In Microsoft 365 news this week, the supplier announced that Teams meetings will soon include a co-organizer role. Keep reading for details about that modification and other updates and new features for the Microsoft 365 suite.
New Features
- Public preview: Cloud Site List Management for Internet Explorer (IE) mode
- What’s happening: Microsoft has announced a public preview of Cloud Site List Management for IE mode for Microsoft Edge.
- Public preview: Cloud Site List Management for Internet Explorer (IE) mode
- Microsoft Teams co-organizer role
- What’s happening: Organizers will soon have the option to assign a co-organizer role to as many as 10 people per meeting. Co-organizers will have many of the same capabilities as the organizer, such as presenting, locking the meeting, bypassing the lobby, and ending the session for all participants.
- Rollout start: Late November 2021
- Rollout finish: Early December 2021
- What’s happening: Organizers will soon have the option to assign a co-organizer role to as many as 10 people per meeting. Co-organizers will have many of the same capabilities as the organizer, such as presenting, locking the meeting, bypassing the lobby, and ending the session for all participants.
- Microsoft Teams co-organizer role
Updated Features
- Outlook mobile Play My Emails now available in Brazilian Portuguese
- What’s happening: Microsoft has added Brazilian Portuguese to the Play My Emails feature for Outlook for iOS and Android.
- Outlook mobile Play My Emails now available in Brazilian Portuguese
- Public preview: Communication Compliance to appear in DLP policy recommendations
- What’s happening: A public preview will soon be available in which Communication Compliance will show as an option within DLP policy recommendations.
- Rollout start: Late October 2021
- Rollout finish: Late November 2021
- What’s happening: A public preview will soon be available in which Communication Compliance will show as an option within DLP policy recommendations.
- Public preview: Communication Compliance to appear in DLP policy recommendations
- SharePoint site creation experience
- What’s happening: Microsoft plans to enhance the site creation experience for SharePoint end users. Planned improvements include more extensive site descriptions, better graphics, and additional context for various permission levels within the Site permissions panel.
- Rollout date: Beginning early November 2021 for targeted release customers and finishing in mid-December 2021 for standard release customers
- What’s happening: Microsoft plans to enhance the site creation experience for SharePoint end users. Planned improvements include more extensive site descriptions, better graphics, and additional context for various permission levels within the Site permissions panel.
- SharePoint site creation experience
Announcements
- Delayed rollout of Teams meeting recording auto-expiration in SharePoint and OneDrive
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to implement a default auto-expiration time period of 60 days for Teams meeting recordings stored in SharePoint and OneDrive. To ensure the best possible customer experience, the supplier has updated the rollout timeline.
- Rollout date: Early November 2021 (previously late September 2021) through mid-November 2021
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to implement a default auto-expiration time period of 60 days for Teams meeting recordings stored in SharePoint and OneDrive. To ensure the best possible customer experience, the supplier has updated the rollout timeline.
- Delayed rollout of Teams meeting recording auto-expiration in SharePoint and OneDrive
- Delayed rollout of option to send feedback on image tags in SharePoint
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to allow SharePoint end users to provide feedback on image tags via the “Give feedback” feature in the details pane. To ensure the best possible customer experience, the supplier has updated the rollout timeline for this capability.
- Rollout start: End of October 2021 (previously early October 2021)
- Rollout finish: Mid-November 2021 (previously mid-October 2021)
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to allow SharePoint end users to provide feedback on image tags via the “Give feedback” feature in the details pane. To ensure the best possible customer experience, the supplier has updated the rollout timeline for this capability.
- Delayed rollout of option to send feedback on image tags in SharePoint
- Delayed rollout of variable playback speed for recorded Teams meetings
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to introduce variable playback speed for Teams meeting recordings stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. To ensure the best possible customer experience, the supplier has updated the deployment timeline for this feature.
- Rollout start: Early August 2021 for targeted release customers; late October 2021 (previously early September 2021) for general availability
- Rollout finish: Mid-October 2021 (previously early September 2021) for targeted release customers; late November 2021 (previously late September 2021) for general availability
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to introduce variable playback speed for Teams meeting recordings stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. To ensure the best possible customer experience, the supplier has updated the deployment timeline for this feature.
- Delayed rollout of variable playback speed for recorded Teams meetings
- Delayed rollout of background effects for Teams on the web
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to introduce background effects for Teams on the web. To ensure the best possible customer experience, the supplier has delayed the implementation of this feature.
- Rollout start: Late November 2021 (previously early October 2021)
- Rollout finish: Early December 2021 (previously late October 2021)
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to introduce background effects for Teams on the web. To ensure the best possible customer experience, the supplier has delayed the implementation of this feature.
- Delayed rollout of background effects for Teams on the web
- Delayed rollout of Exchange Online Protection (EOP) filtering verdict overrides via Tenant Allow/Block List
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to implement a feature that would allow clients to override EOP filtering verdicts with the Tenant Allow/Block List in the Defender portal. To ensure the best possible customer experience, the supplier has delayed the introduction of this capability.
- Rollout start: Early August 2021
- Rollout finish: Mid-November 2021 (previously mid-October 2021)
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to implement a feature that would allow clients to override EOP filtering verdicts with the Tenant Allow/Block List in the Defender portal. To ensure the best possible customer experience, the supplier has delayed the introduction of this capability.
- Delayed rollout of Exchange Online Protection (EOP) filtering verdict overrides via Tenant Allow/Block List
- Delayed rollout of sensitivity labels for teams created via templates
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to give Teams users the option to apply sensitivity labels to teams created from templates. To ensure the best possible customer experience, the supplier has delayed the implementation of this feature.
- Rollout start: Late September 2021
- Rollout finish: End of November 2021 (previously mid-October 2021)
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced plans to give Teams users the option to apply sensitivity labels to teams created from templates. To ensure the best possible customer experience, the supplier has delayed the implementation of this feature.
- Delayed rollout of sensitivity labels for teams created via templates
- Extension of the window to temporarily disable the SharePoint app bar
- What’s happening: Microsoft previously announced in February 2021 that clients had the option to temporarily disable the SharePoint app bar until October 31, 2021. The supplier has decided to extend that window in which you can temporarily disable the app bar until March 31, 2022.
- Extension of the window to temporarily disable the SharePoint app bar
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