Microsoft Graph connector for Azure DevOps Work Items GA announcement

Microsoft Graph connectors enable your organization to index third-party content in Microsoft Search. With the Microsoft Graph connector for Azure DevOps, you would be able to index and search for work items like bugs, tasks, user stories, features and epics from any of Microsoft Search endpoints like Bing, SharePoint, Office.com etc.

When will this happen:

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Outlook: Suggested replies expansion to Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish languages

Outlook on the web, iOS, Android, and Outlook for Win32 are extending support for suggested replies to include additional languages.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88992.

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Temporarily disable Viva Connections First Run Experience in the Desktop experience

Currently, when users log into Viva Connections from the rich Teams desktop client or Teams web client, they are presented with a multi-panel first run experience informing them about Viva Connections and its features.  We have discovered instances where a user might see this experience repeatedly, even if they had seen it before.  

The team is hence disabling this experience from the Viva Connections app for desktop users only while we improve this experience.  We will re-enable it in the future and will communicate when it is ready again.

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Reminder: IE11 desktop application retires in 2 months on June 15, 2022 – Set up IE mode today (non-LTSC, non-Server)

As previously announced, the future of Internet Explorer on Windows is in Microsoft Edge. Internet Explorer mode (IE mode) provides legacy browser support within Microsoft Edge. Because of this, the IE11 desktop application will be retired on June 15, 2022, on certain versions of Windows 10. This means that the IE11 desktop application will no longer be supported and afterwards will redirect to Microsoft Edge if a user tries to access it.

With 2 months left before retirement, we highly recommend you begin testing your sites in IE mode, followed by disabling the IE11 application completely via policy, to ensure readiness.

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Communication Compliance: Announcing GA of additional classifier language support

The Communication Compliance solution in the Microsoft 365 compliance center will soon support additional languages for built-in classifiers. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88995.

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Microsoft Information Protection: Optical character recognition (OCR) in in Exchange online and Teams DLP

Optical character recognition (OCR) support extracts text from images and will help discover and protect sensitive data in images being shared in Exchange Online (EXO), and Teams Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies.
Preview date: June CY2022

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SharePoint Syntex: Content Assembly – create pdf documents from modern templates

With this feature we will support pdf as document output format from modern templates in addition to the already supported docx format.

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Outlook: Personal bookings for web

Eliminate the back-and-forth scheduling with your personal bookings page.

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Microsoft Teams: Calendar Show As in meetings

Organizers of a Teams meeting and participants will be able to choose a Calendar Show As status feature such as free, busy or OOF to reflect their status for the scheduled meeting. In addition, organizers will also be able to select private meeting functionality which will allow users to hide meeting details from other users when their calendar is shared.

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Forms: Enable templates for commercial users

Microsoft Forms will soon be able to provide high quality templates that can be used for a variety of business goals.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88946.

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