Microsoft Teams: Two-way lobby chat

The Virtual Appointments app provides a central hub for all your virtual appointments needs in Microsoft Teams. The app enables a seamless end-to-end experience for business-to-customer engagements.

Queue view in Virtual Appointments app is a premium advanced virtual appointment feature that allows businesses to Empower employees to manage and service scheduled and on-demand virtual appointments in one location with advanced capabilities to track wait times, live status of a meeting, and more. Scheduling administrators and staff conducting virtual appointments can monitor incoming requests and process them appropriately.

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Originally posted by Microsoft May 15, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

OneDrive: Sharing Experiences – Refreshed Manage Access

We are completely revamping the Manage Access experience to be more people-centric and more usable. You can now view the extensive list of all the people who have gained access to your files, search for an individual or a group and manage their access with even more control. You can also drill down into the group or link information for more details.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83726

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Outlook – New Outlook for Windows and web – Reading Pane Background Image

To offer more personalization to end users, Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows will offer the ability to display a background image in the reading pane whenever emails are not selected.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 126221

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Microsoft Stream Migration Tool: Partial Migration and Orphan Video Support

The Stream migration tool helps IT admins migrate video content from Stream (Classic) to Stream (on SharePoint). We are releasing two features to the tool soon:

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Originally posted by Microsoft May 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Live translated captions for meetings requires Teams Premium license

Earlier this year we announced the grace period for several Microsoft Teams Premium features that were in preview, including live translated captions for meetings. Starting April 2023, a Teams Premium license is required to use this feature.  

License enforcement will be enabled in July 2023. Once licensing enforcement is enabled, the only users who will be able to access live translated captions for meetings are:

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 empowers end users to report suspicious messages from shared/delegate mailboxes

Soon, end-users will be able to report messages from shared mailboxes and delegate mailboxes using the built-in Report button in Outlook on the web.

To refresh your memory, these screenshots show the Report buttons in Outlook on the web if you have the simplified ribbon turned on:

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Outlook on the web – Work Hours and Location

To help organizations manage hybrid work, users can set up their work hours and location (WHL) in Outlook on the web, specifying when they’ll be remote or in the office. They can also setup different working hours per day, or multiple work slots in a day. Additionally, if your organization uses Teams and a user sets up WHL, their location will also be shown in their Teams profile card.

The new WHL also impacts how “suggested times” work when creating a meeting event in Outlook on the web. Suggested times will take into account the WHL of the attendees before suggesting times when people are available.

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Originally posted by Microsoft May 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

New Features in Teams Admin Center to Discover Azure Benefit Eligible Apps and View Unspent Azure Consumption Commitment

Microsoft Teams admins will soon be able to search for and identify monetized Teams apps are eligible to contribute towards an organization’s Microsoft Azure consumption commitment (MACC) as well as view remaining unspent MACC for their organization.

As part of this feature, the “Manage apps” tab of the Teams admin center (TAC) will include a new category in the “Browse by” filter and add new visuals in the app cards. These changes provide parity with the Azure Portal in terms of ability to search and identify Teams apps with transactable SaaS offers that are eligible to contribute towards an organization’s Azure consumption commitment.

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Originally posted by Microsoft May 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Announcing General Availability for Microsoft Power Platform tenant isolation

We are excited to announce that tenant isolation for Power Platform is now generally available (GA) in all clouds. Tenant isolation makes it easy for administrators to ensure that connectors used in apps and flows can be harnessed in a safe and secure way within the tenant, while minimizing the risk of data exfiltration outside the tenant.

Tenant isolation is generally available on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in all regions and clouds. The change removing the “preview” tag in Power Platform admin center is being deployed in all regions and will be available worldwide by Saturday, May 20, 2023.

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Outlook: Availability of Microsoft To Do

Microsoft To Do will be the default task manager app for Outlook on the web. If you were using the tasks module in Outlook on the web, when this change happens you will see Microsoft To Do as your new task manager. This change gives users more features and tasks that sync across Microsoft 365.

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Originally posted by Microsoft May 10, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments