In a rapid change of Office 365, Microsoft sends to Tenant Admin’s the news about what is changing and what is coming in Office 365.

 

This is the 250th email that Microsoft has sent to Tenant Admin’s Newsletter with Office 365 changes.

 

This Weekly digest is intended to reach the Administrators of Microsoft Office 365 within the latest changes that are happening to Office 365.

 

Below is an example that can be applied to your tenant, because these emails are based on the services that you have in your Tenant and subscription.

 

 
 

Message center announcements,
January 3-9, 2022

NUNO ÁRIAS SILVA

Major updates

 

(Updated) Self-service trials for Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio

 

MC306669 | January 7 – Updated January 7, 2022: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Beginning in mid-February (previously late January), customers, and individuals without global or billing admin rights can sign up for Microsoft Project or Microsoft Visio 30-day trials before directly purchasing subscriptions or engaging their IT procurement team. Note: These trial capabilities are available worldwide except for India. They are not available for Education or Government customers.

 

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Retirement: OneNote Learning Tools COM Add-in

 

MC311617 | January 5 – We will be retiring the old OneNote Learning Tools COM Add-in feature beginning on March 31st, 2022. Users who currently have the Learning Tools Add-in installed on OneNote 2013 or OneNote 2016 will still be able to use it, but users or IT Admins will no longer be able to download new copies. In addition to this, any bugs will not be fixed, and we will no longer offer support for the old COM Add-in after March 31st, 2022.Note: Instead we recommend the utilization of the new built-in Immersive…

 

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(Updated) Chat with users with Teams personal accounts

 

MC296208 | January 4 – Updated January 04, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Chat with Teams will extend collaboration support by enabling Teams users to chat with team members outside their work network with a Teams personal account. Customers will be able to invite any Teams user to chat using an email address or phone number and remain within the security and compliance policies of their organization.Will roll out on web, desktop and mobile.

 

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Additional updates

 

Update to the Conversations vertical in Microsoft Search in Bing

 

MC312491 | January 8 – 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…

 

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Mute Notifications During Meetings

 

MC312489 | January 8 – 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…

 

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Microsoft Lists: Board View

 

MC312481 | January 8 – 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.This feature will roll out on desktop and web.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 85634.

 

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Connected Templates

 

MC312070 | January 6 – 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…

 

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(Updated) OneDrive: Sync client support for ARM on Windows (Preview)

 

MC299919 | January 6 – Updated January 6, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. A preview of OneDrive sync for ARM on Windows is coming to devices in the Current Channel (Preview).Following the preview release to Current Channel (Preview), it will release GA.If you are not interested in the preview of OneDrive sync for ARM on Windows, you can safely disregard this message.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82182.

 

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(Updated) Groups icon change in Outlook on web

 

MC303512 | January 6 – Updated January 06, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.The Microsoft 365 Groups icon seen under the Groups section in left navigation pane will be changed. This change is applicable only to Outlook on Web application. Currently it is represented by a folder icon. It will be replaced by the Groups icon. This icon change will bring visual coherence between Outlook on Web and Outlook Desktop application. This message is associated with Microsoft 365…

 

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(Updated) Improved Teams Guest User Usability (previously posted as MC300029)

 

MC302456 | January 6 – Updated January 6, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Note: This is a re-post of MC300029 as it expired prematurely on the incorrect date and may not be visible to admins anymore.We will be updating guest user functionality within the Microsoft Teams app. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88430.

 

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New Content Scenarios for My Feed Web Part on SharePoint

 

MC311846 | January 6 – 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…

 

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Announcing graph support for Get Team Template List and Get Team Template Details

 

MC311845 | January 6 – This new release will bring Graph support toGet Template List and Get Template Details. Team templates enable users to quickly create the right collaboration structure for their business needs. With Graph API support for Team Templates, we will be empowering our developer community to build their custom create team solutions on top of our existing APIs. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70793.

 

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Microsoft Teams: Hide your own video in Teams meetings

 

MC310349 | January 5 – 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: No more overlaying of the me video box and other participant’s video…

 

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

 

MC311641 | January 5 – We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps: Current Channel

 

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(Updated) Expanded reactions in Microsoft Teams

 

MC296204 | January 4 – Updated January 04, 2020: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.This update will expand available reactions by allowing users to apply any emoji as a reaction to chat messages. Users will be able to pick from >800 Teams emojis to express themselves the way they want.This will be available for Teams desktop apps (Windows and Mac), Teams mobile (Android and iOS), and Teams on the web. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88080.

 

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(Updated) Markup Ink for Edit HVC (high-value Controls)

 

MC301676 | January 4 – Updated January 04, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.With markup (ink), users can draw on their photos to convey their messages and reveal the pattern and information perhaps unclear in an initial, surface look when self-teaching and even more important when sharing photos. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88481.

 

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(Updated) Update: Suggested Replies – Outlook for Office

 

MC301300 | January 4 – Updated January 04, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Update: Outlook on the web will soon be rolling out suggested replies to customers in Outlook for Office.Note: Due to some issues that presented themselves prior to rollout, we paused our planned release until now. Your patience and understanding is appreciated.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70802.

 

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(Updated) Hardware Support for AJA and Blackmagic Devices

 

MC287353 | January 4 – Updated January 04, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. The ability for Teams clients to stream content from a client to the local network via Network Device Interface (NDI) is being expanded to enable streaming content to select attached hardware devices. Users with the ability to turn on NDI will also be able to push content to attached hardware devices from AJA or Blackmagic Designs. This will enable users to push content from Teams out via attached…

 

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