Outlook: Mandatory Labeling Before Composing Emails for Mobile Users

We have listened to customer feedback for Outlook mobile needing to meet the mission of “On the Go”, and for organizations to have mandatory labeling enabled without default labeling. We are releasing a feature that will allow Outlook mobile users to have a label selection before composing an email to send.

This release will also include a new sensitivity bar below the subject line as well as support label colors.

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eDiscovery (Premium) Records Management – Discover the document version that has been shared (GA)

Currently available in public preview (MC394835), to help you efficiently meet regulatory obligations for retention and eDiscovery of shared content in your organization, eDiscovery (Premium) now supports the ability to discover the version of the document at the time that it was shared. This is facilitated by a new Records Management capability that enables you to automatically apply retention labels and retain the version of files shared as cloud attachments in email via Exchange and chat via Teams. The general release of this capability also includes support for file versions shared as hyperlinks within email or Teams messages.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 70580, 70718, and 106098.

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Offline meetings in Microsoft Teams

For events such as personal appointments, lunch break slots on calendar, and in-person meetings, you can now create a true appointment in Teams calendar by turning off the online toggle for a meeting.

What to expect: By default, all meetings created from teams will be teams online meeting. The toggle is currently available only for private meetings and appointments. Offline events will not create chat thread and other teams meeting artifacts that are tightly coupled with teams’ online meetings.

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Microsoft Defender for Office allows submission of up to 100 emails

Applicable to Tenants with Exchange Online Protection, Microsoft Defender for Plan 1 or Plan 2 or Microsoft 365 Defender plan. 

Coming soon, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 will allow you to submit up to 100 emails at once from quarantine, threat explorer (or real-time detections tool) and User reported page to Microsoft for analysis.

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Microsoft Teams Premium: Configuration Change for Watermark

We are making some changes to Watermark Premium Policies for licensed Teams Premium users.

Users will soon have the ability to utilize watermarks on shared content and video feeds without the need to establish watermark policies via the Teams Admin Center or PowerShell.

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SharePoint: Create Pages and News from the SharePoint app bar

With this update, users will soon be able to start creating pages and news as an action from the SharePoint app bar. This means that no matter where users are in SharePoint, they can jump right into the creation process and stay in the flow of work.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98143

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Microsoft Teams: Teams Rooms on Windows and VTC endpoint calling via CVI partners

Users can make one-to-one calls between Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows and VTC endpoints enabling ad-hoc video calls across services.? The Teams Rooms platform enables Cloud Video Interop (CVI) partners to offer this feature for Teams Rooms Pro licensed customers.
Please check with your CVI partner for availability.

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Microsoft Teams: Give Feedback for GCC

Users in GCC can give feedback via the Help icon in Teams regarding their experience with the product. This drives how Microsoft addresses trends and influences future features and product updates. From the help icon, click on give feedback to provide verbatims on your product experience.

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Microsoft Teams: Speaker View in Teams Meetings

Microsoft Teams is introducing a new feature: Speaker View. This option can be selected from the view switcher within meetings, allowing users to effortlessly track the current active speaker. Speaker View is particularly effective in scenarios with a limited number of key speakers and a large audience, such as town halls, trainings, or lectures – especially from the student’s perspective.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 116009

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Releasing the Web version of Viva Engage Admin Center

The Viva Engage admin experience currently available within the Teams application will soon be available within the Yammer web surface (being renamed to Viva Engage) for Microsoft Viva customers.

This web Viva Engage admin center is accessible from web.yammer.com and provides an additional entry point for admins (especially users who don’t have access to Teams due to licensing constraints) to setup, configure and manage the various features for their organization.

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