This month Microsoft has lots of new features and feature enhancements.
NEW FEATURE
How this will affect your organisation:
NEW FEATURE
How this will affect your organisation:
All users within your organization will be allowed to schedule chat messages. All scheduled messages can only be delivered no more than 7 days in the future and cannot be flagged as urgent or important. Inline images and attached files will only be accessible by others in the chat once the message has been delivered.
When this will happen:
Early November
NEW FEATURE
How this will affect your organisation:
With “Excel Live”, you can share and collaborate with Excel workbook in a meeting. This is handy when you want to get work done with your colleagues in a meeting, it seamlessly turns the meeting window canvas to an Excel workbook collaboration without having to move between windows and screens. For e.g.: Budget sheet which needs input from all participants to collaborate, contribute, review and finalize.
When this will happen:
Mid-October and expect to complete by late November.
NEW FEATURE
How this will affect your organisation:
Currently, users experience some frustration when using Office products because of all different routes that they must use to access all their content. The Quick Access feature will allow users to access shared libraries from both their SharePoint and Teams locations. When the user opens files from shared libraries, these libraries will show up in the form of a list which will encourage users to save and open files to these libraries with ease. This helps deliver a more consistent, coherent storage location experience across M365 apps. This new backstage experience won’t show up in Teams, SharePoint, or OneDrive but does include storage locations from OneDrive and Teams (sites/channels) which are stored on SharePoint.
When this will happen:
Early January and expect to complete by late January 2023
NEW FEATURE
How this will affect your organisation:
When users search for a chat message in Teams and click on a message result, they are taken to a view that contains only the selected message, rather than the entire chat thread. This fix will now land the users on the full chat thread once the message search result is clicked, thereby providing full context of the conversation around the message result.
When this will happen:
Early October and complete late October 2022.
NEW FEATURE
How this will affect your organisation:
Microsoft Teams users can now play music to callers on hold when a call transfer is initiated. This feature ensures that music can be played to caller on hold when call transfer is initiated, feature applies to 1-1 VoIP and PSTN calls.
When this will happen:
Mid-September and expect to complete rollout by late September.
NEW FEATURE
How this will affect your organisation:
Video Clips are a new way of working and connecting with coworkers using short video in Teams. Users can capture, send, and playback video messages in Chat on all Teams endpoints. Recording limited to 1min across all platforms.
When this will happen:
Late September and complete by early October
NEW FEATURE
How this will affect your organisation:
Microsoft Teams Meetings currently supports a maximum of 9 videos (3x3) on the screen by default (in Gallery view). For seeing more than 9 videos, user needs to manually select the ‘Large Gallery’ view. With this update, users will be able to automatically see up to 49 videos (7x7) on their screen by default without an explicit action. However, Large Gallery view will still continue to exist as an option.
When this will happen:
Late September and complete by early October
NEW FEATURE
How this will affect your organisation:
Meeting effectiveness surveys offer a new way to provide feedback to meeting organizers and help improve future meetings. The surveys are displayed at the end of select meetings in Teams with 5+ attendees and feature the following questions:
When this will happen:
Meeting effectiveness surveys will begin rolling out end of September, 2022 and Meeting effectiveness Plan will begin rolling out mid October, 2022 making them both available WW by end of October, 2022.
POTENTIAL ACTION REQUIRED
How this will affect your organisation:
As we communicated last year in blog posts and earlier this year in MC375736 , we will start to turn off basic authentication in our worldwide multi-tenant service on October 1, 2022. We will randomly select tenants, send 7-day warning Message Center posts, post Service Health Dashboard notices, and turn off basic auth in the tenant.
We’re turning off basic auth for the following protocols: MAPI, RPC, Offline Address Book (OAB), Exchange Web Services (EWS), POP, IMAP, Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) and Remote PowerShell.
Ensure that no users or services are using basic auth within your environment.