Below are all of the relevant MSP related Microsoft announcements from September
Microsoft Teams
1. Cameo in PowerPoint Live
How this will affect your organization
Cameo is a new PowerPoint experience that seamlessly integrates your Teams camera feed into your presentation, letting you customize how and where you want to appear on your slides and offering layout recommendations for optimal viewing. When it’s time to present, use PowerPoint Live in Teams for an immersive remote presentation.
When will this happen:
GA
2. Schedule Send for Teams Chat
How this will affect your organization
All users within your organization will be allowed to schedule chat messages. All scheduled messages can only be delivered no more than 7 days in the future and cannot be flagged as urgent or important. Inline images and attached files will only be accessible by others in the chat once the message has been delivered.
When will this happen:
Early November
3. Collaborate in Teams meetings with Excel Live
How this will affect your organization
With “Excel Live”, you can share and collaborate with Excel workbook in a meeting. This is handy when you want to get work done with your colleagues in a meeting, it seamlessly turns the meeting window canvas to an Excel workbook collaboration without having to move between windows and screens. For e.g.: Budget sheet which needs input from all participants to collaborate, contribute, review and finalize
When will this happen:
mid-October and expect to complete by late November.
4. Quick Access Teams and SharePoint Document Libraries in win32 backstage
How this will affect your organization
Currently, users experience some frustration when using Office products because of all different routes that they must use to access all their content. The Quick Access feature will allow users to access shared libraries from both their SharePoint and Teams locations. When the user opens files from shared libraries, these libraries will show up in the form of a list which will encourage users to save and open files to these libraries with ease. This helps deliver a more consistent, coherent storage location experience across M365 apps. This new backstage experience won’t show up in Teams, SharePoint, or OneDrive but does include storage locations from OneDrive and Teams (sites/channels) which are stored on SharePoint.
When will this happen:
Early January and expect to complete by late January 2023
5. View the Full Chat conversation thread after clicking on search message results
How this will affect your organization
When users search for a chat message in Teams and click on a message result, they are taken to a view that contains only the selected message, rather than the entire chat thread. This fix will now land the users on the full chat thread once the message search result is clicked, thereby providing full context of the conversation around the message result.
When will this happen:
Early October and complete late October 2022.
6. Music on Hold for Call Transfer
How this will affect your organization
Microsoft Teams users can now play music to callers on hold when a call transfer is initiated. This feature ensures that music can be played to caller on hold when call transfer is initiated, feature applies to 1-1 VoIP and PSTN calls.
When will this happen:
mid-September and expect to complete rollout by late September.
7. Video Clips in Teams Chat
How this will affect your organization
Video Clips are a new way of working and connecting with coworkers using short video in Teams. Users can capture, send, and playback video messages in Chat on all Teams endpoints. Recording limited to 1min across all platforms.
When will this happen:
Late September and complete by early October
8. Automatically view up to 49 videos (7×7) in Teams meeting
How this will affect your organization
Microsoft Teams Meetings currently supports a maximum of 9 videos (3×3) on the screen by default (in Gallery view). For seeing more than 9 videos, user needs to manually select the ‘Large Gallery’ view. With this update, users will be able to automatically see up to 49 videos (7×7) on their screen by default without an explicit action. However, Large Gallery view will still continue to exist as an option.
When will this happen:
Late September and complete by early October
Microsoft Viva
1. Meeting effectiveness surveys and plans coming in the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams
How this will affect your organization
Meeting effectiveness surveys offer a new way to provide feedback to meeting organizers and help improve future meetings. The surveys are displayed at the end of select meetings in Teams with 5+ attendees and feature the following questions:
**Requires Viva Insights Subscription**
When this will happen:
Meeting effectiveness surveys will begin rolling out end of September, 2022 and Meeting effectiveness Plan will begin rolling out mid October, 2022 making them both available WW by end of October, 2022.
Microsoft Admin
1. GDAP Bulk Migration Tool
How this will affect your organization
- Tool to create GDAP relationship with Azure Active Directory (AD) roles in bulk
- Will be available until October 31, 2022
- GDAP bulk migration tool – Partner Center | Microsoft Docs
- Microsoft will stop creating DAPs when a new customer or reseller relationship is created
- September 30, 2022
- You might have to change up your customer onboarding workflow here if part of your steps is creating DAP relationships
- Microsoft will transition active DAP connections to least privileged GDAP roles starting October 31st, 2022
Partner Center Link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/announcements/2022-august#4
The CIPP app now has a native migration tool that is much friendlier than the bulk migration tool Microsoft has provided: Home | CyberDrain Improved Partner Portal (cipp.app)
2. Basic Authentication Deprecation in Exchange Online – September 2022 Update
How this will affect your organization
As we communicated last year in blog posts and earlier this year in MC375736 , we will start to turn off basic authentication in our worldwide multi-tenant service on October 1, 2022. We will randomly select tenants, send 7-day warning Message Center posts, post Service Health Dashboard notices, and turn off basic auth in the tenant.
We’re turning off basic auth for the following protocols: MAPI, RPC, Offline Address Book (OAB), Exchange Web Services (EWS), POP, IMAP, Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) and Remote PowerShell.
Ensure that no users or services are using basic auth within your environment. The CIPP app mentioned above reports on Basic Auth within tenants.
Additionally, here are some powershell scripts I wrote to help report on this as well: msp4msps/Basic-Authentication-Reporting (github.com)