Music Mode for Teams

This new feature release can be used to transmit high fidelity music. Users will be able to conduct online music lessons, transmit music performances, or other non-speech content.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83520

When this will happen:

Standard: We will begin rolling this out in late July and expect to complete rollout late September.

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Migrating admin experiences to the Power Platform admin center

As part of our effort to improve the overall experience for admin operations, we are migrating all admin operations from the Dynamics 365 CE admin center to the Power Platform admin center beginning in August.

Today, on the Power Platform admin center you can already manage and configure your Dynamics 365 instances, manage capacity, monitor usage and perform other admin operations, as well as submit and monitor support tickets submitted to Microsoft.

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Retirement of Discover slab from old Outlook iOS versions

On August 5, 2021, the Recommended slab will be retired from old versions of Outlook iOS. When the change takes effect, the Recommended slab will silently disappear from the search view in Outlook iOS versions older than 4.31.0.

Note: If your organization does not use iOS, you can safely ignore this message.

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Introducing the modernized SharePoint Store in SharePoint Online

The SharePoint Store has been updated to a new modern experience that includes a streamlined acquisition flow for third-party apps.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82031

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Microsoft Teams: Require app protection policy conditional access grant

This release of app protection policy based Conditional Access in Microsoft Teams will help protect your organizational data on devices your employees use by ensuring that only users with Intune app protection policy can access Microsoft 365 services from Teams.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87773

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SharePoint Syntex site template for model evaluation

You will be able to create a limited preview Syntex content center to evaluate the model training capabilities of this product add-on with your own content. The content center is a site template used for the creation, training, and management of Syntex document understanding models. These models can be trained to classify content and extract information from them.

Please note: the models need to be applied to a document library to run against uploaded files. This preview only allows for the training and evaluation of the model. To apply it for use in your tenant you will need to purchase Syntex licenses.

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Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) for Teams on VDI – Citrix Users

Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) for Teams will soon be available for users on Citrix VDI.

Note: If your organization is not using Citrix VDI you can disregard this message.

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Reminder: Skype for Business Online retires July 31, 2021

Note: If your organization has already transitioned from Skype for Business Online to Microsoft Teams, please disregard this message.

Originally announced in MC219641 (July ’20), as Microsoft Teams has become the core communications client for Microsoft 365, this is a reminder the Skype for Business Online service will retire July 31, 2021.

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SharePoint Collapsible Sections

This new feature will allow users to create rich, information-dense SharePoint pages. As part of this release, we will enable the page author to configure sections within the SharePoint page to be able to expand, collapse and set the default page-load state for the section.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67147.

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Reminder: Microsoft Graph privacy controls to fully replace the classic Office Delve control in July

Starting July 1, 2021: Microsoft Graph will no longer consider the Office Delve privacy settings as part of the Item Insights controls.

The transition period for Office Delve and Item Insights privacy settings ends July 1, as stated previously (MC251870 April 2021). After July 1st, Microsoft Graph will no longer consider the Office Delve privacy settings as part of the Item Insights controls. After this change, all experiences in Microsoft 365 that are powered by Item Insights are controllable only by the Item Insights privacy settings..

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