Microsoft Teams: Meeting details displayed on pre-join screen

Microsoft Teams for Windows and Mac will display meeting details such as the title, start and end time, and number of participants on the pre-join screen for in-tenant participants. The rollout will begin in early April 2024 and will not require any admin action. External guests will not see these details.

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Microsoft Edge: Updated reauthentication flyout when Web Single Sign-On fails

Users who encounter Web Single Sign-On (SSO) failures for User Interaction Required (UIR) accounts will experience a flyout with a call to action to sign in and verify their account.

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Microsoft Edge: Desktop Shortcut for New Enterprise Devices

For new enterprise devices running through Windows Out of Box Experience (OOBE) for the first time, an Edge desktop shortcut will automatically be created. When enterprise users turn on their Windows 11 devices for the first time, they’ll see the Edge shortcut on their desktop. This desktop shortcut will provide users with easy access to their Edge browser without needing to manually pin and configure their setup.

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Microsoft Viva: Dashboard personalization on tablet in Viva Connections

Customize your dashboard by adding, removing, or reordering the dashboard cards.

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Microsoft Viva: Revamped Resources on mobile and tablet

The Resources section on Viva Connections mobile and tablet will show content from the recently revamped Resources section on Viva Connections desktop.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity label grouping modernization

To help improve label usability and configuration, the sensitivity labeling scheme will be simplified to only consist of labels and label groupings. These new label groupings allow admins to better organize and categorize their labels (previously done via parent labels).

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Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Microsoft Copilot with graph grounded chat in the Microsoft 365 mobile app

Microsoft 365 mobile app users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license will be able to receive answers grounded in their organizational graph data.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Analytics in GCC

The customer facing analytics module will allow customers to understand the usage metrics for their instance of Viva Connections and will help them gauge the health of their VC deployment.

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Microsoft Teams: Save meeting content with collaborative annotations as a Whiteboard

Collaborative annotations, available now, enable meeting participants with the Presenter role to enable annotations after sharing their screen. This allows everyone in the meeting to draw, add a note, react, highlight text, and more to share their thoughts right on the content, live with everyone else. Now, participants sharing their screen will have the ability to save content with collaborative annotations as a Whiteboard, enabling all meeting participants to revisit this content and continue collaborating after the meeting.

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Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie – Integrating Apple’s Push to Talk framework on iOS

Teams Walkie-Talkie on iOS will be integrated with Apple’s Push-to-Talk (PTT) framework to enhance communication and convenience of transmitting audio from anywhere on their phone, even when Teams is not in the foreground. It enables audio transmission directly from the lock screen and comes with background runtime optimization for optimal performance while conserving battery life.

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