Here’s your end-user focused catch up of updates for 11th - 30th September 2021 across Microsoft 365 and Teams.

I'm trying a new format this week; instead of grouping the content by availability, it's grouped by app. For example, you'll see the Teams late, new and coming soon content all together. Let me know what you think of doing it this way.

01:07 OneDrive
02:27 SharePoint
03:43 Teams
10:31 Updates from the rest of 365

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Here’s your end-user focused catch up of updates for 28th August – 11th September 2021 across Microsoft 365 and Teams.

Microsoft have been pretty quiet on the end user update front…except for Forms. I’m pretty sure there have been as many Forms updates in the past month as the proceeding six! Anyway, here’s what we’ve got:

• Revised timelines
• Full updates
  • Forms Collections
  • New Mobile Friendly Experience for Form Creation and Analysis
  • Forms word cloud poll for Teams meeting
  • Microsoft Forms new App “Polls” in Teams
  • Teams Public Preview indicator “P” on avatar
  • Improvements to the SharePoint Text web part for pages and news
• Bite sized updates

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Here’s your end-user focused catch up of updates for 7th - 28th August 2021 across Microsoft 365 and Teams.

Who is this for? These updates look at topics of interest to end users and anyone supporting them such as trainers, team/site owners and super users. Feel free to share this update with your colleagues at work.

After a couple of weeks away on holiday, we have a bit of catching up to do.

Here’s what we’ve got:

• Revised timelines
• Full updates
  • Tone detection in Microsoft Editor for Outlook on the web
  • Lightweight Plans in Planner
  • PowerApps/PowerAutomate Retirement of Direct Links in the OneDrive Connector
  • PowerPoint Modern Comments
  • Synchronising Teams channel names with the channels' files folder names in SharePoint
  • Breakout rooms: Pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment
  • Breakout Rooms Presenter support
  • Refreshed Microsoft Whiteboard
• Bite sized updates
• Ones to watch

If you want more details or like your updates in another format, search for the video on YouTube or the blog for this session using the search term 'Super Simple 365'. 

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Here’s your monthly end-user focused catch up of updates for  Microsoft  Teams. We look back at July and forward to August and beyond.

Here’s what we’ve got:

• Revised timelines
• Full Updates
  • New default settings options when opening Office files in Teams
  • Fluid live components in Teams chat
  • Music Mode for Teams
  • Real-time Telemetry for Teams End Users 
  • Microsoft Stream: Viewing the transcript for a Microsoft Teams meeting recording
  • New default native notification setting for new Teams users
  • Variable playback speed for Teams meeting recordings
  • New Side-by-side and Reporter Presenter modes with desktop and window sharing
• Bite sized updates
• Ones to watch

If you want more details or like your updates in another format, search for the video on YouTube  using the search term 'Super Simple 365'. 

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Here’s your end-user focused catch up of updates for 1st – 7th August 2021 across Microsoft 365 and Teams.

Who is this for? These updates look at topics of interest to end users and anyone supporting them such as trainers, team/site owners and super users. Feel free to share this update with your colleagues at work.

Another quiet of week for full updates, but we have a great ‘one to watch’…in fact it gets star of the week!

Here’s what we’ve got:

• Revised timelines
• Full updates
  • SharePoint: Remove the background gradient on title region
  • Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams
  • Yammer: Nested Replies and Related Features
• Bite sized updates
• Ones to watch

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Here’s our end-user focused catch up of updates for the fortnight 17th - 31st  July 2021 across Microsoft 365.

Just a reminder to set the scene; these updates look at topics of interest to end users and anyone supporting them such as trainers, team/site owners and super users. Feel free to share this update with your colleagues at work.

Another quite week for end users, but we have some great Teams updates. Here’s what we’ve got:

• Revised timelines
• Microsoft Stream: Viewing the transcript for a Microsoft Teams meeting recording
• New Side-by-side and Reporter Presenter modes with desktop and window sharing
• New default native notification setting for new Teams users
• Variable playback speed for Teams meeting recordings
• Outlook on the web - Project Moca migrating to Outlook board view
• Bite sized

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Here’s our end-user focused catch up of updates for the week 10th – 17th July 2021 across Microsoft 365.

Just a reminder to set the scene; these updates look at topics of interest to end users and anyone supporting them such as trainers, team/site owners and super users. Feel free to share this update with your colleagues at work.

Another quite week for end users, but we have a couple of great Teams updates and an important ‘one to watch’. Here’s what we’ve got:

• Revised timelines
• Full updates
• Bite sized
• Ones to watch

If you want more details or like your updates in another format, search for the video on YouTube or the blog for this session using the search term 'Super Simple 365'. 

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Here’s our end-user focused catch up of updates for the fortnight 26th June – 10th July 2021 across Microsoft 365.

Just a reminder to set the scene; these updates look at topics of interest to end users and anyone supporting them such as trainers, team/site owners and super users. Feel free to share this update with your colleagues at work.

It’s been a quiet(ish) couple of weeks for end users. Here’s what we’ve got in this edition:

• (Lots of) Revised timelines
• Full updates
• Bite sized updates

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It’s time for our end-user focused catch up of updates for the fortnight 19th - 26th June 2021 across Microsoft 365.

Just a reminder to set the scene; these updates look at topics of interest to end users and anyone supporting them such as trainers, team/site owners and super users. Feel free to share this update with your colleagues at work.

A short one this week:

• Revised timelines
• OneDrive Sharing experience - "Shared with"
• Quick Create – Easily Create Power BI Reports from Lists
• Teams Meeting Auto Recording
• New assignment experience in pop-up window for Breakout Rooms
• Bite sized updates
• Ones to watch
• Keep up with 365

If you want more details or like your updates in another format, search for the video on YouTube or the blog for this session using the search term 'Super Simple 365'. 

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It’s time for our end-user focused catch up of updates for the fortnight 5th – 19th June 2021 across Microsoft 365.

Who’s looking forwards to Windows 11? I can’t wait to see if it’s a proper new operating system or just ‘a glorified theme pack’. I’ll be following Mary Jo Foley’s blog to keep up.

Onto the updates, we have a handful of revised timelines, a few full updates, seven bite sized updates and a STACK of genuinely useful ‘ones to watch’…they’re probably the highlight this week.

Just a reminder to set the scene; these updates look at topics of interest to end users and anyone supporting them such as trainers, team/site owners and super users. Feel free to share this update with your colleagues at work.

• Revised timelines
• Microsoft Lists | @mention in comments
• Chat bubbles in Teams meetings
• Search for a meeting recording based on what was said
• Teams attendance reporting dashboard  
• Ones to watch
• Keep up with 365

If you want more details or like your updates in another format, search for the video on YouTube or the blog for this session using the search term 'Super Simple 365'. 

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