Microsoft Teams: New assignment experience in modal window for Breakout Rooms

Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 25, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

We are releasing an enhanced user experience for manual participant assignment.

Participant assignment is now moved from the Breakout Rooms’ right panel to a separate window that pops up when selecting Assign Participants. The enhanced interface allows you to sort by participants or rooms. You can also select multiple participants and assign them to rooms by using the check boxes next to the participants’ names. This helps you quickly find your participant or room and speeds up the assignment process.

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Microsoft 365 Information Governance – Retention policies for Teams private channels messages

Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 23, 2021 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Until now, retention policies for Teams channel messages have excluded any private channel messages. With this new feature you will be able to apply retention policies to user messages shared within Teams private channels.

Retention policies scoped to private channel messages will require a separate policy from your Teams channels or chat policies.

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OneDrive: Sharing experience – “Shared with”

Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 23, 2021 OneDrive for Business 0 Comments

At the bottom of the Share Dialog, the “Shared with” list of people will give you an at-a glance view of everyone you’ve given access to a file. This change should make it easier to know who has access and how many people have access to your files. Clicking on the “Shared With” list will lead you to the Manage Access view. Sending a file via the Share Dialog should also return a visual confirmation of who you’ve just sent it to.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83725

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Teams Meeting Auto Recording

Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 22, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

This Microsoft Teams release will allow meetings to start recording automatically when they are set to auto-record in meeting options. This will benefit users who forget to hit the record button for crucial meetings. This is rolling out on desktop, mobile and web.

This feature will be available in meetings if:

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Include device audio when sharing on Teams for iOS and Android

Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 22, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

This feature update will allow users to include their device audio when screen sharing on iPhones/iPads and Android devices. This is rolling out on Teams mobile.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83353.

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Paging in Large Gallery

Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 21, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

This feature introduces paging to help you view up to 98 videos by choosing Large Gallery (Teams meetings currently supports up to 49 videos). This is rolling out on Windows, desktop and Mac.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84464.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 21, 2021 Microsoft 365 Apps 0 Comments

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

  • Current Channel

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Microsoft Defender for Office: Updates to investigations

Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 18, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

We are improving Microsoft Defender for Office automated investigation email clustering and actions to ensure that actions only occur on malicious emails still in the mailbox. This will result in more accurate threat information, with fewer email actions, and refreshed actions/data.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82056.

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Search box changes for guest users in OneDrive, SharePoint, and Lists

Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 18, 2021 SharePoint Online 0 Comments

This feature update will align the search box experience for guest users with regular users by placing it at the top of the page in the suite header.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81983.

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Office Telemetry Dashboard to be removed from Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, starting with Version 2208

Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 17, 2021 Microsoft 365 Apps 0 Comments

Office Telemetry Dashboard is being removed from Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise. The first version of Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise without Office Telemetry Dashboard will be Version 2208, which is expected to be available first in Current Channel in the second half of August 2022.

Note: If you do not use Office Telemetry Dashboard, you can disregard this message.

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Joao Ferreira

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