Microsoft Teams: Real time data for Teams Meetings in Teams Admin Center (Preview)

This new release (preview) of Real-time telemetry metrics for Admin will help you identify issues during a Teams meeting.

Note: This feature will be available for all customers as part of the Teams preview. Beginning in January, 2022 the Advanced Communications add-on license will be required.

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Mirror my video in Microsoft Teams meetings

Now you will no longer have to see the text flipped. Imagine a scenario in which a primary school teacher has a small whiteboard in hand and is trying to teach school kids basic alphabets. Or imagine you have a virtual background with text in it. While the user on the other end of the meeting can see the text correctly, you the text flipped. By providing you the option to un-mirror, you will be able to see the text correctly.

This feature will be helpful at the following locations:

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OneDrive: Sharing experience – “Copy Link”

Instead of a Copy link button, you’ll see an entire section where you can set permissions for the link and then copy it to share it with recipients. If you need to update the link permissions, you can do it directly from the Link Created dialog box as well.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83728.

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Redesigned Microsoft Teams Store Experience

With the newly redesigned Teams Store, you’ll find a landing page optimized for ease of discoverability with rotating banners at the top that spotlights interesting apps and scenarios. You’ll also see intelligent recommendations for apps that are popular amongst your colleagues and across all users on Teams. We’ve also added new curated surfaces that showcase collections of apps that address common scenarios from apps to get you started in Teams. We have also updated app categories to make it easier to find the apps you’re searching for – from those built by your org and colleagues to those built for certain functions and industries.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86186.

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Viva Connections is now generally available!

Viva Connections, part of Microsoft Viva, is your gateway to a modern employee experience. The Viva Connections app incorporates a customizable dashboard, the feed, and relevant resources all in one experience in the Microsoft Teams mobile, web and desktop.

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Modern lookup columns

This new feature, Lookup columns, will allow you to connect a list to a column from another list you have on your site. Once connected, you can easily “lookup” other information and include this in your new list. This makes it easy to maintain team-level, centralized lists that contain information you use repeatedly.

Note: You can now create look up columns in modern list and document library UI.

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Anonymous join policy

Administrators will be able to control the ability for anonymous users to join a Microsoft Teams meeting using a new per-organizer policy.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87503.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Introducing Built-In-Protection

We’re are introducing a powerful new default security preset called Built-in-Protection in Defender for Office 365.

  • Built-in-Protection is a third preset security policy (like the Standard and Strict preset policies), and is enabled by default for all new and existing customers. It will implement a version of Safe Links and Safe Attachments resulting in low impact on the end-user. It’s low impact as the end user experience will not be changed – URL links will not be wrapped. However, it will implement delivery time file and URL detonation as well as time of click protection.

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Stream on SharePoint – Viewership Retention

Users will now be able to identify the key moments in a video using “Viewership Retention” chart. This chart is available for all ODSP videos from when the feature is turned on. You will be able to see the percentage of views, relative to the peak viewed moment in your video, across it’s duration

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85643.

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Viva insights Manager insights

This month, Viva insights is releasing expanded insights for managers and team leads. Viva Insights features for managers and team leads will be available to users with a Microsoft Viva Insights license. These new insights expand the value of Viva insights to managers and team leads who have at least one direct report. Viva insights stores a team definition that is built upon your org data from AAD. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85622

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