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A new setting will allow Microsoft Teams meeting organizers to make the list of breakout rooms visible to all participants and allow them to choose which room to join and move freely from one to another. This update is scheduled to rollout in August for all customers.

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Microsoft Teams: New setting enables meeting participants to move between breakout rooms

Now, meeting organizers can make the list of breakout rooms visible to all meeting participants and allow them to choose which room to join. Enabling this setting in breakout rooms allows participants to move freely from one room to another, simplifying breakout room coordination for meeting organizers and participants.

ID: 121269 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms aids students with step-by-step solutions for quiz questions

With Copilot in Forms quizzes, teachers can easily generate step-by-step solutions for each question. Teachers have the option to allow students to immediately view their results so they can see what they’ve mastered and where they need further studying using the step-by-step solutions supported by Copilot.

ID: 392843 Release: Forms, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Endpoint Privilege Management on single session Azure Virtual Desktop

With this release, you can use Endpoint Privilege Management elevation rules and policy to more easily manage standard users on Azure Virtual Desktop.

ID: 399928 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Intune: New design for Windows Company Portal app

With the updated design, users will see improvements in user experience for the Home, Devices, and Downloads & updates pages. The new design is more intuitive and highlights areas where users need to take action.

ID: 399931 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Forms: Polls in Teams Meetings for GCC High

Polls (built by Forms) for Teams meetings provides an easily discoverable and seamless experience that will help you conduct more engaging and productive meetings. With Polls, meeting presenters can prepare, launch, and evaluate polls before, during, and after meetings, respectively, all from one place under a tab in the Teams meeting.

ID: 400387 Release: Forms – GCC High Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Forms: Define criteria for validating responses to open-text questions in Microsoft Forms

Now you can set specific requirements for answers to open-text questions. You can ensure the answer is an email address, URL, contains certain keywords, must be number or text, etc.

ID: 400503 Release: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Lab trending and recommended prompts

With this feature, customers will be able to see which prompts are new or trending within their organization and receive personalized prompt recommendations in Copilot Lab, powered by Microsoft Graph.

ID: 400711 Release: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365, OneNote, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Chrome (for anonymous join only)

The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Chrome browser.

ID: 401116 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Performance improvements for anonymous users who join meetings in Edge

The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Edge browser.

ID: 401117 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Teams: EDU tenant type selection in policy wizard

Admins can now select tenant type for their institution from the policy wizard. This setting can be changed anytime from the wizard.

ID: 402185 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Cumulative Exfiltration Tuning

With this update, Cumulative Exfiltration Activities will not be detected and scored if the events have already been detected in a previous Cumulative Exfiltration Activity risk. This change will reduce noise for alerts generated from Cumulative Exfiltration Activity.

ID: 402195 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Bidirectional support for Teams Live Interpretation

With bidirectional support in Teams Live Interpretation, interpreters can now switch the direction they want to provide translation in between the two languages by clicking on the button of the language they want to interpret into at the bottom of the screen. The highlighted language button will be the language the interpreter is translating into and attendees hear from.

ID: 403103 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2024

Planner: Recommended Plans

We are introducing a new Recommended view in Planner in Teams to help you discover plans with tasks assigned to you that you haven’t viewed yet, enhancing task management efficiency and providing seamless prioritization of your workload.

ID: 403106 Release: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Go to folder shortcut in the new Outlook for Windows and web

When focused on the folder pane, users can now press CTRL + Y to quickly navigate to a folder. Simply press the first letter of the folder name to move focus directly to that folder. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 403108 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – New workload for Copilot in Content Explorer

With this change, customers will start seeing a new Copilot location within the Content Explorer. This will have all the sensitive information which is present in Copilot conversations

ID: 405118 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Outlook: Import and export support for data files in Outlook

This feature adds support for importing PST files into Outlook for Mac. Support for OLM data files will include both importing and exporting data.

ID: 405754 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2025

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Custom emojis and reactions

User can upload their own custom emojis and reactions to personalize their communication. Emojis will be available within the user’s tenant in chat and channels via the emoji and reaction menus.

ID: 80659 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: View attachments for Meetings in Teams Calendar

File attachments added to a meeting invite in Outlook desktop or web app are now visible for invitees in Teams calendar.

ID: 91163 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced sound notification controls

You can change the sound of your notifications to help you stay focused, prioritize quickly and avoid distractions. You can as well make urgent notifications and priority contact notifications more prominent. You can also mute notification sounds when you are busy or in a meeting.

ID: 93487 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Reset People Suggestions in Search

Allow users to reset, export, and/or opt out of people suggestions in search through Outlook on the web settings. If a reset is done in web, this will affect the account across Outlook.

ID: 98137 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Hiding of inactive channels

Easily keep your channels list relevant. Teams will automatically detect inactive channels you haven’t interacted with in a while, and automatically hide them for you. You have the option to review the list of channels and unhide some or all of them, opt out of automatic hiding from settings, or initiate this process on demand.

ID: 325780 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

SharePoint: Enhancements to the Text web part

New features coming to the Text web part include enhancements to styling/formatting, bullets/numbered lists, and tables.

ID: 394278 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Message result suggestions when typing to search

You will now see message result suggestions when formulating a query. You can also narrow down search results to “messages” helping you quickly find Teams message content most relevant for you.

ID: 398955 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Planner: eDiscovery Support for Microsoft Planner

Conduct a content search for eDiscovery and legal hold on Planner tasks in Microsoft Purview. The Planner data available for eDiscovery includes tasks shared with groups, along with the comments and attachments associated with those tasks.

ID: 399550 Release: Planner, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Turn On/Off notifications for a post

Users will now be able to opt in/opt-out from receiving notifications for a post in a channel.

ID: 399782 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

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