Teams Live events are dead*. Long live Teams Town Halls!
TL;DRMicrosoft has announced that Teams Live Events will be retired for commercial customers on 30th September 2024, and the functionality will be replaced with...
Immersive spaces in Teams meetings ready for Generally Availability
TL;DR: Immersive spaces allow you to have a fun, 3D meeting experience during your Teams meetings. Experience Spatial Audio, play team-building interactive games and...
Manage someone else’s Outlook calendar? This new notifications feature will keep...
TL;DR:Outlook shared calendar notifications: get notified when someone makes a change to a calendar that has been shared with you, and when someone makes...
Coming soon to Microsoft Teams webinars: unique join links for external...
Details:Organisers of Teams webinars will soon be able to create unique join links for their external presenters, who will receive exclusive Teams join links....
Personal plans are coming to Microsoft Planner
TL;DR: Microsoft Planner will soon support Personal Plans which are shared only with the creator who will the sole member and owner of the...
A Planner component is coming to Microsoft Loop
TL;DR: Do you and your colleagues use the Microsoft Loop app to work on projects together? You’ll soon be able to bring Planner into...
Collaborative meeting notes are coming to Teams on mobile
TL;DR:The ability to use Collaborative meeting notes (view, edit, and create collaborative notes including agenda, notes, and follow-up tasks) is coming to Teams for...
Microsoft Teams emojis, GIFs and stickers are to be combined in...
Details:Currently, you see separate emoji, GIF and sticker pickers when composing a message or post in Teams:
With this update emojis, GIFs, and stickers will...
The Teams meeting Outlook add-in now supports multi-tenant/account meeting creation for...
TL;DR: The Teams meeting add-in in Outlook now supports the ability to switch between multiple tenants and accounts to schedule Teams meetings. Available now...
What’s new in Microsoft 365 and Teams? A look at September...
Welcome to our ninth roundup of 2023. We look at what was announced, released and delayed across Microsoft 365 and Teams in September. These...
Coming to Microsoft Teams: The Power Automate app will be renamed...
TL;DR:Microsoft: “To provide a unified workflow experience within Microsoft Teams we will be merging the existing Workflows app with the Power Automate app. With...
New SharePoint news page templates: send SharePoint News to Outlook
August 2024 update: When creating a new News post, all templates will be grouped and users will no longer need to select from a...
Accessibility improvements to SharePoint page authoring
TL;DR:This update consists of two improvements, the first will provide the option to mark images as decorative (ignored by assistive technology), the second has...
Coloured folders in OneDrive and SharePoint
TL;DR:This feature allows you to change the colour of new and existing folders in OneDrive and SharePoint. There are 16 pre-set colour options. Available...
Workflows are replacing Connectors within the Microsoft Teams channels menu
TL;DR:Microsoft: “Microsoft Teams will be bringing workflows powered by Power Automate into the overflow menu for channels and replacing the Connectors option within the...
Coming soon to Public Preview: Use Python in Microsoft Excel
TL;DR:Microsoft: “Python in Excel is rolling out to Public Preview in Excel for Windows for users with access to the Microsoft 365 Insiders program...
S01E11 Introduction to Microsoft Planner
Welcome to Season 01, Episode 11 of Mark & Kirsty banging on about Microsoft 365!
In our eleventh episode Kirsty give us an introduction and...
New in Microsoft Lists: Create a list from CSV and export...
TL;DR: The new Create a list…from CSV feature in Microsoft Lists will allow you to import data from a CSV file. The Export to...
New SharePoint page sharing feature
TL;DR:You will soon be able to easily share SharePoint pages and news posts individually without sharing the entire site, like any other Microsoft 365...
What’s new in Microsoft 365 and Teams? A look at August...
Welcome to our eighth roundup of 2023. We look at what’s being announced, released and delayed across Microsoft 365 and Teams in August. These...
Microsoft is adding volume control to language interpreter support in Teams...
TL;DRMicrosoft is adding volume control to Language interpreter support in Microsoft Teams meetings. Due mid to late November 2024.
DetailsAfter this rollout: If a meeting organizer...
