Microsoft Stream: Edit the transcript text directly in the UI in Stream (on SharePoint)

This feature allows you to edit the transcript text of a Stream (on SharePoint) video directly in the transcript pane. The feature also works with any videos stored in SharePoint or OneDrive for business that contain transcripts. To edit a transcript, you must have edit permission to the video. Transcript editing helps you improve the quality of your transcript by quickly correcting minor mistakes such as misinterpreted acronyms, names, or incorrect punctuation.  Changes in the transcript are also reflected in the closed captions.

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Microsoft Teams: Deploy Teams at scale for frontline workers

Deploying Teams at Scale
enables your admins to deploy up to 500 teams and add 25 users per team using
one Teams PowerShell command and 2 csv files. This allows admins to meet their
organization’s scale needs and significantly reduces deployment time. Admins
can also use this solution to add and remove members from existing teams at
scale.

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Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Information Protection – New Credentials SITs (U.S. Government clouds)

The addition of new Credentials Sensitive Information Types (SITs) will allow your company to detect individual credential patterns (access keys, tokens, general passwords, etc.). Additionally, we will be offering a SIT which bundles all individual credential types for more holistic detection.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitive-information-type-learn-about?view=o365-worldwide

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My Activity retirement in Teams mobile Activity

We will be retiring the support for ‘My activity’ in Teams mobile Activity App. This will be retired from other clients in the future. 

Activity will now support only activities directed to you (the option to view activities initiated by you will be retired).

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Outlook Mobile Now Supports Multiple S/MIME Certificates

Outlook mobile (iOS and Android) will allow users to manually select their S/MIME signing /encryption certificates if there is more than one valid certificate available, and set them as active for signing and encryption. 

When this will happen:

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Convert Word/Pdf form or quiz to Microsoft Forms

This feature allows you convert you existing forms or quizzes into Microsoft Forms, making it much quicker to get started. After import, you can still edit as needed before collecting responses.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93411

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Microsoft Information Protection: Maintain label and protection when creating PDF files from VBA in Office apps

This feature is for VBA developers who use Office fixed format export functions to create PDFs from documents with sensitivity labels and encryption. By default, all PDFs created using Office’s fixed format export functions will automatically inherit the source document’s label or encryption. Some VBA add-ins may need to be updated to avoid issues when post-processing an encrypted PDF.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93406

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Retiring Resume Assistant in Word

Resume Assistant is being phased out, starting in September 2022. By the end of January 2023, it will be removed and no longer supported.

Microsoft is committed to improving your Microsoft 365 subscription. As a result, we occasionally remove features and benefits that duplicate equivalent offerings that are available to subscribers.

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Updates to Minimum Supported Outlook Desktop Versions for Actionable Messages

We are upgrading the underlying infrastructure for Outlook Actionable Messages (AM) to make them more performant and resilient.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

We’ve released updates to the following update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel
  • Monthly Enterprise Channel
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview)
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

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