Microsoft Teams: Call Merge for Teams on VDI

Call Merge for Teams on VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) gives users the capability to merge an active 1-1 call into another 1-1 call or another group call. This applies to both Teams VOIP calls and PSTN calls.

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Microsoft Teams: Pre-meeting Breakout Room creation and participant assignment for Teams on VDI

Organizers of Teams meetings on VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) can configure breakout rooms and participant assignments before the meeting starts.

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Microsoft Teams: Location-based routing for Teams on VDI

When making or receiving a PSTN call, location-based routing for Teams on VDI, enables the bypass of toll restrictions based on where the user is located. Such as when the user is not
physically located on a corporate network.

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Microsoft Project: Increased number of tasks in Project for the web

Create up to 1,000 tasks within a project to take on big projects

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Microsoft Teams: Upload documents from OneDrive for Business for E-signature Approvals

When creating an e-sign request in Approvals in Teams, users can now upload documents
from OneDrive for Business.

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Outlook on the web: Meeting Recap

Meeting recap helps users stay on top of meeting results and follow up by making it easy to find meeting related documents such as the recording and meeting notes without the need to navigate across multiple apps, so they can recap a meeting and follow-up asynchronously.

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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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