Experience improvements to the Topic Card

The Topic card will now expand to read longer descriptions, show the job title for contacts, and navigate in-context with the Live Persona Card. These improvements will help users stay in-context with their flow of work.

Features coming to the Topic card:

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Create Videos on Office Mobile

Office Mobile is a content hub which houses a bunch of content types – from your favorite Word, Excel, PowerPoint to Lens, Forms, PDFs, and now very recently, Videos. In CY21Q3, we announced an update which saw Stream video player integrated inside Office Mobile. This allowed users to access and play videos on their professional network with ease, be it Teams Meetings Recordings, demos or tutorials sitting on your OneDrive for Business. This was received well by our customers, to have their videos accessible right from one Office app. Now it is time to take this one step forward – Introducing Video Creation on Office Mobile.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82197.

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Queue View in Microsoft Teams Bookings app

Bookings app in Teams enables various organizations to schedule virtual appointments with external attendees and manages staff availabilities in a shared calendar experience. We are now adding a new tab (preview) to your Bookings app called Queue. Queue tab will enable schedulers to have a consolidated view of all the appointments for a day in chronological order. This new tab will bring real time updates to meeting state in a queue view for virtual visits scheduled in the Microsoft Bookings app.

This feature will roll out to Microsoft Teams Desktop and Web app. Queue tab functionality is currently not supported in Bookings web app.

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SharePoint: New content scenarios for My Feed Web Part on SharePoint

The New content types are added to My Feed Web Part on SharePoint. The new contents are Suggested Tasks, People Highlights, Meetings out of routine and files shared in groups.
More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/your-feed-is-personal-to-you-2b046141-1905-40fa-8257-338d235db6de

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Microsoft Teams: Add a group of approvers to your approval request

Users are able to select Office 365 groups as approvers when creating a new approval request within the Teams Approvals App.

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Turned-Off Basic Authentication – All Protocols

We are making some changes to improve the security of your tenant. We announced in 2019 we would be retiring Basic Authentication for legacy protocols and in early 2021 we announced we would begin to retire Basic Authentication for protocols not being used in tenants. You can always read the latest information about our plans to turn off Basic Authentication here .

Today we turned off Basic Authentication for POP3, IMAP4, Remote PowerShell, Exchange Web Services, Offline Address Book, MAPI, RPC, SMTP AUTH and Exchange ActiveSync protocol in your tenant. Based on our telemetry, no-one is currently using Basic Authentication with those protocols in your tenant and so we expect there to be no impact to you.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Topics – Updates to Topic Card

Improvements to topic card to expand long descriptions, show job titles for people and interactions with Live Persona Card.

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Microsoft Graph: SharePoint Content Type Graph APIs

New Graph APIs that allow developers to work directly with Content Types and align with content type synchronization enhancements, by enabling them to fetch and sync published content types present in content type hub site to a target site.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information governance: Retention label deletion behavior change in SharePoint for Government clouds

Improved consistency of user experience between OneDrive and SharePoint, allowing users to “delete” files labeled with a retention label configured to “retain items for a specific period” as this operation is no longer blocked with an error message. When deleted, these files will still be preserved for compliance purposes by moving a copy of them to the “Preservation Hold Library” of the site where they can be accessed by eDiscovery and other compliance solutions.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Historical versions for Government clouds

,Now eDiscovery admins can designate specific SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business sites to enable for historical versions functionality. This capability will enable organizations to quickly search across not only the current version of documents, but all the versions of the document.
Preview date: February CY2022

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