Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Support for Multiple Channels

Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. Through this new functionality, users can now join up to 5 channels in multi-channel mode, easily switch between these preselected channels to listen to incoming transmission or initiate PTT transmissions.

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Microsoft Teams: Ability to duplicate an existing town hall for simplified event creation

Organizers can schedule a new webinar by duplicating information from an existing scheduled one. This includes duplicating information such as details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also edit and update the information as needed for the new event.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Ability to delete indicator variants

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will be able to delete any of the indicator variants created. Deletion of variants will directly delete it from all the Insider Risk Management policies being used. Any old insights related to the variants will remain for future reference. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Teams: Admin setting for uploading files using drag-drop

Admin will be able to control the default content app for local files uploaded using drag-drop in chat and channels. OneDrive / SharePoint are the existing default locations for uploads using drag-drop.

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Microsoft Teams: Private & shared channels links

Need to add your colleague to a channel discussion? Copy the link of a private or a shared channel, a channel post or one of its replies and share it with your partner, so they can join the discussion in one click.

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Microsoft Intune In Development for January 2024 is now available

The In development for Microsoft Intune page in our documentation has been updated.

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Microsoft Teams: Join Teams work meetings from Microsoft Teams (free) and vice versa

This feature enables users with personal Microsoft accounts (MSA) using the free version of Microsoft Teams to join and participate in Teams for work (or school) meetings with their signed-in personal account when joining meetings from within the Teams app. This feature also lets these users stay connected with the other meeting participants (retain access to the meeting chat) after the meeting has ended. These users are no longer prompted to join only via a browser and later treated as meeting guests (anonymous). 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 167326

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Microsoft Teams: Share contact information of people in Microsoft Teams chat

Users can now share the contact information of someone who is not in a chat to make it easy for others to confidently get to know other collaborators.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 375627

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Microsoft Secure Score recommendations- accuracy improvements

Due to recent accuracy improvements implemented this month, certain customers may notice a modification in specific scores.

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Microsoft Managed Desktop –Universal Images with December-2023 Updates

Microsoft Managed Desktop Imaging team has released a new version of the Universal Image with December-2023 updates, Windows11 23H2, office 2311 and Teams 23320.3021.2567.4799.

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