In Microsoft 365 news this week, Teams meetings in web browsers are adding support for live captions in all available languages. Keep reading for details about that feature and other updates and announcements related to the Microsoft 365 suite.
New Features
- Office 365 reporting web service to gain OAuth user interface
- What’s happening: The Office 365 reporting web service currently utilizes “Basic Authentication” and asks users to supply their credentials. To enhance security, Microsoft will soon replace that authentication method with the OAuth user interface.
- Office 365 reporting web service to gain OAuth user interface
- Microsoft Booking Graph APIs available on v1 endpoint
- What’s happening: Microsoft has made Bookings Graph APIs available on the v1 endpoint. Clients utilizing beta APIs are encouraged to update to the v1 APIs.
- Microsoft Booking Graph APIs available on v1 endpoint
- New site script action in SharePoint for content type syncing
- What’s happening: Microsoft is introducing a new site script action to enhance custom site template features. This new site script action enables you to add content types from a content type hub to a specific site.
- New site script action in SharePoint for content type syncing
- CART captions and live captions in all languages for Teams meetings in web browsers
- What’s happening: Microsoft is adding live captions in all available languages as well as CART captioning support for Teams meetings on the web.
- CART captions and live captions in all languages for Teams meetings in web browsers
- Commenting on audio and video files in OneDrive and SharePoint
- What’s happening: Microsoft Stream is introducing the ability to have threaded conversations related to audio and video files saved in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.
- Rollout start: Early February 2022 for general availability; early March 2022 for GCC, GCC-H and DoD
- Rollout finish: Late February 2022 for general availability; mid-March 2022 for GCC, GCC-H and DoD
- What’s happening: Microsoft Stream is introducing the ability to have threaded conversations related to audio and video files saved in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.
- Commenting on audio and video files in OneDrive and SharePoint
- Option to pin chat messages in Teams
- What’s happening: Teams end users will soon be able to pin a specific message.
- Rollout start: Mid-February 2022
- Rollout finish: Late February 2022
- What’s happening: Teams end users will soon be able to pin a specific message.
- Option to pin chat messages in Teams
- Teams Information Barriers for Owner Moderated and Open modes
- What’s happening: Microsoft has announced plans to set up Information Barriers in Teams for Owner Moderated and Open modes.
- Teams Information Barriers for Owner Moderated and Open modes
Updated Features
- Improved URL protection report in Microsoft Defender for Office 365
- What’s happening: Microsoft plans to add new click actions to the URL protection report.
- Rollout start: End of March 2022 for standard release; mid-April 2022 for government clients
- Rollout finish: Early April 2022 for standard release; end of April 2022 for government clients
- What’s happening: Microsoft plans to add new click actions to the URL protection report.
- Improved URL protection report in Microsoft Defender for Office 365
- Microsoft Forms response limit to increase to 5 million
- What’s happening: Microsoft is raising the maximum number of responses permitted per form or quiz from 50,000 to 5 million.
- Rollout start: Early March 2022 for targeted release; mid-April 2022 for government clouds
- Rollout finish: Early April 2022 for general availability; late April 2022 for government clouds
- What’s happening: Microsoft is raising the maximum number of responses permitted per form or quiz from 50,000 to 5 million.
- Microsoft Forms response limit to increase to 5 million
- Updates released to Current Channel for Microsoft 365 Apps
- What’s happening: Microsoft has issued updates for Microsoft 365 Apps to the Current Channel.
- Updates released to Current Channel for Microsoft 365 Apps
Announcements
- 2022 release wave 1 plans available for Dynamics 365, Industry Solutions and Power Platform
- What’s happening: Microsoft has published its 2022 release wave 1 plans to Dynamics 365, Industry Solutions and Microsoft Power Platform. The plans include features that the supplier plans to release from April 2022 to September 2022.
- 2022 release wave 1 plans available for Dynamics 365, Industry Solutions and Power Platform
- Delayed rollout of Polls app for Microsoft Teams
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to retire the original Forms app from Teams meetings and replace it with a new Teams app, Polls, specifically for polling. To ensure the best possible user experience, the supplier has updated the rollout timeline for the application.
- Rollout start: February 2022 (previously mid-October 2021)
- Rollout finish: End of March 2022 (previously late February 2022)
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to retire the original Forms app from Teams meetings and replace it with a new Teams app, Polls, specifically for polling. To ensure the best possible user experience, the supplier has updated the rollout timeline for the application.
- Delayed rollout of Polls app for Microsoft Teams
- Delayed rollout of continuous compliance assessments in the Microsoft 365 compliance center
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to improve the Compliance Manager’s automated testing and evidence generation abilities. To ensure the best possible user experience, the supplier has altered the implementation timeline for these enhancements.
- Rollout start: Early February 2022 (previously mid-January 2022)
- Rollout finish: Late March 2022 (previously mid-February 2022)
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to improve the Compliance Manager’s automated testing and evidence generation abilities. To ensure the best possible user experience, the supplier has altered the implementation timeline for these enhancements.
- Delayed rollout of continuous compliance assessments in the Microsoft 365 compliance center
- Delayed rollout of Power Apps ability to display images from Lists
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to give Power Apps image controls the ability to show images located in image columns in Microsoft Lists. To ensure the best user experience, the supplier has updated the rollout timeline for this feature.
- Rollout start: Early February 2022 (previously mid-January 2022) for targeted release; early March 2022 (previously early February 2022) for standard release
- Rollout finish: End of February 2022 (previously end of January 2022) for targeted release; mid-March 2022 (previously mid-February 2022) for standard release
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to give Power Apps image controls the ability to show images located in image columns in Microsoft Lists. To ensure the best user experience, the supplier has updated the rollout timeline for this feature.
- Delayed rollout of Power Apps ability to display images from Lists
- Delayed rollout of enhanced SharePoint site creation experience
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to improve the site creation experience with more thorough site descriptions, better graphics, and more context for permission levels. To ensure the best possible user experience, the supplier has adjusted the rollout timeline.
- Rollout date: Early March 2022 (previously mid-January 2022) for standard release
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to improve the site creation experience with more thorough site descriptions, better graphics, and more context for permission levels. To ensure the best possible user experience, the supplier has adjusted the rollout timeline.
- Delayed rollout of enhanced SharePoint site creation experience
- Temporary disablement of ‘Test-Message’ cmdlet
- What’s happening: Microsoft is temporarily disabling the ‘Test-Message’ cmdlet to make more updates to the feature.
- Temporary disablement of ‘Test-Message’ cmdlet
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