In this month’s Microsoft 365 update we take an in-depth look at all the recently released features for all the products within Microsoft 365.

SharePoint – Employee onboarding hub, hub visitor permissions, SPMT support for SharePoint Server 2016, Lists rollout, quick edit improvements, image column updates, rename title column, keyboard shortcuts for Pages, block external access via DLP

Teams – Multi-window meeting & calling, “only me” lobby setting, Teams Rooms app, direct guest join, Teams Rooms standard/premium, contextual search, Visio files as tabs, Enhanced device management, Create, manage & deploy chatbots, new BI app, SSO support for tabs, Teams toolkit for Visual Studio, User attribution for bot messages

Teams (Admin) – App configuration, Advisor, sensitivity labels in Teams, app lifecycle updates, policy management updates

Teams (Firstline Workers) – Time clock on web/desktop, new policy packages, shift activity search

Teams (Education) – Large lectures, custom video background policy, delete cross-posts, assignment languages, class materials on Android, student lobby, school data sync team creation,

Teams (GCC) – 300 participant attendee increase, 9 simultaneous videos, raise hands, PSTN numbers masked, multi-window chat, priority notifications, channel info pane

OneDrive – Add to OneDrive, sharing links that block download

Power Apps – Dataflex, portals caching changes, ThisRecord, monitor mode for model-driven apps, column comparisons

Power Automate – Variable support for UI flows, process receipts/ translate text models in AI builder, loop/ array input support, Office scripts

Power BI – On-prem data gateway July 2020, React component, external tool support, July 2020 desktop feature summary, contact list/ allow contributors to update apps

Power Virtual Agents – Manage chatbots in Power Apps, release wave 2

Related – Remove background noise in Stream, on-demand training, Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Azure Sentinel, universal print

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SharePoint

New employee onboarding hub from the SharePoint look book

The new employee onboarding hub is a template provided by the SharePoint team that aims to provide resources, support and general information to aid new starters.

It’s available from the SharePoint Look Book site and takes about 20 minutes to provision.

Find out more:

• SharePoint Look Book site
• The New Employee Onboarding hub – Improving the new hire experience

Centralised management for hub permissions

This optional feature allows hub site permissions to be synced to associated sites. Hub site owners can specify access by individuals, security groups, or Microsoft 365 groups.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 65641
• Set up your SharePoint hub site
• Associate a SharePoint site with a hub site

SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) supports migrating content from SharePoint Server 2016 

Now generally available, the SharePoint Migration Tool now includes support for migrations from SharePoint Server 2016. This now means that the SPMT now supports migrations from:

• SharePoint Server 2016
• SharePoint Server 2013
• SharePoint Foundation 2013
• SharePoint Server 2010
• SharePoint Foundation 2010
• Network and local file shares

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 63258
• Download and install the SharePoint Migration Tool

Microsoft Lists begins roll out

Microsoft have recently announced the roll out of Lists beginning in July and the new app comes with 8 pre-made templates to choose from.

P.S. if you don’t yet see the Lists app in your list of available M365 apps and you are on first release, open your OneDrive and replace onedrive.aspx with lists.aspx!

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 64160
• Microsoft Lists Resource Center

Quick edit improvements

Several improvements have been made to the quick edit experience in SharePoint lists. Take a look at them all below:

Fixed row height	When in Quick Edit, you will see a new layout option “Fixed Height” within the view drop-down menu.	Roadmap ID: 64867
Improved row selection	When in Quick Edit, people will see an updated way for selecting single or multiple items in a list or files in a library.	Roadmap ID: 64868
Visual updates	Includes new grid lines, an improved on-hover experience when using your mouse around the grid, themed color bars on the side of list items – including error messaging, a “Create New Item” button at the bottom of quick edit for creating new items inline, and updated column header drop-downs.	Roadmap ID: 64871
Sticky column	As users scroll horizontally across a list in Quick Edit mode, the far-left column remains in place – improving context while viewing and editing.	Roadmap ID: 64866

Updates to the image column

Microsoft have improved the image upload experience – including mobile camera support. This is a default column when using the new Asset manager template, and is a column type that can be added to any list or library.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 64872
• Introduction to lists

Rename the title column

You can now rename the default title column in SharePoint and the change will be reflected everywhere – in quick edit, on the associated view, and in the list form.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 65146
• Introduction to lists

Keyboard shortcuts for SharePoint Pages

Much of Windows and Microsoft 365 is navigable via keyboard, and this month, SharePoint pages joined in.

Microsoft have introduced keyboard shortcuts for SharePoint pages. You can see all the available keyboard shortcuts by pressing Shift + ? when editing the page.

Find out more:

• Create and use modern pages on a SharePoint site

Office 365 Data Loss Prevention treats files as sensitive by default until fully scanned

You can now enable Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to automatically block external access to new files in SharePoint and OneDrive until they have been fully scanned by the service for sensitive information.

If the file has no sensitive content based on the DLP policy, then guests can access the file. If the policy identifies a file with sensitive content, then guests continue to be prohibited from accessing the file.

To mark new files sensitive by default, you will need to change a tenant property using PowerShell and a cmdlet.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 34247
• Mark new files as sensitive by default
• Overview of data loss prevention

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Teams

Multi-window for meeting and calls

Microsoft have announced that the new multi-window meeting and calling experiences has started rolling out. This new experience is the foundation for not only pop-out meetings and calling, but for Together mode and Large gallery views. 

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 57294
• New Meeting and Calling Experience in Microsoft Teams!

New Teams Meeting lobby setting “only me”

A new lobby setting has launched for Teams Meetings that gives you greater control over who can enter your meeting. An “only me” option has been added to the “Who can bypass lobby?” setting.

Once enabled, only the organizer will be able to join the meeting directly. Everyone else, including people from within the same organization, will be sent to the lobby.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 66574
• Manage meeting settings in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams Rooms, app version 4.5.35.0 now available

The latest Teams Rooms app is out now! Updates include:

• Support for video gallery-only layouts: For meeting room configurations with a single front of room display, you can now switch between viewing the video gallery or presented content.
• Raise hand: During a meeting, you can raise a virtual hand from the center of room console to let people know you want to contribute without interrupting the conversation.
• Default speaker volume settings: From within the Teams Rooms settings, device administrators can now set a default volume level for in-room conferencing and system speakers.
• Direct guest join for Cisco Webex meetings and devices: Now Teams Rooms and Cisco Webex meeting room devices can connect to each other’s meeting services via embedded web technologies.
• Auto-enrollment and device management from Teams Admin Center: Microsoft Teams Rooms have been added to the list of devices that can be managed through the Teams Admin Center.

Find out more:

• Microsoft Teams Rooms
• 4.5.35.0 release notes

Direct guest join

Microsoft have announced that direct guest join has reached general availability and is available through the latest Microsoft Teams Room app, version 4.5.35.0.

The direct guest join capability enables meeting room devices to connect to meeting services from other vendors via embedded web technologies.

Find out more:

• Microsoft & Cisco partner to simplify meetings and calling for mutual customers
• Enable Teams Room devices to join third-party meetings

New options to enable and manage Microsoft Teams Rooms devices

Microsoft Teams Rooms Standard and Teams Rooms Premium are the new tiers to manage Teams Rooms devices:

• Microsoft Teams Rooms Standard: Formerly known as the Meeting Room SKU, this enables inclusive meeting room experiences across Teams Rooms, collaboration bars and Surface Hub. Standard provides the necessary licenses for Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business Online, and Intune management.
• Microsoft Teams Rooms Premium: Includes all the licenses that come with Microsoft Teams Rooms Standard while providing additional value through a cloud-based remote management service.

Find out more:

• Meet the new Microsoft Teams Rooms Standard and Premium

Contextual search

You can now search for content in a specific channel or chat by pressing CTRL + F. Search results will only contain messages and files found in the selected chat or channel.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 64017
• Use Content Search in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels in Teams

Sensitivity labels for Teams, SharePoint sites, and Microsoft 365 Groups is now generally available. You can now associate a sensitivity label with policies related to privacy, external user membership, and unmanaged device access. 

