Monthly SharePoint News Digest - June 2025

Microsoft 365

End of Legacy Authentication is coming

The default security settings will be updated automatically on your Tenant- the impact is oriented by blocking legacy authentication protocols and requiring admin consent for third-party app access.
Changes start mid-July 2025 and complete by August 2025.

Viva Engage

New Communication Dashboard

The moderators will finally find a good way to supervise the community content and configure a scenario for the specified keywords:

• Need review
• Dismissed
• Muted

Communications dashboard: Advanced moderation - Microsoft Support

Use the Moderator AI agent to help manage discussion threads and conversations to define filtering for sensitive language and discussion focus.

Microsoft Support

Viva Engage

GDPR Compliance

The feature already exists, but was accessible only from the legacy admin center.

Now, you can access it from the modern admin Governance & Compliance > Data management.

Stream

The End of Unification for Stream & Clipchamp

Announced at the end of 2024, Microsoft chose to gradually transition the Microsoft Stream brand to the Clipchamp one.
At the end, no big changes for final users.

Just note that the URL of the Stream service https://m365.cloud.microsoft/launch/stream becomes https://m365.cloud.microsoft/launch/clipchamp

SharePoint

Estimated Read Time for News posts

This is not a revolution, but Microsoft is listening to the feedback. Some feedback asked to have the capability to indicate an estimated reading time. This kind of feature is mainly used for blogs and communication websites.

How can the estimation of read time be useful with SharePoint?

• As a reader, he manages time effectively, stays focused, and engages more fully with the texts he is reading.
• As a writer, it is a theory that an adult can read more or less 238 words/minute. With this information in mind, a writer/publisher should stay focused on the content without writing a whole book 😁. By the subject of the post/page and the expectation of the readers, the writer can ensure the needed time to read the content, and if required, adjust the content to reduce the reading time to keep the interest of the audience.

Viva Engage

Copilot Adoption Community

Previously, this community template was only available to networks with at least one Copilot license. This is not the case anymore 🚀

If you didn't try it, it's time.
You don't need to create a new community to access features linked to Copilot, but it is important to keep in mind that you can only have 1 community with the Copilot feature enabled.

This type of community is very interesting to promote Copilot in your organization, and the suggested content is amazing.

Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption community in Viva Engage

Viva Engage rolls out a Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption community to answer questions and share best practices

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Viva Engage

New Centralized Admin Role Management

Microsoft is working hard to modernize Viva Engage Legacy capabilities for admins.
Among these efforts, Microsoft has just included a UI to manage the roles while including the new corporate communicator feature.
Viva Engage admins are spoiled 🙂

SharePoint

New Page Creation Wizard

The previous right panel to create a new SharePoint page has vanished. Let's take a look at a new "wizard"  from which the users can select a set of awesome built-in page templates.

Of course, you still access the custom templates if you have ones, but you still can't hide the built-in templates.
I think the built-in templates are still helpful for users to explore more features and layouts around the pages.

SharePoint

New Anyone links to folders permission

If you choose to keep the "anyone" sharing, you have a new permission on folders that you can define by default as an administrator: View and upload.

This feature allows more granular control over content access and maintains the "Request files" functionality.

By default, Microsoft does not change the configuration for SharePoint.

What is this new granular permission change? Before this feature, when a user chose to share a folder with anyone, he has the capability the choose the following permissions:

• Can edit
• Can view
• Can't download

Once the permission is defined to View and upload, the option Can edit vanishes, BUT the upload is still available for the Request files feature ❤️

SharePoint

New Storage Insight for Admins

From the Admin Center > Report > Usage > SharePoint, there is a new tab named Storage.

The SharePoint storage report provides an overview of your tenant’s storage profile across multiple geographies.

The report will include suggestions for optimizing storage, such as setting file history limits, archiving inactive sites (Pro), and creating site lifecycle management (Pro) policies.

Also, banner notifications will appear when your tenant is approaching or over the storage quota.