Exact Data Match support for Customer Managed Key

After a successful public preview (MC246007) in April 2021, this new release will enable you to be able to encrypt Exact Data Match (EDM) data using your own Customer Managed Key (CMK), further enhancing EDM data security.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81987.

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Rich Yammer link previews in Teams chats

With this change, when inserting a link of a Yammer conversation in a public community from their canonical (home) network, users with the Yammer Communities app for Microsoft Teams installed will now get a rich preview directly in Teams.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82243

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Play My Emails in Outlook launching internationally

Play My Emails in Outlook for iOS and Android will soon be rolling out in English worldwide. The feature has rolled out in UK, India, Australia, and Canada (MC224750, November 2020).

These updates are related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82004.

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Announcing annotations in PowerPoint Live in Teams

This new release will allow users to use a virtual laser pointer and make ink annotations when presenting through PowerPoint Live in Teams. Just as a presenter would use a physical laser pointer in a room, PowerPoint Live allows users to highlight by pointing at different places or data so the audience can easily follow along. This is rolling out on Microsoft Teams desktop, web and Mac.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81966.

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Additional Admin Functionality and Support for 1000 person meetings

With the recent 1000 person meeting deployment, we are providing Admin additional support to troubleshoot meetings. We have added the following capabilities in Teams Admin Center:

  • ‘Search’ based on partial text match by participant UPN, user name and other fields,
  • Sort’ based on a selected set of fields and
  • ‘Export’ the meeting participant list and call quality details for offline review purpose.

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Together Mode Extensibility

Creators can now build custom Together Mode scenes using our newly built Scene Studio – a web application in the new Microsoft Teams Developer Center – to bring new and exciting Together mode scenes to users.

Creators can use these custom scenes for their own meetings, use a link to share with other users, or publish them more broadly to the organization or public Microsoft Teams store. Sharing a scene through a link allows creators to share their custom scenes with other users without having to publish to the app store.

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Microsoft Teams receive macOS Native Notifications

Note: if your organization does not use Mac OS you can safely disregard this message.

With this update, your users will be able to choose their preferred means of Teams notifications delivery, either via the Teams built-in notification system or via Mac

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Pinning on Outlook for iOS and Android

This new Outlook for iOS and Android release will soon roll out the ability to pin messages on both platforms. After tapping the Pinned filter in the message list, all conversations will be easy to get to and keep track of.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83043.

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Planner File Recommendations

This new Planner feature allows users to quickly add attachments to their tasks from an intelligently curated list of relevant files. The recommendations are based on the task and the user.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 66364.

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Customize the properties for the Yammer Communities app in Teams

The Microsoft Teams admin will soon be able to customize the following properties for the Yammer Communities app in Teams within their tenant:

  • App name
  • App description
  • App icons
  • Accent color

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