The new Microsoft Teams policy, csTeamsAIPolicy, will enable voice and face enrollment by default, enhancing meeting features and requiring a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Available now via PowerShell, it will take effect in mid-January 2025. Organizations should configure settings before this date. Microsoft respects user privacy with these profiles.
We’ve made enhancements to the Viva Engage page header for a more streamlined experience. The header now pulls in more relevant content and emphasizes key actions like “Join.” Additionally, we’ve reduced the icon size slightly to prevent overlap with background images, ensuring improved visibility and interaction.
We are excited to announce that the Shifts Graph APIs have transitioned from beta to production. This change brings enhanced stability and reliability to the APIs, ensuring a seamless experience for developers and users alike.
In Business Chat web mode, discover and use Copilot agents available for your organization. Agents are custom grounded chats that include specific knowledge sources from work and web.
We’ve improved the schedule view by hiding archived teams’ schedules. This reduces clutter, allowing you to focus on active teams and their schedules.
Users can manually insert a signature into a calendar event like they can in the classic outlook. #newoutlookforwindows
Mail Merge (Basic) will be improved upon to allow fields to be replaced by values per email address. When Mail Merge (Advanced) is launched, not only will every recipient receive their own email with only their email address in the recipients list, but the emails can further be personalized to include content such as their name. #newoutlookforwindows
We’ve expanded the functionality of the time clock export report by adding additional fields from Shifts. This enhancement provides you with a more comprehensive and detailed view of your scheduling data, making it easier to analyze and manage workforce activities.
We are expanding the existing ‘Meeting chat’ control in Teams Admin Center with two new values, “In-meeting only for everyone” and “In-meeting only except anonymous users.” In Teams Admin Center, admins will see a setting called ‘Meeting chat’ under Meetings > Meeting Policies > Meeting Engagement. Admins can now select from five options in the ‘Meeting chat’ setting: (1) “On for everyone” (2) “On for everyone but anonymous users” (3) “Off” (4) “In-meeting only for everyone” (5) “In-meeting only except anonymous users.” Admins can select the “In-meeting only” values to disable participants’ ability to send messages in the meeting chat before or after the meeting, for meetings organized by specific users in their tenant. When one of these “In-meeting only” values are selected, participants can read past chat history but no one can send messages in the meeting chat unless the meeting is active.
Microsoft SharePoint will soon enable approvals for document libraries, extending the previous update for list approvals. Rollout begins in November 2024 for Targeted Release and in December 2024 for General Availability. Users can configure approvals in the Automate menu, with in-progress approvals visible in Teams. No admin action is required before the rollout.
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