April 28, 2021
JourneyTEAM recently hosted the Q1 2021 Tech Insider Update to bring you up to speed on the latest changes and enhancements to the Microsoft stack. Delivered in a rapid-fire format, the presentation highlighted the most recent updates, as well as dished expert advice from industry-leading JourneyTEAM consultants and developers in the form of business strategies and insider tips that can help you perfect your digital technology posture.
Here are just some of the highlights:
Microsoft Office 365 and the Cloud
Internet Explorer 11 to sunset August 17, 2021
Support for Legacy version of Microsoft Edge ended
Dark Mode for OneDrive for Business
Universal Print license now featured in Microsoft 365 Business Premium bundles
Microsoft Exchange Online
Plus-based email addressing
Mail Flow performance optimized to reduce congestion in high-volume mailboxes
Disabling of Basic Auth Protocols for five Exchange Online Protocols in second half of 2021
Microsoft Azure AD
User-based MyApps Collections
Access Reviews for managing guest accounts
Admin enterprise app consent approval
Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync Engine (GA)
Microsoft Unified Endpoint Management (Intune)
Managed devices inside Azure AD
Microsoft Teams
Power Automate approvals now visible within Teams
Meeting reactions in team meetings
Virtual breakout rooms
Teams Usage Report in Microsoft 365 Admin Center
Team membership increased to 25,000 members per team
Microsoft Viva
Updates to Viva Insights, Viva Topics, Viva Learning and Viva Connections
Microsoft SharePoint
Power Automate can now approve adding sites to a hub
Page comparison visualization
Results from PowerBI coming to Microsoft Search in SharePoint
Calendar view on SharePoint lists
Future date publishing for pages
Microsoft Forms
Email receipt and download response options
Forms polls in Microsoft Teams meetings
Microsoft Planner
Smart backgrounds
Intelligent file recommendations
Tasks in Teams
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing
Improvements to Customer Journey Editor, more channels
A/B Testing enhancements
Email Editor gets additional personalization features, and point and click interface
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Enhanced personal settings
New real-time seller KPIs
Advanced editable grid
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service
Improved mobile application interface
Improved Geofencing perimeter
Power Apps for Field Service
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations (i.e., Project Service Automation)
Available for preview: provides traditional task grids, planner board and timeline view
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
Maturity Model Assessment
Case Management: Updates to resolved and cancelled cases, improvements to embedded analytics
Omnichannel Voice: Call recording and call routing; intelligent voicebot via Power Virtual Agents
Omnichannel Chat: Embedded analytics for chat and digital messaging
Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, Power Automate)
Power BI: 2/23/21 update release featured 33 major updates, hundreds of small improvements and enhancements; anomaly detection for Power BI Mobile
Power Apps: Relevance search, intellitype and history in Model Apps on Mobile
Power Virtual Agents: now available in Teams
Power Automate: New Connectors – Power BI Dataflows
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Business Central and Dataverse integration: enables seamless data integration between Microsoft Dynamics solutions with low/no code
Additional Announcements from JourneyTEAM
New Intranet Packages: There are major moves on the horizon driving the importance of knowledge management using intranets. If you have not moved your intranets to SharePoint or Microsoft 365, reach out to us for more information on our three new Intranet packages.
Power Apps Sherpa Program: JourneyTEAM is hosting a 5-week Power Apps training program with scheduled workshops, office hours, class interactions and one-on-one sessions that will take your organization from the app idea stage, all the way through to implementation.
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