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Bring-Your-Own-Device IT Admin Experience in Teams Pro Management Portal

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) rooms are identified as rooms with no MTR (Microsoft Teams Rooms) but equipped with other peripherals such as camera, microphone. 

In Teams Pro Management Portal, IT admins will finally have the capability to manage and track these specific BYOD rooms. They will get a comprehensive overview of their BYOD rooms and devices activities. With this new addition, they will gain valuable insights into how these spaces are being utilized and enabling them to make data driven decisions.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 13, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Viva: Search in Viva Connections Mobile for iOS

Search will now be enabled in the Viva Connections (VC) app in Teams. Along with searching in Teams, VC users will also be able to get intranet search results. This feature will be rolled out in a phased manner starting with iOS in mobile only, followed by Android in mobile and then Tablet. The current update is linked to iOS in mobile and we will send out a notification before other phases as well.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 171888

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Viva Connections: Apply brand colors across all Connections endpoints using themes

Soon you’ll be able to further customize the Connections experience by applying the themes available in SharePoint to reflect organizational brand colors across desktop, tablet, and mobile.

If you can edit the Connections experience, you have two ways to use this new feature:

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Windows Office Hours: October 19th, 2023

If you are an IT admin with questions about managing and updating Windows, we want to help. Every third Thursday of the month, we host a live chat-based event on the Tech Community called Windows Office Hours. Members of the Windows, Intune, Windows Autopilot, Windows Autopatch, and Windows 365 engineering teams will be standing by to answer your questions. We also have experts from FastTrack, the Customer Acceleration Team, and Microsoft public sector teams. 

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 13, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Home & Pro editions of Windows 11, version 21H2 have reached end of servicing – October 10, 2023

As of October 10, 2023, Home, Pro, Pro for Workstations, and Pro Education editions of Windows 11, version 21H2 have reached end of servicing. The October 2023 security update, released on October 10, 2023, is the last update available for these editions. After this date, devices running these editions will no longer receive monthly security and preview updates containing protections from the latest security threats. Enterprise, Education, IoT Enterprise, and Enterprise multi-session editions for this version will reach end of servicing on October 8, 2024 and will receive security updates until then.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 13, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Windows Autopatch availability within Microsoft Intune admin center

If you use Microsoft Managed Desktop, Windows Autopatch is now available as an additional option in Microsoft Intune admin center. Windows Autopatch is a service that automates Windows, Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, Microsoft Edge, and Microsoft Teams updates, while offering security and productivity solutions. 

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Outlook: From the new Outlook for Windows, open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint attachments in desktop apps

From the new Outlook for Windows, users can now open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint attachments in their respective desktop apps by double clicking them.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Word: Copilot in Word

Copilot in Word transforms your writing with efficiency and creativity—create, summarize, ask questions, refine, and elevate your documents. Copilot in Word can now help you to draft content, bring in specific information from other documents into your content, generate summaries, ask questions about your document, get ideas about specific topics, and even transform text into tables or provide suggestions for ways to rewrite your content.

More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot-word

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PowerPoint: Copilot in PowerPoint

Copilot in PowerPoint is a tool that can help you create, edit and understand presentations. It can draft a presentation based on your topic or Word doc, or add slides and images for you. It can design using your template, organize your slides, and summarize and extract the main points from a longer presentation.

More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot-powerpoint

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy deletion enhancement

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions can delete all associated alerts, cases, and users in scope when deleting a policy to help quickly reset and remove inactive policies. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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