Reminder: Update to Microsoft 365 and Outlook for Windows connectivity

30-day/Final Reminder (MC229143 – DEC ’20 and MC274503 – July ’21): To ensure that we meet performance expectations, we areupdating the supported versions of Outlook for Windows that can connect toMicrosoft 365 services.

Starting November 1, 2021, the following versions ofOutlook for Windows, as part of Office and Microsoft 365 Apps, will not be ableto connect with Office 365 and Microsoft 365 services.

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Peer5 now available for Teams Live Events

You are now able to use Peer5 as an Enterprise Content Delivery Network (eCDN) provider for your Teams Live Event scenarios. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85787.

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Microsoft Edge: New policy to support more flexibility in Microsoft Edge startup

Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 93, enterprise administrators will have more flexibility in the options they choose in their startup policy. This will include the ability to specify the start page, add/remove additional pages, and Continue where you left off”, while ensuring that the set of pages specified by policy are also opened.  This feature has been cancelled.

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Microsoft Search: Microsoft Search in GCC

Microsoft Search: Organization-wide Search via Search Box in SharePoint, Office.com, and on Microsoft Search in Bing. Customizable Bookmarks, and QnA Answers. 
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftsearch/

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Microsoft Search: Custom filters on native verticals

New support for custom filters on native verticals in Microsoft Search allows you to customize out of the box verticals for Microsoft Search by adding custom refiners.

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Microsoft Project: Project for the web and Roadmap capabilities for GCC

Project for the web app and Roadmap capabilities are coming soon.

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Microsoft Teams: Support Application screen sharing for Teams on VDI for Citrix

Citrix users will be able to share application during Teams meeting once the feature is available. This will help user to share an application instead of sharing a complete desktop screen.

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Microsoft Teams: Support of Live Caption for Teams on VDI for VMware

Teams users on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be able to use live captions. Live captions display the text version of the audio during the call.

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Microsoft Teams: Support of Live Caption for Teams on VDI for Azure Virtual Desktop

Teams users on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be able to use live captions. Live captions display the text version of the audio during the call.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Redirecting users to Microsoft 365 Defender

We will begin automatically redirecting users accessing the security-related capabilities in the Office 365 Security and Compliance center (protection.office.com), to Microsoft 365 Defender (https://security.microsoft.com). These include capabilities in the Threat Management section and the Threat Management dashboard and reports. Items in the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center that are not related to security are not redirected to Microsoft 365 Defender. Customers are able to turn off automatic
redirection.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/defender/microsoft-365-security-mdo-redirection?view=o365-worldwide

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