Outlook: SMS on Outlook Lite

Available only in India. Outlook Lite now presents a modern, powerful SMS experience for users who prefer to have all their messaging needs in one compact platform/

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Microsoft Viva: Follow a topic

Users can now follow topics from experiences across Microsoft 365 and the Viva suite to receive personalized experiences and notifications of activities around topics of interest.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Configure display colors for sensitivity labels (U.S. Government clouds)

This feature will simplify the policy management experience by enabling administrators to set a label color in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal for their sensitivity labels. Once applied, labels will display this coloring within first-party and third-party applications that support reading the color property, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (Win32 native apps), or Power BI.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Visibility into configuration and policy sync status of devices

Provide visibility to admins about configuration status and solution health in addition to providing policy update sync status.

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Microsoft Teams Admin Center: New widget for unspent Azure consumption commitment

New widget in the Microsoft Teams admin center (TAC) helps admins quickly view unspent Microsoft Azure consumption commitment (MACC) that they can apply when making purchase of Teams apps that are Azure benefit eligible. It will only be available to organizations that have an existing MACC agreement with Microsoft.

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Microsoft Teams: Hotline phones

Enables administrators to program Microsoft Teams certified phone devices to directly dial a pre-configured phone number or contact, such as emergency services in a manufacturing plant or help desk in the organization. The hotline can be set up directly through the device settings or the Teams admin center. The device will need to be enabled with a Teams Shared Device License and set to common area phone mode.

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Microsoft Teams: Together Mode Usability Improvements

We are bringing new usability improvements to Together Mode. Participants in Together Mode will now have name labels attached to their videos. Name labels will also support status icons that indicate microphone, active speaker, spotlight or pin within the meeting. Second, your own video in the gallery will now be removed while Together Mode is active to avoid duplication of the self preview. Lastly, Together Mode will now display raised hands and reactions within the view.

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Microsoft Teams: An improved search experience in chat and channels

A new search experience will allow users to search in a specific chat or channel and reach relevant results faster. The results will appear in the right handrail so you can stay in the flow of your work. Enhancements like highlighted key words will make it easier for user to scan their results.

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Applied Filters in Microsoft Lists

Microsoft Lists is rolling out a new way to visualize and clear the filters that are present in a view.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117585

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Applied Filters in Microsoft Lists

Microsoft Lists is rolling out a new way to visualize and clear the filters that are present in a view.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117585

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