OneNote: Loop components in OneNote

Tap into the real-time, online collaborative solution provided by Loop directly within the powerful multimodal OneNote canvas—the opportunities are endless. You can create or insert Loop components into your OneNote notebook. Navigate to Insert > Loop to create a new component or try pasting a link to an existing component to have it show up in your OneNote canvas.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enhanced Classification Support for Thai language in Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive

In our continued efforts to enhance classification capabilities, we have added a new feature, Word-Breaker, to our existing Thai Language support in Classification. Words in Thai language sentences do not have spaces between them. And for classification purpose, we relied on the right keywords to be added while creating Sensitive Information Type for ensuring accurate match. However, with this feature, spaces will be added automatically in keywords which will ensure higher match accuracy across all cloud locations (Exchange, Teams, One Drive, SharePoint).

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Microsoft Teams: Preset Organizational Backgrounds (Premium)

When enabled, a user will have a preset background defined by the IT admin without the ability to change the background.

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Microsoft Teams: Hide general channel

Alike other channels, now you will be able to hide general channels in your teams, helping you focus on the channels that matter most to you.

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Unified RBAC provides centralized role-based administration controls for Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Microsoft Defender XDR unified role-based access control (URBAC) provides an alternative to traditional Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO/EOP) and Exchange Online (EXO) RBAC.

When this will happen:

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Retirement of Organization administrator and Team administrator roles in Viva Goals

In an effort to simplify the access and permissions landscape in Viva Goals, we will be retiring the ‘Organization admin’ and ‘Team admin’ roles in Viva Goals.

When this will happen:

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Changes to the Website tab in the new Teams client

Starting April 2024, Microsoft Teams will be retiring the ability to load websites inside the new Teams client when using the Website tab. These website links will open in a new browser tab instead. This is to better align with emerging best practices in web security and privacy while also improving the reliability of websites opened through this feature.

Please note that EDU tenants will not be impacted as we are still researching options on how to best provide a non-disruptive way to access websites for students and educators at a later date.

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Microsoft Teams: External call routing settings

End users will now be able to change their external call routing settings directly from the Teams app, allowing them to decide how incoming PSTN calls are routed. Calls can be redirected based on existing unanswered call settings or sent to voicemail. This new capability provides more flexibility for handling customer communications.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 372120

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Microsoft Teams: Allow meeting participants to create Collaborative notes

Currently, only Microsoft Teams meeting organizers can create Collaborative notes before and after meetings. We are rolling out enhanced Collaborative notes that allow any meeting invitee to create notes before, during, and after the meeting. This enhancement helps to improve collaboration and efficiency and provides a seamless teamwork experience.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 374515.

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Outlook: Filter Calendar Items in Message List in new Outlook for Windows and web

You can now filter your message list for conversations that have calendar invites when using the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web. Getting an overview of new meetings you’re invited to and RSVP-ing to them directly in the message list becomes much easier with this new filter.

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