Message center announcements
January 1, 2024 – January 7, 2024
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Microsoft Teams: Join Teams work meetings from Microsoft Teams (free) and vice versa
MC704194 | January 5 –
This feature enables users with personal Microsoft accounts (MSA) using the free version of Microsoft Teams to join and participate in Teams for work (or school) meetings with their signed-in personal account when joining meetings from within the Teams app. This feature also lets these users stay connected with the other meeting participants (retain access to the meeting chat) after the meeting has ended. These users are no longer prompted to join only via a browser and later… View more
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(Updated) Loop components in Channels and Loop Embed Mode in Teams
MC681251 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Loop in Channels: Collaborative Loop components that you love from Teams chats are coming to channels! Users can create, share, and edit components to collaborate synchronously and asynchronously on ideas without leaving the context of their conversation. You can now copy and paste Loop components between channels, chats, Outlook emails, and other supported Microsoft 365 apps. No matter… View more
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Outlook on the web: Replacing “Activity-Based Authentication Timeout” with “Idle Session Timeout for Microsoft 365”
MC694387 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.
The Activity-Based Authentication Timeout for Outlook on the web will be replaced by Idle Session Timeout for Microsoft 365.
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eDiscovery – Retirement post for search-mailbox cmdlet
MC703706 | January 4 –
We would like to inform you that the Microsoft 365 Purview eDiscovery standard search-mailbox cmdlet is being retired. Originally announced in 2020, this was postponed as this cmdlet has been a valuable tool for searching and exporting mailbox data for legal and compliance purposes. However, as we continue to improve and enhance our eDiscovery capabilities, we are moving to other means of providing similar functionality.
Please note that after the deprecation date, the search-mailbox… View more
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(Updated) Automatic migration of legacy Office 365 Message Encryption to Microsoft Purview Message Encryption
MC455516 | January 2 –
Updated January 2, 2024: We have updated the timing of this change below.
After retirement, any encrypted mail sent to shared mailbox protected with Microsoft Purview Message Encryption will have a link that can open the mail in Outlook on the web. This provides an equivalent flow to open messages protected using Office 365 Message Encryption.
As a reminder, the following PowerShell cmdlet parameter will be retired in New/Set-Transport rule… View more
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Microsoft Intune In Development for January 2024 is now available
MC704195 | January 5 –
The In development for Microsoft Intune page in our documentation has been updated.
How does this affect me?
The In development page provides a list of features in upcoming releases of Microsoft Intune to assist in your readiness and planning. The list has now been updated. You’ll start seeing these changes in the next… View more
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Microsoft Teams: Share contact information of people in Microsoft Teams chat
MC704192 | January 5 –
Users can now share the contact information of someone who is not in a chat to make it easy for others to confidently get to know other collaborators.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 375627
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Microsoft Secure Score recommendations- accuracy improvements
MC704191 | January 5 –
Due to recent accuracy improvements implemented this month, certain customers may notice a modification in specific scores.
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Microsoft Managed Desktop –Universal Images with December-2023 Updates
MC704188 | January 5 –
Microsoft Managed Desktop Imaging team has released a new version of the Universal Image with December-2023 updates, Windows11 23H2, office 2311 and Teams 23320.3021.2567.4799.
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Announcing External Access Analytics for Microsoft Teams
MC698123 | January 5 –
We are excited to announce that we are rolling out a new report in the Teams Admin Center that will provide basic analytics for external access. This report will allow admins to view information about external access.
The external access analytics report will be available soon in the Teams Admin Center under Analytics & reports > Usage reports. We hope that this report will provide admins with more visibility and control over external access in their tenant and enable them to… View more
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Teams Live Event capacity limit extension
MC698896 | January 5 –
Microsoft had previously instituted temporary capacity increases for Teams live events that were set to expire on December 31, 2023. This included increasing the Live Event capacity from 10,000 attendees to up to 20,000 attendees, increasing the concurrency limit from 15 to 50 simultaneous events, and increasing the Live Event duration from 4 hours to 16 hours. To ensure administrators have adequate time to train their user base, we are extending the timeline for these capacity limit… View more
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(Updated) Azure Protected Voicemails on Teams Mobile App
MC698132 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Teams mobile users will now have a link to their Azure protected voicemails from the Teams mobile App. Users will get notification for the voicemail on the Teams App and can open the attached link to access the voicemail on the web browser.
