M365 Changelog: (Updated) Viva Goals – Roll out for Improved team settings experience

MC695745 – Updated February 7, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

As a part of this release Team owners will have a simplified team settings experience. In addition, Team owners will also have the ability to create custom time-periods by default. The organization owners will have the option in the organization admin page, to configure this custom time-period creation permissions for team owners.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 165682

When this will happen:

Standard Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out early February 2024 (previously early January) and expects to complete by mid-February 2024 (previously late January).

How this will affect your organization:

This will help the team owners to easily discover or access the required team settings or controls. The team owners can also create custom time-period by themselves without having to wait on the org admin if time-period required for the team does not exist.

Team settings page showing the time period view:

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Admin control for time periods:

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What you need to do to prepare:

You may consider updating your training and documentation as appropriate.