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Microsoft Kills Viva Goals
Microsoft’s announcement of the Viva Goals retirement came as a complete surprise to the customers using Viva Goals to implement the OKR methodology for their organization. From Microsoft’s text, it seems pretty clear that Viva Goals just didn’t succeed in winning sufficient customers to warrant ongoing development. The outcome is that Microsoft cut its losses and will retire Viva Goals. https://office365itpros.com/2024/12/09/viva-goals-retirement/New Option Available to Update Microsoft 365 User Profile
The scheduled retirement of Delve on December 16, 2024, meant that Microsoft had to create a new way for users to update their profile settings. The new method has now appeared in Microsoft Search, and it will spread to other workloads (like OWA) where users can access and update their profile. The new mechanism is welcome, but it's still too difficult to customize user profiles within a tenant. https://office365itpros.com/2024/12/10/user-profile-updates/How to manage the visibility of Microsoft 365 groups in the NEW Discover Groups page of Outlook
The new Groups experience will become the default groups experience in Microsoft Outlook on the web and new Outlook for Windows. Outlook now has a new home for Microsoft 365 Groups - one central destination for users to connect, communicate, and collaborate with their teams. This new Groups experience includes the following benefits: New Group Home: Users can now stay updated on their groups, including recent files across the groups, and quickly access frequently used groups and find new ones based on their interests. Users can find quick links to get to files, emails, events, and member management for Groups from the Groups Home itself. Once inside a specific Group, users can create, consume, and share information related to a group, as well as manage events and members efficiently in fewer clicks. Users can find recommended actions including member approval and storage management across the Groups Home The hideFromAddressLists and hideFromOutlookClients properties are used to control the visibility of Microsoft 365 Groups. Here's a brief overview of what each property does: hideFromAddressLists: When set to True, this property hides the group from the Global Address List (GAL). When set to False, the group will be visible in the GAL. hideFromOutlookClients: When set to True, this property hides the group from the Outlook left-hand navigation and prevents the group name from resolving during message creation. It also sets hideFromAddressLists to True. When set to False, it makes the group visible in Outlook and the GAL. These properties can be managed via the Microsoft Graph API, providing more flexibility for customization through Power Automate and third-party applications. #Outlook #Groups #Microsoft365 #MPVbuzz #MicrosoftOutlook #M365Groups
One of my Office 365 user, suddenly missing
One of company user suddenly missing from active users, and I can't find it on Deleted user, last night my team on New Zealand doing synchronization, I can see all user with onMicrosoft.com are on deleted users including my account, but I can still see my account on active users tab, but one of my user is suddenly gone, only his onMicrosoft.com are in deleted users tab, I cannot see his original account on deleted users.
Microsoft 365 Outlook .gmail problem
On my 2nd PC (laptop) with windows 11 home i have downloaded Microsoft 365(office) form my Microsoft account. While trying to add a new acct email address removed for privacy reasons to Outlook(classic) i am getting the message : We couldn’t log on to the incoming (POP/IMAP server. Pls check your email address and password and try again The less secure apps in Google are allowed. Another IMAP mail account installed without any problems. 2 weeks ago on my first PC with Microsoft 365 adding the same mail account went smoothly. Is there a fix?Thwarting Social Engineering Attacks Against Teams Federated Chat
A recent reported noted an increase in social engineering attack through Teams federated chat. You can stop these attacks by limiting external access to an allow list of known domains, which is what I do. Or you can depend on the technology built into Teams to detect suspicious connections and remind users about potential risk. This now extends to connections from brands commonly targeted by phishers. https://office365itpros.com/2024/12/06/federated-chat-brand-impersonation/I forgot my word document password, can I recover it?
This is so frustrating! A while ago I set a password for an important Word document to keep it safe, but when I wanted to open it today, I found that I couldn't remember the password at all! I tried several possible combinations, but none of them worked. The document contains some very important work materials, and it would take too much time to reorganize it. I've searched online, but most of the methods seem unreliable. Has anyone ever dealt with something like this? Is there a way to recover forgotten Word document password, or open the document? I'm using Windows 11 and the file is in .docx format. We need to find a reliable solution as soon as possible. Thanks! 🙏
Add EXTERNAL Teams user to GAL
We collaborate a lot with another company who have their own tenant. When we want to message an “external” user in Teams we have not messaged before, we must first search and type in the full email address, then select "(External)" to message them. We also have these same users as contacts in our GAL for email. The problem we have is that when you start searching for the user, the GAL contact comes up first, and users think that this is the correct Teams user account so they select this instead of typing further to bring up the real external account. If they do make it as far as to type out the full email address, then two users show up, one from the GAL and one with "(external)" in it. This is not a great user experience. We'd like to know if there is a way in which we can import the external user to our GAL, or if we can populate the GAL contact with the Teams attributes of the external user. The end goal is to have a GAL contact which the user can click to message in Teams. Has anyone come across this before and has a solution?
