Custom Backgrounds for Announcement Posts in Channels

Microsoft Teams users will soon be able to create custom backgrounds for their Announcement posts with the generative AI power of Microsoft Designer. For organizations with Teams Premium, users will have access to DALL-E, a text to image generator, which they can use for their backgrounds. This release of Custom Backgrounds for Announcement Posts will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Desktop and Web for Channels 2.0 in English – US markets only. In line with current announcement behavior, Mobile will only support the consumption of custom backgrounds. Feature is disabled for EDU tenants while the team implements a policy setting. 

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour for Viva Engage

This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour for Viva Engage private messages and community conversations, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 6, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Outlook: Updated Outlook for iOS Settings

The whole Outlook for iOS Settings page is being updated to be better organized so that you can find the settings you need more efficiently.

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Outlook: Updated Outlook for Android Settings

The whole Outlook for Android Settings page is being updated to be better organized so that you can find the settings you need more efficiently.

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Microsoft Teams: Files App Updating to OneDrive App Experience in Teams

The Files app accessed from the left side of the Teams desktop client will be updated with the new OneDrive app experience, bringing performance improvements, more views, and the latest features of OneDrive to both classic and new Teams. All existing features of the Files app will also be available via this new OneDrive app experience. For more details, please visit the blog page.

As part of this change, Files app on left side of the new Teams desktop client will also become OneDrive app. There is no change in the name of Files app in either classic Teams desktop client or Teams mobile client.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 6, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Manage Surface Hub 3 devices in Teams admin center and Teams Rooms Pro Management portal

Surface Hub 3 is now officially joining the Microsoft Teams Rooms family as an all-in-one Teams Rooms board running Teams Rooms on Windows.

This integration brings a unified experience to all your meeting spaces, allowing your team to seamlessly transition from one room to another. Whether you are using the streamlined, touch-first interface on Surface Hub 3 or the traditional console-based Teams Rooms setup, the experience remains consistent.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 6, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Private Line

We are introducing a new calling feature. With private line, users will be able to have a private second phone number that they can make available to a select set of callers to call them directly, bypassing delegates, admins, or assistants. Inbound calls to the private line will be distinguished by a unique notification and ringtone. The private line will support incoming calls only.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 6, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Viva Engage AMA Events Enables Private AMA and Now Allows Multiple Hosts and Organizers

Today Viva Engage AMAs only allow for AMA Events that are public and open to the entire organization, though they might only be promoted to specific groups of people they could be discovered and accessed by anyone in the organization. With this update, AMA Events will now allow you to make your event private and only accessible to a specific list of attendees. Additionally, we will also be releasing a way for you to add up to 10 hosts and organizers to help expand the types of events you can host and make moderation easier.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 6, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Configure Teams meetings with protection for sensitive data on a mobile device

Users can collaborate in a way that meets compliance standards in meetings on a mobile device by picking sensitivity labels on Teams calendar. The labels will follow all the rules that have been set by the administrators, and they will apply to the users in the tenant.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 3, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management: Upcoming retirement of SharePoint Online Record Center site features

Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management and Microsoft Purview Records Management features offer organizations flexibility and a scalable solution to proactively retain or delete content in Microsoft 365.

We have a long-term retirement plan for the older features used for records management in SharePoint Online that are not part of the Microsoft Purview Records Management or Purview Data Lifecycle Management. The first set of features that will be retired are:

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 3, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments