Bookings Coming to Teams Essentials AAD

Users will soon be able to access Microsoft Bookings with Teams Essentials AAD.

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Change required for your user provisioning process

We applied a change to user provisioning and user record matching from Microsoft Entra to prevent the reuse of User Principal Names (UPNs). Previously, users with recycled UPNs had access to business records of which they never had access to or ownership.

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Outlook: Message Recall on Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows

Exchange Online’s Cloud-based Message Recall feature will be coming to Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for Exchange Online and Teams

Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF).

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OneDrive: Performance improvements

This feature will provide faster page load times when using OneDrive for Web or when using the Files app in Teams irrespective of your network speed. You will see faster screen loading, sorting, filtering, file moving, and renaming. This increase in speed is made possible by storing file metadata in the local cache of your device as opposed to requesting it from the cloud service.

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Outlook: Message Recall on Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows

Exchange Online’s Cloud-based Message Recall feature will be coming to Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows.

(more…)

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for Exchange Online and Teams

Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF).

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OneDrive: Performance improvements

This feature will provide faster page load times when using OneDrive for Web or when using the Files app in Teams irrespective of your network speed. You will see faster screen loading, sorting, filtering, file moving, and renaming. This increase in speed is made possible by storing file metadata in the local cache of your device as opposed to requesting it from the cloud service.

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Microsoft Teams: Usability Improvements in Shifts app

We are thrilled to announce a series of exciting product enhancements in Shifts designed to empower frontline managers and workers to achieve more:

  • Graph API for Day Notes
  • People Count Display on Shift Calendar
  • Full Name Display
  • Last Filter View Saved
  • Shifts Notes in Day View
  • Manager Controlled Privacy Settings for Frontline Workers

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Outlook on the Web: Meeting Participants Time-Zone Notification

To facilitate efficient scheduling and awareness of global time zones, Outlook will help meeting organizers find overlapping times across global time zones. This will help enable seamless collaboration among team members dispersed across global locales.

We initially rolled this feature out in September and based on your feedback we are making additional enhancements that we want to make you aware of. 

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