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(Updated) New Feature in Teams Admin Center to Communicate with Third-Party App Publishers via Teams
MC685934 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Microsoft Teams admins will soon be able to initiate private groups chats with a limited set of third-party Teams app publishers via a new ‘Click-to-Chat’ (C2C) feature being added to the Teams Admin Center (TAC).
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(Updated) Generate unique join links for external presenters so they can easily join events
MC675281 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Organizers can set up events and effortlessly add external presenters, who will receive exclusive Teams join links. These links enable external presenters to directly enter the event, eliminating the need for organizers to manually admit them from the event lobby or modify their event role during the session. This creates a hassle-free event experience for organizers and… View more
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams | Support Joining a Teams Live Event as Attendee for Teams Rooms on Windows
MC681886 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
The latest version of Teams Rooms on Windows app 4.19 update includes the support joining a Teams live event as an attendee.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 169881.
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Microsoft Teams | Front Row Enhancement: Active video speaker promotion for Teams Rooms on Windows
MC681887 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
The latest version of Teams Rooms on Windows app 4.19 includes updates to Front Row experience to promote active video speakers to the spotlight area to improve space utilization and provide in-room users with immersive experience across single and dual display configurations.
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(Updated) Workflows within Microsoft Teams chats menu
MC683929 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Microsoft Teams will be bringing workflows powered by Power Automate into the overflow menu for chats.
To make sure Microsoft Teams provides the best workflow experience for our users we are making it easier to configure workflows for chats. From the list of chats users will be able to go into the overflow menu for a specific chat (…) and select… View more
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(Updated) Remove Activity Feed Item in New Teams
MC692466 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
This feature will enable Teams users to delete/remove items from activity feed.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 181794
The Remove functionality can be found under the ellipsis menu in the activity feed:
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams – Teams app on Teams Rooms on Android and paired Touch Consoles to be updated in sync
MC692021 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
With this feature, the Teams app updates will happen in sync for Microsoft Teams Rooms (Android) and their paired touch consoles. This will be applicable for both manual and automatic updates done from Teams admin center.
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Domain-specific search
MC692025 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Users will be able to narrow down their search results and find what they are looking for faster. Get more precise search results by picking up a specific domain like files, group chat or Teams. You can find domain specific results by typing a person’s name also.
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(Updated) Listen to Multiple Channels on Teams Walkie Talkie
MC694389 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
With listen to multiple channels, users can now automatically listen to incoming transmission from their favorite channels one at a time.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 161725
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(Updated) Webinar Email feature updates -customize content and time to send reminders
MC549348 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Emails for Webinars are critical to engage with registrants and often organizers feel the need to customize the content. To enable this, we are rolling out two features.
- The content of the emails (i.e. all webinar related attendee emails) can be edited by the event organizers. This is reserved for Teams Premium licensed…
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(Updated) Additional Teams Meeting Templates Added to Outlook Teams Add-In
MC690180 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Virtual appointment, Webinar, and Town hall are Teams meeting templates that are accessible via the ‘New meeting’ dropdown menu in Teams Calendar App. We are now expanding how you can access these meeting templates by adding them to the meeting templates menu in the Outlook Windows client in the Teams Meeting Add-In. When in Outlook Calendar, select the dropdown menu next to the Teams… View more
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Emojis, GIFs and Stickers Unified in One Picker
MC674737 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Users can soon find all of their emojis, GIFs, and stickers in a combined picker in Microsoft Teams.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84023
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(Updated) Addition of Chat button in Missed Call Activity
MC682086 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Teams users will have an option to chat with Teams users after receiving a missed call from them by simply clicking on an additional ‘chat’ button on the missed call activity.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 176318
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(Updated) Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations
MC579612 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
With privacy and security restrictions, we have implemented a user-level IT admin policy for admins to choose whether some or all users in the company can use Collaborative Annotations. Currently, there is a way to turn Annotations ON or OFF through cmdlet Set-SPOTenant-IsWBFluidEnabled , this will also influence Whiteboard.
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(Updated) A new experience to search within chat and channels.
MC554158 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
We are excited to introduce a new and improved experience to search within chats and channels.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122550
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(Updated) Out-of-box Controlled-content meeting template
MC678852 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
We are launching an out-of-the box template for meetings with external participants. The controlled content access template has preset defaults for meeting options to provide tight controls over lobby bypass, who can present, allowing chat across meeting lifecycle/in-meeting, and who can record.
