Teams Rooms: Windows 11 support for Teams Rooms on Windows devices

Teams Rooms on Windows devices that are eligible for Windows 11 upgrade will receive the Windows 11 22H2 release in May 2023. This will be offered and installed on their devices with 4.16 dot release (a newer release than 4.16.40.0 currently available). Devices that are not eligible due to an incompatible processor will continue to use Windows 10 per Windows hardware support policy. These devices will be offered Windows 10 22H2 release.

Devices that cannot upgrade to Windows 11 will continue to be supported until the end of Windows 10 End of servicing for General Availability Channel or hardware support from OEM, whichever comes first. Windows 10 releases information at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/release-information. Please note, not all Windows releases are supported for Teams Rooms, to find supported version, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/rooms/rooms-lifecycle-support#windows-10-release-support.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Apr 5, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Outlook: Mandatory Labeling Before Composing Emails for Mobile Users

We have listened to customer feedback for Outlook mobile needing to meet the mission of “On the Go”, and for organizations to have mandatory labeling enabled without default labeling. We are releasing a feature that will allow Outlook mobile users to have a label selection before composing an email to send.

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

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 31, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

eDiscovery (Premium) Records Management – Discover the document version that has been shared (GA)

Currently available in public preview (MC394835), to help you efficiently meet regulatory obligations for retention and eDiscovery of shared content in your organization, eDiscovery (Premium) now supports the ability to discover the version of the document at the time that it was shared. This is facilitated by a new Records Management capability that enables you to automatically apply retention labels and retain the version of files shared as cloud attachments in email via Exchange and chat via Teams. The general release of this capability also includes support for file versions shared as hyperlinks within email or Teams messages.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 70580, 70718, and 106098.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 31, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Offline meetings in Microsoft Teams

For events such as personal appointments, lunch break slots on calendar, and in-person meetings, you can now create a true appointment in Teams calendar by turning off the online toggle for a meeting.

What to expect: By default, all meetings created from teams will be teams online meeting. The toggle is currently available only for private meetings and appointments. Offline events will not create chat thread and other teams meeting artifacts that are tightly coupled with teams’ online meetings.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 31, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

SharePoint: Create Pages and News from the SharePoint app bar

With this update, users will soon be able to start creating pages and news as an action from the SharePoint app bar. This means that no matter where users are in SharePoint, they can jump right into the creation process and stay in the flow of work.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98143

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 31, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Speaker View in Teams Meetings

Microsoft Teams is introducing a new feature: Speaker View. This option can be selected from the view switcher within meetings, allowing users to effortlessly track the current active speaker. Speaker View is particularly effective in scenarios with a limited number of key speakers and a large audience, such as town halls, trainings, or lectures – especially from the student’s perspective.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 116009

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 30, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Releasing the Web version of Viva Engage Admin Center

The Viva Engage admin experience currently available within the Teams application will soon be available within the Yammer web surface (being renamed to Viva Engage) for Microsoft Viva customers.

This web Viva Engage admin center is accessible from web.yammer.com and provides an additional entry point for admins (especially users who don’t have access to Teams due to licensing constraints) to setup, configure and manage the various features for their organization.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 30, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Office Apps on the Web can create PDFs that inherit the source files sensitivity labels

When using Microsoft 365 Apps on the web for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, files that have a sensitivity label will also apply those labels to PDFs created in those apps. Documents that also have encryption cannot be converted to PDF without first removing protection.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117594

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 30, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Viva Insights Powershell Tenant Controls

Admin controls to view and update Tenant’s default Microsoft Viva Insights settings using PowerShell.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 28, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Pin workspaces is now available

We are excited to announce that the pin workspace feature is now available! You can pin your workspaces on top of the list. And unpin them anytime as needed. This functionality enables you to easily navigate to the workspaces that are most relevant to you without searching through the workspace list.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 28, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments