Microsoft Teams: Manage What Attendees See

Attendees will only see shared content andpresenters that you bring on screen.

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Microsoft Teams: Expanded Reactions

Expanded reactions allows users to apply any emoji as a reaction to chat messages! Pick from 800 plus Teams emojis to react the way you want.

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Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Linux desktop compliance and reporting

,Register, manage and secure Linux Ubuntu desktops and use conditional access for compliance.
Preview date: March CY2022

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Microsoft Viva: Effective meetings in Viva Insights

A new “Effective meetings” experience is being introduced in the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams. Meeting organizers will be able to view personalized insights and suggestions to help improve their meeting habits. Users will also be able to create and share meeting plans to set team meeting norms such as shorter meetings by default and always including Teams links.

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Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Support new security baseline for Office

,Customers can manage and deploy the Office security baseline using mobile device management (MDM) settings and the Intune experiences around upgrade, comparison, and reporting.
Preview date: May CY2022

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Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Defender for MacOS policies in Settings Catalog

,Use the settings catalog to configure Microsoft Defender policies for MacOS.
Preview date: January CY2022

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Microsoft Viva: Supporting four additional languages for Headspace in Viva Insights- French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish

,Guided meditations and mindfulness exercises from Headspace in the Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams will be available in additional languages – French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish – to foster mindfulness and wellbeing throughout the workday.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/personal/teams/viva-insights-headspace

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Microsoft Stream: Comment on a video or audio file in SharePoint and OneDrive

This feature builds on top of the already existing comments found in OneDrive and SharePoint Online but presents these comments with a new Office look and feel within the player. This feature allows users with view permissions to leave a comment and users with edit permissions to @ mention, which are both default changes in behavior in terms of permissions for video and audio files.

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OneDrive: Organize -add to OneDrive shortcuts

Now you can organize your ‘Add to OneDrive’ folder shortcuts the way you want by moving them into any private folder you create in your OneDrive.

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Microsoft Stream: Add chapters to help viewers find the right part of a video

Users with edit access to a video uploaded to SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Yammer can now add chapters to help viewers identify information in the video. For each chapter you can specify a point in time in the video and title of that chapter which will show up in the table of contents side pane for the video as well as on the video timeline.

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