Changes to navigation in Outlook for Android

Outlook for Android is making it easier to find all your contacts, files, and more. See our blog post at Navigating Outlook for Android and iOS – Microsoft Community Hub

Users will see changes to the tab bar at the bottom of Outlook for Android, a new Floating Action button, search will be renamed Feed with a new Icon, and Contacts and Files will be found under the “More” button. 

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Support PSTN attendees in meetings to join Breakout Rooms

This Breakout Rooms feature enables PSTN participants to be assigned and join breakout rooms. PSTN participants includes dial-in users, dial-out users, and call-me users.

Scenarios supported in this version:

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Microsoft Teams: Additional Filters in Approvals

Microsoft Teams approval list within the personal app will include additional filters to filter your approval list such as key word search and other options such as Approved.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 92486

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Additional API Capabilities for Tasks in Teams and Planner

We’re introducing new application permissions capabilities for the Microsoft Planner APIs. This includes two sets of enhancements that will make it easier to work with tasks in your organization.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 101153

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Announcing de-duplication of contacts in Outlook Web

Duplicate contacts are hard to remove manually and as a result people information often remains scattered across contacts. Microsoft is offering end users of Outlook Web App (OWA) the ability to discover duplicate contacts and merge information for a profile into one contact. As a tenant admin of an organization, you are receiving this message because your end users may be introduced to duplicate contact merge suggestions in OWA.

This means that our service will proactively detect duplicate contacts for users of your tenant and will present merge suggestions in OWA. All user merged contacts will appear subsequently in Outlook Desktop and Mobile. As part of feature completeness, we provide an option to control the audience within your organization. You can control the audience for this feature by disabling/enabling the service for a part of your organization or for your entire organization. For details, please refer to the ‘What you need to do to prepare’ section below.

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New praise compose experience in Teams and praise trends in Viva Insights

Praise in Microsoft Teams is designed to appreciate the effort that goes into the wide-ranging, collaborative work that Teams users do. Users can send praise to their colleagues through the messaging extension pinned to the Teams messaging bar or through the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams. For both, admins can use the Microsoft Teams admin center to enable/disable Praise.

The praise composer and praise card design will be updated for all Teams users. The praise composer – accessible through the messaging extension pinned to the Teams messaging bar or through the Viva Insights app in Teams – is being refreshed to replace praise badges with emojis, introduce the ability to select gradient backgrounds. Additionally, in the Viva Insights app in Teams, praise trends are being introduced, privately surfacing analytics such as counts of praise sent and received, your top fans and top praises received.

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Microsoft Teams zero-install link unfurling

With zero-install link unfurling, any time an app link is shared in Teams, it can be anonymously unfurled to showcase its value and skills right in the flow of conversation to show upfront user value. Your users can use this information and choose to install and use the app right in the flow of conversation.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98723

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Announcement of automatic deletion of inactive Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environments

The Microsoft Power Platform is introducing a cleanup mechanism that will automatically remove inactive Dataverse for Teams environments from your tenant. Dataverse for Teams environments will be first disabled after being inactive for 90 days, the environment will then be deleted after 30 days of being disabled if no action is taken by the administrators. A disabled or deleted Dataverse for Teams environment will not affect any other Microsoft Teams assets (teams, channels, SharePoint sites, Teams-connected sites…etc.) and applies only to Dataverse integrations.

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Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): New role for review set tag management

We are introducing a new role in Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium) for review set tag management.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100498.

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Microsoft Graph to Support HTTP/2 as of September 2023

Beginning September 15, 2023, the Microsoft Graph service (graph.microsoft.com) will enable HTTP version 2 (HTTP/2) in addition to HTTP/1.1. for API requests. 

When this will happen:

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