Timeline Markers in Meeting Recordings When Screen was Shared (Teams Premium)

Microsoft Teams users with a Teams Premium license will soon be able to see when a screen was shared in a Teams meeting recording and jump to that moment.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117418

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Visio Organizational Trial offering

Beginning in April, we are enhancing our trial offering for Visio (MC306669, December 2021) by allowing users to sign up for a trial license, or request for a paid license with their AAD account. This update gives admins oversight and control over self-service trials and license requests. It also removes the need for users to input payment information when initiating a Visio trial.

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SharePoint 2013 workflow retirement

Since the release of SharePoint workflows, Microsoft has evolved workflow orchestration to not only encompass SharePoint, but all the productivity services you use with Microsoft 365 and beyond. With the continued investment in Power Automate as the universal solution to workflow, Microsoft is retiring SharePoint 2013 workflows.

When this will happen:

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Retiring Remote PowerShell use through Connect-IPPPSession

In line with our vision to enhance the security of our cloud, we plan to move the SCC admin experience to REST-based APIs. In doing so, we will be deprecating the legacy Remote PowerShell (RPS) protocol starting July 15, 2023.

In releasing the REST interface, customers do not need to use RPS to access EOP. Instead, RPS-based cmdlets will run as REST API calls instead of running via an RPS session. The REST API has the same cmdlets available and feature parity with RPS v1 cmdlets, so existing scripts and processes don’t need to be updated. Simply using the new module will ensure REST is used rather than RPS.

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Microsoft Search: Video Search in Bing, Office.com, SharePoint, and Stream

Our new Video tab will improve video search in your organization by having a dedicated place to search through Stream, OneDrive, SharePoint videos. This Video tab will appear on Microsoft Search in Bing/Office/SharePoint and Stream.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117552

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Outlook: New Outlook for Windows and web – Reading pane background image

To offer more personalization to end users, Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows will now have the ability to display a background image in the reading pane whenever emails are not selected. This feature will be turned off by default for commercial customers.
A user will be able to turn on a background image by going to Settings General Appearance from Outlook.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Detect if a label is not assigned (not labeled as a condition) – U.S. Government clouds

With this capability you will be able to configure specific restrictions for PDF and Office files that are not labeled on the endpoint devices.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Review set: Advanced filters

Updates to eDiscovery (Premium) review filters experience that allow admins to construct compound nested filters with either “AND” or “OR” conditions, go back and forth (undo/redo) between different iterations of filters, manage saved filter queries without navigating to a different panel, and use “Is empty/Is not empty” condition for each filter.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Viva Goals Usage Report

A new report will be made available to help you understand how Viva Goals is used within your organization. The new usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center will provide metrics on the number of active users including trial and paid licenses and platform distribution (Teams, Slack, Azure DevOps, and Web) with the ability to view 7/30/90/180 day timeframes.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117599

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Improved management of Teams apps with capabilities extended to Outlook and the Microsoft 365 app via Integrated Apps

In January 2023, Microsoft released the feature to manage Teams Apps with certain capabilities that extend to Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App (formerly known as Office.com) via the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Now, we are introducing controls at an app and tenant level, for admins to define which users in their organization can install and use these apps on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App via Integrated Apps in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88942

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