Services – Planning and Implementing a Microsoft 365 Tenant-1

The Services tab displays settings available for workloads, services, and features available in the Microsoft 365 tenant. The following table lists the services that have configurable options in the tenant.


                                                                                 

Service


                                                                                 

Description


                                                                                 

Adoption Score


                                                                                 

Manage privacy levels for Adoption Score as well as setting the scope for users to be included or excluded.


                                                                                 

Azure Speech Services


                                                                                

Manage whether Azure Speech Services can work using content in your tenant to improve the accuracy of speech services. Disabled by default.


                                                                                 

Bookings


                                                                                 

Choose whether the Bookings service is available for use in the tenant. If Bookings is enabled, you also manage specific options, such as whether social sharing options are available or whether Bookings can be used by users outside the organization as well as restricting the collection of customer data.


                                                                                 

Briefing email from Microsoft Viva


                                                                                 

Choose whether to allow users to receive the Viva briefing email. By default, the briefing email is enabled. Users can unsubscribe themselves.


                                                                                 

Calendar


                                                                                 

Choose whether to enable users to share the calendar outside the organization. If sharing is enabled, choose what level of detail is supplied.


                                                                                 

Cortana


                                                                                 

Choose whether to allow Cortana on devices to connect to data in your Microsoft 365 tenant.


                                                                                 

Directory synchronization


                                                                                 

Provides a link to download the Azure AD Connect synchronization tool.


                                                                                 

Dynamics 365 Applications


                                                                                 

Choose whether to allow insights for each user, aggregated insights for other users (non-identifiable), and identifiable insights for other users.


                                                                                 

Dynamics 365 Customer Voice


                                                                                 

Configure email parameters for collecting survey data from Dynamics 365.


                                                                                 

Mail


                                                                                 

There are no org-wide settings to manage here; however, there are links to various tools in the Exchange admin center and the Microsoft Defender 365 portal for things such as transport rules and anti-malware policies.


                                                                                 

Microsoft Azure Information Protection


                                                                                 

There are no settings to manage for this feature; it is a link to documentation for configuring Azure Information Protection settings.


                                                                                 

Microsoft communication to users


                                                                                 

Choose whether to enable Microsoft-generated training and education content delivery to users.


                                                                                 

Microsoft Edge product messaging for users


                                                                                 

Provides information on configuring the Edge spotlight experience for end users.


                                                                                 

Microsoft Edge site lists


                                                                                 

Manage lists of sites and specify which browser experience (Edge or Internet Explorer) users should receive when navigating to those sites.


                                                                                 

Microsoft Forms


                                                                                 

Manage external sharing settings for Microsoft Forms as well capturing the names of internal organization users who fill out forms.


                                                                                 

Microsoft Graph Data Connect


                                                                                 

Choose to enable Microsoft Graph Data Connect for the bulk transfer of data to Azure.


                                                                                 

Microsoft Planner


                                                                                 

Choose whether Planner users can publish to Outlook or iCal.


                                                                                 

Microsoft Search on the Bing homepage


                                                                                 

Customize the Bing.com search page for organization users.


                                                                                 

Microsoft Teams


                                                                                 

Choose whether to enable Teams organization-wide (users who are licensed will be blocked from using Teams). Also, choose coarse control for whether guest access is allowed in Teams.


                                                                                 

Microsoft To Do


                                                                                 

Choose to allow internal users the ability to join and contribute to external task lists and receive push notifications.


                                                                                 

Microsoft Viva Insights (formerly MyAnalytics)


                                                                                

Manage which Viva Insights settings users have access to. By default, all options are selected (Viva Insights web experience, Digest email, Insights Outlook add-in and inline suggestions, and Schedule send suggestions).


                                                                                 

Microsoft 365 Groups


                                                                                 

Configure guest access and ownership settings for Microsoft 365 Groups.


                                                                                 

Modern authentication


                                                                                 

Provides links to information on configuring modern authentication and viewing basic authentication sign-in reports.


                                                                                 

Multi-factor authentication


                                                                                 

Provides links to information on configuring and learning about multi-factor authentication.


                                                                                 

News


                                                                                 

Choose organization and industry settings used to display relevant news information on the Bing home page as well as settings for delivering Microsoft-generated industry news to your organization users.


                                                                                 

Office installation options


                                                                                 

Choose the update channel for Microsoft 365 apps.


                                                                                 

Office on the web


                                                                                 

Choose whether to allow users to connect to third-party cloud storage products using Office on the web products.


                                                                                 

Office Scripts


                                                                                 

Configure Office Scripts settings for Excel on the web.


                                                                                 

Reports


                                                                                 

Choose how to display users’ personally identifiable information in internal reports and whether to make data available to Microsoft 365 usage analytics.


                                                                                 

Search and intelligence usage analytics


                                                                                 

Choose whether to allow usage analytics data to be filtered by country, occupation, department, or division.


                                                                                 

SharePoint


                                                                                 

Choose whether to enable external sharing.


                                                                                 

Sway


                                                                                 

Choose whether to allow the sharing of Sways outside the organization as well as what content sources are available (Flickr, Pickit, Wikipedia, and YouTube).


                                                                                 

User consent to apps


                                                                                 

Choose whether users can provide consent to OAuth 2 apps that access organization data.


                                                                                 

User-owned apps and services


                                                                                 

Choose whether to allow users to auto-claim licenses as well as start trials and access the Office Store.


                                                                                 

Viva Learning


                                                                                 

Choose which content provider data sources to use for Viva Learning. By default, LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn, Microsoft 365 Training, and Custom Uploads are enabled. You can also manage the level of diagnostic data sent to Microsoft.


                                                                                 

What’s new in Office


                                                                                 

Choose whether to display messages to users about new features that are available. This does not change the availability of the feature—only the display of the notification message.


                                                                                 

Whiteboard


                                                                                 

Choose whether to allow the Whiteboard app to be used. Additionally, manage the amount of diagnostic data collected.

Table 1.2 – Organizational service settings

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