Microsoft Teams: Improved Shared Line Experience

Teams calling allows users (delegators) to share lines with other users (delegates). Shared line appearance lets a user choose a delegate to answer or handle calls on their behalf.

We are launching a simplified experience for users who have set up call delegation which will be available on the Teams mobile app. Mobile users now have a Shared Line Appearance tab on the calls app. The new UI will allow delegates to easily view the different delegator lines they manage and their own delegates.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 25, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Teams Android Devices: Updates to the Report an Issue Feature

Report an issue on Teams Android devices will be temporarily unavailable while we improve the feedback workflow and deliver new feedback mechanisms that will give IT admins control and even better functionality to support their organizations in a future app update.  

When this will happen:

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 25, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Outlook: Disallow Reactions on Specific Emails

We are developing a suite of improvements that support the Reactions in Outlook feature, including methods for a sender to disallow reactions on an email they are about to send, or methods for an admin to control which emails in their tenant should disallow reactions.

Different Outlook endpoints will differ in terms of timing of full support for the feature (i.e., UI entry point to Disallow Reactions and UI-disablement when reactions are disallowed). Server-side support will roll out in advance (i.e., attempts to react on emails that have reactions disallowed will not result in a Reaction signal).

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 25, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

OneDrive and SharePoint: Colored Folders

Colored folders are part of the overall “personalization and organization” story for OneDrive and SharePoint. This feature will allow users to colorize their folders with a pre-set range of 16 colors. This colorization is applicable to both new and already existing folders. This feature will be available in OneDrive for Business as well as SharePoint Document Libraries.

This message is associated with Microsoft Roadmap ID 124980

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 25, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Teams Premium Trial

Beginning rollout in late September, users in your organization will be able to initiate a self-service trial of Microsoft Teams Premium using their Azure Active Directory (AAD) credentials with no requirement to input payment information, while providing complete visibility and control to their Microsoft 365 admin. Self-servicing allows end users to start the 60-day trial and generate signals on utilization for IT to identify users that would benefit from a Teams Premium license. These trial licenses are separate from your existing Teams Premium licenses.

Note: These trial capabilities will be available worldwide. Trials are not available for Government customers.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 25, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Customizable goal terms and structures

Organizations and teams now have the flexibility to title and structure goals in line with their own goal setting methodology and preferences, beyond the OKR framework.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Automated organization, team member, and default admin set-up for new users with M365 groups

New users will now save time with a simplified onboarding experience for setting up organizations, team members, and admins.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: App centric management in Teams Admin Center to manage the Apps access for tenants, end-users, and groups

App centric management introduces new admin settings to control who in the tenant can install Teams apps. First, admins can set a default value for new apps that are published to Teams app store.

Second, admins can edit the availability of an app to ‘All users can install’, ‘Specific users and groups can install’, or ‘No user can install’. This feature evolves the existing app permission policies and provides admins with the ability to manage access to the app individually.

The app permission policies for existing customers are migrated to maintain existing app availability in the tenant.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Forms – Google Forms to Microsoft Forms Migration via Microsoft 365 Admin Center (MMP)

Google Forms migration to Microsoft Forms through Microsoft 365 admin center will be supported, as an addition to the existing migration capability for docs, sheets and slides. Tenant admin will follow the same process as of today for Google Workspace migration in admin center, while Forms files migration will be supported. 

There will be no UI change in the admin center, while Forms data points will be included during pre-migration scan and post-migration report.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Inking Support Coming to the New Outlook

On a touch-enabled device, add a canvas to your message and draw with your finger, a digital pen, or a mouse in Outlook. Select from different pen styles and edit your drawing to freely express yourself.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 151810

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Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments