Microsoft Teams: Single Watermark for Teams Meetings (Premium)

Teams meeting organizers now have the flexibility to choose between a Single watermark or a repeated watermark. The Single watermark will display the viewer’s email on top of the shared content and/or video feed in a clean and unobtrusive manner. When the Single watermark
option is enabled via Meeting options, the watermark will be enforced for all meeting attendees.

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Update to the Minimum iOS System Requirements for Outlook for iOS

Outlook for iOS is supported on the two most recent versions of iOS. When a new version of iOS is released, Outlook’s Operating System requirement becomes the two most recent versions: the current version and the previous version of iOS, iPadOS and watchOS.

Outlook for iOS is preparing to drop support for iOS 15 when iOS 17 is released.

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Microsoft Teams: Group Policy Assignment Rank Assistance

As an admin, you use policies to control Microsoft Teams features that are available to users in your organization. To easily manage different types of user needs, Teams provides group policy assignment, which lets you assign custom policies to user groups. 

Effective policy for a user is determined by precedence rules. If a user isn’t directly assigned a policy of a given type, the policy assigned to a group that the user is a member of takes precedence. If a user is a member of multiple groups, the policy that has the highest (group assignment ranking) for the given policy type takes precedence.

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Announcing Microsoft Search Answer Analytics

We are pleased to announce that Microsoft Search Answer Analytics will soon be available in the Microsoft 365 Search & Intelligence Admin Center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124910

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Microsoft Viva: Drafts & Scheduled posts supporting POBO (post on behalf of)

Users and their delegates can now save their posts as drafts to be accessed later, and even schedule them to be posted at a later date and time.

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Microsoft Teams: Workflows App

All workflow capabilities in Teams (powered by Power Automate) will be consolidated under the new Workflows app. Within the Workflows personal app you’ll be able to manage all Teams related workflows. Users will also be able to create and kick off workflows through the Message Extension, a new entry point in addition to Message Actions.

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Microsoft Teams: Simplifying Meeting Join Experiences on Mobile

We are improving the meeting join experience on mobile by 1) streamlining the meeting join process by reducing the number of steps it takes to join the meeting, particularly for users joining from externally of the organization, 2) users who join without signing in will now have the capability to preset and preview video / audio settings prior to joining the meeting, and 3) simplifying the join process for users with multiple accounts by improving the account switching user experience.

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Microsoft 365 app: Office documents have a new default theme

A new default theme is coming to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook across your endpoints. The new theme will include the new default font, Aptos, a new color palette, and updated default line weights.

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Suppressing Authenticator Notifications from Risky Sources

The proposed approach seeks to streamline the authentication process by suppressing authenticator notifications for requests originating from unfamiliar locations. By intelligently identifying risky sources like unknown IP addresses, the system can effectively differentiate potential malicious attempts from legitimate ones. This suppression of notifications will apply to both Phone-Sign in and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) notifications.

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Optimized Multifactor Authentication text message delivery through WhatsApp

Today, Entra ID (Azure AD) Multifactor Authentication supports delivering one-time passcodes (OTPs) via text message. These texts get sent to the default messaging app on a user’s phone depending on the phone’s operating system. To help deliver OTPs to users on their preferred messaging platform, Entra ID will roll out delivery to WhatsApp in select regions. 

When this will happen:

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