This week on the 365 Message Center Show *Stay tuned to the end for a special interview with Elvira Makhmutova (LinkedIn), Program Manager at Microsoft, concerning the New Privacy Controls with the Microsoft Graph.* Resource mentioned during interview: Customizing item insights privacy in Microsoft Graph (preview) Use keyword searches in Microsoft Search – Bing, SharePoint, and Office.com and see Power BI results. See reports, dashboards, and workspaces for Power BI in the results. – Results from PowerBI coming to Microsoft Search in SharePoint and Office.com – Simplified way to manage your Teams notification settings – OneDrive Sync: Improved warning for locked Office files – New Microsoft Teams meeting pre-join experience…
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End of Internet Explorer 11 Support in Microsoft 365
Microsoft has announced today that the end of Internet Explorer 11 support in Microsoft 365 will happen soon. Your organization needs to prepare now for this change. End of Internet Explorer 11 Support and sunset of Microsoft Edge Legacy As announced August 17th, 2020, the end of support within Microsoft 365 apps will be happening over the course of the next year. However, the first service to stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) is Microsoft Teams on November 30th, 2020. If your users are utilizing Teams using IE 11, they need to either switch to Microsoft Edge, another supported browser, or use Teams using the Windows application. Starting August…
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Updates to Teams usage reports – #156
This week on the 365 Message Center Show Get greater visibility of how people are using Microsoft Teams within your organization. Updates to the usage reports will show how recent features are being used. Identify power users. Target user adoption efforts. – SharePoint lists and libraries – improved image columns – Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel – Speaker attribution in Live Captions – SharePoint: Download SharePoint site usage data in Excel – Updates to Teams usage reports in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center and the Teams Admin Center – Service reminder: Skype for Business Online is retiring in 12 months – Introducing the Organizer only Teams…
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Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Dynamics 365, and eDiscovery – Changes in Microsoft 365
More changes come to Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Dynamics 365, and eDiscovery functionality in Microsoft 365. These updates have been revised since being announced previously. Keep up with change in Microsoft 365 by reading more below! Changes to Microsoft Teams The Planner app in Teams will be renamed with an updated experience powered by Planner and To Do (MC211421) Microsoft is working to consolidate the tasks experience in Microsoft 365. Microsoft Teams is getting the revamp treatment, but in phases. A summary is below, but you can read more details in the Tech Community post here: Announcing Tasks in Microsoft Teams public rollout Right now, in the Teams desktop (and web)…
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Microsoft Teams Call Merge – #155
This week on the 365 Message Center Show On a group call and see another call coming in from someone else on the same project? Answer their call. You might find they can join your current call. Now, you'll be able to merge the calls effortlessly. No need to ask them to hang up so you can add them to the group call. – Outlook – new resource booking capabilities – WELCOME TO DYNAMICS 365 CUSTOMER VOICE – Microsoft Teams Call Merge – Update on Copy and Restore operations – Retirement of notifications functionality in all Office 365 web apps except Outlook – Office 365 ATP: External email forwarding controls…
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Centralized management for SharePoint hub visitor permissions – #154
This week on the 365 Message Center Show Hub sites and the sites associated with a hub don't necessarily share the same permissions. One might have access to the Hub site, but an associated site might not allow the same visitor. This update enables visitor access to be centralized at the Hub site. Permissions for visitors can be set to sync to the associated site, ensuring visitors can visit. – SharePoint – Centralized management for hub visitor permissions – NewTek NDI for Teams – New file sharing experience in Teams – New question and answer capabilities coming to Yammer communities – Azure CDN caching for SharePoint and OneDrive Video Join…
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General availability of the new Yammer – #152
This week on the 365 Message Center Show The new Yammer is shifting out of preview, with it's largest list of updates in a long time. Yammer has become a community platform, evident in it's change from Yammer groups to Yammer communities. The updates bring more community management features to encourage conversation. – Microsoft Teams gallery view – 49 participants – General availability of the new Yammer – Rename title column in SharePoint lists and libraries – New tasks experience becomes generally available in Outlook on the web – Automatically block guest access to new OneDrive and SharePoint files until scans are complete – OneDrive Sync Help Pane on macOS…
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Walkie Talkie in Teams Android – #150
This week on the 365 Message Center Show Get your radio call-signs ready. Walkie Talkie is coming to Microsoft Teams on Android phones in public preview from mid July. We talk about some interesting use-cases and discuss the question of channel membership, which determines your inclusion in a walkie talkie conversation group. Also on the show: – Enable communication site experience on classic team sites – Outlook for Android launches Play My Emails – Fluent design coherence updates for SharePoint – Microsoft Teams – improvements in meetings experience for Safari browser – New Feature: Inline Chat message translation for iOS Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as…
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SharePoint Auto Digest Email – #148
This week on the 365 Message Center Show ***Please fill out our short Listener poll. URL is in the episode. We would love to hear from you!!*** When there's a lot going on in your organization and news posts are frequently being published, it's easy to miss. A new SharePoint news digest will automatically curate posts using Microsoft intelligence to help you catch up on news available to you. Also on the show: – Microsoft 365 Groups supports new methods to hide/show groups in Outlook and the address book – Outlook for Windows Introduces Roaming Signatures – Microsoft Teams has a new Information pane and pinned posts – Mobile Video…
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Change how Teams in Islands users schedule meetings from Outlook – #147
This week on the 365 Message Center Show ***Please fill out our short Listener poll. URL is in the episode. We would love to hear from you!!*** Skype for Business users who use Teams in Islands mode can schedule meetings from Outlook with either Teams or Skype. With this new policy, you can specify that meetings scheduled from Outlook will take place on Teams only. Also on the show: – Teams meeting call and meeting chat size to increase to 350 – Microsoft Stream cloud recordings regional storage control – Outlook on the web – In-product notification of full inbox – SharePoint document library and list form improvements – Microsoft…