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(Updated) Outlook Web: Ability to Hide Favorites From Folder List
MC676546 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
The Hide Favorites feature in Outlook for the web allows users to personalize their folder pane by hiding the Favorites section.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 167071
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(Updated) Microsoft Secure Score – Changes in SSPM support
MC681893 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture.
The improvement actions listed below will be added to Microsoft Secure Score. Your score will be updated accordingly.
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(Updated) Whiteboard: “Specific people” Share Link Fallback
MC682305 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Microsoft Whiteboard now automatically utilizes Specific People Share Links (PSL) for participants of a Teams meeting when a whiteboard is shared and the tenant has Company-wide Share Links disabled (CSL).
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(Updated) Introducing Left Navigation Customization on Microsoft365.com
MC678068 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
We are excited to announce a new feature that will allow individuals to customize the apps on the left navigation on microsoft365.com. This feature will give individuals more control and flexibility over the apps they use and access frequently.
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Microsoft Defender: User experience update to evidence
MC690603 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
The evidence panels for mail cluster entities and mailbox configuration entities will have a refreshed user experience. The update is solely visual with no change in content. The change will be seen on the incident evidence and response tab, the investigation evidence and entities tabs as well as in action center when applicable to these entity types.
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(Updated) Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management and Records Management – Microsoft Graph APIs for extensibility
MC515536 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
As a part of our extensibility vision and first release to Microsoft Graph, we are introducing three new APIs for retention labels, events, and event types in the Microsoft Graph beta environment. These APIs will enable you to customize and extend on what we have built in the product so far.
These APIs can be used by compliance admins and developers to manage… View more
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(Updated) Simpler and quicker creation of teams and channels
MC686596 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the roll out timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Collaborate more easily by creating teams and channels simpler and faster – a simple by default, power when needed experience!
Currently, our team and channel creation processes have several steps and are focused on letting users create team at the top level, with channel creation as an option for each team.
We are making the team create experience… View more
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(Updated) Together mode and content share layout improvement
MC689501 | January 5 –
Updated January 5, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
With the new layout, Together mode will be displayed under the shared content. The users will be able to see the participants in Together mode and shared content simultaneously in a completely new way. Full Together mode experience is available including raised hands, reactions and name labels.
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Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status
MC704035 | January 5 –
Microsoft Teams users will soon be able to control how they get notified in meeting chats through RSVP to their meetings. When they decline a meeting, they will not receive notifications or see the chats in chat list; when they accept a meeting, they will receive notification for all new messages. This release of Microsoft Teams Meeting ID will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Desktop, Mobile and Web and will provide an additional way for users to control their chat list by selecting… View more
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App-Only User.ReadBasic.All Permission is now available
MC704030 | January 5 –
User.ReadBasic.All allows the app to retrieve basic user properties like ID, display name, first and last name, email address, and photo. Today only delegated User.ReadBasic.All is available. We heard customer feedback to enable app-only User.ReadBasic.All permission as well, to limit their app access to only basic user properties.
With the release of app-only User.ReadBasic.All, we also fixed a bug, which enabled the app to filter on properties it shouldn’t access with… View more
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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel
MC704017 | January 5 –
We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:
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Viva Engage Community creation API is now available on MS Graph Beta
MC701523 | January 4 –
We are excited to announce the launch of Viva Engage community creation API beta endpoint on MS Graph: Use the Microsoft Graph API to work with Viva Engage (preview)
Many of our customers have requested this capability in the past to programmatically create communities instead of creation via Engage UI. We invite you to try this beta endpoint and provide us with… View more
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Reminder: Stream (Classic) retires on April 15, 2024, and all unmigrated videos will be deleted
MC703758 | January 4 –
Microsoft will retire Stream (Classic) on April 15, 2024 and all videos on Stream (Classic) will be deleted after the retirement date. Stream (Classic) has already been auto disabled for end users, and admins can delay this change till the retirement date. Admins must migrate their tenant’s Stream (Classic) data to Stream (on SharePoint) before the retirement date to prevent data loss.
Stream (Classic)’s successor service, Stream (on SharePoint), entered general availability in October… View more
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Improved copy + paste link experience in Viva Engage web/browser
MC703713 | January 4 –
Viva Engage is improving the copy link experience on its web/browser surface. When users copy a link from the “Copy Link” button conversation card, pasting the link will render a short summary of the content. No content is moved, removed, or changed with this update.
