SharePoint Tables: New Accessibility Labels

Accessibility improvements to SharePoint tables within the text webpart allow users to specify row and column layouts, as well as provide alternative text labels for screen readers. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 184511

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Microsoft Teams: Assign staff and Duration for On-demand virtual appointments

The Virtual Appointments app provides a central hub for all your virtual appointments needs in Microsoft Teams. The app enables a seamless end-to-end experience for business-to-customer engagements.

On-demand virtual appointments enable customers and clients to meet with a staff member of a business without booking a schedule in advance 

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Changes to FIDO2 security key registration and sign-in experiences

During FIDO2 security key registration, Microsoft Entra ID users may see an operating system or browser-generated prompt for creating a passkey on another device, such as a phone or tablet. In some cases, a QR code is shown to facilitate this option. When this happens, the user needs to select “Use a different device” to continue with their registration process.

This is due to an evolution of the ecosystem resulting in operating system and browser UI changes. For users on Windows 11 23H2, an updated system UI has been enabled to improve user discovery and selection of security keys and other passkey types. We are also aware that a similar prompt may be presented during sign-in time. Currently, we are investigating a mitigation to optimize the sign-in flow.

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Contact Unification across Outlook and Teams

Today, users can see Outlook contacts created with their Entra ID (AAD) account in Teams, but contacts created in Teams are not available in Outlook. To provide a consistent experience we are making changes to allow Teams contacts, created with a user’s Entra ID (AAD) account, to be visible in Outlook as well.

When this will happen:

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Planned Maintenance: Windows Autopatch configuration update – December 2023

As part of our routine device management services, we will deploy the next update of the Windows Autopatch baseline (version 2311) to your Microsoft Entra ID organization (tenant).

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Outlook web: Replacing “Activity-Based Authentication Timeout” with “Idle Session Timeout for Microsoft 365”

Updated December 4, 2023: Moving forward please reference MC694387 (Nov ’23) for the most up to date information about this change. 

The Activity-Based Authentication Timeout for Outlook on the web will be replaced by Idle Session Timeout for Microsoft 365.

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The November 2023 Windows non-security preview update is now available for Windows 11, versions 22H2 and 23H2

The November 2023 non-security preview update is now available for Windows 11, versions 22H2 and 23H2. Information about the contents of this update is available from the release notes, which are accessible from the Windows 11 update history page. To learn more about the different types of monthly quality updates, see Windows monthly updates explained. To be informed about the latest updates and releases, follow us on X @WindowsUpdate.

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Microsoft Teams: Join Teams work meetings from Microsoft Teams (free) and vice versa

This feature enables Microsoft Teams (free) users, those using a personal Microsoft Account, to directly join Teams for work meetings from within the client and stay connected even after the meeting has ended. This feature similarly also enables Microsoft Teams (work or school) users to join the Microsoft Teams (free) meetings directly from within the client.  These users are no longer prompted to join via a browser and treated as meeting guests (anonymous).

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting Options Categorization

We are introducing grouping within Meeting Options to improve organizers’ and co-organizers’ ease of understanding selections.

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Microsoft Teams Admin Center: Deploy and manage Shifts for your frontline teams in the Teams Admin Center

Admins will gain the ability to standardize Shifts settings (open shifts, swap shifts requests, offer shifts requests, time off requests and time clock), identify schedule owners, and create scheduling groups uniformly for all frontline teams at the tenant level.

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