Outlook: Follow a meeting in new Outlook for Windows and web

Follow is a new meeting response (RSVP) option that goes beyond the traditional Accept, Tentative and Decline choices geared towards individuals with high meeting loads and conflicting meetings each day.

Follow is the ideal RSVP option for meetings you can’t attend but still want to stay engaged and receive info about. Other attendees will be able to see if you are following a meeting. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web.

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Microsoft Teams: Privacy options for frontline managers to control Time off in Shifts app

Frontline Managers will be able to set the level of visibility on Time off reason and notes for
frontline workers.

These settings can be applied at the team level.

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Microsoft Teams: Quickly capture content in Teams mobile

This feature enables you to quickly capture content shared in a Teams meeting on a mobile device and save it in your photo gallery or share in Teams and other apps.

We’ll honor privacy choices set in the meeting.

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Microsoft Teams: Files app updated to OneDrive app experience in Teams

The Files app accessed from left side of the Teams desktop client will be updated with the OneDrive app experience, bringing performance improvements, more views, and the latest features of OneDrive to both classic and new Teams.

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ExchangePowerShell: retirement of tenant admin cmdlets to Get, Set, and Remove UserPhotos

We are working to ensure a coherent user profile image experience by retiring legacy profile photo services. This announcement covers the retirement of the ExchangePowerShell UserPhoto cmdlets for tenant admins to Get, Set, and Remove user profile photos:

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Require Background Blur (Teams Premium)

We are introducing granular controls to the existing Organizational Defined Background capability which is part of Teams Premium now. With the granular controls, admins will be able to show only custom backgrounds, require background blur, or preset an organizational background.

Organizational defined backgrounds – provides catalog of org backgrounds for user to choose from

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Out-of-box Controlled-content meeting template (Premium)

We are launching an out-of-the box template for meetings with external participants. The controlled content access template has preset defaults for meeting options to provide tight controls over lobby bypass, who can present, allowing chat across meeting lifecycle/in-meeting, and who can record.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 91286

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Cloud IntelliFrame available on the new Microsoft Teams experience

Cloud IntelliFrame is an experience that allows online meeting attendees to see people in Teams Rooms more clearly, enhancing the hybrid meeting experience by creating smart video feeds of in-room participants. The smart video feed is created by zooming into their faces and eliminating distractions. You can see the expressions and gestures of the people in the room more easily, which will help improve collaboration in hybrid meetings. It creates equity in hybrid meetings as everyone can be seen and heard.  

Cloud IntelliFrame is now available on the new Microsoft Teams experience.

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Change required for your user provisioning process

We applied a change to user provisioning and user record matching from Microsoft Entra to prevent the reuse of User Principal Names (UPNs). Previously, users with recycled UPNs had access to business records of which they never had access to or ownership.

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Bookings Coming to Teams Essentials AAD

Users will soon be able to access Microsoft Bookings with Teams Essentials AAD.

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