Microsoft Teams: Pre-assign Channel members to Breakout Rooms

Ability for organizer to pre-assign participants
to a breakout room within Channel meetings for channel members not explicitly
invited to the meeting. Currently, pre-assignment can only be completed for
participants invited to the meeting.

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Microsoft Teams: Assign seats in Together Mode

Allow meeting organizers to assign seats to participants in Together Mode.

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Microsoft Teams: Education Insights – Student Support Card

New AI-based Student Support spotlight in Education Insights helps educators better support students before they fall behind.

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Enable Q&A in Teams Meetings via Meeting Options

Teams meetings organizers can soon set up Q&A in their meetings via Meeting Options. Q&A is perfect for large or structured meetings – such as trainings, town hall, all hands and more. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 97020

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Microsoft Teams: Automatically end stale Teams meetings

Microsoft Teams is enabled with a new feature that will allow meetings to automatically end if they’re identified as stale. If a user is the sole participant in a meeting 10 minutes after the scheduled meeting end time has passed, then a dialog will appear in the call prompting them to end the call or dismiss the notification. If no action is taken on the dialog within 3 minutes, the meeting will automatically end.

If there is more than 1 user on the call and/or the scheduled meeting end time has not passed yet, then the feature will not trigger.

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Microsoft Secure Score is updating recommended action for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score recommended actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture.

This update will include updating the impact of the following recommended action related to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on the overall score:

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Customer Facing Analytics

,The customer facing analytics module will allow customers to understand the usage metrics for their instance of Viva Connections. and will help them gauge the health of their VC deployment.
Preview date: August CY2022

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Microsoft Teams: External access chat invitation flow for managed organizations

When receiving a new one-on-one chat from an external user, Teams users will now see an invitation to accept or block the external user. This also provides the ability to block external users at any point, which revokes access to presence and incoming messages.

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Microsoft Teams: Graph API for Teams Meetings Transcripts

Graph API to access Teams Meetings transcript once the meeting is over. 

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Microsoft Teams: Teams Q&A

Question & Answer for Teams webinars & meetings. By enabling Q&A to any Teams Webinars or Meetings through Meeting Options, Meeting Organizers will be able to create either moderated or unmoderated Q&A experience.

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