Starting mid-November 2024, Microsoft Copilot will be available for pinning in Teams and Outlook for Entra account users. Admins can control the pinning, and it’s not pinned by default. Users can access it directly if pinned. The rollout is expected to complete by end of December 2024.
Microsoft Forms is introducing a new, modern experience with an updated portal page, form creation, and response analysis. The update includes organized templates, a selection of styles, and enhanced results analysis with charts and graphs. Rollout begins late October 2024, with no admin action required.
Microsoft Viva Insights will soon allow users to request delegate access from managers, applicable to various Teams platforms and the web app. The rollout starts in December 2024 for Targeted Release and January 2025 for General Availability, requiring no admin setup as it’s on by default.
Microsoft Viva Engage will soon introduce a ‘Mute conversations’ feature allowing network admins and corporate communicators to remove threads from the Home Feed and email digests. This feature, part of new moderation tools, will be available on all Engage platforms but can only be muted from the web and Teams and Outlook apps. Rollout starts mid-November 2024.
Microsoft is updating the process to enable/disable Outlook for Windows and Outlook for the web, with changes rolling out from late January to mid-February 2025. The OWAEnabled parameter will only affect Outlook for the web, while the OneWinNativeOutlookEnabled policy will manage new Outlook for Windows. No admin action is required before the rollout.
This update now enables users to install and update the Network Device Interface (NDI) automatically in Microsoft Teams without any manual process. This allows organizations to broadcast audio and video streams from Teams instances to a user’s local network. It is currently only available on Windows devices.
Bringing Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC, your AI assistant for work in the GCC environment. It combines the power of Large Language Models with your work content and context, to help you draft and rewrite, summarize and organize, catch up on what you missed, and get answers to questions via open prompts. Copilot generates answers using the rich, people-centric data and insights available in the Microsoft Graph. Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC is available in Teams (Chat and Channel) excluding Compose, Outlook (includes mobile), Word, PowerPoint, and Excel as well as other surfaces, including microsoft365.com.
More info: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/public-sector-blog/microsoft-copilot-for-microsoft-365-gcc-ga-update-empowering/ba-p/4222952
Organizers of town hall instances can now reach wider audiences in a single event with an expansion to a maximum of 50,000 simultaneous attendees. This increase serves as a significant jump from the previous attendee cap of 20,000 for organizers with a Teams Premium license. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content to participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features are disabled for all attendees. Organizations can get support for audiences up to 50,000 concurrent attendees by reaching out to the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) for assistance (Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program – Microsoft Adoption). This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license.
Activities performed by administrators within the Cloud Update service, like enabling Cloud Update or changing a Cloud Update configuration setting, will generate Audit logs stored in Purview Audit and will be accessible by Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users.
Microsoft Copilot will be generally available for the GCC environment and will be delivered with web grounding OFF by default. This is required to help protect US government sensitive information which should not leave the GCC compliance boundary.
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