Outlook: Draft by Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows

Copilot combines the power of LLMs and Outlook data to help you do more. Copilot can now help you draft new messages or replies.

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Outlook: Coaching by Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows

Copilot combines the power of LLMs and Outlook data to help you do more. Copilot coaches you on how to best get your message across and you can adjust the tone and length of your message.

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Microsoft Viva: MyTopics for all users in a Topics tenant

If your tenant has completed AI-indexing, a very small subset of topics will now be available to all users, even without an assigned Topics license. Any user in your organization will be able to view their associated “MyTopics” that appear in their “suggested” and “confirmed” connection webparts of Topic Center home, the Topic adaptive card for Viva Connections, and the People Profile card. They can confirm or remove these associations.

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Teams Chat list

The Copilot for Microsoft 365 app is available in the Teams Apps Store for Copilot licensed users. This update will make the Copilot app visible in the Teams Chat list for easy access.

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Microsoft Teams: Simplified team create

When creating a team, the new default experience will be ‘create a team from scratch’, making it a simpler and quicker experience.

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Microsoft Teams: Chat between multi-tenant organization contacts will default to external chat

1:1 chat between multi-tenant organization (MTO) contacts will now default to external chat,
creating a single conversation thread. As part of this change, existing B2B chat threads will be available as read-only.

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Clipchamp Premium features & allowing users to request a license

Clipchamp Premium features help users take their content to the next level. With Clipchamp Premium, users can easily apply brand fonts, colors and logos with a brand kit, add top-tier assets for commercial use, and export crisp, well-defined visuals as 4K, 30fps, MP4 files. 

Clipchamp Premium features will be available as an add-on to the following Microsoft 365 SKUs: Microsoft 365 E3, Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, and Microsoft 365 Business Premium. With the release of Clipchamp Premium users will have the ability to request a license and admins will be able to manage requests through the standard Microsoft 365 admin center interface.

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Microsoft Teams – Configure Maintenance window on Teams admin center for Android-based Teams devices

With this feature, Teams device administrators will be able to configure maintenance windows for their Android-based Teams devices. This includes Teams Phones, Displays, Panels, and Teams Rooms on Android. This maintenance window will be used to carry out any automatic operation on the device including automatic updates.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 163600

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Viva Goals – A Default company-wide organization will be available by January 2024

A default company-wide organization will be available in Viva Goals to help users easily get started with Goals without going through the organization creation step. Viva Goals admins and IT admins will have control to change the default organization or turn it off.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 165683

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Topics Usage and engagement analytics in Microsoft 365 Admin center

Usage and engagement analytics for admins will show up in Microsoft 365 Admin center. To access these, navigate to Microsoft 365 Admin center -> “Search & Intelligence” section on the left Nav, then select “Insights” on the Top Nav, and select “Viva Topics”.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 88699

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