Microsoft Teams: Apps now supported in group chats with external users

Microsoft Teams will support apps in group chats with external users starting mid-May 2024. The rollout includes Teams for web, desktop, and mobile. Group chat hosts can add apps, but external users can’t manage them. Existing access policies will apply, and organizations can opt out if desired.

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Microsoft Syntex: New autofill columns

Microsoft Syntex introduces autofill columns for SharePoint document libraries, enabling file content processing and response saving to columns. It will roll out worldwide from mid-May to early June 2024. Users can configure prompts for this feature, which requires Azure subscription and admin center setup.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication compliance for Teams meeting

The Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance feature, which analyzes Teams meeting transcripts for policy violations, will be generally available in May 2024. No admin action is required before the rollout, but organizations should prepare by updating documentation and informing users. Global admins must consent to share Team transcripts for analysis.

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Power Platform – Public Preview of solution-aware cloud flow sharing limits in Managed Environments

We are announcing the Public Preview of solution-aware cloud flow sharing limits for Power Platform Managed Environments. This feature gives users the ability to turn sharing on and off at the managed environment level and provides a sharing rule that can be applied to entire environment groups.

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Register for the Graph API webinar on April 23

Learn how you can use Graph API to access information on Windows known issues and product lifecycle. Microsoft has heard your feedback and now gives you faster, programmatic access to Windows update data. To keep you up to date, we invite you to join us on April 23 for a webinar on Windows known issues and product lifecycle in the Graph API.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Improve prompt responses in Copilot with Graph-grounding chat with nudges to insert data sources

Use nudges to ground prompts in data sources to improve prompt responses in Copilot with Graph-grounding chat.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: AIR Initiated Remediation Logging

The AIR attribution update will empower customers with enhanced insights by deciphering between remediations produced by AIR versus truly manual remediations initiated independently by SecOps teams. Presently, all actions produced by AIR and approved by SecOps are logged as manual remediations throughout the portal. With this update, messages that are remediated as a result of approval of an AIR action will be logged as SecOps approved automated actions.

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting options to control participants’ ability to admit attendees from meeting lobby

Meeting organizers will have options in the meeting settings on who can admit attendees from the lobby into the meeting.

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Microsoft 365 Apps admin center: New Cloud Update Deactivation available now

The Microsoft 365 Apps admin center now allows admins to deactivate Cloud Update for specific channels, with immediate effect for onboarded customers. This feature does not change existing settings and devices will be updated within 30 minutes of deactivation. Deactivation is not available for legacy servicing profiles.

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Microsoft SharePoint Online and Microsoft Stream: New video page templates

New video page templates are coming to Microsoft SharePoint Online and Microsoft Stream, with a rollout starting in April 2024 for Targeted Release and June 2024 for General Availability. Users will be able to create video pages and news posts directly from the Stream web app. No admin action is required before the rollout.

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