Microsoft Teams: Meeting Toolbar Usability Improvements

The updated Microsoft Teams meeting toolbar makes navigating meetings and discovering new features and capabilities easier than ever, including the ability to seamlessly switch between views and menu options.

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Announcing Ability to Digitally Sign VBA Projects in Microsoft Access Databases

When creating a Microsoft Access database, authors will be able to use a code signing certificate to digitally sign the database. The signature will cover VBA code and other elements of the database such as Access macros and action queries.  This will enable databases to execute VBA code and other active elements when the Trust Center Macro Settings are set to only enable digitally signed VBA macros to run.

When this will happen:

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OneDrive: Sharing Experience – Sensitivity Labels inside the Sharing Dialog

We apologize that we did not communicate ahead of time for this feature release.

Sensitivity labels are used to classify and protect your organization’s data. These labels are completely customizable, and admins can apply a label to a specific file based on the organization needs. We’ve now added sensitivity labels inside the Sharing dialog, to provide you the ability to see what labels have been applied to your files prior to sharing them. 

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Communication Compliance: Prioritize analysis of policy-driven alerts with Azure Cognitive Services (public preview)

Coming soon to public preview, Communication Compliance will support Azure Cognitive Services text analysis, helping customers’ compliance managers prioritize and investigate alerts related to violations of their organizations’ defined regulatory requirements. Using Azure Cognitive Services, this update helps investigation of potential regulatory incidents by providing customers more context. Only messages that have already triggered an alert in an existing Communication Compliance policy will be analyzed. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88918.

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Add people to a group chat from compose box via @ mention

Teams Chat is for fast-paced communication, and we want to ensure nothing gets in the way. Pull in via @mention provides a short cut to the add-dialog saving you time from realizing the person isn’t already in the chat and navigating (2-clicks) to the add-dialog manually.  Users can now add someone to a group chat directly from the compose box via @ mention. 

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Microsoft Syntex: Universal Annotations

Syntex licensed users will be able to highlight, circle and underline on PDF and TIFF files without modifying the underlying file. This will help end users collaborate on files without making copies or compromising the document record.

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Microsoft Teams Rooms Companion Device Experience enhancement – Optimize video gallery for in-room participants

When joining a meeting in a Microsoft Teams Rooms with a personal laptop running Microsoft Teams, the video galleries on both the Microsoft Teams Room and laptops will be optimized to display only remote attendees and will not display the room video or other in-room attendees’ videos on the room gallery or the personal laptop. (Proximity Join with Microsoft Teams Rooms is required).

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Manage Enhanced Teams Apps for the Microsoft 365 App (formerly Office.com) from the Microsoft 365 Admin Center

In April 2022, Microsoft announced the Preview of Enhanced Teams Apps for developers to extend personal apps and message extensions to other parts of Microsoft 365, like Office and Outlook.

Previously, admins in the targeted release program were managing their Enhanced Teams Apps for the Microsoft 365 App (formerly known as Office.com) via the Teams Admin Center. We’re moving this experience to Integrated Apps on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Teams Admin Center will continue to remain the surface for managing apps on Teams clients.

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Modern Commenting Experience Coming to Whiteboard

With comments you can share your thoughts, celebrate with your teammates, or just have a conversation in Microsoft Whiteboard.

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Microsoft Syntex Pay-as-you-go Preview

Microsoft is offering a limited-time free preview of pay-as-you-go billing functionality that will be used in the future for some Microsoft Syntex services. The preview allows you to track Microsoft Syntex unstructured document processing events at no cost to assess usage and estimate costs for a future pay-as-you-go license.

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