Outlook: Context IQ -inline search and insert

Editor leveraging Context IQ allows users to easily search for and insert entities that exist across their Microsoft 365 account like people and files, in a message they’re writing. When users type the “@” symbol, a menu will appear that shows the different options. Outlook can also proactively assist users by suggesting relevant content to insert based on the context of their current message.
More info: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/11/02/whats-new-in-microsoft-365how-were-empowering-everyone-for-a-new-world-of-hybrid-work/

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Microsoft Viva: Schedule send suggestions from Viva Insights in Teams chat

To encourage adoption of healthy collaboration habits, Viva Insights will display actionable recommendations to align message delivery in Teams chat to recipient work hours. Schedule send suggestions will be automatically displayed for those who compose 1:1 chats in Teams desktop and web after-hours. With just one click, users can schedule chat message delivery to be at the start of recipient work hours and minimize work-related interruptions during personal time.

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SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: Create a list from CSV

You can now import from a CSV file to create a list with it. The Export to CSV feature is also augmented with schema, so when you import, your source and destination lists will look identitical, down to all the custom formatting, choice pills, richtext based editing etc.

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SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: Approvals integration

Microsoft Lists templates will begin to leverage integration with the Approvals app in Microsoft Teams. When you specify the approver within your list item, the request will appear in the Approvals app in Teams or can be approved directly within the list. Once approved, the list item status is updated.

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SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: Rules packaged into custom List templates

Expand your custom organizational templates by packaging rules into them – alongside the ability to pre-program the list schema (columns), formatting, and more.

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SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: Rules packaged into out-of-the-box List templates

Several of the out-of-box list templates will now come with rules pre-packaged into them, to help you keep you and your team members notified of distinct changes in your list items.

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SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: New Lookup column type support

Create Lookup columns in modern list user interface – no settings page required. This means you can program a list item (column) to ‘lookup’ another set of data of pre-populated, managed choices. We are pleased to expand the columns types that are now supported when ‘looking up’ from the other list: Boolean (Yes/No), choice, and multi choice – plus formatting.

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SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: Calendar view – week layout

When you create a new view for your list, you can now choose between month view or the new week view to visualize your list information in a way that works best for you. And you can create multiple calendar views – using both month and week – you choose. Once in the calendar view, it’s easy to drag-n-drop items to reschedule them (adjusting their date on the list itself).

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Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments calendar analytics

End-user calendar analytics in the Virtual Appointment Teams application.

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Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments App

Provides a single location where professionals and administrators can schedule and manage scheduled and on-demand virtual appointments in Microsoft Teams, view valuable appointment insights and analytics, get real-time status updates in a queue view, and send appointment reminders.

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