Microsoft Excel: Get

We will be updating Get & Transform Data tools in Excel (aka Power Query).

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management: Retention policy support for legacy Microsoft Teams call data records

Microsoft Teams call data records (CDRs) are system-generated artifacts that contain information about meetings – for example, who joined and when they joined.

Currently, retention policies for Teams (user chats, standard channels, shared channels, and private channel user messages) only apply to CDRs that were generated after September 21st, 2022. 

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New Indicator “EA” on Profile Picture for Microsoft Teams Public Preview users

Microsoft Teams Public Preview provides early access to pre-release features for product quality, internal planning, adoption & training readiness before they roll out to the rest of their company. There are no program requirements or commitments. This is an opt-in channel controlled via IT admin policy.

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Teams Personal Tabs in Outlook for Android

Teams Personal Tabs will now appear on Outlook for Android. This will complete the changes announced in Oct 2022 in the Outlook Blog

Teams apps must be validated to work on the mobile form factor. After the user or admin installs the app on Teams or Outlook, the personal tab will now appear automatically in Outlook for Android. 

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Teams App Usage reporting in M365 Adoption Score

Adoption Score in Microsoft 365 admin center now supports tracking for apps built in the Teams platforms. IT admins will have visibility into monthly/daily active user counts for first-party, third-party store, and third-party line of business applications.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Increased limits per label for disposition review and proof of disposition (U.S. government clouds)

This feature removes the per label 1,000,000 item limit for items pending disposition review and proof of disposition (reviewed) including record labels.  The tenant limit of 16,000,000 total items pending disposition and disposed still exists.

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Microsoft Teams: Reminder Emails for Webinars

Reminder emails are automatically sent one hour ahead of a webinar to all registered attendees.

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Microsoft Teams: Create offline meetings in Teams

Create a meeting in Teams and turn off the online toggle when setting up calendar events for personal appointments, lunch break slots and more. These offline events will not have chat thread or other Teams online meeting artifacts.

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Launching new way to open links in Edge from Outlook for iOS and Android

Currently users open links automatically from Outlook for iOS and Android in their default browser. This change will prompt users to choose their browser instead. Users can choose their default browser if they prefer and configure that preference in their Outlook Mobile settings.

We apologize for not communicating about this change sooner, per our commitment to proactive change communication. 

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Outlook on the web: MIP sensitivity label support S/MIME

Outlook on the web will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) sign and encryption as sensitivity label outcome. Customer admins could use set-label advanced setting to define the label to have S/MIME sign or encryption or both, and emails with those labels applied will enforce S/MIME sign and encrypt accordingly, and also it will support content marking of the label.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109582

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