The one after Microsoft Inspire

Since this week I will share with you the most important information from Microsoft 365 world. You will find here the most important Microsoft announcements, roadmap events and important information.

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Viva Engage - new life for Yammer?

Microsoft announced Viva Engage which should bring a new life for Yammer app.

"Viva Engage will continue to show the same network, home feed, and communities that you see today in Yammer. Any content created in Yammer.com or mobile – including community conversations, storyline posts, and stories – will be viewable in Viva Engage. Likewise, content created in Engage will show up in Yammer native experiences. Viva Engage will also continue respecting any custom branding done for the Communities app. To use Viva Engage an organization must be licensed for Yammer."

Power Automate - Generate Word document

Power Automate gives the opportunity to automate the generation / creation of the Word document based on a template. Moreover, I will show you how to fill this document with metadata.

Learn how to build an automated process of the Word documents with predefined content in the template and filled with dynamic metadata.

Digital Customer Care app in Dynamics 365

Check the great new solutions for the customer care departments in Dynamics 365.

"In today’s digital world, brand reputation is synonymous with customer experience, including the quality of customer care. Consumers expect effortless, consistent, and secure experiences across any point of contact they choose—in fact, their brand perception and customer loyalty depend on it. With the stakes this high, companies need a comprehensive yet flexible solution to modernize their customer care experience."

Video in the collaboration

Check the new Stream and how to include it in the collaboration flow.

"Video on demand and meeting recordings have become paramount to helping hybrid and distributed teams get work done. With video on demand, you can take required training, view a previously recorded event, watch a message from leadership, or find internal how-to content when you need it. And, when busy schedules or multiple time zones make meetings difficult, you can catch up on what you missed by watching a Teams meeting recording. Video on demand creates invaluable flexibility and freedom to get your work done, on your time.

Today we’re announcing a set of features in Stream (on SharePoint) that enhance your video viewing and recording experiences across Microsoft 365. While some of these features have been available in Stream (Classic), they are now available across many apps in Microsoft 365 when you upload videos to SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, or Yammer. These enhancements will help you use video more seamlessly in the flow of work. Let’s take a look."

What's new in Viva Insights

Check the new features in the Viva Insights.

"Hybrid work is up seven points year-over-year (to 38%) with a workforce that is still in transition. Many hybrid employees are considering a switch to remote work and even more remote employees are considering a switch to hybrid work in the year ahead.1

Whether your people are back in the office, working from home, or a mix of both, these new features and enhancements coming to Viva Insights will help people, teams, and organizations improve productivity and wellbeing.

Your feedback and ideas are important to us, so please share your thoughts and questions in the comments section below."

Integrate external data sources with Dataverse

Now you can create virtual data tables in Microsoft Dataverse and integrate them with external data sources.

"Microsoft Dataverse has supported virtual tables for a long time. They're extremely powerful but can be difficult to set up. With this release, you'll be able to create tables in Dataverse that surface external data by leveraging simple connections to find the external data. For example, a Dataverse table with data from an Excel workbook in OneDrive or a SQL Server in Azure."

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Have a great weekend ??

Szymon