?? Weekly Microsoft 365 digest #22 - Happy New Year!
Szymon Bochniak
Copilot MVP | Head of Presales @ IT-Dev | Strategic Advisor focus on Copilot & Microsoft 365
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.
This is the #1 edition on Weekly Microsoft 365 digest available on LinkedIn and #22 in total. Newsletter and other materials available at Email Newsletter
Cool features ??on Viva Topics roadmap
Chris McNulty shared a list of great, new features that are on the closest release roadmap of Viva Topics. Check how new functionalities will support the possibility to manage, share and organize topics in the admin center. Plus you will few interesting features prepared for the end-users.
"We released Viva Topics in February 2021, and since then we’ve been working with our Early Adopter Program customers to help them put knowledge to work in their organizations – and help learn how to enhance and extend Topics to deliver great experiences for our customers.
We’ve collected the most common knowledge-sharing scenarios and applications from our early adopter customers, and included them in the Viva Topics Use Case Catalog as a quick way to get started applying Viva Topics and driving value from knowledge in your organization."
Remember ?? about Office 365 pricelist change - 1 March 2022
Microsoft announced that on 1 March 20220 prices of Microsoft 365 plans will be increased. New pricing of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscriptions is something that will be presented sooner or later. Costs of Office 365 licenses going up for the first time in the last few years.
Check the upcoming changes in Microsoft 365 pricing using New pricing calculator.
Focus Time ?? app in Windows 11
Garry Trinder shared a very interesting finding in Windows 11 features: Focus Time app - a super simple solution that could help you take care of your wellbeing.
Maybe it is a good idea to find time to focus?
"#Windows11 introduced Focus sessions in the Clock app and it has quickly become one of my favourite productivity hacks. Set your focus time period and it works out the breaks. Simple. Easy. Effective."
New ?? SharePoint Online features
New year = new SharePoint features. Mike Kashman prepared a December summary of new functionalities that soon will be available on SharePoint Online.
The one I'm waiting for is: manage verticals in Microsoft Search - new search filtering based on metadata.
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"Well, hello there you in 2022. So nice to see you here on the SharePoint community blog. I hope you’ve stopped by to grab insights on the close of 2021 from a SharePoint’y kind of view.
December 2021 rounded our year of SharePoint and related tech goodness: Azure Active Directory Dynamic Groups for SharePoint audience targeting, create and manage verticals in Microsoft Search, Microsoft Lists lookup columns, the ability to manage Teams and channel connected team sites in the SharePoint admin center, markup ink for photos stored in OneDrive and SharePoint, Microsoft Loop components in Teams chats, and more."
Microsoft Teams Summit ?? - Free Live Event
I want to recommend you free live event: Microsoft Teams Summit.
"Join us on January 26 to enhance your hybrid working skills, discover best practices from customers, and learn how the latest functionalities help you and your team achieve more in today’s hybrid world. This year’s Microsoft Teams Summit is going 100% live online, providing dedicated sessions to Business & IT leaders, and end users to ensure you are getting the information tailored to your specific needs."
SPMT ?? supports the workflow migration
Since 6th January 2022 SharePoint Migration Tool supports migration of the OOTB workflows from SharePoint Server to Power Automate. Feature is available in Public Preview.
"Microsoft removed SharePoint Server 2010 workflow services from existing tenants on November 1, 2020. We recommend that you move your classic SharePoint Server workflows to Power Automate flows.
Using the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT), you can now migrate your SharePoint Server flows to Microsoft 365. Workflow migration is limited to:
List and library "out-of-box" (OOTB) approval workflows"
?? Use Teams to do email escalation
Have a great weekend ??
Szymon