Control Inbox and Calendar Sharing Options in Outlook on the Web and in the New Outlook for Windows

Outlook on the Web and the new Outlook for Windows provides users with the ability to share mail and calendar with other users at different permission levels.

Starting in November 2023, tenant admins will be able to turn off the ability for users to share inbox and calendar folders by utilizing the new Office Cloud Policy Service “Turn off folder sharing.”

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Analytics Insights for Virtual Appointments in Microsoft Teams

Tenant admins can see updated virtual appointment analytics with new insights in Teams to help driving business outcomes, including average lobby wait times for scheduled vs. on-demand appointments, percentage of appointments completed after scheduled end time, and percentage of appointments with a late start.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 161629

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Microsoft Teams: Automatically view up to 9 videos (3×3) in Teams meetings in Chrome and Edge

Microsoft Teams Meetings currently supports a maximum of 4 videos (2×2) on the screen by default (i.e., Gallery view) on web browsers. With this update, users will be able to automatically see up to 9 videos (3×3) on Chrome and Edge on their screen by default without an explicit action.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122139

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Ux support to identify ODB site for an inactive mailbox in eDiscovery (Premium)

We are rolling out support through the user interface to auto identify the OneDrive for Business sites associated with an Inactive mailbox when adding Custodians in an eDiscovery (Premium) case. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 183498

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Planned Maintenance: Microsoft Managed Desktop configuration update – October 2023

As part of our routine device management services, we will deploy the next update of the Microsoft Managed Desktop configuration baseline (version 2310) to your Microsoft Entra ID organization (tenant).

When will this happen:

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Planned Maintenance: Windows Autopatch configuration update – October 2023

As part of our routine device management services, we will deploy the next update of the Windows Autopatch baseline (version 2310) to your Microsoft Entra ID organization (tenant).

When will this happen:

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Syria 2022 time zone update now available

On October 5, 2022, the Syrian government made an official announcement about a Daylight Saving Time (DST) time zone change. Since then, the official time has not advanced by an hour and has permanently shifted to the UTC+3 time zone. Microsoft is releasing updates to support this change. The October 2023 non-security preview release includes the update for Windows 11 and Windows 10, version 22H2. All other supported versions of Windows will receive this time adjustment in the November 14, 2023 monthly quality release. Read Syria 2022 time zone update now available for more details. 
 

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Outlook: Embed Teams Chat in Outlook Web

Teams embedded chat in Outlook web allows users to stay on top of their chats without leaving Outlook. 

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting “Recording & Transcription” tab will be replaced by “Recap” tab

Now, the “Recap” tab for scheduled meetings will include access to the recording and transcript.  For meetings that have a “Recap” tab, the previous “Recording & Transcription” tab will be removed since the “Recap” tab will replace it.

For meetings that don’t have a “Recap” tab, users can continue to access the recording and transcript from the “Recording & Transcription” tab.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) Jobs report – access for eDiscovery Manager

The access to the Jobs Report in eDiscovery (Premium) will be extended to eDiscovery Managers.
eD Managers will be able to view the tenant wide quota available and list of jobs in the cases they have access to.

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