Exchange Contacts Available in Calling Pickers in Teams

Exchange contacts with associated phone numbers will be available as part of the drop down selection in all Calling people pickers, such as the Dialer or call transfer, for customers that have PSTN enabled.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93050

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Message center posts will include monthly active users specific to the Power BI, Automate, and PowerApps service updates

Message center posts will include monthly active users (based off the past 30 days) related to change announcements for Power BI, Microsoft Power Automate in Microsoft 365 and Power Apps in Microsoft 365. This experience was enabled for other Microsoft 365 services in January (MC315739). We are now expanding to additional services.

This will help change coordinators and IT admins make a decision on which change they should address first vs deprioritize, based on the potential number of end users who could be impacted by a change. For example, If the change is about a service which has -0- active users for your organization, you should be able to deprioritize the change.

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams chat embedded within Dynamics 365

Microsoft Teams chat can be accessed directly from Dynamics 365 allowing users to continue existing chats or create new individual or group chats.

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Microsoft Project: Usage data now in Microsoft Admin Center

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management Classic EAC features migrating to Microsoft Purview compliance Portal Microsoft Project usage data will soon be visible in the Microsoft admin center, along with other product usage data. You will be able to see user (daily active users) and usage (Project visits) data for Project for the Web and Project desktop (the on-premises desktop app as well as the Project Online desktop client).

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OneDrive: Rename Add to OneDrive shortcuts

We’ve added the ability to rename shortcuts you’ve added using the “Add to OneDrive” feature within OneDrive web.

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Some users can access an unsupported early test version of the new Outlook for Windows

We are aware that some users can access an unsupported early test version of the new Outlook for Windows. This version is missing some of the features and enhancements that will be available later for our customers in the Beta Channel. We encourage our customers to wait for the beta version to be released.

We recognize the need for tenants to control access to apps in their organizations, so we are releasing early the instructions to do so. We expect to provide more news in the coming weeks about our Beta release. If you would like to block your users from connecting their Microsoft 365 accounts associated with your organization to this new app, please follow the PowerShell instructions. When the beta is available you will need to unblock them using the same instructions.

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Microsoft Project usage data in Microsoft Admin Center

Project usage data will soon be included in the Microsoft Admin Center Customer facing usage reports.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93278

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Changes to the Power BI service – simpler navigation and improvements to lists on Home

We are making changes to the Power BI service to provide simpler navigation, improvements to lists on Home, and style updates. To simplify navigation, we are introducing a new navigation link called Browse and merging Favorites, Recent, and Shared with me navigation links under Browse. Additionally, it’s easier than ever to find content in these lists with a new experience for filtering by keyword, content type, time, and owner.

When this will happen:

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Forms: Brand new first-run experiences for Forms new users

For those newly coming to Forms, the brand-new product landing experience will help users understand through immersive first-touch experience about Forms capability, such as where they can use Forms and how. Users can navigate through the Forms templates categories and select pre-populated grab-and-go solutions to directly start a survey.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88947

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Update Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Android security agent

This update will improve the Malware protection capabilities of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) on Android and form a major component of your next-generation protection in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

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