OneDrive: New Shared Experience

We are updating the Shared experience in OneDrive for web which can be found in the left nav pane. The new experience will show files and folders shared across various Microsoft 365 apps so that users can find files shared with them over email, chats, and meetings all in one place. In addition, users can identify updates to files by using the activity column, as well as leverage the new filtering pills to quickly find shared files.

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Windows 365: Downsizing a Cloud PC (Direct Assigned Licenses)

,An administrator will have the ability to downsize a user’s Cloud PC, provided that the admin has licenses in inventory to perform the downgrade. Only available for direct assigned licenses. Downsizing is only supported for vCPU/RAM – not storage.

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Whiteboard: Voting

This feature will bring a more formalized voting function to Whiteboard. This can be used in order to gather feedback from participants to come to conclusions during various activities. This will have the ability to be anonymous or not.

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Windows 365: Windows 365 Frontline

A Windows 365 offering designed for organizations to provide Cloud PCs for shift workers or part time workers that only need a Cloud PC for a limited amount of time each day or week.

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SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Flows packaged into custom list templates

Expand your organizational list templates by packaging Power Automate flows into them.

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Outlook: Disallow Reactions on an email

We are developing a suite of improvements that support the Reactions in Outlook feature, including methods for a sender to disallow reactions on an email they are about to send, or methods for an admin to control which emails in their tenancy should disallow reactions.

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Microsoft Viva: Custom Topic Types for Viva Topics

Knowledge Managers can define and edit custom topic types that can offer important context on the nature of the topic entity.

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Microsoft Viva: Share Viva Goals OKRs directly to teams chats/channels

Users can now copy and paste links to OKRs in Teams chats and channels, and the links will automatically be replaced to display a card with OKR details.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Windows 365 cloud PC advanced deployment guide

The Advanced deployment guides & assistance page in the Microsoft 365 admin center and the setup.microsoft.com website will have a new guide to help admins plan, deploy, and scale Windows 365 Enterprise in their organization. Windows 365 is a cloud-based service that provisions and hosts Cloud PCs as virtual machines for users. The guide includes a checklist with Cloud PC configuration tasks, best practices, tools, and recommendations based on a tenant’s configuration.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 102406

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Microsoft Teams: Ultrasound Howling Detection in Teams Meetings

Currently in Microsoft Teams, when multiple users are in a Teams meeting in the same room, a feedback loop is created, causing an echo. With this update, if multiple users are participating with laptops from the same location, Teams will notify the user that another Teams device has been detected nearby and is already included with audio in the current meeting. Teams will automatically mute the microphone and speakers of the person that joined when a user joins with audio on.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 92391.

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