Microsoft Teams: Search – query suggestions
Now you can form search queries quickly and efficiently with enhanced people-query suggestions. Start typing a person name in the search bar, and get recommendations based on results most relevant to you.

Now you can form search queries quickly and efficiently with enhanced people-query suggestions. Start typing a person name in the search bar, and get recommendations based on results most relevant to you.

Work Hours and Location information will now be available in My Day pane in Outlook when using agenda view. Users will be able to update their Work Hours and Location information from My Day and also see who is coming to Office. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

Attendees can now join Mesh events as a guest in the Microsoft Mesh app on PC. Event organizers can invite guest users outside their organization, providing an opportunity for broader collaboration and networking in Mesh events. Guests can sign in to Mesh app to join events, participate in discussions, and experience the same interactive features as internal users, all while maintaining secure access control. Guest access for events in the Mesh app on Quest and support for anonymous participants will be supported in a future update.

When grounding your prompts in BizChat, you will be able to use CIQ to scope to your 3P data from your Graph Connectors.

When participants join a Teams meeting with their laptop in bring your own device (BYOD) meeting rooms, they will appear in the ‘in-room’ participant section of the roster enabling individual identification and meeting intelligence capabilities.

Users can drag and drop emails into the Calendar icon on the left app bar of Outlook to create an event. #newoutlookforwindows

iOS Live Activities integration for Teams meetings on mobile allows users to view the live progress of a meeting at-a-glance from their lock screen. Real-time notifications with Live Activities automatically update in real-time so users can see when the meeting has started, when it’s in progress, whether recording is on, when someone needs to be admitted from the lobby, and when the meeting has ended. Live Activities is for iPhones only (iOS16.1).

The new ‘Required approval’ feature in Microsoft Viva Amplify ensures content undergoes review before publishing. It’s an optional setting found under ‘Campaign settings’. Rollout begins late August 2024, with no admin action needed but users should be informed. Viva Amplify on mobile is excluded.

This new functionality will provide CVI Partners with the ability to display still images when PowerPoint live content is being presented within a Microsoft Teams meeting. The PowerPoint presentation will then be displayed as video content, this will not include animations or embedded videos.

The Microsoft Purview AI Hub will display prompts and responses from Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Activity explorer. Public Preview begins in late August, with full rollout in November 2024. Users need the Content Explorer Content Viewer role to access this feature, and some known issues are documented. Preparation involves role assignment and reviewing documentation.
