Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams store now available in GCCH and DOD

Users in GCCH and DOD environment can now experience the newly redesigned Teams store
including adding apps for personal use, getting intelligent recommendations – like featured apps, popular apps amongst your colleagues, etc., receiving editorial articles that address common scenarios from apps to get started in Teams to those best for educators, searching apps faster and easier with updated app categories. They can also use “Manage your apps” to update, remove,
share or “get more apps”.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 25, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Outlook: Track Read Receipts within Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows

We’re developing the ability to view the updated Read Receipt status of recipients from the sent item directly.

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SharePoint: Accessibility Updates to Tables

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

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Microsoft Teams: Teachers can (manually) update parent data in Parent App

Allow teachers to add and edit existing parent data inside the Parent app. This request to update parent information can be directly made by teachers inside the Parent app. Once the request is raised, it needs an admin approval before updating the parent information in the app.

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Workflows within Microsoft Teams chats menu

Microsoft Teams will be bringing workflows powered by Power Automate into the overflow menu for chats.

To make sure Microsoft Teams provides the best workflow experience for our users we are making it easier to configure workflows for chats. From the list of chats users will be able to go into the overflow menu for a specific chat (…) and select “Workflows”. Here they will see a list of workflow templates specific to chats within Teams. Users can then configure these templates to their needs and deploy them to the chat. 

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Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Error Messaging

Microsoft Teams Meeting users will be notified directly through the error message on meeting right pane for why they cannot access meeting chats when their chat access is limited by policy or due to system limitations and unexpected errors.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 167211

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Priority Account Chat Controls General Availability

As part of the Teams Premium package, we are introducing a new management capability: Priority Account Chat Controls that empower users with decision making controls for unwanted internal communications via policies setting. Users are notified about chats from new contacts, giving them a choice to accept or block the conversations. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 144367

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 25, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

14-Day Reminder of Private Unlisted Group Removal

Pursuant to MC673984 and MC673984, all private unlisted groups (also known as “Secret Groups”) will be retired on 11/11/2023. The retirement of this feature was first announced via the Message center on September 1, 2022 (MC424414). Subsequent announcements drove awareness of private unlisted (“secret”) groups being made inaccessible on September 1, 2023 (MC673984).

This is the 14-day reminder that private unlisted groups in Yammer will be permanently deleted and deprecated on November 11, 2023.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 25, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Search: Monthly search report

The monthly search report provides key tenant search metrics and insights for your organization directly into the search admin’s mailbox, allowing administrators an easy way to understand how search performed in the previous month. Administrators can follow links provided in the report to the Search & Intelligence Admin Center for more information and deeper insights.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: School Connection for parents in Microsoft Teams (mobile)

The School Connection app in Microsoft Teams mobile empowers parents and guardians to engage, support, and monitor their student’s learning at school. As a parent, you can stay up to date on assignments, grades, insights from the past month on digital activity, and more. This release will be generally available to all regions except countries in the European Union (EU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA); the GA for those countries will be coming at a later date.
More info: https://parent.microsoft.com/

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments