Introducing 2×2 gallery view for Teams meetings viewed in Edge and Chrome browsers

Edge and Chrome browsers will soon be able to display up to four participant videos (2×2) during a Teams meeting.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70589.

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Two new Direct Routing endpoints in Japan

Direct routing service is adding capacity across regions and that capacity falls into already published Teams IP ranges and domains. Please make sure that all published Teams specific endpoints are permitted for your Direct Routing scenarios.

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Roaming bandwidth control

Roaming bandwidth control is a new capability that allows admins to set dynamic bandwidth policies which are based upon the geographic location of users’ Teams clients. This allows admins to set more limited bandwidth controls for when users travel to remote or bandwidth constrained locations, and then relax limitations when they travel to a location with higher bandwidth capacity. Initially two settings from the Teams Meeting Policy will be included – AllowIPVideo, andMediaBitRateKb

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81350

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Exact Data Match support for Customer Managed Key

After a successful public preview (MC246007) in April 2021, this new release will enable you to be able to encrypt Exact Data Match (EDM) data using your own Customer Managed Key (CMK), further enhancing EDM data security.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81987.

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Office for the Web – retiring File Share Embed

We will be retiring the File Share Embed dialog from Office for the Web (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio) beginning July 1st 2021. Instead we recommend the utilization of SharePoint File Viewer Web Part or existing Graph APIs (e.g. PreviewItem,) which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.

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Microsoft Secure Score improvement action updates

We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture.

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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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