Microsoft Teams: Increasing interactive meeting participants 300 to 1000
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Currently, Microsoft allow only 300 users to be added to interactive meetings. They are increasing the meeting participant and chat size from 300 to 1000. This feature rollout will begin...
Microsoft Forms: update in sharing with collaborators and recipients
Short version:Microsoft are making it easier to share a form with a collaborator or with respondents by separating the sharing process with the creation of Send and Co-author buttons. Change due...
Microsoft 365 and Teams update 20th – 27th February 2021…and a Microsoft Ignite reminder
It’s time for our end-user focused catch up of updates from the 20th – 27th February 2021 across Microsoft 365. This week is a strange one; lots of delays revised timelines...
OneDrive for Business and SharePoint online upload capability increased to 250GB
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OneDrive for Business and SharePoint online upload limit increased from 100GB per file 250GB via the sync client as well as the web app. Increased capacity available now. See link...
Microsoft 365 and Teams update 13th – 20th February 2021…and we dip a toe...
It’s time for our hand-picked updates from the 13th – 20th February 2021 across Microsoft 365. We'll start with what’s delayed then look across Office, SharePoint and Teams as well as...
Dictation in Word and Outlook improvements
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Dictation in Word and Outlook improvements make it easier for you to create, edit content, change settings like Auto punctuation, Profanity filter and Spoken language with your voice. Rollout will...
Introducing a SharePoint app bar that features global navigation
Short version:SharePoint modern comms and team sites will soon feature the SharePoint app bar which provides quick access to customisable global navigation as well as other intranet resources making important content and resources...
Introducing a change in access behaviour for public groups in Microsoft Forms
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Microsoft are introducing a change in access behaviour for public groups in Microsoft Forms. Currently all users can edit a public Group form and view response data without joining the...
Outlook on the web: update in how users access Mail, Calendar, People, and To...
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Microsoft are adding an app bar to Outlook on the web which changes how you will access Mail, Calendar, People, and To Do functions (and more). Currently these are a...
New file sharing experience in Microsoft Teams
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Teams file sharing update: MS are updating the file sharing and access control experience in to make it similar to the experience with other 365 apps; you’ll have much more...
Text formatting (bold, italic, underline) available in Microsoft Forms
What you need to know:
You will soon be able to use text formatting (bold, italics, and underline) in Forms surveys and quizzes differentiate and emphasise content.
What you need to do:
Nothing, this...
Feature Update: Modern comments in Word for Windows and Mac
What you need to know:
Microsoft are rolling out a new comments experience in Word with improved keyboard shortcuts as well as improved @mentions and notifications. This experience unifies how comments work...
Microsoft 365 and Teams update 8th – 13th February 2021 and what is Teams...
It’s time for our end-user focused catch up of updates from the 18th – 13th February 2021 across Microsoft 365. We'll have a look across Office, SharePoint and Teams as well...
SharePoint to support lightbox for images
Short version:SharePoint pages will soon support a lightbox for images, making it possible for end users to easily see a larger version of an image. This feature rollout will begin mid-February...
Improvements to Microsoft Search with personal query history
What you need to know:Delayed: Microsoft are adding a new option in Microsoft Search that allows you to view and manage your personal query history.
What you need to do:With personal query...
New: Outlook – Reactions and new notification experience
What you need to know:
Reactions to email messages is coming to Outlook on the web, Outlook for iOS, and Outlook for Android. With this release, Outlook for iOS and Outlook for...
Introducing an enhanced Teams Calling experience
What you need to know:Microsoft are simplifying the calling experience in the Teams desktop app (Windows and Mac) by providing a streamlined view that combines contacts, voicemail, and calling history.
Additional enhancements...
New: Adding taxonomy columns for modern SharePoint library views
Short version:This new feature gives you the ability to add taxonomy columns directly to library views in modern SharePoint libraries. Previously, you had to create managed metadata columns from within More...
List rules make it easy to set up notifications of changes in SharePoint
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With this update, if you are a SharePoint user with edit permissions on a list you can create simple if/then rules, based on changes to list information,...
Microsoft Teams: New Share to Teams from Outlook button
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Microsoft are updating the Share to Teams capability in Outlook for Windows, Mac (preview) and Outlook on the web. The Share to Teams from Outlook button enables...
What’s new in Microsoft 365 and Copilot? March 2025
Welcome to our third roundup of 2025. We look at what was announced, released and delayed across Microsoft 365 and Copilot in March.
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