Microsoft Teams: Two-way lobby chat

The Virtual Appointments app provides a central hub for all your virtual appointments needs in Microsoft Teams. The app enables a seamless end-to-end experience for business-to-customer engagements.

Queue view in Virtual Appointments app is a premium advanced virtual appointment feature that allows businesses to Empower employees to manage and service scheduled and on-demand virtual appointments in one location with advanced capabilities to track wait times, live status of a meeting, and more. Scheduling administrators and staff conducting virtual appointments can monitor incoming requests and process them appropriately.

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Outlook – New Outlook for Windows and web – Reading Pane Background Image

To offer more personalization to end users, Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows will offer the ability to display a background image in the reading pane whenever emails are not selected.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 126221

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 empowers end users to report suspicious messages from shared/delegate mailboxes

Soon, end-users will be able to report messages from shared mailboxes and delegate mailboxes using the built-in Report button in Outlook on the web.

To refresh your memory, these screenshots show the Report buttons in Outlook on the web if you have the simplified ribbon turned on:

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Outlook on the web – Work Hours and Location

To help organizations manage hybrid work, users can set up their work hours and location (WHL) in Outlook on the web, specifying when they’ll be remote or in the office. They can also setup different working hours per day, or multiple work slots in a day. Additionally, if your organization uses Teams and a user sets up WHL, their location will also be shown in their Teams profile card.

The new WHL also impacts how “suggested times” work when creating a meeting event in Outlook on the web. Suggested times will take into account the WHL of the attendees before suggesting times when people are available.

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Announcing General Availability for Microsoft Power Platform tenant isolation

We are excited to announce that tenant isolation for Power Platform is now generally available (GA) in all clouds. Tenant isolation makes it easy for administrators to ensure that connectors used in apps and flows can be harnessed in a safe and secure way within the tenant, while minimizing the risk of data exfiltration outside the tenant.

Tenant isolation is generally available on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in all regions and clouds. The change removing the “preview” tag in Power Platform admin center is being deployed in all regions and will be available worldwide by Saturday, May 20, 2023.

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Outlook: Mandatory labeling pre-compose for iOS

We have listened customer feedback on Outlook mobile needing to meet the mission of “On the Go” and for organizations to have mandatory labeling enabled without default labeling and would like to have the label selection first before going to compose the email. When the users click “Send”, the email could just be sent without any forgotten labeling pop ups. Outlook mobile will introduce a new MDM setting to allow admins to enable this louder mandatory configuration for Outlook mobile clients (iOS and Android) specifically. We will enable Android first in early Q1 of 2023, and iOS will release in Q2 of 2023.

This release will include supporting the new sensitivity bar below the subject line as well as support label colors.

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Microsoft Teams: Default Meeting Layout Controls for Teams Rooms on Android

Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android IT admins can choose the default meeting layout. When a meeting begins, room users will see the default meeting layout. They can switch to other views using the view switcher during a meeting.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 121663

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Microsoft Teams: New ‘Sync device buttons’ setting

The new Sync device buttons toggle available under your Teams Desktop client Settings (Devices tab) allows users to disable the syncing between their device controls and with Teams. The purpose of this feature is to offer an option for end users to disable the syncing of their connected Peripherals with the Teams Desktop client to allow for co-existence scenarios with other HID-enabled or speech-recognition apps.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center – Accessibility baseline

The Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center (config.office.com) is receiving an update.  You are already aware of the Security Baseline option for Cloud Policy service. We are now releasing the Accessibility Baseline. This will enable you (as the IT Admin) to configure accessibility policies, which are already ON by default, into a policy. The benefit here is to empower each and every user to create accessible content.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Edge management service

Microsoft Edge management service is a single portal for admins to manage the Edge browser. It is a simple and easy-to-manage experience. Admins will be able to configure all Edge browser policies for their organization in a configuration profile and set-up the browser to use these settings.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124856

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