Have you ever sent an email suggesting a meeting or call and forgot to set a reminder to follow it up? Or even received an email asking you to do something that you parked for tomorrow and is now lost in your inbox?! Well, the new daily Briefing reminder email may just come to your rescue. Each morning you can receive a list of potential actionable items that you may have forgotten about and that enables you to either dismiss each item or to quickly create a To-do task. This is just one of the new features announced by Microsoft during March and although I was initially sceptical of more email clutter, so far it has proved really useful – although you do need to be using Microsoft To Do to get the best out of it (and who isn’t). Teams Improved Microsoft Teams meeting stage I'm not sure I really like the term “stage” but Microsoft does, so we'll continue to use it. The “stage” is basically the meeting window where you can see all the participants in your meeting, and this has come a long way in the last 12 months. It's hard to believe, but this time last year you could only see 4 faces at one time. Now that number seems to grow each quarter. However, this growth has come with the need to better organise the “stage” and these latest enhancements will certainly help. So, if you are used to holding meetings with more than a handful of people, then you should read this latest update to understand all the latest capabilities. MORE DETaIL
Dynamically optimised Teams meeting stage
MC242824 Category Teams Microsoft Teams is introducing Dynamic view, a redesigned "meeting stage" that will optimise your meeting experience. Dynamic view will enable:
New Teams enhanced Dynamic view
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New breakout room functionality coming to Microsoft Teams
MC247659 Category Teams 1. Room assignment retention (new default behaviour) Participants remain assigned to their breakout rooms unless the meeting organiser chooses to change them. The assignment persists across subsequent sessions or recurring meetings. 2. Participant reassignment while rooms are open Organisers may reassign joined participants across rooms and the main meeting room when the breakout rooms are open. Currently reassignment works only when breakout rooms are closed. 3. Set timers for breakout sessions Organisers can set a timer for all breakout rooms created in a meeting session via the Breakout rooms settings panel. 
When the organiser has set a timer, the clock will show participants the time left in the room (countdown) rather than time elapsed. The timer alerts participants that the breakout room session will close in 60 seconds. The organiser can then choose:
More from Microsoft https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/using-breakout-rooms SharePoint Immersive reader capabilities in SharePoint pages As SharePoint pages become more important as your internal communication tool, then you need to make your pages not only visually pleasing but equally accessible to people with learning differences such as dyslexia. Immersive reader has been available in office applications such as Word for a number of years and recently Microsoft rolled the capability out to Teams, to be used with chat and conversations. Well soon the same capability will be available to your people when they are reading your beautifully curated SharePoint news and intranet pages. MORE DETaIL
Immersive Reader is coming to SharePoint pages and news posts
MC243944 Category SharePoint The Microsoft Immersive Reader, which is currently built into Word, OneNote, Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft apps, will soon be available for SharePoint pages and news posts. The Immersive Reader uses proven techniques to improve reading and writing for people regardless of their age or ability. This feature will be available on all modern pages and news posts except for home pages. Viewers of SharePoint pages and news posts will see a button on the page command bar to open the Immersive Reader. In this initial release, the Immersive Reader will only read content contained in text web parts. 
Focus mode for SharePoint pages Yes, two enhancement this month when it comes to SharePoint pages.
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Focus mode in SharePoint communication pages
MC244912 Category SharePoint Your SharePoint page authors and viewers will now be able to clean their field of vision and focus on page content by clicking the Expand content button on the command bar to hide the site header, site navigation, and global navigation bar. This larger content viewing pane in Focus mode will continue as viewers navigate and select other links to open pages within the same site. The larger content viewing pane will not continue when viewers select links to pages outside of the site, even if they are within a hub site. Focus mode collapsed view
Focus mode expanded view
What you need to do to prepare You might want to notify your users about this new capability and update your training and documentation as appropriate. Images for company events
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Publish company events complete with images
MC243945 Category SharePoint The Events web part on SharePoint pages and news posts will now have an option to show images. SharePoint page authors who use the Events web part can enable an option to show event images within the web part. When enabled, each Event shown in the web part will display the image used in the title area of the Event page. 
Existing Event web parts will not be updated. However, new web parts added to pages and news will default to show images.
Current events view
New events view
What you need to do to prepare You might want to notify your users about this new capability and update your training and documentation as appropriate. Outlook Daily actionable email We started off this month’s Insights referring to this new feature that uses Microsoft’s artificial intelligence capability to help discover email correspondence that you may need to action. Read on to discover more about this productivity feature coming soon. Remember though, this is just one more tool in the productivity armoury and is no substitute for not using all of the great Outlook tools and integrations available to you to track, plan and keep on top of your important emails. MORE DETaIL
New daily actionable items briefing email Category Outlook The Briefing email is a personalised list of possible tasks and actionable items that have been detected at the end of your previous working day. This could be an email reply from you informing the sender that you will deal with their request, or details of upcoming meetings and outstanding tasks. All of these items appear in a briefing email so you're prepared for the day ahead. The email provides actionable buttons against each item to enable you to create a quick To Do task. If there is relevant content, you will receive the Briefing email at the beginning of each workday; at least one actionable insight for the current day must be detected for there to be a Briefing mail delivered on that day. Author: Chris Kaye Comments are closed.
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