Microsoft Planner: Templates in Planner web

Get started quickly by using a pre-made template to jump into your work.

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Access: New Modern Web Browser Form Control

The Access team is releasing a new web browser control to a version that supports Chromium Edge! Our existing, internet explorer browser control will remain in the platform as-is.

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Microsoft Forms: Forms app replaced by Polls app in Teams Meetings

The new “Polls” app will soon replace the “Forms” app for enhanced polling options in Teams meetings. The “Forms” app will continue to support surveys only. We recommend you add “Polls” to your next Teams meetings.

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Microsoft Viva: Praise highlights in profile card in Teams and Outlook

With updates coming in February, praises received will be highlighted on a user’s profile card in Teams and Outlook. There are user settings available that prevent praise highlights from being visible on their profile card.

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Microsoft Stream Video Analytics Plugin for web

Microsoft Stream is releasing the Analytics plugin within the web player experience. Users can see the total Views and Viewer counts of the video over 7, 30, 90 days and an all-time count using line graphs on the plugin panel. They can also see and interact with the viewership retention chart on top of the video playback experience.

Video owners and editors can disable the plugin for users with ‘view only’ permissions.

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Retiring Teams Mobile Support for Devices Running on iOS 14

We will be retiring the Teams mobile support on iOS version 14. We recommend that users upgrade to newer iOS builds i.e., iOS 15 and above, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources. We will also begin encouraging users to update to the newest version of Teams if they’re running builds that are older than one year.

The deprecation of iOS 14 will start on March 1, 2023, and complete by March 7, 2023.

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Outlook:[Android] Interim improvements to storage over limit messaging and options

Now there is clearer messaging and cleanup options when you run out of email storage

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Outlook:[iOS] Customizable Compose Toolbar and Drawer

Now while writing an email you can reordering the tools, customizing your experience and making your most used actions even easier to reach

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Outlook:[Android] Ability to add an email as an attachment to another email while composing

Now you can send an email as an attachment to another email.

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Microsoft Stream: Create, view and share playlists in SharePoint

This feature will allow users to organize their video and audio files into a playlist for easy organization, sharing and playback. Users can add any video and audio files to a playlist that they have edit access to.
People with access to the playlist and to the files in the playlist can view the videos in order or skip back and forth between items in the playlist.

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