Microsoft Teams Integration in Open LMS

Microsoft has now partnered with Open LMS to deliver more seamless integrated learning experiences. Microsoft Teams Meeting LTI and Classes LTI apps are now available within Open LMS. Teams Classes LTI enables Educators to create a Team for their Open LMS course using the roster information of the course. Teams Meeting LTI empowers educators and students to access, schedule, and manage Teams Meetings within the Brightspace LMS.

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Microsoft Edge: Outlook in sidebar

Quickly and easily access Outlook Mail and Calendar. Administrators can control the Outlook menu in the Microsoft Edge sidebar by using the OutlookHubMenuEnable policy.

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Microsoft Edge: Office in sidebar

Quickly and easily access Microsoft Office documents and apps. Administrators can control the Microsoft Office menu in the Microsoft Edge sidebar by using the MicrosoftOfficeMenuEnabled policy.

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Companion Device Experience Enhancement – Optimize Video Gallery for in-room participants

When joining a meeting in a Microsoft Teams Rooms with a personal laptop running Microsoft Teams, the video galleries on both the Teams Room and laptops will be optimized to display only remote attendees.  (Proximity Join with Microsoft Teams Rooms is required).

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SharePoint: New site templates for team sites

We are introducing 3 new SharePoint team site templates dedicated to helping you create sites for your IT helpdesk, crisis communication team, and new employee onboarding team.

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Share to Teams from a Teams Personal App or Tab

Share to Teams allows users to share the content from a personal app or tab to other users, groups or channels within Teams. Teams App developers will need to enable the feature within the individual Teams App.

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Forms: Distribute your forms by using Teams as a new channel

Users in Forms for the web can now directly share their survey or quiz to their Teams chat and channels directly from the Forms web application (or From Forms for the web)

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Microsoft Secure Score is Updating an improvement action for Microsoft Defender for Identity

We’ve updated Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of your security posture.

This update will include this new Microsoft Defender for Identity recommendations as part of Microsoft Secure Score “Unsecure domain configurations” improvement action:

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Customizable dashboard in Teams admin center

Teams admin center is adding support for customization of the widgets in the dashboard. Administrators can now personalize the dashboard widgets as per their preference. They can reorder the widgets and pin them at a position they would like to see. For widgets that are not being used frequently, Teams admin center now gives the flexibility to hide them from the dashboard.

The widgets are now optimized for smaller screens too.

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Microsoft Office Translator Add-in retiring in September 2022

With the inclusion of the Translate feature in Office applications, we will be retiring the Translator add-in for Office. 

When this will happen:

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