoft admin center. Once released, you can view Viva Goals reports by going to the Microsoft 365 admin center -> Reports -> Usage -> Viva Goals.
For more information on Viva Goals visit Introduction to Microsoft Viva Goals.
Applied Filters in Microsoft Lists
[MC540126 · Published Apr 11, 2023] Microsoft Lists is rolling out a new way to visualize and clear the filters that are present in a view.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117585
When this will happen:
Targeted Release: Rollout will begin in late April and is expected to be complete by early May.
Standard Release: Rollout will begin in early May and is expected to be complete by late May.
How this will affect your organization: As you add and adjust filters to narrow or expand what appears in a view inside a list, you will see which filters have been applied and you can remove them without having to go back into the column filter pane.
ADMINS – What you need to do to prepare:
You don’t have to do anything to prepare for this change.
Microsoft Teams: Spatial audio in Teams meetings
[MC540153 · Published Apr 11, 2023] Microsoft Teams is pleased to announce an upgraded audio experience in meetings: Spatial audio. Spatial audio brings a next-generation immersive soundscape to Teams meetings when using either a wired stereo headset or built-in stereo speakers. This new audio experience spatializes the voices of attendees across the visual meeting stage in the Gallery view. This helps make conversations more natural, increasing the sense of audio presence, and making the conversation easier to follow when multiple people are speaking together.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 107783
When this will happen:
Targeted release: Microsoft will begin rolling out in late April and expect to complete rollout by early May.
Standard Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out in late May and expect to complete rollout by mid-June.
GCC-High: Microsoft will begin rolling out in mid-July and expect to complete rollout by late July.
DoD: Microsoft will begin rolling out in late August and expect to complete rollout by early September.
How this will affect your organization:
The new Spatial audio feature will be available to everyone using supported devices on Windows and MacOS client in your organization. It is a Teams client feature and there are no admin policy settings required to enable this feature. You can select a wired stereo headset or built-in stereo speakers on the meeting pre-join screen before you join a meeting. You can find this setting under Device Settings -> Speaker.
After joining a meeting, you will be able to see the Spatial audio introduction the first time you enter a meeting, then click on Try it now to open the Spatial audio setting panel.
You can also activate Spatial audio by going to the More “…” menu in the meeting toolbar, then Device Settings, and you will find the Spatial audio toggle to activate the feature.
To enable Spatial audio, select a wired stereo headset or built-in stereo speakers under the Speaker section, then enable the Spatial audio toggle.
Note: Spatial audio is currently enabled only in Gallery view, so you can experience sound spatialized across the meeting stage. You will get the best spatial effect with three or more attendees in the meeting.
You can also control Spatial audio settings by going to Teams app settings -> Devices -> Spatial audio.
ADMINS – What you need to do to prepare:
There is no action required from you at this time. You may want to update your training materials indicating that this feature is supported.
Please keep in mind of the following dependencies and limits:
- 1:1 calls and large meetings are not yet supported.
Wireless audio devices are not yet supported.
Outlook for Android will require Android 9.0 or above starting July 10, 2023
[MC540243 · Published Apr 11, 2023]: Beginning July 10, 2023, Outlook for Android will no longer support Android 8.x or below. Users will need to upgrade their Android operating system to Android 9.0 or newer.
When this will happen:
July 10, 2023
How this will affect your organization:
If users in your organization are using Outlook for Android on phones running an older version of Android, they will no longer be able to update to newer versions of Outlook for Android when this change is implemented.
ADMINS – What you need to do to prepare: Please ensure that all users in your organization update their operating system to Android 9.0 or newer.
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