(upbeat music) - Hi, I'm Arthur.
- And I'm Vivian,
and Welcome to the July episode of
"What's new with Microsoft 365."
- This month we got some great updates to share,
including the new Yammer experiences for web and mobile.
- [Vivian] How to integrate the Yammer Communities app
for Microsoft Teams.
- New policy packages to support
firstline workers, managers, and more.
- Hi, so Candace will be joining us
for next month's episode.
But to get started we're excited to share
that the new Yammer experience is now here.
With a completely rebuilt user experience
for web browser and mobile,
the new Yammer enhances the conversation
and community experience across Microsoft 365.
There are a lot of new features to talk about,
like the fact that "Groups"
has now been renamed to "Communities."
But we wanted to highlight
some of the bigger news items to know about.
- For example, you're now able
to customize the "All Company" community by renaming it,
and also adding a custom cover photo and avatar
to suit your community needs.
You can now also share questions, praise, and polls
as announcements to notify community members.
These can also be pinned at the top
of the community for higher visibility and awareness.
For live events,
there's now an improved experience in new tabs available.
In each community,
you can now discover past current and upcoming live events
and even host live events,
in the "All Company" community.
There's also added admin controls like Native Mode
to help organizations better manage their
data, privacy, security and compliance needs.
- To bring the new Yammer to your organization,
Microsoft 365 Global Admins
and verified Yammer Network Admins
can configure access through the Yammer Admin Portal.
There are a lot more features to discover
about the new Yammer than what we covered here.
So to learn more about how to enable the new Yammer
for your organization,
check out the links in the description,
or go to aka.ms/TheNewYammer for more resources.
- Next, we wanna highlight some news
that supports firstLine workers
during this unprecedented time.
The new fully interactive app called "Yammer communities",
which brings your Yammer communities
and conversations into teams,
is now available on the Teams mobile app.
With the "Communities" app,
your users can access critical messages,
safety alerts, and live events all in one place,
no matter where they are.
This is especially helpful for firstline workers
who often work and communicate via mobile.
To get started,
if you've already pinned the app for your users
in the teams desktop client,
they'll start seeing the "Communities" app
appear in the Teams mobile app
next to their shifts, chats, and calendar.
- And if you haven't installed the "Communities" app yet,
just go to the app store in Teams
and search for communities.
Both you and your users can pin it to the app bar
on the left side of the Teams.
IT admins can also choose to deploy
and pin the app for all users
or for specific departments through custom policies.
To read more about the "Communities" app on mobile,
as well as to set up custom policies for it,
check out the links in the description
when you're done watching
- Policy packages to manage and organize Firstline workers
in Microsoft Teams is now available.
A new policy package is a collection
of predefined policies and settings
like, messaging, meetings or live events
that can be customized and applied
to a group of users that have similar roles
in your organizations.
Like your firstLine workers versus your firstLine managers.
These policy packages simplify, centralize,
and help provide consistency while managing policies
and different groups across your organizations.
The new policy packages are available by default
in the Microsoft Teams admin center.
To learn more about setting up
and customizing the policy packages
for your firstline workforce,
we've added documentation to the description below.
- In additional news to support firstline workers,
audit logs for shifts in Microsoft Teams is now available.
Audit logs give IT admins a unified view
and ability to search for shift activities
such as clocking in and out,
and editing shifts to ensure smooth compliance.
We've added a support page in the description
to learn more about what shift activities are logged
and how to get started.
- And finally, Time Clock is now available
for Teams on the web and in the desktop app.
Time Clock now lets firstline workers clock in and out
with all the geo-fencing capabilities,
no matter if they're working remote or at the job location.
- To meet the always evolving needs of customers,
we're excited to introduce
the new Microsoft 365 self-guided wizards
for business and enterprise customers.
These self-guided wizards assist with
deployment, migration, adoption, learning, and security
based on scenarios and product selections.
They also include a new remote work and learning path
for business use,
as well as education in government entities.
To get started,
go to the Microsoft 365 self-guided wizard,
choose self-guided help
and the product or scenario you want,
and then what you want help with.
- Based on your selection,
the tool we'll walk you through more questions
to better identify your security scenario,
and then provide you with the best resources
and recommendations to meet your needs.
To check it out yourself,
go to aka.ms/Microsoft365SelfGuidedWizards.
We've also added this aka link down in the description.
And if you're looking for more guidance beyond
these self-serve resources,
you can contact the Fast Track team
who'll offer remote deployment assistance
at no additional cost for customers
with 150+ licenses of eligible plans.
- In the Microsoft 365 admin center,
you can now configure tenant settings
through the Microsoft Graph
to enrich a user's profile card by adding attributes
like their alias, employee ID, or custom portal,
right from Azure Active Directory.
This feature is really helpful
because it helps your users
find the right people in a timely manner
and also supplies additional useful information
beyond just their name and a photo.
To get started with the new detailed panel,
check out the documentation in the description below.
- And to close this episode,
we wanna quickly highlight a few updates
that your users will find interesting and useful.
Like the ability of collections
on Microsoft Edge for mobile devices.
Collections lets you build and pull stuff
across the web like web pages, images, text, and more,
into collections that you can organize and curate.
Collections is now available
on the Edge mobile apps for iOS and Android.
- For Visio users there's now an ability
to manage multi-page drawings in Visio for the web.
Multi-page functionality includes
the ability to reorder pages,
insert and duplicate a page,
and create a page navigation list and scroll arrows.
To check out these features,
you must be a Visio Plan 1 or Plan 2 subscriber.
(upbeat music)
- And that's a wrap for our July episode.
If you have any questions or comments about anything
that we've discussed,
we'd love to hear about it.
- Leave a comment down below,
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and subscribe to the Microsoft 365 Chanel,
if you haven't done so already.
- Thank you so much for watching,
take care and we'll see you all next month.
Bye.