SharePoint: New site creation experience

With this update, you will choose a site template based on your scenario to get started creating your site. When choosing a template you can see its capabilities, and even see a preview. This change will help site owners through the process by simplifying and providing additional guidance while creating the site.

As a part of this update, several site templates have been renamed to clarify their purpose and simplify the selection of a template as a part of the site creation process.

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Reminder: Microsoft Defender for Office Empowers End Users to Report Suspicious Messages in Microsoft Teams

This is a follow up of Message Center post – MC567478 and MC611677

The ability for Microsoft Teams users to report internal chats, channels and meeting conversations within Teams as a security risk will be turned ON by default. Security risk messages could include ones that contain phishing or spam or malicious content, such as phishing URL or malware file, spam content. To learn how end users can report, please visit: user reported message settings in Microsoft Teams.

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OneDrive: Favorite/Unfavorite additional file types and folders in OneDrive and Document Libraries

Adding files and folders to Favorites is a great way to mark content of personal importance and can help you get to the content you’re looking for right away. We have made sure that the favorites experience is consistent across Microsoft 365 apps by building on top of the existing pinning and favorites experience. This release will include support for favoriting additional file types and folders from OneDrive web and Document Libraries.

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Microsoft Viva: Announcements in Viva Connections

Announcements allow you to create and share time-sensitive messages in Viva Connections. You can set up, manage, and schedule announcements from your organization’s SharePoint home site or the Viva Connections app in Teams desktop.

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Microsoft Stream: Add video to existing playlist

Soon you will be able to search for existing playlists when you add a video to a playlist from Stream web app.

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Multi-Stream IntelliFrame for Teams Rooms on Windows Cameras

IntelliFrame enables multi-stream video, face recognition of in-room participants, active speaker recognition, attributed voice-based transcription, and panoramic video on Front-of-room (180-degree view) and Center-of-room (360-degree view) cameras, taking Teams Rooms on Windows cameras to the next level of intelligence. IntelliFrame is available only with the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license. 

The Teams Rooms on Windows app update (version 4.18) will include Hybrid meeting enhancements via the IntelliFrame camera technology including:

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Find Related Search

Find Related is a quick way to search for similar emails, usually on threads, directly from the Message List. Currently supported by Win32 and requested for OWA (Microsoft Outlook on the Web)/Monarch, it relies on local search, which caused problems in the past. To mitigate future risks and pair clients it’s proposed to migrate Find Related to 3S and build support for it on OWA/Monarch.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 141712

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Browse files by Meetings in OneDrive

So much of our collaboration happens in the context of meetings, yet how many times have you found yourself trying to scroll back and find a meeting recording from a month ago? Or spent time digging through email to find pre-reading material for an upcoming meeting so you can be prepared going in? With this new meetings view in OneDrive, you’ll be able to get back to all of your meeting content with just a few clicks! When you come to meetings view, you’ll first see any meetings in the next week that you might need to prepare for, followed by a list of meetings that have already occurred. This view brings together all content shared both in meeting invites, meeting chat, and meeting recordings all into one place for easy access! Here you’ll see a recurring meeting with multiple meeting recordings, all laid out sequentially so you can catch up on whatever you missed.

Users can get to latest file associated with recurring meetings by searching for the ‘meeting title’. In this version we have the start time of the first instance of a recurring meeting and are working on getting the start time of each instance so that users can see them in the right chronological order instead of only seeing the time of the first instance. 

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Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance – General availability of advanced classification

Currently available in public preview, we’re rolling out support for advanced classification in Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124898.

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Introducing New Method to Clear Throttling Policy Assignments for Mailboxes

We are introducing a new parameter to the Set-Mailbox cmdlet, which will allow you to clear off a throttling policy association for a given mailbox. Over the years, you might have asked Microsoft Support to raise specific limits for some of your mailboxes (Transport limits, Recipient Rate limit, protocol limits – Exchange Web Services, ActiveSync, PowerShell). Until now, there has been no other way to revert those changes other than open another support case and wait for Microsoft Support to engage Microsoft Engineering.

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