Microsoft 365 admin center: Advanced Deployment Guides with Self-Service Automation focusing on Compliance Administration

Updated step by step advanced setup wizards and automation to help tenant admins deploy services.

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Microsoft Defender for Identity – End of support for Microsoft Defender for Identity sensor on Windows Server 2008 R2

We are making changes to the minimum operating system requirements for the Defender for Identity sensor and announcing end of support for Microsoft Defender for Identity sensor on Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers and Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) servers.

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Microsoft Teams: Hide your own video in Teams meetings

Currently, it is not possible to hide your own video on the stage. This can contribute to meeting fatigue as we are constantly processing our own image during calls. This new feature update will expand the ability for users to hide their own video on the stage for themselves while others will still be able to see it and thus not disrupt the video experience during the call.

New feature will help to tackle various situations:

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SharePoint Syntex and SharePoint: Add taxonomy columns from modern library views

Allows users to add taxonomy columns directly to library views in modern SharePoint and Syntex libraries.

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Microsoft Viva: Enabling Delay Delivery Plan in Outlook to Microsoft Viva Insights licensed users (preview)

To empower people with personal insights and recommendations in the flow of work that help build better work habits, we are expanding Delay Delivery plan in Outlook to Microsoft Viva Insights licensed users (preview). The Delay Delivery plan is currently available only to people who are using Microsoft Viva Insights (MyAnalytics) and are enrolled in the MyAnalytics (Full) service plan.

Microsoft Viva Insights will show you suggestions for scheduling email deliveries that align with the recipients’ working hours in their respective time zones. The delay helps minimize disruptions to recipients outside their working hours.

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Automatically Detect Music

The previously released ML-based noise suppression is now enabled by default for most of our customers. ML-based noise suppression considers any non-speech signal picked up by the microphone as noise which should be suppressed.

To avoid suppressing music and to allow users to enable the new high-fidelity music mode, we have built an ML-based music detector which will inform the user whenever music is present through a notification. This will give the end user the choice whether music is indeed an unwanted background noise, such as when calling into a meeting from a coffee shop, or if music is a desired signal, such as when participating in a music lesson.

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Microsoft Teams: Chat Bubbles during Teams meetings for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android

Ability to view chats sent during a Teams meeting on the front of room display in a Teams Room, calling attention to the chat conversation happening alongside the meeting.

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Microsoft Teams: List of the joined teams per user in Teams admin center

Teams administrators can view the list of teams that a user has joined.

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Cortana Push-to-talk icon update on MTR console

This update will bring a change to the Cortana Push-to-talk button. It will switch from a mic icon to the Cortana avatar. This icon will be reflected in both the out-of-meeting and in-meeting UI.

Note: This design change will align with Cortana’s product branding.

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Microsoft Editor Spellcheck and Grammar in SharePoint Pages

This update will add the Microsoft Editor service to SharePoint Pages and News and enabling their spellcheck and grammar capabilities. This will allow proofreading to take place in SharePoint without relying on the Editor browser extension. This feature changes the suggestion’s colors to monochrome when they’re shown on a themed background to increase visibility.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88534.

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