Microsoft Teams: Simplified team create

When creating a team, the new default experience will be ‘create a team from scratch’, making it a simpler and quicker experience.

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Microsoft Teams: Chat between multi-tenant organization contacts will default to external chat

1:1 chat between multi-tenant organization (MTO) contacts will now default to external chat,
creating a single conversation thread. As part of this change, existing B2B chat threads will be available as read-only.

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Microsoft Teams – Configure Maintenance window on Teams admin center for Android-based Teams devices

With this feature, Teams device administrators will be able to configure maintenance windows for their Android-based Teams devices. This includes Teams Phones, Displays, Panels, and Teams Rooms on Android. This maintenance window will be used to carry out any automatic operation on the device including automatic updates.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 163600

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Clipchamp Premium features & allowing users to request a license

Clipchamp Premium features help users take their content to the next level. With Clipchamp Premium, users can easily apply brand fonts, colors and logos with a brand kit, add top-tier assets for commercial use, and export crisp, well-defined visuals as 4K, 30fps, MP4 files. 

Clipchamp Premium features will be available as an add-on to the following Microsoft 365 SKUs: Microsoft 365 E3, Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, and Microsoft 365 Business Premium. With the release of Clipchamp Premium users will have the ability to request a license and admins will be able to manage requests through the standard Microsoft 365 admin center interface.

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Viva Goals – A Default company-wide organization will be available by January 2024

A default company-wide organization will be available in Viva Goals to help users easily get started with Goals without going through the organization creation step. Viva Goals admins and IT admins will have control to change the default organization or turn it off.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 165683

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Topics Usage and engagement analytics in Microsoft 365 Admin center

Usage and engagement analytics for admins will show up in Microsoft 365 Admin center. To access these, navigate to Microsoft 365 Admin center -> “Search & Intelligence” section on the left Nav, then select “Insights” on the Top Nav, and select “Viva Topics”.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 88699

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Viva Goals – Roll out for Improved team settings experience

As a part of this release Team owners will have a simplified team settings experience. In addition, Team owners will also have the ability to create custom time-periods by default. The organization owners will have the option in the organization admin page, to configure this custom time-period creation permissions for team owners.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 165682

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Power Platform – Announcing general availability of the modern hierarchy security editor interface

We are announcing the general availability of the modern hierarchy security editor interface within Microsoft Power Platform, available now in all geographic regions.

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Power Platform – Announcing Public Preview of the Modern Business Unit Editor Interface

We are announcing the Public Preview of the Modern Business Unit Editor User Interface for Microsoft Power Platform. In addition to carrying over the functionality of the classic interface, the Modern User Interface provides an additional set of rich features that will enhance an Administrator’s governance experience in Power Platform admin center (PPAC).

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Plan for Windows 10 EOS with Windows 11, Windows 365, and ESU

See your options to keep your organization and its data secure as Windows 10 is nearing end of support (EOS) on October 14, 2025. At that time, Microsoft will no longer provide bug fixes for issues, security fixes for vulnerabilities, time zone updates, or technical support for problems that might occur. To start modernizing your infrastructure now, upgrade eligible PCs to Windows 11, purchase new Windows 11 Pro PCs, or make Windows 11 available in the cloud through a Windows 365 subscription. 
 

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