Microsoft Teams: Real-Time Mic Volume Indicator for Teams Meetings

Introducing the Mic Volume Indicator for Teams meetings, a feature designed to provide real-time visual feedback on your audio levels. Positioned on the user bar, this indicator ensures your voice is captured correctly, eliminating the need to ask, “Can you hear me?” By offering continuous visual confirmation, it enhances user confidence and reduces communication breakdowns. It l streamlines meeting efficiency by minimizing interruptions and ensuring seamless communication.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 19, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

New Microsoft Outlook for Windows: Calendar notifications in the background

Coming soon for the new Microsoft Outlook for Windows: Users can enable Calendar notifications on their desktop when Outlook is not launched. Users can select the notification to open the Calendar event details.

When this will happen:

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 18, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft OneNote Copilot Chat is coming to iPad and Mac desktops

Microsoft OneNote Copilot Chat is coming to Mac desktops and iPad. OneNote Copilot Chat is an intelligent assistant, transforming the way users interact with their notes. Users enter natural language prompts, and Copilot helps them understand, summarize, and rewrite notes for enhanced clarity and purpose. This feature will be available to all commercial accounts with a valid Microsoft 365 Copilot license.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 397097 and Roadmap ID 395787.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 18, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Migration of Topics used in Viva Engage

In February 2024, the retirement of Viva Topics was announced. As part of the change, Viva Engage will return to a simplified topics model, called Engage topics, and the integration with Viva Topics will be retired. This message is for customers who have tenants with topics data that currently resides in Viva Topics or Topics lightweight management and who are not licensed to use Viva Topics after December 31, 2024.

Your organization’s topics data will be migrated to reside in Viva Engage. Migrations for all tenants notified will be completed by the end of January 2025. During the migrations employees should not experience any degradation in their core topics experiences, including the ability to create topics, add topics to posts, follow topics, edit topics they created and increase the relevance of their feeds by following topics.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 18, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Clipchamp: Sharing a portion of a video as a clip

Clipchamp allows authors and viewers alike to share a portion of a video without changing the original media. Using draggable handles on the playback timeline, a link containing the desired clip start and end is put on the clipboard for easy sharing. Opening this link will play only the specified clip, and viewers can easily pop out to view the full video if desired. This will allow users to share the most relevant portion of their content.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 18, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat – Teams Chats in ContextIQ

Users will be able to search for and select Teams Chats in ContextIQ to scope their prompts in BizChat.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 18, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Clipchamp: Updated Admin Controls for recording options

Admin controls will be updated for enterprise customers to better manage the new unified video experience, onboarding new admin policies to enable/disable camera, screen record, and audio record.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 18, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Clipchamp: Unified video branded start page

This creates a unified Clipchamp and Stream start page that serves as a single video destination of creation, consumption, and discovery.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 18, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Clipchamp: Transcript-based editing in Clipchamp

We are introducing a novel and streamlined method to quickly and accurately remove any unwanted sections from your Clipchamp projects by leveraging the transcript. With transcript-based editing, browsing text, selecting unwanted words, and removing them will remove them from the video without the need to navigate the timeline. We are looking into making video editing more productive by providing a more intuitive and straightforward editing experience.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 18, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Intune: Resource performance report for Windows physical PCs for GCCH

The resource performance scores and insights for physical devices are aimed to help IT admins make CPU/RAM asset management and purchase decisions that improve the user experience while balancing hardware costs.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 18, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments