(Reminder) Microsoft Teams displays impacted by retirement of CNS Service API support: Upgrade Required

Support for the legacy services infrastructure for chat messaging in Microsoft Teams displays will end on September 30, 2024. Devices must be updated to version 1449/1.0.95.2024062804 or later to avoid disruptions. Updates can be manual or automatic, with automatic updates scheduled outside of normal business hours.

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SharePoint: Enterprise Application Insights for SharePoint sites

Enterprise Application Insights is a powerful report which helps SharePoint Administrators to discover all the SharePoint sites that are allowed access by third-party applications registered in your tenant. The report also provides details on the application’s permission and requests count to help admins take further action to strengthen the security of the site.

It is part of SharePoint Advanced Management capabilities.

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Microsoft Outlook: New Microsoft Copilot Compose experience

Microsoft Outlook is introducing a new design for the Copilot Compose experience, available on various platforms with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Rollout starts late September 2024, completing by late November 2024. No admin action needed, but user notification is advised. Roadmap ID 397092.

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Microsoft Outlook: Adding security to feedback policy checks across all user accounts

Microsoft Outlook is enhancing security by making feedback policy checks more restrictive across all user accounts. Eligibility for feedback submission will be based on the most restrictive policy value among a user’s accounts. This change will start rolling out in late September 2024 for Targeted Release and in late October 2024 for General Availability. No admin action is required before the rollout.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self-service for custom access data user export

This feature allows Glint admins to export the access data that has been customized for users in the platform.

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Microsoft Teams: Vote on and archive Questions in Teams Q&A

Question voting allows instance participants to upvote the most important questions and sort by highest votes or recent activity. This gives moderators the ability to derive insights from the audience about what topics they care the most about and address them. Additionally, for questions that might be outdated or irrelevant, moderators can move them to a separate feed to ensure that presenters can focus on providing the most value to attendees.

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Microsoft Defender XDR services: Removing Defender for Identity recommendation from Microsoft Secure Score

Microsoft is updating Microsoft Secure Score by removing a Defender for Identity recommendation to better reflect security posture. The removal will not affect Secure Scores and requires no admin action. Notification to users and documentation updates are suggested. Rollout will occur mid to late September 2024.

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Microsoft Teams: Auto-detect and pre-select room audio in BYOD meeting rooms

Microsoft Teams will soon auto-detect room audio when a laptop is connected to a room’s shared peripheral, suggesting or selecting the room audio option on the pre-join screen. This aims to simplify joining BYOD meeting rooms. Rollout begins early October 2024, with no admin action required before then.

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Microsoft Teams: Download Transcription and View RTMP-In 708 Captions for Town hall and Webinar

This feature allows event organizers to download transcripts for their town hall or webinar instances. It also adds support for displaying RTMP-In 708 captions in transcription.

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Microsoft Teams: Contact sync to Android-based Teams devices from Teams admin center

IT admins can push a set of contacts from the Teams admin center (TAC) to Teams devices as speed dial contacts.

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