Microsoft Teams: Presenter window usability improvements in screen sharing

With the new Presenter window, controls are located at the top, making active speakers’ faces
clearly visible during screen sharing, and raise hand notifications are surfaced for improved awareness.

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Premium

Microsoft Teams Premium makes Teams meetings more personalized, intelligent, and secure with branded meetings, intelligent recap and search, advanced meeting protection, and it provides advanced webinar and Virtual Appointments experiences, such as live captions and 2-way lobby chats. More info: https://aka.ms/TeamsPremiumBlog

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Reminder: Announcement of automatic deletion of inactive Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environments

As previously announced in MC447307 (October ’22), the Microsoft Power Platform is introducing a cleanup mechanism that will automatically remove inactive Dataverse for Teams environments from your tenant.

Dataverse for Teams environments will be first disabled after being inactive for 90 days, the environment will then be deleted after 30 days of being disabled if no action is taken by the administrators. A disabled or deleted Dataverse for Teams environment will not affect any other Microsoft Teams assets (teams, channels, SharePoint sites, Teams-connected sites…etc.) and applies only to Dataverse integrations.

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Viva Topics Cards in Viva Connection

Microsoft Viva is rolling out Topics action cards in Viva Connections to encourage knowledge discoverability, engagement, and sharing. Users will be able to engage with topics with the Adaptive Topics Cards. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100253

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OneDrive Android: Extract PDF Pages

Users of OneDrive for Android can now split PDFs and have PDFs saved back to OneDrive.

When this will happen:

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Access the Office add-ins from the Home tab and File Menu

The Office extensibility “get add-in” button will be moved from the Insert tab to the Home Tab. We also aligned the extensibility experience across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams with a consistent logo and a flyout where users can easily find their installed add-ins while browsing the recommended add-ins at the same time. 

Microsoft has a comprehensive extensibility ecosystem. You can gain access to a large number of our 1st-party add-ins and 3rd-party add-ins provided by our professional partners to enhance the capabilities of your Office suite. Today, we have over 2000 add-ins from various service providers to meet your specific needs, ranging from translation, bibliography, templates, graphing tools, multi-media contents, interactive components, and even professional finance and legal tools. 

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Viva Topics: Update to the experience for collecting feedback on AI quality and correctness through the Topic Card

You will soon see an updated experience on the Topic Card to better request feedback from users on the quality of a suggested highlight on SharePoint modern pages, and the quality of a suggested topics and its suggested properties. The questions have not changed, but the experience is more noticeable and has a new option to respond with “Not sure”. You can learn more about Topic curation and feedback here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/topics/topic-experiences-discovery-curation#topic-curation-and-feedback

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98113

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Power Platform admin center – Planned maintenance impacting support case creation

We have maintenance planned for the Power Platform admin center.

Maintenance window start: 3 December 2022, 16:00 UTC

Maintenance window end: 4 December 2022, 00:00 UTC

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Microsoft Edge: TLS server certificate verification changes

In Microsoft Edge version 110, the certificate trust list and the certificate verifier will be decoupled from the host operating system’s root store.  Instead the default certificate trust list and the certificate verifier will be provided by and shipped with the browser. 

The MicrosoftRootStoreEnabled policy is available for testing to control when the built-in root store and certificate verifier are used until the planned policy deprecation. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-security-cert-verification

More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-security-cert-verification

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Microsoft Teams: Support for Tabs for anonymous users in meetings

Developers now have the ability to show tab experiences for anonymous users in Teams meetings.

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