macOS name change: Microsoft Teams to Microsoft Teams classic MDM Impact

With the recent GA of New Teams on Mac, there are changes that impact the management of some tenants regarding new Teams and Microsoft Teams classic (formerly Microsoft Teams). New Teams, now with the app name Microsoft Teams (work or school), exists side by side on macOS with Microsoft Teams, now with the app name Microsoft Teams classic. Via an in-app toggle, users can seamlessly switch between New Teams and Microsoft Teams classic.

However, there are implications for tenant administration that have arisen that administrators should be aware of.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 17, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Search: Video Search in Bing, Office.com, and SharePoint

This is a follow up to MC541645 (April ’23) and apologize for the delay in communication.

Our new Video tab will improve video search in your organization by having a dedicated place to search through OneDrive, SharePoint videos. This Video tab will appear on Microsoft Search in Bing/Office and SharePoint. Updates to the experience in Stream will come at a later time.

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Power Automate – Licensing action required for non-compliant flows

Premium flows without premium license and premium flows not in the context of Power Apps or Dynamics 365 apps are subject to enforcement. Please review this article for details on enforcement and timelines.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 17, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

What’s new in Test Base for Microsoft 365: September 2023

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Loop components in Channels and Loop Embed Mode in Teams

Loop in Channels: Collaborative Loop components that you love from Teams chats are coming to channels! Users can create, share, and edit components to collaborate synchronously and asynchronously on ideas without leaving the context of their conversation. You can now copy and paste Loop components between channels, chats, Outlook emails, and other supported Microsoft 365 apps. No matter where people are collaborating the Loop, the component will always show the latest updates.

You can create a new Loop component in a Post or Reply by composing a message and clicking “Collaborate with Loop”. Loop components created in Teams channels are stored in the channel’s SharePoint site allowing people in the channel to access the component and making the component easy to find later. If a component is created and sent within the channel, you can access it in the Files tab. If a component is pasted and sent within the channel, you can access it from within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem (ex. OneDrive, Office.com, etc).

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 17, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft 365 app: Copilot in Microsoft 365 Loop

Copilot in Loop helps you unlock the power of shared thinking—co-create, get up to speed, and stay in sync with your teammates. Now you can iterate with Copilot collaboratively as a team, co-create prompts, generate tables to help organize team projects, catch up where your teammates left off, summarize page content, and generate a recap for a teammate you’re handing work off to.
More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot-loop

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 16, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Priority account chat controls (Premium)

Administrators will be able to manage priority account chat controls using a policy setting.
This enables end users to decide how to handle unwanted internal communications. End users will be notified about chats from new contacts, giving them a choice to accept or block the conversations. If conversations are blocked, all future messages from the sender will no longer be received.
Senders can be unblocked at anytime by the users with these policies. This feature is available with a Teams Premium add-on license.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 16, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Excel: Copilot in Excel

Copilot in Excel helps you do more with your data in Excel tables by generating formula column
suggestions, showing insights in charts and PivotTables, and highlighting interesting portions of data.
More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot-excel

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 16, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Purview – General availability of Power Automate integration with records management

To provide greater process flexibility, we have integrated Microsoft Purview Records Management with Power Automate. We provide the actions ‘Apply a retention label on the item’, ‘Relabel an item at the end of retention’, ‘Delete an item at the end of retention’, and ‘Trigger a new instance of the flow if an item can’t be located’ in Microsoft 365 Compliance connector to unlock more scenarios on this integration. Compliance administrators will now be able to create retention labels and choose a Power Automate flow to run when an item labeled with it expires in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange. This capability is currently available in public preview.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88816

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 16, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Create new Loop Components in Microsoft Whiteboard

The ability to create live Loop components starting with task lists, tables, voting tables, progress trackers & checklists is coming soon to Whiteboard for the web, Whiteboard app in Teams, and Whiteboard for Windows.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117400

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 16, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments