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Jun 06

Removing some Teams channel system messages We are making it easier for your users to focus on relevant information in Teams by removing some system messages.When this will happenRollout for standard release tenants will begin in mid-June and be complete in mid-July.Rollout for government tenants should begin in mid-August and be complete by the end of August. More ... MC215375 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 05

New Feature: SharePoint Auto Digest Email   Major Update: Announcement started SharePoint Auto-News Digest sends automated email to employees in you company about the latest News posts that they have not yet read. Using Microsoft intelligence, a curated selection of News posts are shared with employees through an email that comes from SharePoint. This is a great way for employees to catch up on News that they may have otherwise missed. Only published news posts are sent in the digest, and employees will have access to all the news posts that they are sent so rest assumed... More ... MC215356 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 05

New Feature: Noise Suppression in Microsoft Stream Noise suppression for recorded videos in Microsoft Stream will reach generally availability later this month.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 57301When this will happenNoise suppression will begin rolling out to customers in mid-June and will complete by the end of July. More ... MC215351 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 05

(Updated) New Feature: Make All Company feed a connected community Updated June 5, 2020: To ensure the best possible experience for our users, we are delaying some of our deployments to reduce the amount of change flowing into the services. Please see the updated roll-out timeline below Live events and Office 365 Resources will soon be accessible to your users in the All Company community if you have enforced connected groups.We'll be gradually rolling this out to all customers in early April.The rollout will be complete by the end of June (previously... More ... MC208373 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 05

New feature: Suggested replies in Teams mobile Suggested replies presents users with an option of three responses to choose from for selected messages and will soon be available for your users in Teams for iOS and Android.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 63671.When will this happenWe will begin rolling this feature out in early July; the rollout will be complete in mid-July. More ... MC215163 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 05

(Updated) Feature Update: Yammer Conversations web part for SharePoint Updated June 5, 2020: We are updating the roll-out timeline to ensure the best possible experience. Please see change below. We're updating the Yammer Conversations web part for SharePoint to contain the new Yammer experience. SharePoint pages that use the existing Yammer Conversations web part will begin to display the new experience.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 63385 and Roadmap ID 63530.When will this happen?Targeted release: gradual rollout from early May to... More ... MC209666 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 04

Mobile Video Sharing from Yammer With a few clicks from the Yammer mobile app, your users can record, annotate, edit, and post an engaging mobile video to Yammer.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 50557.When this will happenWe will begin the rollout for this feature in mid-June, and it will be complete by the end of July. More ... MC215262 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 04

Updates Available for Microsoft 365 Apps on Monthly Channel (soon to be called Current Channel) We've released updates to the Microsoft 365 Apps on Monthly Channel (which will be called Current Channel from June 9th 2020)When this will happen:We'll be gradually rolling out these updates of Microsoft 365 Apps to users starting June 2, 2020. More ... MC215259 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 04

New Feature: Take control of self-service purchases In January we launched the self-service purchase feature that allowed users in a tenant to purchase Power platform products directly from Microsoft. This feature came with the ability for admins to turn off self-service purchase of individual products via Power Shell. Starting in July, we’re introducing new capabilities for IT Admins to manage information worker subscriptions in their tenant. In particular, IT Admins will be able to move information workers to another subscription or remove a... More ... MC215245 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 04

Microsoft Teams has a new Information pane and pinned posts We are pleased to introduce two features that should make it easier for your users to find new and relevant information in a channel.This feature is related to Microsoft Roadmap IDs 64173 and 64334. When this will happenRollout for standard release tenants will begin the beginning of July and be complete in mid-July.Rollout for government tenants should begin in mid-August and be complete by the end of August. More ... MC215186 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 03

The Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module is now generally available The Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module (EXO V2 module), which connects admins to their Microsoft 365 Exchange Online environment to perform fast and highly reliable data retrieval, is now generally available to all Exchange Online environments. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 60528. When this will happen The EXO V2 module is availablein the PowerShell Gallery. More ... MC215164 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 03

M365 Information Governance: Retention improvements for SharePoint Online and OneDrive   Major Update: Announcement started We're improving how Microsoft 365 retention policies and labels work for SharePoint Online and OneDrive. This change will introduce a new retention engine to process these policies aimed at improving scalability and consistency across Microsoft 365 applications.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID63061When this will happenWe will start rolling out this update in July of 2020 and finish rolling it out by August of 2020. More ... MC214913 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 03

Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012   Major Update: Announcement started As previously announced, Windows 8 ended support on January 12, 2016 and Microsoft 365 Apps ended support on Windows Server 2012/R2 on January 14, 2020 As innovations continue to be released for Microsoft 365 Apps, we would like to remind our customers that new features in Microsoft 365 Apps may create stability and performance issues when running on older or unsupported operating systems. Note: If your organization is not running Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 you can safely disregard this... More ... MC214691 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 03

(Updated) Feature Update: Microsoft Secure Score improvement action updates Updated June 3, 2020: We've updated the roll-out timeline below. We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture. This feature is related to MC208163 (April 2020). When this will happenWe'll be rolling this out to all customers in early-June (previously mid-June); the rollout will be complete mid-June (previously end of June). More ... MC213621 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 03

Dynamics 365 – Service Update 189 for EUR We have a minor service update planned for your Microsoft Dynamics 365 organization in the EUR region. Maintenance window start: 28 June 2020, 18:00 UTC Maintenance window end: 29 June 2020, 03:00 UTC More ... MC215058 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 02

(Updated) Feature Update: Teams meeting call and meeting chat size to increase to 300 Updated June 2, 2020: Based on customer feedback we are making some changes to this feature roll-out. Please review the updates below: We’re increasing the new maximum number of participants for Teams meeting and chats from 250 to 300.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 64225When this will happenWe will begin rolling this out in early June.The rollout will be complete by the end of June. More ... MC214350 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 02

Outlook for Windows Introduces Roaming Signatures   Major Update: Announcement started Outlook for Windows is introducing e-mail signatures that will be stored in the cloud rather than being stored locally on the user’s Windows device.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 60371When this will happenWe will begin rolling this out to Microsoft 365 Monthly Channel, Targeted, in late July. (This is Insiders Slow Channel which will soon be called Microsoft Beta.)We expect to roll this out to the Monthly Channel, Production, in late August. More ... MC215017 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 02

Enabling basic formatting on the sign-in page text component in Company Branding We’re updating the Company Branding component of the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) sign-in page to allow hyperlinks and simple formatting.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 64092.When this will happen We'll begin gradually rolling this out in late June 2020. The roll-out will be complete in all environments by late July. More ... MC215019 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 02

Microsoft 365 Groups supports new methods to hide/show groups in Outlook and the address book Microsoft 365 Groups now supports new ways to show and hide groups in any Outlook client or the address book.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 64479.When this will happenYou can now set visibility of Groups using Microsoft Graph in addition to PowerShell. More ... MC214928 Like | Dislike

 

Jun 02

Outlook for Windows introduces cloud settings Outlook for Windows is introducing an option to allow users to save some settings in the Microsoft 365 cloud. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 63037.When this will happenWe will begin rolling this out to Microsoft 365 Monthly Channel, Targeted, in late May. (This is Insiders Slow Channel which will soon be called Microsoft Beta.)We expect to roll this out to the Monthly Channel, Production, in late June. More ... MC214927 Like | Dislike

 

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