Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) List usability enhancements (U.S government clouds)

Various UX and workflow enhancements including the ability to mark an eDiscovery (Premium) case as favorite, user filter/group/sort/search persistence on various list pages (such as cases list), and quickly access common collection operations (such as edit collection query, rerun estimate, and commit collection).

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Microsoft Teams: Teams calendar – Muti window experience for scheduling form for Government

Currently, it is not possible to work on a file, chat, look into activity while managing time on teams’ calendar. The reason for this is all these are in different apps located in the left app tray. Users have to switch back and forth between these apps to multi-task in calendar and there are times the data/context gets lost while switching between these apps. We have heard this feedback and as a first step towards solving this, scheduling form can now be popped out as a separate window. This scheduling form new window can be seen while creating a new meeting An existing meeting can also be now popped out by clicking on the icon on scheduling form. Our tech wizards have also made some improvements to calendar in this version which makes it faster to load now. In our next versions, we also plan to pop out the complete calendar app as a new window.

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection Maintain label and protection when creating PDF files from Office apps (U.S. government clouds)

Labels and protection applied on Office documents will be persisted to the output file when converting to PDF in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on PC.

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Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): Retirement of classic case format

We’re retiring the “classic” case format option from the eDiscovery (Premium) case creation page starting November 1, 2022. Instead we recommend the utilization of the eDiscovery (Premium) “new” case format, which features improved performance and additional capabilities, and where we will continue to invest our development resources.  

How this will affect your organization:

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Microsoft Teams Outgoing Screen Share Support for Firefox Browser

Microsoft Teams Meetings on the Firefox browser will now support outgoing screen sharing capabilities.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 99384.

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Quick Access Teams and Sharepoint Document Libraries in win32 backstage

Currently, users experience some frustration when using Office products because of all different routes that they must use to access all their content. The Quick Access feature will allow users to access shared libraries from both their SharePoint and Teams locations. When the user opens files from shared libraries, these libraries will show up in the form of a list which will encourage users to save and open files to these libraries with ease. This helps deliver a more consistent, coherent storage location experience across M365 apps. This new backstage experience won’t show up in Teams, SharePoint, or OneDrive but does include storage locations from OneDrive and Teams (sites/channels) which are stored on SharePoint.

When this will happen:

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Major Update to Stream Mobile App

We plan to release a completely rebuilt Stream mobile app for iOS and Android. The rebuilt app will give your users seamless access to Stream (Classic) and Stream (on SharePoint) videos as well as Teams meeting recordings. The app also includes a design refresh, a personalized home feed, and a rich video viewing experience.

If your users currently have the Stream mobile app installed on phones or tablets and they have automatic updates turned on, then they will automatically receive the app update when it becomes available to them. Users who have the Stream mobile app who have automatic updates turned off will receive the updated version when they explicitly update the app from the respective app/play store.

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Microsoft Viva: Meeting category insights coming to the Digest email

The Digest email from Microsoft Viva will include a summary of meeting category insights for users with a Viva Insights subscription, highlighting up to 3 categories in which users spent the most time over the last 4 weeks.

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SharePoint: SharePoint server migration assessment

Before you move any site or list from SharePoint Server on-premises into Microsoft 365, it’s best practice to assess content and plan for the migration. The SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) will provide content assessment so cloud admins can best understand what content they have, decide what to migrate, and what to remediate. In this update, SPMT supports SharePoint Server migration assessment for versions 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019.

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Word: Create Tasks with @mentions

Use @mentions in comments to create, assign and track tasks within your document.

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