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Add Outlook as app to Microsoft Teams
In this manual, I guide you through the process of building your first Teams app and seamlessly integrating Microsoft Outlook into Teams as an app. With my step-by-step instructions, you’ll unlock a whole new level of productivity and collaboration. Add Outlook to Teams and experience the power of managing your emails, calendars, and contact within the familiar Teams interface.
A new experience to search within chat and channels.
Overview: We are excited to introduce a new and improved experience to search within chats and channels. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122550 When...
Channel meeting invitation | Allow organizer to send a channel meeting invite to everyone in team
Overview: Channel meeting invitations will now allow channel meeting organizers the ability to share invites on personal calendars of all channel members. This message is...
Generate unique join links for external presenters so they can easily join events
Overview: Organizers can set up events and effortlessly add external presenters, who will receive exclusive Teams join links. These links enable external presenters to directly...
Suppressing Authenticator Notifications from Risky Sources
Overview: This is a follow up to MC666629 (August '23) which was incorrectly removed from the Message center. We apologize for any inconvenience. The proposed approach seeks to...
Collaborative notes on Teams mobile
Users can now view, edit, and create collaborative notes including agenda, notes, and follow-up tasks on Teams for iOS and Android, similarly with what users can do on Teams for...
Teams Calendar: Near real-time sync calendar sync with Outlook Calendar
With this update, any Calendar updates you make in outlook will be available in near-real time on Teams Calendar (Desktop/Web). This keeps your calendar across Outlook and Teams...
SharePoint: New List Templates with Approvals
We are introducing two new list templates with the Approvals app integration. With this change, Microsoft Lists templates, specifically Travel Requests with approvals and Content...
OneDrive: Recommended Files
OneDrive will now display a list of recommended files in Home. This list allows you to keep track of work around you and quickly access files with activity you value most such as...
Microsoft Viva: Verified Topics Badges
With this update, editors can mark published topics as Verified in Microsoft Viva and add a specific group of SMEs as editors to the topic. Verification helps readers identify...
Microsoft Secure Score – Changes in SSPM support
We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture. The improvement actions listed below will be added to...