SIP / H323 dialing from MTR-W to a VTC

Starting early June, you can configure your Teams Rooms on Windows with a Pro license (MTR-W Pro) to place and receive one-to-one calls from the room to a SIP/ H323 endpoint and vice versa. If you want to enable this calling feature, you must work with a CVI provider to enable the service.

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Join BJN meeting from MTR-W via Direct Guest Join

As part of a Preview release, around mid-May you will be able to configure your Teams Rooms on Windows to join BlueJeans meetings.

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Removal of Microsoft Store for Business tab from Microsoft Store app on Windows 10 and 11 PCs

We will be removing the Microsoft Store for Business tab from the Microsoft Store app on Windows 10 and 11 PCs. The Microsoft Store for Business tab will continue to be available on HoloLens devices. 

Note: The retirement of Microsoft Store for Business and Education on Windows 11 was announced in 2021

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Intelligent Meeting Recap in Microsoft 365 Feed

We are announcing Intelligent Meeting Recap functionality in Microsoft 365 Feed for both Teams Premium users and users without Teams Premium.

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Activity policy – filter by file name

We will be retiring the ability to filter by ‘select file name’ from Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. 

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File policy/filter ‘policy’ retirement

We will be retiring the File policy/filter ‘policy’ from the MDA file policy page. Instead, we recommend the utilization of the new Malware policy governance actions, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.

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Microsoft Teams: Mark All As Read for Activity Feed

Users can triage their activity feed more efficiently using the new ‘Mark all as read’ feature. With just one click, users can mark all unread activities as read.

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Your Microsoft 365 services will automatically display your Power BI content by end of June

In Nov ‘22, Power BI (PBI) launched the preview of integration with Microsoft Graph, with the goal to increase discovery of PBI reports, dashboards and apps across several surfaces like Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Bing @ Work.

This setting allows users in your org to see certain Power BI metadata (such as content titles and types, or open and sharing history) in Microsoft 365 services like search results and recommended content lists. Metadata from Power BI datasets are not displayed.

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Enhanced Capabilities for Managing Deleted and Expiring Teams from the Teams admin center

Microsoft Teams Admin Center will be updated with new capabilities to manage deleted & expiring teams.

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Enhancements in Threat Explorer by Microsoft Defender for Office 365

With the recent Threat Explorer V3 rolled out changes in user experience, we have also added 15 new filters in threat explorer filters section. The filters have been grouped into different categories: Basic, Advanced, URLs, Files, and Authentication.

  • Basic filters are comprised of basic criteria, such as, subject, sender, and recipient.
  • Advanced filters include more complex criteria such as NetworkMessadeID, Sender IP, and Attachment SHA256.
  • URL filters focus on URLs or domains associated with threats or attacks.
  • File filters relate to attachments like file name and type that may be linked to a threat.
  • Authentication filters can identify DMARC, DKIM, SPF authentication results.

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