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 64965
• General Availability: Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels in Teams/SharePoint sites
• Learn about sensitivity labels

Access and manage Visio files in Microsoft Teams with tabs

With the new Visio as a tab feature, you can create a tab from any Visio file (new or existing) in Teams with a single click. Adding a tab in Teams is now available to all Teams users.

NOTE: Editing is only available for those with a Visio Plan 1 or Plan 2 subscription.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 20886
• Collaborate on Visio files inside Microsoft Teams

Teams (admin)

Enhanced device management capabilities in Teams Admin Center

New device management capabilities in the Teams Admin Center make it easier to deploy and manage a fleet of devices, with improvements across device set-up, bulk management tasks, and health monitoring. And now you can manage your Microsoft Teams Room devices in the same place as your collaboration bars and IP phones.

Find out more:

• One place to manage all your Teams devices
• Configure accounts for Microsoft Teams Rooms

Configure apps from the Teams admin center

You can now configure your applications from the same Teams Admin Center portal, without the need to jump between portals to the application store to perform the changes.

Find out more:

• Manage your apps in the Microsoft Teams admin center

Advisor for Teams

Now generally available, Advisor for Teams is a new onboarding tool that offers recommended plans and a collaboration space for the deployment team to streamline the roll out of all the Teams workloads, including messaging, meetings and calling and Skype for business upgrade workloads. 

Find out more:

• Use Advisor for Teams to help you roll out Microsoft Teams

App lifecycle announcements

Microsoft have announced the following new capabilities to ensure that users can more easily leverage the key business apps they use every day inside of Microsoft Teams:

• Custom apps Submission to Approval: You will now be able to submit Teams apps through any of these clients and trusted sources (e.g.: Visual Studio Code, Power Virtual Agents, Power Apps and more) via our App Submission Microsoft Graph API – streamlining the process of submitting apps directly to the Teams Admin Center for IT admins to review and approve.
• Custom app publishing: You will be able to leverage a streamlined process to manage – review, approve and publish custom apps directly from the Teams Admin Center. An admin can view the custom apps publishing status, manifest details, and update their status from ‘submitting’ to ‘publishing’ so that end users will be able to access those apps.

• Install app to a team from Teams Admin Center: To create a customized, more productive environment for the users, you can now install an app for any team in your organization.

• Application monetization and bringing the purchase to Team Admin Center: A new third-party subscription purchase experience will enable you to view and purchase subscriptions associated with the 3rd party Teams apps.

Find out more:

• New capabilities for Teams Management | July 2020

Policy management updates

Several enhancements in this area to help IT admins assign policies to users in Teams, including:

• Package batch assignments: now generally available, bulk policy assignment in PowerShell now supports:
  • Policy assignment to O365 groups
  • Batch assignment of policies (up to 5K users)
  • Batch assignment of policy packages (up to 5K users)

• Changes in Incoming IP video policy: Microsoft are updating meeting policies to allow you to prevent both outgoing and incoming video as needed.

Find out more:

• New capabilities for Teams Management | July 2020

Teams (Dev)

Create, manage, and deploy Power Platform apps and chatbots

With the advent of Microsoft Dataflex – a built in relational database for Teams – makers can build, deploy, and manage these apps using Power Apps and chatbots using Power Virtual Agents to simplify and digitize their everyday work.

Find out more:

• Teams is shaping the future of work with low code features to enhance your digital workspace
• Introducing Microsoft Dataflex, a new low-code data platform for Microsoft Teams

New Power BI app

The new Power BI app for Teams enables you to access reports and dashboards in Teams to easily find insight in context and collaborate.

This app also helps you make data-driven decisions at scale with confidence and provides new ways to connect insight to action through sample reports, automation, and easy sharing functionality.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 61047
• Embed Power BI content in Microsoft Teams

Single-Sign On (SSO) support for Teams tabs with Azure Active Directory

Teams tabs now support single sign-on (SSO) with Azure Active Directory for both desktop and mobile. Developers can now build their apps to sign-in their users using the same account they are using to sign into Microsoft Teams.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 59369
• Single Sign-On (SSO) for Teams

Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code

Microsoft Teams Toolkits for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code provides developers everything they need to jump start their Teams app development journey. From code through publish, these toolkits provide a frictionless and enjoyable experience building Teams apps.

