Outlook: Focus Time in Outlook Calendar

Users can schedule focus events directly from Outlook calendar and mute Outlook and Teams notifications during this time.

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Outlook: Suggested replies expansion to DoD

Outlook on the web, Outlook mobile, and Outlook for Windows are adding support for suggested replies for DoD customers.

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Announcing the New Look of Office for the Web

We are excited to announce a new look in Office for the Web. We’ve changed the visuals to give you a clean modern look to help you focus, but nothing has moved. We will start flighting at this date.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87307

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Announcing the New Look of Office for the Web

We are excited to announce a new look in Office for the Web. We’ve changed the visuals to give you a clean modern look to help you focus, but nothing has moved. We will start flighting at this date.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87307

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Stories available for public preview in Yammer and Microsoft Viva Engage beginning early November

Beginning in early November, Yammer Network and Verified Admins will be able to opt into the public preview of stories for Microsoft Viva Engage and Yammer, via a toggle control in Yammer.

Stories build on the benefits of Storyline by allowing users to share short videos or photos that deliver a familiar, delightful way to catch up and stay connected with people you work with and interesting people across the organization. Create or upload a story on your storyline to share a quick update, capture an experience, express yourself, or amplify existing content.

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New Viva admin experience in M365 Admin Center

The Viva collections experience now has a brand-new look where you can configure licenses, roles, and access individual app configuration pages. Admins will be able to deploy Viva from a common place within the Microsoft 365 admin center and find guidance on how best to configure their tenants.

Viva is now discoverable via search making it easier than ever to discover Viva apps within the Microsoft 365 admin center. Admins can also navigate to the experience via the setup tab, and then click on the Viva collection. From the new Viva suite setup page, you can see details about the Viva apps in your tenant, including plan type and the admins assigned with permissions to manage a specific app. Now it’s easier than ever to see who from your organization will help in the deployment journey for Viva

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Update Microsoft 365 Admin Mobile app to Continue Receiving Notifications

We are doing a revamp of push notification messages for the Microsoft 365 Admin mobile app. We have rolled these changes out starting with iOS app version 4.3.4 and Android app version 4.5.3. Users on old app versions may not receive all notifications.

When this will happen:This update will roll out in late October and users on old app versions of the Microsoft 365 admin mobile app may not receive all of their notifications once rolled out. 

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PowerPoint Live in Teams: Magnify Slide

When a deck is presented via PowerPoint Live in a Microsoft Teams meeting, all meeting attendees can use the Magnify Slide feature to privately zoom into the presentation while maintaining full fidelity of the slide content. When a meeting attendee magnifies a slide, it doesn’t change how the presenter or the other meeting attendees view the slides. The “Sync to presenter” button will also appear, which allows the meeting attendee to resume following the presenter. When the meeting presenter uses the Magnify Slide feature, the zoomed in presentation content is displayed to all meeting attendees to see and follow along. The initial roll out of Magnify slide in PowerPoint Live will only be available for Microsoft Teams Desktop.

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Outlook: Suggested replies expansion to GCC high

Outlook on the web, Outlook mobile, and Outlook for Windows are adding suggested replies for GCC high customers.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel

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