Update to the Conversations vertical in Microsoft Search in Bing

As users of Microsoft Search in Bing, you are already familiar with finding Teams and Yammer conversations via the Conversations vertical. We are pleased to inform that the Conversations vertical experience in Microsoft Search in Bing will be enhanced with Email messages. Going forward the Conversations vertical will contain Teams conversations and Email Messages. We expect that this feature will bring additional value to Microsoft Search in Bing experience for the users in your organization and make it more complete search experience.

Search results from Yammer, that is currently supported within the Conversations vertical in Microsoft Search in Bing, will appear in its own vertical. A future enhancement on the Yammer vertical will bring in a richer search experience.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Yammer Cross-geo external collaboration support on External Networks for the EU

With this release, members from Yammer networks located in the European Union will be able to be invited to Yammer External Networks hosted by a Yammer network located in the United States.

Note: For the subset of users of EU networks who had previously been active members of external networks, using an organization’s old network in the US geo, are reinvited to the external networks, their old profile will be marked as “deleted” without deleting any of the user’s content in those external networks.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2022 Yammer 0 Comments

Mute Notifications During Meetings

The current experience of receiving notifications during meetings is highly distracting and there is no easy way to turn off these notifications making it highly painful for users. This feature will introduce a setting to help the user turn OFF notifications during meetings.

• Global Setting to turn OFF notifications during meetings – A user can find this settings by clicking on the ellipsis next to the profile picture -> Going to global settings -> Notifications -> Meetings. This will turn off notifications for all the meetings
• Allow/Mute Notifications through the uBar – A user can wish to turn ON/OFF notifications on a per meeting basis through the setting provided in the meeting tray.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2022 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Microsoft Lists: Board View

This new feature, Microsoft Lists: Board View, will allow users to work with list data in a board format. This view is ideal when users want to track items as they move forward in a process or workflow.

• Moving items through stages is as easy as dragging and dropping.
• Users will be able to configure which columns from the list are displayed in the cards and in what order.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 10, 2022 Microsoft Lists 0 Comments

SharePoint and Microsoft Teams Connected Templates

We are announcing the upcoming release of Connected Templates with Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. The connected templates will offer a new way of combining Microsoft Teams templates with SharePoint templates. Prior to this integration, clients needed to deploy Microsoft Teams or SharePoint-specific templates.

• Microsoft Team Templates allow administrators to easily deploy consistent teams across their organization using predefined or customized team templates across their organization.
• SharePoint templates offer a straightforward way for admins to build sites with pre-populated pages, page templates, news post templates, and web parts that can be customized to fit the needs of their organization.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 7, 2022 Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online 0 Comments

New Content Scenarios for My Feed Web Part on SharePoint

We will be adding new content scenarios to the My Feed Web Part on SharePoint. The update will come with the following features.

• Suggested Task
  • These are tasks or actions you have requested by or of you. They also may be tasks or actions you promise to do. These tasks are pulled from your email conversations.
• People Highlights
  • These comprise of Birthdays, Work Anniversaries and Change of roles for people who you work with. The information is only visible for those who have chosen to share it on LinkedIn.
• Meetings out of routine
  • These are meetings scheduled on Teams or Outlook and are out of your usual working hours. This allows your users to either request for a reschedule or act on the meetings as appropriate.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 6, 2022 SharePoint Online 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Hide your own video in Teams meetings

Currently, it is not possible to hide your own video on the stage. This can contribute to meeting fatigue as we are constantly processing our own image during calls. This new feature update will expand the ability for users to hide their own video on the stage for themselves while others will still be able to see it and thus not disrupt the video experience during the call.

New feature will help to tackle various situations:

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 31, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Automatically Detect Music

The previously released ML-based noise suppression is now enabled by default for most of our customers. ML-based noise suppression considers any non-speech signal picked up by the microphone as noise which should be suppressed.

To avoid suppressing music and to allow users to enable the new high-fidelity music mode, we have built an ML-based music detector which will inform the user whenever music is present through a notification. This will give the end user the choice whether music is indeed an unwanted background noise, such as when calling into a meeting from a coffee shop, or if music is a desired signal, such as when participating in a music lesson.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 30, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Upcoming Release Outbound SMTP DANE and DNSSEC in Microsoft 365 Exchange Online

As previously announced in the blog post Support of DANE and DNSSEC in Office 365 Exchange Online, we will be adding support for SMTP DANE and DNSSEC to Exchange Online (EXO). DANE combined with DNSSEC is the state-of-the-art for securing email, and to optimize its effectiveness both standards will be enabled by default at the system level for all EXO customers.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 63212

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 28, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

Microsoft Editor Spellcheck and Grammar in SharePoint Pages

This update will add the Microsoft Editor service to SharePoint Pages and News and enabling their spellcheck and grammar capabilities. This will allow proofreading to take place in SharePoint without relying on the Editor browser extension. This feature changes the suggestion’s colors to monochrome when they’re shown on a themed background to increase visibility.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88534.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 28, 2021 SharePoint Online 0 Comments