Generate Captions On-Demand for Stream built on SharePoint

This new feature will enable users, with edit permission to a video stored in OneDrive for Business or a SharePoint document library, to generate a closed caption file in English. 

Any viewer of the video with a transcript will be able to display it as closed captions.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel

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Text predictions in Outlook for iOS & Android

Text predictions help Microsoft 365 users write more efficiently by using intelligent technology to suggest text during composition. This feature is already available for Outlook on the web (MC225214, October 2020), Outlook for iOS in US and Canada (MC229558, December 2020), Outlook for Android in US and Canada (MC, February 2021) and Outlook for Windows (MC229381, December 2020).

Note: We are now extending support for text predictions (English only) for Outlook on iOS and Android for customers worldwide.

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Microsoft Project: Charts view

Visually assess the progress of your work through chart view.

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Outlook: Text Predictions on iOS

Outlook can suggest words and phrases as you compose messages. When Outlook offers a suggestion, swipe to accept it.

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Office 365: Copy Education Insights Premium

,The Software updates page gives admins and business decision makers a high-level overview of the software update status for Office devices in the organization. Future iterations of the page will include more products from the Microsoft 365 suite. The Data Lake utilized for Education Insights Premium, which stores external data from Student Information Systems (SIS), School Data Sync (SDS), and M365 Activity Data, can now be shared and copied to the customer’s own Azure Data Lake. This allows a customer to leverage all the data meant for Insights Premium for their own data exploration, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) purposes.

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Outlook: Text Predictions on Android

Outlook can suggest words and phrases as you compose messages. When Outlook offers a suggestion, swipe to accept it.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Viva Learning Usage Report

This report will help IT admins can understand the activity of every user licensed to use Viva Learning, by looking at their interaction. It also helps IT admins understand the type of features being used within the Learning App.

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Microsoft Search: History suggestions on Microsoft Search in Bing

Enterprise users will now get their historical searches as suggestions in the autosuggest pane on Bing and Microsoft Search in Bing.

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SharePoint app bar – Temporary window to disable is being extended

The SharePoint app bar is designed to improve the global wayfinding experience while dynamically displaying personalized content. The app bar makes important content and resources more accessible no matter where you are in SharePoint.

We had previously shared in MC240066 (February ’21) that the SharePoint app bar could be temporarily disabled until October 31st, 2021. Today we are announcing that we are extending the window for the app bar to be temporarily disabled until March 31, 2022.

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