Ability to manage third-party app subscriptions from Teams Admin

We will soon enable a centralized location in both Teams Admin Center and the Teams app store, where admins and end-users can view and manage all the third-party app subscriptions they’ve purchased. This update improves the existing subscription management flow and makes it easier and more intuitive.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 92484 and 95920.

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Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointment Graph API

The Virtual Appointment Graph API allows developers to create and manage Microsoft hosted Teams Virtual Appointments from any application. Virtual Appointments are designed for business to consumer workflows.

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Teams on Mac Universal Binary PKG and Native Apple Silicon Support

Note: If your organization does not use macOS you can safely disregard this message.

We are happy to inform you that the Teams macOS desktop client is set to support Apple Silicon chips natively in the 3rd quarter of the calendar year 2022. This support will be delivered seamlessly to existing users via the usual update process. For new users and installation, the Teams macOS desktop client will come in a Universal Binary PKG which will automatically install natively for Mac devices that run on Intel or Apple Silicon device.

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Assign Seats in Together Mode

Microsoft Teams users in a meeting will soon have the option to assign seats in Together Mode for all participants in a meeting.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83648

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection – Public preview of Credential SITs

Now rolling out to public preview, we’re adding new Sensitive Information Types (SITs) to allow your organization to detect credential patterns (such as access keys, tokens, general passwords), as either individual patterns for specific detection or a bundle of all credential patterns for holistic detection.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88941.

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Dynamically applied media logs settings in Teams

This update is aimed to improve your experience when updating the “Enable logging for meeting diagnostic” Teams settings. Either turned on or turned off, the preference will be dynamically applied right away and will not require a client restart, as it used to.

When this will happen:

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Enable media logs remotely with PowerShell cmdlets

Teams Media Logging policy can be applied to users and groups and allows IT admin to enable user’s client settings “Enable logging for meeting diagnostic”. Applied via PowerShell cmdlets, the policy overrides client settings and sets Settings > General> Enable logging for meeting diagnostic to “On”. When applied, the setting is displayed as greyed out and can’t be updated via the client.

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OneDrive/SharePoint: Review mode for Word documents

What is Review mode?

When you open a document that was shared with you for review, you are automatically placed in Review mode.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel

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Microsoft Teams: Open LMS integration with Microsoft 365

Microsoft has now partnered with Open LMS to deliver more seamless integrated learning experiences. Microsoft Teams Meeting LTI and Classes LTI apps are now available within Open LMS. Teams Classes LTI enables Educators to create a Team for their Open LMS course using the roster information of the course. Teams Meeting LTI empowers educators and students to access, schedule, and manage Teams Meetings within the Brightspace LMS. More info- Set up and configure the Moodle plugin for Open LMS | Microsoft Docs

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