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Microsoft 365 Backup is now generally available

We're excited to announce the general availability of Microsoft 365 Backup, and the underlying developer-focused Microsoft 365 Backup Storage platform, delivering capabilities to help you address these growing challenges.

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SharePoint: A new Start experience

Beyond the core of finding and accessing SharePoint sites and portals within your organization, we've designed a new user-friendly approach to creating sites and pages. This new Start experience becomes a central location to refine drafts, review past work, and monitor engagement metrics.

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SharePoint: New Banner web part

This update means big improvements to the title area at the top of SharePoint Pages and News. You can remove the title area all together; it's no longer mandatory. SharePoint Page and News authors can choose to add no banners, one banner, or multiple banners to the page.

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Microsoft Viva: Stream Playlist card on Viva Connections Dashboard

The Viva Connections dashboard provides fast and easy access to information and job-related tasks. Content on the dashboard can be targeted to users in specific roles, markets, and job functions. And there are numerous cards ready for you to add to your Viva Connections dashboard, including the ability to use the Card designer to create your own interactive dashboard cards.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify video templates

We've talked a few times about how Amplify benefits from it sitting atop the SharePoint pages platform. And here is another example repurposing the Stream video page templates we noted a few months ago. In Microsoft Viva Amplify, you can now create and highlight videocentric publications, like Teams meeting content or executive messages, with new video templates.

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OneDrive: Annotate PDFs with text boxes

Now you can annotate and save PDF files with text boxes for files stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. Just open a PDF in File Viewer and select Edit. Use the Add Text command on the left side of the screen to insert text. When finished, click Save changes in the top left corner to exit Edit mode and save your changes to the PDF in place within the file, where it was originally stored.

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Microsoft Lists: Row reorder

Instead of having to add an extra column to get tricky with ascension or descension of numbers and dates… now you can simply grab a row, or multiple rows, to reorder List items using the drag and drop action. This effectively creates a custom sort of your items so you can start your list, reorder your list, and not feel bound to some immovable or hacked custom order.

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Clipchamp: Image background removal

Easily remove and customize the background of any image in seconds using the smart AI-powered image background removal. You essentially make the background of an image transparent without sacrificing their original PNG or JPEG image quality

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Microsoft OneNote: Loop components in Microsoft OneNote

OneNote has always been a great structured location to organize your personal and team information. And now you can enhance the collaborative aspects of OneNote by bringing unstructured, collaborative content from Loop components in Teams and Outlook into OneNote notebooks, fostering real-time collaboration and sharing.

Read more on https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/spblog/sharepoint-roadmap-pitstop-august-2024/4234818