Microsoft Teams: Better together for calls on Teams phones

With this capability, users will be able to use the better together feature on P2P calls and group calls.

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Microsoft Edge v.93: Policies to bypass ClickOnce and DirectInvoke prompts

Starting with Microsoft Edge version 93, we have updated our policies to enable bypassing ClickOnce and DirectInvoke confirmation before opening specified file types from specified domains. To bypass prompts, you will need to: Enable AutoOpenFileTypes policy and list the specific file types that ClickOnce and DirectInvoke should be disabled for and Enable the AutoOpenAllowedForURLs policy and set the list of specific domains that should bypass prompting.

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Microsoft Search: Managed Active Usage (MAU) & engaged user metrics

The purpose of this feature is to help Search Administrators analyze the usage of Microsoft Search within their organization by producing and exposing Managed Active Usage (MAU) and engaged user metrics in the Microsoft Search Admin portal.

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Microsoft Teams: New Power Automate entry points in-Teams

Users will soon be able to use message extensions and message actions to start building a Power Automate flow from a template.

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Microsoft Viva: Improvements for Topic Management

This update will empower Knowledge Managers, providing additional metadata for sorting and filtering through the list of topics, including additional quality and usage columns, and segmentation to help manage topics at scale.

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Microsoft Teams: Public Preview: Teams follow Office preview

Public Preview has provided IT admins with the ability to allow their users to receive preview features before they are released to the public. Coming up in June 2021, not only can users be opted-in to use Teams Public Preview, but IT admins can even configure Teams users preview state to follow Office preview state. All of this functionality will be accessible from the Teams Admin Center.

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Microsoft Graph: Confluence Cloud Graph Connector

Confluence Cloud Graph Connector will index content like pages, blogs from Confluence Cloud site into Microsoft Search and allow users to query them from SharePoint, Microsoft Bing, Office .com, Microsoft Teams and Windows Search Box.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Records management multi-stage disposition review

This update allows organizations to use a multi-stage disposition process, including multiple stakeholders and reviews before deleting the content.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/disposition?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft Teams: Operator Connect

Operator Connect is a new way for customers to simply and quickly enable PSTN calling for Teams, using services from non-Microsoft telephony operators. Administrators can select their desired operator in the Teams Admin Center, and provision phone numbers to their users in just hours, with no required hardware.

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Outlook: Outlook on the web – Share to Microsoft Teams

Send a copy of email messages or conversations, including attachments, into Teams chats and channels or start a Teams chat related to a specific email message. When sharing to Teams from Outlook on the web, a popup window will appear to confirm to which channel or person you want to share, you can also select whether you want to include attachments or not.

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