The last one before Christmas ??

I prepared for You the summary of the most important news, announcements and articles about Microsoft 365 from the last week. Enjoy!

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Where People Are Moving—and When They’re Going Into Work

With great disruption came great mobility, as workers scattered across the country during the pandemic. The proliferation of remote work at the beginning of 2020 catalyzed a cascade of changes, from where people chose to live to how they wanted to work. Many took advantage of the newfound flexibility to move out of big cities, trading downtown digs for vaster expanses. Now, as companies settle into the new normal, technology workers in particular are returning to industry hubs. But people still want the option to spend some days away from the office.

The best Christmas Teams backgrounds

Microsoft Teams offers a great possibility to use Christmas backgrounds during meetings.

I gathered 50 free images you can use as a Christmas background on Microsoft Teams calls.

Download the best Christmas background images for Microsoft Teams.

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: November 2022

Gobble, gobble - time to gobble up all the updates that landed for SharePoint and related tech in the month of November 2022.

Below and in the related podcast, you’ll find details about a load of great new offerings: Briefing email enhancements, a new praise compose experience, a new Viva admin experience, SharePoint tenant URL rename (GA), three new SharePoint site templates, updated management for site information, sign language via in Microsoft Teams, Editor using Context IQ in Word, and more. We also pulled audio from Cathy Dew, Senior product manager from the SharePoint team, to give share more behind the design and application of SharePoint site templates.

Change your SharePoint domain name

If your organization has gone through a rebranding, merger, or acquisition and needs to change the domain in your SharePoint and OneDrive URLs, you can now do this using PowerShell. For example, if your organization name changed from Contoso to Fabrikam, you can now change your SharePoint URLs from contoso.sharepoint.com to fabrikam.sharepoint.com.

Introducing enhanced company branding for sign-in experiences in Azure AD

I'm thrilled to announce that we have redesigned the company branding functionality to allow more flexible and user-centric customization of the built-in identity flows for Azure AD and Microsoft 365 apps. The new experience controls apply to sign-in for users in the directory and for external users, including use cases for B2B, B2E and first-party applications running on Azure AD. You can try the public preview today.?

Guidelines for Microsoft 365 services setup

Whether you're using Microsoft 365 for business or personal use, make your setup and deployment easier and more efficient with step-by-step guidance and other helpful resources.

Need guidance setting up Microsoft 365 products or services? Click here to view all Microsoft 365 guides and get started.

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Have a great weekend ??

Szymon