Changes to Dynamic Group Rule Builder for Entra and Intune

To encourage performant dynamic group rules, the dynamic group rule builder UX in both Entra and Intune Admin Centers has been updated. As part of this update, the ‘contains’ and ‘notContains’ operators have been removed from the rule builder, as they are less performant and should only be used when absolutely necessary.

When will this happen:

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Microsoft Readiness Toolkit for Office add-ins and VBA Retirement note

Microsoft will retire the Readiness Toolkit for Office add-ins and VBA on March 31, 2024.

Note: If your organization does not utilize or intend to utilize the Readiness Toolkit for Office add-ins and VBA, this message may be disregarded without concern.

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Join meetings and make calls via Teams Mobile on Android Auto

Users can now join meetings via the calendar view, easily call speed dial contacts, and get back to recent calls on Teams on Android Auto with Android phones.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 375701

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Deploy your Frontline Operational hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center

Operational hierarchy will enable admins to map their organization’s structure of frontline teams/locations to a hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center. Admins can define metadata that ranges from department information to brand information metadata for each team/location. The operational hierarchy coupled with this metadata will enable numerous frontline apps and experiences in the future like task publishing and others that are forthcoming.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 138480

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Deploy Shifts to your Frontline teams at scale

Admins will be empowered to deploy Shifts across their frontline dynamic teams through the Teams Admin Center. They will have the ability to uniformly configure the Shifts app settings, identify schedule owners, and create schedule groups for the Microsoft Teams Shifts app on their frontline teams. This will enable frontline managers to start managing their frontline teams through Shifts with minimal friction.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 138479

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Enhanced goal sharing experience

Microsoft Viva will offer an enhanced experience to facilitate effortless sharing of goals and goals progress with the introduction of a new share modal in Viva Goals.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 375220

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Take action: January 2024 security update is now available

The January 2024 security update is now available for Windows 11 and all supported versions of Windows 10. We recommend that you install these updates promptly. For more information about the contents of this update, see the release notes, which are easily accessible from the Windows 11 and Windows 10 update history pages. 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 Forms: Supports live data sync to Excel

Microsoft Forms supports quickly and easily syncing form responses to an Excel file. Now you’ll always have the latest information, updated automatically, so you can leverage the full range of Excel functions to analyze your data and collab with your peers.

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting Recording

Now, the “Recap” tab for scheduled meetings will include access to the recording and transcript. For meetings that have a “Recap” tab, the previous “Recording & Transcription” tab will be removed since the “Recap” tab will replace it. For meetings that don’t have a “Recap” tab, users can continue to access the recording and transcript from the “Recording & Transcription” tab.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 181918

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Outlook: Sync feature

A button option to initiate email sync is coming to the new 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 within the View tab of the Ribbon.

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