Microsoft Teams: Teams Platform Apps in Group VOIP Calls

All the familiar functionalities of meeting apps – tabs, bots, in-meeting dialogue, and meeting
stage – will be supported in Teams VOIP Calls. Users of your apps will enjoy the same familiar app experience as seen in Teams Meetings, in their Teams VOIP Calls.

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Whiteboard: Save and share user templates

Users will have the ability to save whiteboards as a template, and will be able to share that template with other individual users.

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Microsoft Viva: Recurring Time Booking for Breaks, Learning, and Message Catch Up in Viva Insights

Microsoft Viva Insights is introducing new recurring time booking options to make it easier to take regular breaks during the workday, protect time to meet weekly learning objectives, and have daily time to catch up on emails and chats. These booking options will be accessible to the user through the Briefing email sent at the end of the week as well as through the Viva Insights app in Teams.

The feature is only available to those with a Microsoft Viva Insights subscription.

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New Required Diagnostic Data (RDD) for Viva Learning

Viva Learning is introducing a separate toggle to allow Admins to better control the type of diagnostic data that is collected by Microsoft for Office client software running on the user’s device in your organization.

When this will happen:

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SharePoint: Configure Navigation Links to Open in a New Tab

With this update, users will be able to manage the experience for each navigation item to open in a new tab.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93318

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Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management and Records Management – Microsoft Graph APIs for extensibility (preview)

As a part of our extensibility vision and first release to Microsoft Graph, we are introducing three new APIs for retention labels, events, and event types in the Microsoft Graph beta environment. These APIs will enable you to customize and extend on what we have built in the product so far.

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Whiteboard: Commenting

The ability to add comments on a whiteboard to aid in discussion with board participants. This will include a comments pane to see all comments on a given whiteboard.

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Microsoft OneDrive: Granular controls for Request Files Links & Anyone Links

These policy changes will make it possible for customers to enable the Request Files scenario on OneDrives without also enabling file & folder Anyone links.

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Microsoft Teams: Live Translated Captions in Meetings

Users will now be able to choose the live captions in the language they prefer, with the help of Microsoft Cognitive Service Speech Translation Capabilities. This will help users fully participate in meetings where the spoken language may not be their most comfortable language to use.

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Microsoft Stream: Stream tile in M365 app launcher enabled for GCC-H and DOD

Stream tile in M365 app launcher will be enabled for GCC-H and DOD and users will be able to use the Stream tile to go to the Stream Start Page on office.com. The Stream tile will be visible for GCC-H and DOD tenants having the SharePoint service plan enabled.

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