March 2021 Newsletter – Week 2

Enabling page rotation for Android to view OneDrive PDF files

You will soon be able to rotate page orientation while viewing PDF documents in the Microsoft OneDrive Android app. Any changes made are saved to OneDrive.

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: manage template access using template policies

With this update, you can create policies to manage templates that your end users can access when they create a new team while they are using either Teams desktop (Windows/Mac) or Teams on the web.

Microsoft Forms: update in sharing with collaborators and recipients

We are making it easier to share a form with a collaborator or with respondents by separating the sharing process.

(Updated) New Teams meeting lobby setting – only invited users join directly

Teams meeting organizers can have greater control over their meetings by enabling a new lobby setting where only Calendar meeting invited users will be able to join directly.

Teams: Transfer calls between devices

This new Teams release will expand support and allow calling participants to transfer an ongoing VoIP, PSTN or Group call between Teams devices. Users will be able to transfer a call from one device to another or even add a second device to the same call.

Last year we announced the plan to retire the Dynamics 365 Home page beginning on April 1, 2021. As part of this change, the Dynamics 365 icon will be removed from the Office 365 applications list and the Office 365 application launcher.

Updated: Billing notifications in Microsoft 365 admin center

We’re updating the Billing notifications page to make it easier to manage who receives billing notification emails in your organization. Additional settings like your organization’s preferred language are now on this page so that all info about billing notifications is in one place.

(Updated) Increasing interactive meeting participants and chat from 300 to 1000

Currently, we allow only 300 users to be added to interactive meetings. We are going to increase the meeting participant and chat size from 300 to 1000.

(Updated) Exchange Online – Tag for external email messages received

In this release, Exchange Online will enable admins to protect their organization against spam and phishing threats from external senders. This feature is available in Outlook on the web, the new Outlook for Mac, and Outlook mobile (iOS and Android).