August 2021 Weekly Newsletter – Week 3

Breakout rooms: Pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment

We are adding the ability for meeting organizers to pre-create rooms ahead of a meeting start and perform participant assignment tasks (both auto and manual) in advance.

Universal Print integration with OneDrive on the web

Users will be able to print to their organization’s Universal Print printers from OneDrive on the web without having to first install these printers on their devices.

Microsoft 365 apps and services support for IE11 has ended

As previously communicated, (MC220490 – August 17th, 2020), Microsoft 365 apps and services have been focusing their efforts on modern browser support over the last year. As of today, August 17, 2021, Microsoft 365 apps and services no longer support Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) and users may have a degraded experience, or be unable to connect to, those apps and services from IE11. These apps and services will phase out over weeks and months to help ensure a smooth end of support, with each app and service phasing out on independent schedules.

(Updated) Quick Create – Easily Create Power BI Reports from Lists

We are excited to announce the arrival of a new guided authoring experience in Lists that will make it easy to quickly create business intelligence reports in Power BI using your list schema and data.

Breakout Rooms Presenter support

We are adding the ability for organizer to extend the management of Breakout Rooms to specific presenters. This feature will enable meeting organizers to add and remove presenters as Breakout Room managers.

Innovate Security with Azure Security

Innovate Security is based on the inherent need for safety. Today, we see that need challenged more than ever. In the past year alone, we’ve witnessed an exponential increase in ransomware, supply chain attacks, phishing, and identity theft.

Microsoft Teams 1:1 VOIP and PSTN call recording and transcription in Calls App V2

Microsoft Teams will now release ability to record and transcribe 1:1 VOIP and PSTN calls and show the recording and transcription in Call history in the calls details panel.