Find out more:

• Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
• Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio
• Building Microsoft Teams Apps with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code Extensions

User attribution for bot messages

In scenarios where a bot sends messages on behalf of a user, attributing the message to that user can help with engagement, showcase a more natural interaction flow and helps condense the card design.

Find out more:

• User attribution for bots messages

Teams (Firstline Workers)

Time clock now available on Web and Desktop

Time clock provides a hybrid clock in and clock out experience so Firstline Workers can start their shift from wherever their work is, whether remote or at the job location, all with the geo-fencing capabilities.

Now, employees will be able to clock in and out of Shifts directly from web or desktop with Time clock along with the existing mobile experience.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 64782
• Clock in and out with Shifts

New policy packages for Firstline Worker and Managers

Firstline Worker and Firstline Manager policy packages for Teams provide IT administrators with pre-defined policies and policy settings tailored for their entire Firstline Workforce. Policy packages simplify, centralize, and help provide consistency when managing policies for Firstline Workers and managers across your organization.

NOTE: These new policy packages will be available by default in the Admin Center and in PowerShell. 

Find out more:

• Manage policy packages in Microsoft Teams

Search for Shifts activities in Teams Shifts Audit Logs

Audit logs for Shifts provides IT admins a unified view and search functionality to help monitor and keep track of activities. Staying on top of employees clocking in and out and making edits to shifts is critical to ensuring smooth and compliant operations.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 64476
• Shifts in Teams activities

Teams (Education)

Allow more students to join large lectures

Beginning in July 2020, Teams meetings are now available for up to 300 attendees (up from 250), with support for up to 1,000 students coming by the end of the year.

When you want to bring in more students or faculty to watch a presentation or discussion, Teams will also support a view-only meeting experience for up to 20,000 participants.

Find out more:

Roadmap ID: 64225

Student Lobby

To prevent uninvited students in class, Student Lobby – which keeps students in a lobby until invited in by the educator, is now available. This tied to the “only me” bypass lobby feature detailed in this post.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 66574
• Change participant settings for a Teams meeting

School Data Sync (SDS) team creation again available

Admins can (once again) automatically bulk-create both Microsoft 365 Group and class Teams for their educators. This helps to save educators time and makes a new team “locked” and inaccessible by students until educators unlock the team.

Find out more:

• 25+ updates for Microsoft Teams for Education for Back to School | July 2020
• Schedule Class Team Deployment Assistance with the EDU Customer Success Team

Teams (GCC)

Microsoft Teams meeting attendee limit increases to 300 participants (GCC, GCC-High, and DoD)

To help customers meet rapidly changing communication and meeting needs, Microsoft have increased the maximum number of participants allowed in a Teams meeting to 300.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 65668
• Admin quick start – Meetings and live events in Microsoft Teams

Increase in the number of simultaneous videos in Teams meetings (GCC-High and DoD)

Microsoft have increased the number of participants who can be viewed simultaneously on the Teams meeting stage from 4 to 9. This new experience optimizes for attendees who have enabled video and places the remaining audio-only participants below the meeting stage.

To provide a high audio and video quality experience, the layout logic will consider user bandwidth and alter the number of videos shown to provide the best meeting experience.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 64610

Raise Hands (GCC, GCC-High, and DoD)

The raise hands feature allows meeting attendees to identify that they wish to speak by toggling the hand icon in the meeting control bar, making it easier to actively participate in meetings.

Raise hands is available for both PC, Mac, and web-based clients to start, with mobile applications quickly following.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 62755

PSTN participant phone numbers masked from external users (GCC)

For those with Audio Conferencing enabled for their Teams meetings, Microsoft will mask the PSTN participant’s phone number to users who have joined from outside of your organization.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 65202

Multi-Window Chat (GCC, GCC-High, and DoD)

You can now pop out individual Teams chat conversations into a separate window, to help them streamline their workflow and more easily move between ongoing conversations.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 57292

Priority notifications in Gov Clouds (GCC, GCC-High and DoD)

