Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution for all Teams Rooms

Microsoft Teams is enhancing hybrid meetings with speaker recognition technology for all Teams Rooms, using voiceprints to identify participants. This feature will roll out worldwide by late June 2024, and organizations can prepare by setting up voice profiles and enabling the feature for supported hardware.

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Microsoft Stream: Interactivity analytics

A new feature in Microsoft Stream will provide engagement metrics for interactive videos, showing unique viewer counts, interaction percentages, and average attention time. Rollout begins mid-May 2024 for Targeted Release and mid-June 2024 for General Availability, with no admin action required.

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Outlook: Scheduling Assistant Updates

We are updating the scheduling assistant view to help users have better readability. Some of these changes are in alignment to customer the feedback. These changes will also improve the grid lines, availability view, adding combined availability bar and much more. These updates will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

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Microsoft Intune: Guided upgrade of applications

Enterprise Application Management enables you to easily update previously provisioned EAM applications with a securely hosted enterprise catalog.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel chat helper

Customers can get more conversational answers to a broader range of Excel-related questions and prompts from Copilot. For example, the customer can ask how to accomplish a task and Copilot will respond with helpful steps that may include formulas to copy and use. In some cases, Copilot may explain a formula error and supply the corrected formula plus additional guidance to ensure the formula works properly.

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Microsoft Viva: Import navigational links from SharePoint into Resources in Viva Connections

On the desktop experience for Viva Connections, operators will be able to effortlessly import SharePoint links from their home site navigation and global navigation directly into the Resources section.

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Outlook: New Copilot Compose experience

Major improvements to our Copilot Compose experience include a polished, lightweight UI.

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Out-of-band update to address failure to install the May 2024 Windows security update

Microsoft has identified an issue wherein the May 2024 Windows security update might fail to install and has expedited a resolution. An Out-of-band (OOB) update has been released for the affected versions of Windows today, May 23, 2024, to address this issue. This issue is observed only in Windows 10 Enterprise and IoT LTSC 2019 editions and Windows Server 2019.

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Microsoft Teams admin center: App centric management for app installation and changes to app setup policies

The message details the upcoming rollout of app centric management for Microsoft Teams, which will allow admins to control app installations for users, groups, or the entire organization. It will replace ‘Installed apps’ in the Teams admin center and will be implemented in four phases starting mid-July 2024. The message also includes a link to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap and instructions for preparation.

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Reminder: Retirement of the classic Exchange admin center and availability of “View another mailbox”

The classic Exchange admin center is retired, and the “View Another Mailbox” feature is now in the modern EAC, which admins can access. Full retirement will be in mid-June 2024, and organizations should update training and documentation accordingly.

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