Microsoft has made updates across its Microsoft 365 portfolio, spanning Microsoft Teams, Dynamics 365 along with various others that are more integrated than before. Teams and Dynamics 365 now partner features with Microsoft Viva adding security and app monetization. Dynamics 365 will allow users to reach out to anyone in an organization to collaborate on internal documents within the flow of a Teams channel or chat.
A VentureBeat article detailed multiple new features, like how users can add Teams meetings to appointments and create a Teams meeting while adding appointments. Attendees can also capture notes during the Teams meeting, and the notes are saved in a timeline of a Dynamics 365 record. Microsoft wants to make these products more collaborative as they prepare for a future of hybrid work.
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Teams also has new notification options which keep stakeholders aware of updates and the users can select which specific chats or channels where notifications are sent through. Independent software vendors are also adding new apps to Teams in a partnership that will allow these IVSs to sell their apps within Teams.
Microsoft made more developer-centric updates to Teams in May 2021 that aimed at assisting them with different scenarios including shared stage integration, which offers the developers access to main stages in meetings, and new meeting event API’s, which have now been enhanced to enable automation of Teams meeting-related workflows from events.
“With 145 million daily active users — and growing — Teams is where people start their day and stay in the flow of work,” Microsoft CVPs Jared Spataro and Alysa Taylor wrote in a blog post and reported in the VentureBeat article. “Hybrid work requires a new class of apps that surface in rich ways across all the places people work — within chat, channels, and meetings. These apps have collaboration at their core, which is why we call them collaborative apps.”
Microsoft revealed 21 new partner integrations like Workday and ServiceNow, which will be on the Viva side and available in the fall and will help bring data and business operations together. Developers will have new tools to extend their apps into Viva along with Viva Learning APIs, which help pull content, due dates and various other information across Teams, SharePoint, Office.com and the Microsoft search engine in Bing.
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse is also being previewed and will allow partners with a center location and security configuration templates to secure and manage customers’ users, data, and devices against malicious activity.
Project Orland will be launched in private preview and will assist partners in growing their cloud business with recommendations such as customers with trial conversion opportunity or customers that need new workloads to expand from their customer install base.
Fraud Protection with Azure AD B2C will be added to Dynamics 365 which will allow partners to protect 365 apps more efficiently.
But most importantly, these changes help bring people together in a world where networks are beginning to expand like never before, which is why many of these updates focus on collaboration.
