Message Reminders in Outlook for iOS and Android

Outlook for iOS and Android will soon roll out Message Reminders, a feature that pulls emails that users may want to reply to up to the top of their inboxes.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 126517

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Microsoft Syntex: Prebuilt model for contracts

We will soon add a new prebuilt model to Microsoft Syntex, which can be used to analyze contracts and extract common entities.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124814

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Microsoft Viva: Auto-Categorization Coming to Meeting Category Insights in Viva Insights

Meeting category insights in the Viva Insights app helps Viva Insights licensed users understand how they are allocating their time across meeting categories. Today, the feature uses the categories manually assigned by users in Outlook and Teams. In an upcoming update, meeting category insights will begin automatically categorizing meetings for users based on meeting size, cadence, and number of people in the meetings. Categories include:

  • Long meetings – More than 1 hour long and 0-8 invitees
  • Large meetings – At least 9 invitees and at most 1 hour long
  • Large and long meetings – At least 9 invitees and more than 1 hour long
  • Recurring meetings – Meeting series with multiple instances
  • 1:1 meetings – Include 1 other participant

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Viva Topics app in Teams

The official Viva Topics app in Teams is rolling out to external customers.

Previously, we had built a Topics app for Teams as a script that Teams admins could upload. Now, the Topics app is available as a first party “Microsoft-built” app. This means the app is available in the app store for your tenant already, no upload or script-downloading required. Users in your tenant can either easily ‘add’ the app, like other Microsoft-built or Viva apps, or the Teams admins can select to have the Topics app pre-installed for users. 

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Power BI notification for discontinuation of support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1

We will be retiring the support of TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 for outgoing requests from Power BI. Instead, we recommend the utilization of TLS 1.2 or above for outgoing requests, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources. TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 have already been disabled for incoming requests long ago. For security documentation, please refer: Power BI Security – Power BI.

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Introducing New Look for Teams Admin Center

As part of our ongoing efforts to provide the best possible experience for our IT administrators, we’re excited to launch a vibrant new look and feel to the Teams Admin Center. This is a significant improvement over the previous version, delivering several key enhancements that we believe will greatly benefit Teams administrators.

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Microsoft Viva: Mobile Dashboard personalization

Now you can customize your Viva Connection Dashboard by adding, removing or reordering your dashboard cards.

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Microsoft Teams: Updated companion mode for Android meetings

This feature allows you to add your Android device to an ongoing meeting, making it easy to chat, react, share, and more.

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OneNote Quick Note: New Simplified Toolbar and Modern UX

We have incorporated a sleek new toolbar with useful text formatting options and inking capabilities in Quick Note, given you faster access to screen clipping and made it easier to transition to OneNote on Windows through the overflow menu.

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Outlook: Message Reminders

Outlook will surface emails to the top of your inbox when we detect a reply is still needed.

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