Microsoft Teams: Town halls in Government Community Cloud (GCC) (Premium)

Set up and host large scale events across a GCC organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings using Town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 20k attendees, third-party eCDN support, green room, manage what attendees see, moderated Q&A, RTMP-in, live translated captions and more.

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Microsoft Teams: New meeting option to control permissions for admitting participants from lobby

Microsoft Teams introduces a new meeting option allowing organizers to control who can admit participants from the lobby. This update provides two choices: only organizers and co-organizers, or including presenters. The feature will roll out in July 2024, with no specific action required for implementation. Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 392836 is associated with this update.

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Microsoft Teams: Organizers can manage access to meeting transcripts, recordings, AI-generated recap, and Copilot

Microsoft Teams meeting organizers can soon manage access to recordings, transcripts, AI recaps, and Copilot features. This will roll out in June 2024, with settings accessible under the ‘Recording and transcript’ tab. Options include access for everyone, organizers only, or specific people. The default setting is ‘Everyone.’

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Microsoft Outlook: Link permissions for OneDrive for Business in Outlook for iOS

Outlook for iOS will notify users if email recipients lack access to OneDrive for Business file links and allow permission updates. This feature, already on Android, will roll out globally from late June to late July 2024. Users should be informed to prepare for this update.

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File viewer for Microsoft 365: Updates to opening non-Office files in Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint

The enhanced file viewer for Microsoft 365 now supports over 300 file types, with a new design, toolbar, panes, and collaboration features. It is already rolling out with general availability expected by late May 2024. No admin action is required before the rollout.

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Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – HR resignation date as a condition for risk level

Microsoft Purview’s Adaptive Protection feature, which allows the HR resignation date to be used as a condition for risk level, is reaching General Availability. Rollout begins late June 2024 and completes by late July 2024. No action is required for the update.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Compliance boundary cmdlet tool for managing compliance boundary property

This cmdlet allows users to verify the compliance boundary property of a specific OneDrive site, ensuring that the value is correctly configured. If the property is not set or if the site is in arbitration, users can use this cmdlet to assign the property value for the site for compliance boundary to take effect.

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Outlook: Time Suggestions Update

We are improving how suggested times are shown when scheduling a meeting. We are removing the automatically shown suggested times and instead you will need to enable a switch – Find a time – if you want to see suggested times. If you enable the toggle, the new availability view on time suggestion tiles will make it easier to find a suitable time with more clarity on everyone’s availability. This update will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Generate keyword query language from natural language prompt in eDiscovery with Copilot for Security

Copilot for Security is embedded in eDiscovery to enable users to provide a search prompt in natural language and will translate into keyword query language to help expedite the start of an eDiscovery search.

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Microsoft Teams: People app on Teams Phone Devices

An updated People app on Teams phone devices will provide a simplified and faster experience to help users manage contacts easily.

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