Power Platform admin center – Planned maintenance impacting support case creation

We have maintenance planned for the Power Platform admin center and Lifecycle Services, which will impact the creation of support cases during the maintenance window, as we perform infrastructure changes.

Maintenance window start: 8 October 2022, 15:00 UTC

Maintenance window end: 8 October 2022, 23:00 UTC

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Microsoft Excel Online: Support for the Furigana (Phonetics) Feature

We’re happy to announce support for the furigana phonetics feature in Excel Online. We’ve now added support for the feature in Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Hong-Kong locales. Users are now able to view furigana in Excel Online.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: User-defined permissions support domain name restrictions

Coming soon to public preview and general availability, we’re updating the options for custom permissions, also referred to as user-defined permissions, to support domain name restrictions.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98131.

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Creation of Contact Groups in Calls App

Creation of Contact groups are now available in the right rail pane of the Calls App. Users can now create new groups, and edit the membership of existing groups via the Calls app.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100152

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Microsoft Teams: Viva Connections for your Frontline Teams members

Frontline employees with an F license will have an out of box Viva Connections experience tailored to their frontline needs. This experience includes a dashboard with relevant frontline cards such as Tasks, Shifts, Approvals, and Top news.

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Microsoft Teams: Browser screen pop for incoming PSTN calls

Admins can enable policy so that on acceptance of a PSTN call, an automatic browser launch can happen alongside Teams, displaying relevant information (CRM data, case data, etc.) to the user.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Categorization of user-reported messages

An updated “Submissions” experience will categorize user-reported messages into individual tabs for Phish, Spam (Junk) etc., based on the user’s report.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: End user reporting for suspicious messages in Microsoft Teams

End users will be able to report suspicious Microsoft Teams messages as a security threat just like they do for emails – to help the organization to protect itself from attacks via Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Teams: Manage Surface Hubs as Teams devices from Teams admin center

Administrators can manage the entire lifecycle of Surface Hubs as Teams devices from the Teams admin center. Available features include remote restart, download of logs, configuration of settings, and detailed device information.

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Microsoft Teams: Delete or rename files in a channel and in your OneDrive folder in Teams

To rename or delete a file in a channel, go to the files tab and find the file you want. Then select More options (the three dots) on the file. To rename or delete a file from your OneDrive, select More at the bottom of the app, then select Files. Once you find the file you want, select the three dots and choose to rename or delete it.

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