Simplified Compose Experience for Teams

Teams Compose is the heart of collaboration, where all Teams messages flow each month. It’s also the gateway to a wealth of features, from Co-Pilot to Files, Loops, Video, and Platform Apps.

While Teams’ capabilities have grown by leaps and bounds, the compose experience has remained largely unchanged. This update addresses usability, scalability, and information density challenges. We’ve simplified the compose experience, enhancing usability for various rich authoring scenarios, establishing scalable patterns for all compose actions, and optimizing it for your everyday needs. Get ready to enjoy a more seamless and efficient collaboration experience!

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Microsoft Stream: Collaborative notes in Teams meeting recordings

This feature enables users to view and edit collaborative meeting notes while watching Teams meeting recordings in Stream. Collaborative notes allow meeting attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned tasks in collaborative meeting notes automatically sync with To Do & Planner.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 164191

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Audit – New Stream Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users

Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Stream. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 5 new Microsoft Stream events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users:

  1. StreamInvokeGetTranscript
  2. StreamInvokeChannelView
  3. StreamInvokeGettExtTrack
  4. StreamInvokeGetVideo
  5. StreamInvokeGroupView

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management: Upcoming retirement of SharePoint Online Record Center site features

Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management and Microsoft Purview Records Management features offer organizations flexibility and a scalable solution to proactively retain or delete content in Microsoft 365.

We have a long-term retirement plan for the older features used for records management in SharePoint Online that are not part of the Microsoft Purview Records Management or Purview Data Lifecycle Management. The first set of features that will be retired are:

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Preview the new Teams web client on Edge and Chrome

Today we’re starting to roll out the preview of the new Teams web client to Edge and Chrome browsers. Our new Teams web client is built on the same foundation as our new Teams desktop clients and brings Edge and Chrome web users new speed, performance, and flexibility when using Teams.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Tracking and Revocation in Compliance Portal

Users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their
sensitivity labeled and encrypted local Office files and revoke access when needed.

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Microsoft Viva: Post articles in Viva Engage

With articles, you can write longer, more thoughtful posts with inline images, sections, headings, and more.

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Microsoft Search: Staged Rollout for Graph Connectors

Staged rollout is a feature that allows you to gradually introduce Microsoft Graph connectors to a select group of users in your production environment. You can use it to deploy an existing or new connection to a limited set of users, monitor the performance, and adjust settings as needed.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft Purview is launching several capabilities that help with security and compliance of data in Microsoft 365 Copilot. These are capabilities in Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, Audit, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance.

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Visio: Containers in Visio for the web

Containers are a powerful tool for organizing and managing complex diagrams. Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to use containers in Visio for the web to create professional-looking diagrams that are easy to understand and navigate.

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