14-Day Reminder of Private Unlisted Group Removal

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 25, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Pursuant to MC673984 and MC673984, all private unlisted groups (also known as “Secret Groups”) will be retired on 11/11/2023. The retirement of this feature was first announced via the Message center on September 1, 2022 (MC424414). Subsequent announcements drove awareness of private unlisted (“secret”) groups being made inaccessible on September 1, 2023 (MC673984).

This is the 14-day reminder that private unlisted groups in Yammer will be permanently deleted and deprecated on November 11, 2023.

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Microsoft Search: Monthly search report

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

The monthly search report provides key tenant search metrics and insights for your organization directly into the search admin’s mailbox, allowing administrators an easy way to understand how search performed in the previous month. Administrators can follow links provided in the report to the Search & Intelligence Admin Center for more information and deeper insights.

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Microsoft Teams: School Connection for parents in Microsoft Teams (mobile)

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

The School Connection app in Microsoft Teams mobile empowers parents and guardians to engage, support, and monitor their student’s learning at school. As a parent, you can stay up to date on assignments, grades, insights from the past month on digital activity, and more. This release will be generally available to all regions except countries in the European Union (EU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA); the GA for those countries will be coming at a later date.
More info: https://parent.microsoft.com/

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Microsoft Teams: Teams Phone and Teams Rooms licenses in device store

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

IT administrators can already browse and purchase Teams certified devices in the device store in Teams Admin Center. This update will enable IT admins to try and buy Teams Phone and Teams Rooms licenses from the device store.

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Outlook: Sort By Category

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

This feature allows users to sort their emails by categories in inbox and other folders. It will help users stay focused and organized by allowing them to group related emails together directly in the message list. This update will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web.

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Microsoft Teams: Click-to-Chat with Teams App Publishers

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

This feature enables users of Teams Admin Center to quickly and easily open a private Teams chat between themselves and a third-party app publisher to directly ask questions on pricing, compliance or other topics as they consider the deployment and/or purchase of the app.

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Microsoft Teams: Custom backgrounds for announcement posts in channels (Premium)

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Teams users will be able to create engaging custom backgrounds for channel announcements in just a few clicks. For Teams Premium, users will have additional access to DALL-E, a text to image generator, to generate images for their backgrounds.

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Clipchamp content

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Content improves your ability to create engaging and inspiring videos using Clipchamp. This feature includes stock videos and images, music, shapes, graphics and annotations and is available via web only for the following Microsoft 365 SKUs: Microsoft 365 E3, Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, and Microsoft 365 Business Premium.

When this will happen:

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Social ratings APIs are being retired

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

This message is intended to notify all customers utilizing social ratings APIs that Microsoft will start retiring a number of these APIs starting January 2024. If your organization is not using the social ratings APIs, you can safely disregard this message.

For a comprehensive list of the APIs scheduled for retirement, please refer to the information provided below.

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Private Team Discovery

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

End-users can discover private teams now dependent on admin-setting!

This admin only control will help admins make all or label-based private teams discoverable in their organization, for all or scoped end users with a simple toggle. The set of end users who have private teams’ discovery turned on for them by the admin, can search for private teams through the “Join team gallery” in their client. End users will still need to send join request for approval to the team owner.

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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.