Creation of Contact Groups in Calls App

Creation of Contact groups are now available in the right rail pane of the Calls App. Users can now create new groups, and edit the membership of existing groups via the Calls app.

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Microsoft Teams: Viva Connections for your Frontline Teams members

Frontline employees with an F license will have an out of box Viva Connections experience tailored to their frontline needs. This experience includes a dashboard with relevant frontline cards such as Tasks, Shifts, Approvals, and Top news.

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Microsoft Teams: Browser screen pop for incoming PSTN calls

Admins can enable policy so that on acceptance of a PSTN call, an automatic browser launch can happen alongside Teams, displaying relevant information (CRM data, case data, etc.) to the user.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Categorization of user-reported messages

An updated “Submissions” experience will categorize user-reported messages into individual tabs for Phish, Spam (Junk) etc., based on the user’s report.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: End user reporting for suspicious messages in Microsoft Teams

End users will be able to report suspicious Microsoft Teams messages as a security threat just like they do for emails – to help the organization to protect itself from attacks via Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Teams: Manage Surface Hubs as Teams devices from Teams admin center

Administrators can manage the entire lifecycle of Surface Hubs as Teams devices from the Teams admin center. Available features include remote restart, download of logs, configuration of settings, and detailed device information.

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Microsoft Teams: Delete or rename files in a channel and in your OneDrive folder in Teams

To rename or delete a file in a channel, go to the files tab and find the file you want. Then select More options (the three dots) on the file. To rename or delete a file from your OneDrive, select More at the bottom of the app, then select Files. Once you find the file you want, select the three dots and choose to rename or delete it.

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Microsoft Teams: Simplified app update experience

Users will have a clear and transparent app update experience. Users will only need to approve an update once per app, and the new version will take effect seamlessly in all their chats, channels and meetings.

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Microsoft Teams: Approvals as a PDFs can be saved, printed and transferred

Approval creators will be able to save a completed approval request to a PDF file and have the option to print it. This feature will also allow customers to easily transfer their proof of approval as a PDF to another system or store as a file.

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Microsoft Teams: Live Share SDK support for meeting extensions

Live Share is a new developer capability designed to transform Teams meeting apps into collaborative multi-user experiences without writing any dedicated back-end code. Live Share SDK support for meeting extensions enables general-purpose collaboration features, turn-key media synchronization to co-watch videos in meetings, and inking, cursors & annotations.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/apps-in-teams-meetings/teams-live-share-overview?tabs=javascript

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