Microsoft Teams: Performance improvements for anonymous users who join meetings in Edge

The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Edge browser.

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Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Chrome (for anonymous join only)

The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Chrome browser.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms aids students with step-by-step solutions for quiz questions

With Copilot in Forms quizzes, teachers can easily generate step-by-step solutions for each question. Teachers have the option to allow students to immediately view their results so they can see what they’ve mastered and where they need further studying using the step-by-step solutions supported by Copilot.

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Microsoft Teams: New setting enables meeting participants to move between breakout rooms

Now, meeting organizers can make the list of breakout rooms visible to all meeting participants and allow them to choose which room to join. Enabling this setting in breakout rooms allows participants to move freely from one room to another, simplifying breakout room coordination for meeting organizers and participants.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Lab trending and recommended prompts

With this feature, customers will be able to see which prompts are new or trending within their organization and receive personalized prompt recommendations in Copilot Lab, powered by Microsoft Graph.

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Microsoft SharePoint: Authoring assistance from Copilot

Copilot is being integrated into Microsoft SharePoint’s Rich Text Editor, enabling content authoring assistance. It will be available for users with a Copilot Microsoft 365 license, rolling out from early July to early August 2024. This feature can be disabled in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

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Data Privacy: Microsoft Online Services Subprocessor Disclosure

This notice is to inform you of an update regarding the Microsoft Online Services Subprocessors List.

Microsoft may use non-Microsoft organizations to help provide Online Services. As a function of their role for Microsoft, a small set of these organizations may process your customer data or personal data, only to deliver the services Microsoft has retained them to provide; they are prohibited from using your data for any other purpose. In accordance with GDPR, we disclose these subprocessors to you in advance of their first engagement and provide notification of any changes over time.

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Microsoft OneDrive: How to ensure/manage background syncing on macOS

OneDrive for macOS is updating to streamline background syncing. The OpenAtLogin plist setting will be replaced by macOS System Setting Login Item, managed through a configuration profile. Rollout begins early July 2024, with completion by late July. Admins should review and deploy the Background Services configuration profile.

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Microsoft Planner: eDiscovery support for Microsoft Planner

eDiscovery support for Microsoft Planner, including search and legal holds, will be generally available in early July 2024. This feature allows admins to search and hold Planner tasks, comments, and attachments in Purview, but only for tenants created before October 2022. No admin action is required for the rollout.

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Microsoft Excel: Publish to Power BI retires starting August 19, 2024

The “Publish to Power BI” feature in Microsoft Excel will retire on August 19, 2024. Users should transition to the Power BI service for publishing needs. The Power BI service offers additional capabilities not found in Excel’s publishing feature, and this change will not affect existing workbooks. Users must upload workbooks to Power BI from OneDrive or SharePoint.

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