What’s new in Microsoft 365 and Teams? 7th - 28th August 2021

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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