Microsoft Teams: Ability to separate out the Townhall attendee invites

This backend change will now address the ‘separation of attendee’ invites from the events crew. This feature allows the organizers of Townhalls to maintain separate invites for attendees.

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Microsoft Teams: Wired headset support for Walkie Talkie on iOS.

This feature adds the wired support to Walkie Talkie on iOS. It adds support for both specialized PTT headsets and generic headsets.

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Microsoft Teams: Townhall Attendee/Presenter email dial in details.

With the release of this feature, the Townhall attendee and presenter invites will have dial in details available in the body of the email.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Insider risk management user analytics

With this feature, Insights will be generated for potentially risky behaviors at a user level and will be surfaced across the following experiences:

1) Insider risk management context in DLP alert investigation 2) Insider risk management context in Communication compliance alert investigation
3) Insider risk management context in Microsoft Defender XDR user entity page
4) Advanced hunting in Microsoft Defender XDR. User analytics will cover all eligible users in the tenant including users not in the scope of any Insider risk management policy.

During the initial rollout, user analytics will be enabled by default for all customers who have enabled Insider risk management analytics. This will help customers benefit from this additional intelligence right from the start. Customers can enable/disable user analytics in your tenant from Insider risk management Global settings. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Teams: Add CVI Coordinates to Townhall and webinar invites

With CVI coordinates in invites, now non-Teams users—such as external customers or partners—can easily join Teams Townhall and webinar meetings using a third-party teleconferencing device.

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Microsoft Teams: ‘Add emoji’ updated keyboard shortcut

Insert emojis directly from your keyboard without any distractions. Use colons (e.g. :smile:) in the compose box to add any emoji, even your custom ones, making it quicker to express yourself.

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Microsoft Teams: Additional work information in people search results

Microsoft Teams will enable MTO users to see additional work information in people search results, including company and department names. This feature will roll out in February 2025 and can be toggled on or off by tenant admins in the Teams admin center. Admins must complete cross-tenant synchronization to use this feature.

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Microsoft Teams: More predictable recording experience with Who keeps recording

Microsoft Teams is adding a feature to show the recording owner’s information, ensuring participants can contact the correct person. It rolls out in March 2025. Recordings save to the organizer’s OneDrive by default, with fallback logic for recording ownership if needed. Users should ensure the -MeetingRecordingOwnership setting is correct.

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Microsoft Graph: New default passcode in the Create Meeting API

The Microsoft Graph API’s Create Meeting API will require a passcode by default from February 24, 2025, changing the current default setting. In October 2027, the option to create meetings without passcodes will be removed for increased security. Users should update applications accordingly.

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Microsoft 365 Business Chat: Use “Continue to Outlook” to set up a meeting in Microsoft Outlook

The message details an upcoming feature for Microsoft 365 Business Chat that allows users to schedule meetings in Outlook using natural language. This feature requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and will be available on Windows, Mac, and Outlook for the web starting mid-January 2025. No admin action is needed for the rollout.

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