Rich Yammer link previews in Teams chats

With this change, when inserting a link of a Yammer conversation in a public community from their canonical (home) network, users with the Yammer Communities app for Microsoft Teams installed will now get a rich preview directly in Teams.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82243

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Play My Emails in Outlook launching internationally

Play My Emails in Outlook for iOS and Android will soon be rolling out in English worldwide. The feature has rolled out in UK, India, Australia, and Canada (MC224750, November 2020).

These updates are related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82004.

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Announcing annotations in PowerPoint Live in Teams

This new release will allow users to use a virtual laser pointer and make ink annotations when presenting through PowerPoint Live in Teams. Just as a presenter would use a physical laser pointer in a room, PowerPoint Live allows users to highlight by pointing at different places or data so the audience can easily follow along. This is rolling out on Microsoft Teams desktop, web and Mac.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81966.

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Reminder: Azure Active Directory – Enable support for TLS 1.2 protocol to avoid service impact

Note: If you have already transitioned to TLS 1.2, you can safely disregard this message.

As previously announced we will soon begin to retire support for following protocols and ciphers, in Azure Active Directory:

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SharePoint admin center: New columns on Active sites page

In the SharePoint admin center, the Active sites page will provide new information: 

  • The “Created from” column will show the apps that were used to create sites.
  • The “Teams” column will show which sites are connected to Microsoft Teams.

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SharePoint admin center: Replace root site is now available to all customers

Replacing (swapping) the root site is now available to all customers from the SharePoint admin center.

  • Previously, customers with more than 10k users had to use PowerShell to replace their root site.

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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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Additional Admin Functionality and Support for 1000 person meetings

With the recent 1000 person meeting deployment, we are providing Admin additional support to troubleshoot meetings. We have added the following capabilities in Teams Admin Center:

  • ‘Search’ based on partial text match by participant UPN, user name and other fields,
  • Sort’ based on a selected set of fields and
  • ‘Export’ the meeting participant list and call quality details for offline review purpose.

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Together Mode Extensibility

Creators can now build custom Together Mode scenes using our newly built Scene Studio – a web application in the new Microsoft Teams Developer Center – to bring new and exciting Together mode scenes to users.

Creators can use these custom scenes for their own meetings, use a link to share with other users, or publish them more broadly to the organization or public Microsoft Teams store. Sharing a scene through a link allows creators to share their custom scenes with other users without having to publish to the app store.

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Microsoft Teams receive macOS Native Notifications

Note: if your organization does not use Mac OS you can safely disregard this message.

With this update, your users will be able to choose their preferred means of Teams notifications delivery, either via the Teams built-in notification system or via Mac

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