Outlook for Windows: New location for key Outlook modules and integration with other Microsoft 365 apps – now default experience

The main modules in Outlook such as email, calendar, tasks, and people are moving to the left of the folder pane. We are also adding a way for users to quickly access To Do, Org Explorer, Yammer Communities, and Bookings directly inside Outlook. You can customize by pinning preferred Outlook and Microsoft 365 apps.

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Microsoft Project: Guest users in Project for the web

Add guest users to your projects to allow them to view project information.

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Visio: Improved interoperability between the Visio web and desktop apps

This feature will enable users to open files that were previously not supported for editing in Visio for the web. Users will be able to edit shapes with certain properties like gradients, fills, and INK objects. However, some interactions will be blocked or optimized.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Collection of Teams conversation as transcript (US gov clouds)

eDiscovery managers will soon have the flexibility to collect Teams messages as transcript items. Transcripts will aggregate and thread messages in the same Teams conversations into a single HTML file that is available for review and export. Customers will continue to have the ability to collect Teams messages as individual items as offered today.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/teams-workflow-in-advanced-ediscovery?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft Teams: Education policy wizard – Multiple group support

Admins can now add up-to three groups, instead of one previously, of educators and staff for applying the specialized custom set of policies.

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Microsoft Edge v.98: Personalize multi-profile experiences with profile preferences for sites

Users can personalize their multi-profile experience with the ability to create a customized list of sites for automatic profile switching in Microsoft Edge.

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Yammer: Admin enhancements for the new Yammer

Yammer admins can enable the new Yammer for all users while being provided an opt-out option solely for admins. Admins will have the ability to toggle the classic Yammer experience if they need to validate user feedback or access features only available in classic Yammer.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/yammer/get-started-with-yammer/administrative-settings-opt-in-newyammer

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Yammer: Support for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security)

Yammer supports Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security). Users are properly routed to their intended target destination after authentication via Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-cloud-apps/what-is-defender-for-cloud-apps

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Microsoft Project: Labels on Tasks

Add up to 25 different colored labels to your tasks in Project for the web for better visual organization.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Ability to show multiple services being impacted by a single issue

Today when there is a broadly impacting issue that affects multiple services across the M365 services, Microsoft will create a single incident usually under Microsoft 365 Suite. In the message details of this incident, we will call out specific services impacted with their overall current state.

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