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New Policy: Turn Off Teams Meeting Feedback Surveys for Unauthenticated Users
MC703705 | January 4 –
We will be introducing the existing Teams Meetings feedback surveys (such as NPS) to unauthenticated users that join Teams Meetings. When an unauthenticated user joins a meeting originating from your organization, they may be eligible to receive a prompt to complete a feedback survey on their Microsoft Teams experience. We will be introducing a new Teams Meeting Configuration policy setting that will allow tenant admins to disable all Teams Meeting feedback surveys for unauthenticated users… View more
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Microsoft Teams: User experience improvements for Multi-Tenant Organization (MTO) users
MC703704 | January 4 –
Note: If you are not a multi-tenant organization, you can safely ignore this message.
This release features user experience improvements when Microsoft Teams users interact with users in another tenant that belongs to their organization (e.g., for conglomerates, as a result of M&A).
- We are now removing any possibility of having 1:1 chat (between users from different MTO tenants) split across multiple threads. As part of this, users will no longer be able…
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Toggle to try the Preview of new Outlook for Windows in Semi-Annual Channel
MC703703 | January 4 –
In Spring 2023, we expanded access to the preview of the new Outlook for Windows to users in Current Channel and Monthly Enterprise Channel. In September, this toggle was also released to Semi-Annual Channel Preview. The experience is an option to try, and nothing will change without end users taking action. We will give notice before any required changes occur, after the preview has received sufficient usage and feedback.
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(Updated) Admin controls for mandating team assignment for OKRs
MC694374 | January 2 –
Updated January 2, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Viva Goals Admins or IT admins can mandate that objective and key results (OKRs) should always have a team assignment.
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(Updated) Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: General availability of SharePoint site selection enhancement
MC692463 | January 2 –
Updated January 2, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out general availability of SharePoint site selection enhancement.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 169880
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(Updated) Microsoft Purview: Audit Search Graph API (Preview)
MC679735 | January 2 –
Updated January 2, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature provides a new Audit Log Query API that enables our customers to create applications to programmatically query and retrieve their organization’s Audit activity logs.
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(Updated) End-to-end encrypted Meetings – 200 participants (Premium)
MC679525 | January 2 –
Updated January 2, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for patience.
For meetings that require heightened confidentiality, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is an extra layer of security that encrypts data at its origin and decrypts it at its destination. Only audio, video, and video-based screen sharing is end-to-end encrypted. Apps, avatars, reactions, chat, and Q&A are not end-to-end encrypted.
We had launched end-to-end… View more
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(Updated) Microsoft 365 Backup
MC694388 | January 2 –
Updated January 2, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Microsoft 365 Backup Service is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services. This service provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users. Microsoft 365 Backup… View more
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(Updated) Viva Goals – Roll out for Improved team settings experience
MC695745 | January 2 –
Updated January 2, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
As a part of this release Team owners will have a simplified team settings experience. In addition, Team owners will also have the ability to create custom time-periods by default. The organization owners will have the option in the organization admin page, to configure this custom time-period creation permissions for team owners.
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: On-Demand Recording Feature in Webinars
MC661825 | January 2 –
Updated January 2, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Organizers can soon publish the recording of their webinars and automatically send an update to their attendees, in which they will receive a link to watch the on-demand recording hosted on their event page.
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(Updated) Announcing the general availability of new Teams on web for Edge and Chrome
MC690598 | January 2 –
Updated January 2, 2024: Further clarity on the timeline for users receiving New Teams for Web by default on Microsoft Edge and Chrome has been added to New Teams for Web – Overview and prerequisites.
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of new Teams on web for Edge and Chrome.
How this will benefit your organization:
- Our goal for the new Teams web app is bring a…
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(Updated) Microsoft 365 Groups Connected Viva Goals Teams
MC694124 | January 2 –
Updated January 2, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Viva Goals is launching this new team set up experience that enables end users to leverage their existing Microsoft 365 groups that they already own to create teams. The connected experience provides an effortless way for team owners to leverage the group membership and policy settings used commonly by Teams, SharePoint and other cloud apps. With this Microsoft 365… View more
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(Updated) eDiscovery – Hold reports (preview)
MC696859 | January 2 –
Updated January 2, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
We are releasing a tenant wide Hold report as Public Preview in eDiscovery (Premium).
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93268
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