Outlook: New Outlook for Windows – ICS support

ICS is a file format that holds event and calendar information and enables users to share that information through email. With full ICS support in the new Outlook for Windows, users will be able to view local ICS files and import them to their calendar. This mimics the experience currently available in classic Outlook for Windows.

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Microsoft Teams: Allowing registered attendees to bypass the lobby in Webinars

Organizers can set a new lobby policy so registered attendees will now automatically bypass the lobby when they join the webinar.

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Microsoft Teams: Export API Support for Teams Control Messages

Control Messages are system generated messages on Teams client when an activity or event occurs. For example, User A was added User B to a chat and shared all chat history. Export API, a compliance archiving solution for Teams, goes beyond user generated Teams message and provides support to archive Teams control messages. As part of this release, Export API will support member add and member remove messages in the context of Teams, chats, and channels.

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Microsoft Teams: Unified user experience for Bookings App in Teams

The Bookings app in Teams is moving to the new Virtual Appointments app and users will see a unified Bookings app experience across all the entry points. Users will be able to access features targeted for virtual appointments scenarios via the new Virtual Appointments app.

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PowerPoint: Camera Source Selection and toggle available in SlideShow and Presenter View

Change the camera source and turn on or off camera within PowerPoint Slideshow and presenter view in Desktop.

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Microsoft Teams: Track and pause automatic firmware updates for Android-based Teams devices in the Teams Admin Center

With this feature, IT admins can track which firmware is being rolled out through automatic updates via the Teams Admin Center and when. Additionally, automatic updates can be paused temporarily, allowing time to validate scenarios. This feature is applicable for Teams Rooms
on Android and Android-based Teams Phones, Panels, and displays.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/devices/remote-update

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Enhanced support for Teams video clips

Now eDiscovery admins collecting Teams video clips will see the teams video clip as a separate video recording file attached to the Teams conversation where it was shared. This will enable review and export as mp4 files to help admins better understand the content and context of the video clips.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Activity explorer export limit increase

The activity explorer’s export limit will increase from 10K to 100K records. This update will benefit organizations that prefer exporting user activity insights to a CSV file, as they now can filter, sort, or pivot a bigger data set more conveniently. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Lists: A new forms experience to collect information

We are making it easier to collect information with an updated forms experience for Microsoft Lists. Forms look clean, are easy to design, can be easily shared, and respondents are able to fill them out on any device. All form responses appear immediately in your list after recipient clicks the submit button.

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Microsoft Intune: Advanced app management

Advanced app management enables you to easily discover and deploy prepackaged apps and keep them updated with a securely hosted enterprise catalog.

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