Microsoft Purview Information Protection will enhance default sensitivity labels and policies to include files, email, and meetings for eligible customers. Rollout starts late September 2024, completing by late October 2024. No admin action required, but updating documentation is advised. Roadmap ID: 398458.
Microsoft Teams will update its town hall video display to a “fit to frame” view with no cropping, retaining a 16:9 aspect ratio. Rollout begins mid-August 2024 for Targeted Release and late August 2024 for General Availability. No admin action is required. Users should be informed of the change.
Within Microsoft Purview AI Hub, prompts and responses will appear for AI interaction events.
Intelligent meeting recap users will receive a notification in Teams Activity feed and banner when intelligent meeting recap is ready. Clicking on the notification in Activity feed will take users right to the intelligent meeting recap experience, which will be visible to the right of the Activity feed. Users can configure their notification settings in Teams settings > Notifications and activity > Apps > Meeting Recap to control where the notification is surfaced (Activity and banner, Activity only, Off) as well as which meetings have notifications enabled (for only meetings with RSVP selection of “Follow,” or all other meetings, or both).
Education IT admins can now create team templates from Microsoft Teams admin center. As an admin, you can use templates to easily deploy consistent teams across your organization. With templates, your users can quickly create rich collaboration spaces with predefined settings, channels, and apps.
Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will provide native Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) controls for connected cameras that support this capability. The feature will initially contain limited support for cameras with mechanical/optical PTZ, with digital PTZ to come in the future.
Microsoft Entra ID users can now use a passkey to sign into Microsoft apps on Android devices where an authentication broker like Microsoft Authenticator or Microsoft Intune Company Portal is installed.
Users will be able to toggle certain camera capabilities provided by the camera OEMs natively on Teams Rooms on Windows. Capabilities covered with this feature includes group framing, active speaker framing, and edge composed IntelliFrame.
Coaching by Copilot in Microsoft Outlook introduces an ‘Apply All’ button to implement coaching feedback and rewrite email drafts. Rolling out from late July to early September 2024, it’s available in new Outlook versions and requires an active Copilot license. No admin action needed for the update.
Starting August 30, 2024, the ‘Send password in email’ feature will be retired from the Microsoft 365 admin center. Admins should use the ‘Print’ option to securely share user account details. No action is required from admins for this change.
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