Require Background Blur (Teams Premium)

We are introducing granular controls to the existing Organizational Defined Background capability which is part of Teams Premium now. With the granular controls, admins will be able to show only custom backgrounds, require background blur, or preset an organizational background.

Organizational defined backgrounds – provides catalog of org backgrounds for user to choose from

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Cloud IntelliFrame available on the new Microsoft Teams experience

Cloud IntelliFrame is an experience that allows online meeting attendees to see people in Teams Rooms more clearly, enhancing the hybrid meeting experience by creating smart video feeds of in-room participants. The smart video feed is created by zooming into their faces and eliminating distractions. You can see the expressions and gestures of the people in the room more easily, which will help improve collaboration in hybrid meetings. It creates equity in hybrid meetings as everyone can be seen and heard.  

Cloud IntelliFrame is now available on the new Microsoft Teams experience.

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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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