Word: Use the redesigned modern font picker in Office

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 4, 2021 Word 0 Comments

Picking your fonts just got much easier! Microsoft Office modern font picker is a completely reimagined experience for Office. Pin your favorite fonts so you can quickly access them on any device or platform. Easily view all the fonts used in a document, including notifications for missing and embedded fonts. Choose from all the available styles for a font family, whether simply bold or italic or more exotic variants, such as condensed semi bold italic. In the Office Fonts section, see which fonts are available on all platforms and don’t need to be embedded in a document. Microsoft Office modern font picker offers you the effortless typographical experience you’ve been waiting for.

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Outlook: Third-party support for Meetings online by default

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 4, 2021 Outlook 0 Comments

Previously, Outlook released the option for meetings to be online by default. In that release, the feature was only available to users of Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business. This update will add support for users of third-party online meeting providers to make their meetings online by default, or to select their preferred online meeting provider if they use multiple providers.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center – Public preview of historical versions for Advanced eDiscovery

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 4, 2021 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Coming soon (public preview), historical versions in Advanced eDiscovery allows organizations to quickly search across not only the current version of documents, but all the versions that may be relevant given the content included in the document at the time of the version.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81898.

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Chat with users with Teams personal accounts

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 4, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Chat with Teams will extend collaboration support by enabling Teams users to chat with team members outside their work network with a Teams personal account. Customers will be able to invite any Teams user to chat using an email address or phone number, and remain within the security and compliance policies of their organization. 

Will rollout on web, desktop and mobile.

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Multi-language Teams meeting invite control

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 4, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Multi-language Teams meeting invite control enables administrators to configure the join information languages in meeting invitations. Controlled by a new policy parameter, this feature allows the administrator to set up to two languages to replace the user preferred language when creating new Teams meeting invitations across all email platforms.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81521.

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Expanded reactions in Microsoft Teams

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 4, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

This update will expand available reactions by allowing users to apply any emoji as a reaction to chat messages. Users will be able to pick from >800 Teams emojis to express themselves the way they want.

This will be available for Teams desktop apps (Windows and Mac), Teams mobile (Android and iOS), and Teams on the web.

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Upcoming API Retirements in Exchange Web Services for Exchange Online

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 4, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

Today we are announcing the deprecation of the 25 least used APIs of EWS for Exchange Online (as determined by the call volume into the service).

We are retiring these APIs to begin the process of reducing the surface area of the EWS protocol for maintenance and security purposes. After the retirement, support will end for these APIs.

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Q&A in Teams, now in Public Preview

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 4, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

The Q&A app for Teams meetings and webinars is now available for public preview. By including Q&A in any Teams Meeting or Webinar, event organizers add the ability for attendees to have a focused, structured conversation where they can ask questions and engage in the discussion with the rich social Q&A features that they know and love.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84027.

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Excel: Support for Large Files from SharePoint in Excel for the web

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 4, 2021 Excel 0 Comments

You can now open and edit files up to 100 MB from SharePoint in Excel for the web.

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Communication Compliance – new features coming to public preview

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 3, 2021 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

As announced at Ignite, we are releasing several preview updates for the Communication Compliance solution within the Microsoft 365 compliance center including Day Zero insights, a new activity summary report, and additional language support for built-in classifiers.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85650, 85652, and 85653.

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I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.