Outlook: Desktop accessibility ribbon

Adding a new Accessibility Ribbon tab will make it easier for authors to make their messages more accessible. All the tools you need to make your message accessible, together in one place, so you don’t need to go find them.

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Microsoft Teams: Targeted In-meeting notification

Send in-meeting notifications to specific people in a meeting via a bot.

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Minecraft Education: License Management Moving to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center

The Microsoft Store for Education is retiring in the first quarter of 2023. In March 2023, license purchase and assignment for Minecraft Education subscriptions will be moved to the Microsoft 365 admin center.

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Shared Device Mode for Outlook Mobile on Android

Shared device mode is a feature of Azure Active Directory that allows you to use applications that support frontline workers and enable shared device mode on the devices deployed to them

Your frontline workers can preview Outlook on their shared Android devices until full rollout begins. Enabling frontline worker workflows includes challenges not usually presented by typical information workers. Such challenges can include high turnover rate and less familiarity with an organization’s core productivity tools. To empower their frontline workers, organizations are adopting different strategies. Some are adopting a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategy in which their employees use business apps on their personal phone, while others provide their employees with shared devices like iPads or Android tablets.

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Microsoft Power Automate – DocuSign premium connector

Microsoft recently announced a new pay-as-you-go program where Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can pay for the usage of their connectors by customers.

We are excited to announce that DocuSign has entered this program and as a result, the DocuSign connector, which is a premium connector, is available to be used by any users in your organization.

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Announcing General Availability for Customer Lockbox

We are excited to announce that Customer Lockbox for Power Platform and Dynamics 365 is now generally available (GA) in public clouds. Customer Lockbox provides a set of capabilities to help you govern Microsoft access to your data.

When will this happen?

The progressive rollout of the GA enhancements started this week and will be complete by January 20, 2023. Depending on the home region of your tenant, you can use the newly announced capabilities starting right away!

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Outlook: Desktop accessibility ribbon

Adding a new Accessibility Ribbon tab will make it easier for authors to make their messages more accessible. All the tools you need to make your message accessible, together in one place, so you don’t need to go find them.

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Azure Active Directory: Cross-tenant synchronization

Admins will be able to automate creating, updating, and deleting B2B users across tenants within an organization.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Secure collaboration on labeled and encrypted documents with user-defined permissions (U.S. government clouds)

SharePoint and OneDrive can process labeled documents that are encrypted with custom permissions, also referred to as user-defined permissions. As a result, these documents can be searched, inspected for data loss prevention, and used with eDiscovery. They can also be opened, edited, seamlessly co-authored, and support AutoSave in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps on all platforms (includes Office for the web).

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Retirement of apps based on selected templates

We will be retiring the apps based on the following Teams App Templates – Poll, Survey, Checklist, Quiz and Training. Check the app store for alternate options.

Note: If your organization is not using Teams App Templates you can safely disregard this message.

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