Office app: Read Aloud works during screen lock on iOS devices

Now you can listen to your documents on mobile when screen is locked.

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Microsoft Teams: Additional language support for Suggested Replies for mobile

Suggested replies now supported in: Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, French, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Korean, Czech, Danish, Turkish, Polish.

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Unlimited audio upload minutes for web transcription on Microsoft Word

Now your organization can transcribe unlimited minutes of uploaded audio using Word for the web transcription. Previously, the limit was 300 minutes per month per user. There’s been no change for live recordings; you can still transcribe unlimited minutes of live recordings.

If your organization doesn’t use Word for the web transcription, you can disregard this message.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

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

  • Current Channel

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OneDrive sync app will automatically configure accounts

This release will enable the OneDrive sync app to sign into an account even quicker. Users will experience an improved single sign-on experience by automatically being able to see their OneDrive files within their file browser upon sign in or OneDrive app update.

  • On Windows, users who are signed into the device with an Azure Active Directory (AAD) account will see their OneDrive folder start syncing without entering their account credentials.
  • On macOS, users who are signed into another Microsoft app (i.e., Office, Teams, Edge, etc.) will see their OneDrive folder start syncing without entering their account credentials.

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Updates to the Zero-hour auto purge (ZAP) alerts

We will be updating the current zero-hour auto purge (ZAP) alerts and introduce a new ZAP alert that will notify you if a message has not been removed by ZAP.

Updates to the ZAP alerts will include:

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Display a message to Stream (Classic) end users

Upcoming, we will be introducing a couple of features that will help you display a message to your Stream (Classic) end users and in addition, will allow them to see options to upload on either classic or new Stream (on SharePoint).

When this will happen

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Daily Briefing Emails for users with Outlook language setting as null

The Briefing email from Microsoft Viva helps users start their day on track by surfacing information to prepare for upcoming meetings, follow up on outstanding tasks as well as protect time for independent work. Currently, the Briefing email is available for Microsoft 365 Enterprise users with Exchange Online mailboxes in these languages.

Some eligible Exchange Online users may not receive the briefing email today as they do not have their language preference set in Outlook. Starting in mid-May, the Briefing email will be sent in English to users who have their Outlook language setting as ‘null’. Users will receive an email for 30 days with a note requesting them to update their Outlook language preference. If users do not provide a language preference, the email will be discontinued after 30 days.

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Update firewall configurations for Power Automate flow IP addresses by May 15, 2022

New IP addresses have been added for Azure Logic Apps for availability zone support to provide increased resiliency and availability for your Power Automate flows. This will affect some Power Automate flows as calls made from a flow may go directly through the Azure Logic App service. If you have firewall configurations that allow communication with Logic Apps IP addresses, you will need to update them with new addresses for Logic Apps and Connectors.

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MyAnalytics dashboard and Briefing email settings changes

The Config Settings page in the MyAnalytics dashboard allows users to customize working hours, set up focus plan, set quiet hours, set up delay delivery, and, when applicable, configure their team. The Config Settings page will be replaced by the Settings page, which has settings for the daily Briefing email in addition to the existing controls.

Upcoming Settings page changes:

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