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Microsoft has recently implemented a substantial reduction in cloud storage allocated to Higher Education institutions worldwide. As a result, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ must reduce the overall amount of storage used across campus to align with Microsoft’s policies

Teams Premium is available to purchase! It is an offering that builds on the current Teams experience with additional features that help make Teams meetings even more personalized, intelligent, and protected.

Microsoft announced the deprecation of its connectors for webhooks, encouraging users to transition to Power Automate Workflows

The new webinar experience now allows for more powerful and controlled registration, additional email capabilities, smooth external presenter capabilities, access control, and so much more!

Currently, Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise), is available through your UÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ account. It is essential that if using an AI system, that you do so responsibly. IST urges proceeding with caution and due diligence when using University data with AI systems. 

The voicemail feature that automatically activates an out-of-office greeting based on an out-of-office event in Outlook calendar will be retired by the end of August 2024. 

Learn about new features available and coming to Teams! 

There is now a UW colour palate option available when designing a SharePoint site. 

Wiki's are being retired from Teams starting January 2024. To replace the wiki feature, Microsoft is introducing note-taking capabilities within Teams channels using OneNote. To make the transition to OneNote, existing Wiki's must be exported. 

°Õ³ó±ðÌýnew version of Microsoft Teams will be enabled for University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ clients on February 20, 2024. This version delivers improved performance and enhanced reliability, security, and IT management, resulting in a faster, simpler, smarter, and more flexible app.