Microsoft Outlook: New Sync Feature

A button option to initiate email sync is coming to the new Microsoft Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web. This will allow users to ensure that their send and receive email experience is up to date. This functionality will be in the View tab of the Ribbon.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 375743

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New Power Platform endpoint used by Power Apps

Beginning February 2024, Microsoft Power Apps is introducing a new endpoint for the Power Platform API as a service dependency change in the public cloud: *.powerplatform.com. The Power Apps end-user experiences will leverage this new endpoint. This change has been reflected in the documentation Power Platform URLs and IP address ranges.

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Windows Office Hours: January 18th, 2024

If you are an IT admin with questions about managing and updating Windows, we want to help. Every third Thursday of the month, we host a live chat-based event on the Tech Community called Windows Office Hours. Members of the Windows, Intune, Windows Autopilot, Windows Autopatch, and Windows 365 engineering teams will be standing by to answer your questions. We also have experts from FastTrack, the Customer Acceleration Team, and Microsoft public sector teams. 

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Classic Teams users to be updated to new Teams after March 31, 2024

As communicated in MC686187 (October ’23), after March 31, 2024, any classic Teams users that haven’t updated to new Teams, will be automatically updated to new Teams.

With March 31 being less than three months away, we advise you to update users in your organization to new Teams as quickly as you can.

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PowerPoint: New entry point for add-in (WXP) in Home tab for Mac

Support the add-in users to find store entry point more easily and acquire their needed add-ins effectively in Mac.

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Microsoft Teams: Content camera on New Teams Desktop

This feature it will be available on new Team Teams on Windows and Mac, making whiteboards, printed documents, books, and other physical objects the focus of your Teams meeting. With minimal setup, you can help meeting attendees who aren’t in the room feel more included and engaged in your next class, demo, or brainstorming session.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Granular Add-ins availability control from education Office Store

With this feature, education tenant administrators will be able to manage the availability of Add-ins from the Office store at a more granular level. We will provide three options—Non-adult student, Adult student, and Faculty and staff—under Microsoft admin center > Org Settings > User owned apps and services > Let users access the Office store. The options are based on the user’s role and age group properties.

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Microsoft Stream: video reactions

This feature will allow users to add or remove reactions to specific points of a recorded video via Stream Web App and Embed. Viewers will be able to see how their colleagues feel about a video and show their support towards the video owner. These reactions will be present in the timeline to highlight the most important parts of the video and can be used for navigation. Also, owners of the video can see detailed analytics about when viewers are reacting to videos and have ability to disable the feature.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy tuning analysis for priority content-only policies

Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time prediction of the number of users in a tenant that could potentially match a given set of policy conditions. With this update, policy tuning analysis will support insider risk policies that are scoped for priority content. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Updated behavior for browsing large online address books

This post summarizes a change when browsing online address books in Exchange Online.  Recently, Microsoft made a change to improve performance and encourage users to use search instead of infinite browsing. This change impacts browsing in any online address list with more than 500 objects and applies to the Default Global Address List, built-in address lists, and custom address lists. The change does not affect browsing Offline Address Books.

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