The November 2023 Windows non-security preview update is now available for Windows 11, versions 22H2 and 23H2

Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 5, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

The November 2023 non-security preview update is now available for Windows 11, versions 22H2 and 23H2. Information about the contents of this update is available from the release notes, which are accessible from the Windows 11 update history page. To learn more about the different types of monthly quality updates, see Windows monthly updates explained. To be informed about the latest updates and releases, follow us on X @WindowsUpdate.

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

Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 4, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

This feature enables Microsoft Teams (free) users, those using a personal Microsoft Account, to directly join Teams for work meetings from within the client and stay connected even after the meeting has ended. This feature similarly also enables Microsoft Teams (work or school) users to join the Microsoft Teams (free) meetings directly from within the client.  These users are no longer prompted to join via a browser and treated as meeting guests (anonymous).

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting Options Categorization

Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 4, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

We are introducing grouping within Meeting Options to improve organizers’ and co-organizers’ ease of understanding selections.

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Microsoft Teams Admin Center: Deploy and manage Shifts for your frontline teams in the Teams Admin Center

Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 4, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Admins will gain the ability to standardize Shifts settings (open shifts, swap shifts requests, offer shifts requests, time off requests and time clock), identify schedule owners, and create scheduling groups uniformly for all frontline teams at the tenant level.

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Microsoft Teams: Deploy your frontline operational hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center

Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 4, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Admins will be able to set up their frontline operational hierarchy to map their organization’s structure of frontline teams/locations to a hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center. Admins can also define attributes for their teams that range from department information to brand information. The operational hierarchy coupled with this added metadata will enable numerous frontline apps
and experiences in the future like task publishing and additional frontline capabilities that are coming soon.

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Visio: Custom shapes in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 2]

Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 4, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Users with a Visio Plan 2 license will be able to use third-party custom shapes to create diagrams in Visio for the web.

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Microsoft Search: Answer insights and enhanced user adoption analytics

Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 4, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Answer analytics for Microsoft Search provides insights into how editorial content like Bookmarks, Acronyms and Q&A are performing within the organization. Enhanced user analytics provides insights into search adoption across search applications like SharePoint, Microsoft Search for Bing, Microsoft Search for Windows, Microsoft365.com, and now also cover in-app searches from Outlook, Teams and other office applications.

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Visio: Edit legacy .vsd files in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2]

Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 4, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to edit legacy .vsd files in Visio for the web by creating an exact copy (except macros) and saving it in the latest .vsdx format.

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Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for transcript-only meetings (Premium)

Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 4, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Intelligent recap will support meetings with only transcript enabled, and without recording enabled. In the case when only transcript is enabled for a meeting, the features from intelligent recap that users can access are AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name
mentions.

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Microsoft Teams: Audio flyout and settings in Teams meetings

Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 4, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

The Audio and Video Flyout is designed to make it easier and more efficient for users to manage their audio and video settings during Teams meetings. Users can easily toggle features on and off with visual indicators for both audio and video settings, eliminating the need to navigate deep into the settings menu to make adjustments.

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Joao Ferreira

I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.