Priority notifications alert a recipient of an urgent message on their mobile and desktop devices until a response is received, every two minutes for up to 20 minutes. IT Admins can manage this feature as part of messaging policies in Teams.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 64689

Channel info pane (GCC)

Selecting the “Channel info” icon in the channel header will display summary information related to that channel including the description, a list of recent contributors and members, as well as system messages.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 64173

Custom video background policy

IT admins now have the opportunity to create a custom video background policy for Teams meetings. The setting controls whether users can customize their video background in a meeting.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 63670

Team owners can delete a cross-post

If a student gets a little too enthusiastic and posts inappropriate content across multiple channels, a team owner can now delete cross-posts.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 60946

More languages supported in Assignments

Assignments is growing even more globally inclusive with additional languages supported including Croatian, Estonian, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Slovenian, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 66573

Class Materials now available on Android

With students working from a variety of devices, including many mobile devices, it’s important that they have access to the core curriculum. To make learning more equitable, the Class Materials folder is now available on Android.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 66572

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OneDrive

Add to OneDrive

This enables you to add shared folder shortcuts directly to your OneDrive. Shared folders include content that others shared with you through their OneDrive or content that is a part of your shared library in Microsoft Teams or SharePoint.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 56384
• Add shortcuts to shared folders in OneDrive for work or school

Update to sharing links that block download

Microsoft have expanded the list of supported file types that users can create block download links for. This update includes support for PDF files, Images, Audio, and other non-text and non-video file types.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 64278

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Power Automate

Variable support in UI flows

Microsoft have announced the availability of variables inside UI flows. With this feature, users can add variables to perform multiple actions within your UI automation. You can use variables for data types such as integer, float, array or string.

For example, you can use a variable to count how many times an operation was performed in a loop. Or you can use variables to create a string array with screen recordings done in a UI flow loop.

Find out more:

• Announcing Variable support in UI flows

Process receipts and translate text with AI Builder

Two new prebuilt models for AI Builder have been released in preview by Microsoft – receipt processing and text translation.

Receipt processing lets you read and save key information from common sales receipts to automatically pre-populate expense reports simply by scanning photos of your receipts. The prebuilt model uses optical character recognition (OCR) to extract both printed and handwritten text from receipts. You can retrieve valuable information such as the merchant details, transaction date and time, list of purchased items, tax, and totals.

Text translation can be used to process text in real-time from different languages from your customers worldwide, for internal and external communications and to keep language consistency in the text data that you store. Now available in preview, no trial or subscription required to try this feature.

Find out more:

• Process receipts and translate text with AI Builder
• Get started with Receipt processing in AI Builder
• Start text translating using AI Builder

Support for loop & array inputs in UI flows

Loop and array inputs are now available inside UI flows. With this feature, you are able to add a loop to your UI automation as a post-recording activity.

You will be able to pass an array object as input variable from an API flow to a UI flow, and then create a loop within UI flow script to perform repetitive action within your UI automation.

Find out more:

• Announcing support for Loops and Array inputs in UI flows
• Add a loop

Support for Office Scripts in the Excel Online (Business) connector

Now in public preview, Office Scripts are now supported within the Excel Online (Business) Connector. Office Scripts allow you to accomplish a vast array of tasks and complex sequences of actions. Effectively any operation possible in Excel for the Web is now achievable programmatically. 

Find out more:

• Announcing support for Office Scripts in the Excel Online (Business) connector
• Run Office Scripts with Power Automate

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Power Apps

Microsoft Dataflex

Microsoft Dataflex, the new name for the Common Data Service is a “low-code data platform for Teams, and provides relational data storage, rich data types, enterprise grade governance, and one-click solution deployment”.

Microsoft Dataflex for Teams is being rolled out as part of existing Microsoft 365 subscriptions, but there is also Dataflex Pro, which offers wider integrations to Microsoft and other non-Microsoft products.

Find out more:

• Introducing Microsoft Dataflex, a new low-code data platform for Microsoft Teams
• Innovate easily with Microsoft Dataflex Pro
• A Closer Look at Data Platform Capabilities in Dataflex for Teams

Caching changes for Power Apps portals version 9.2.6.x or later

As a part of July release (version 9.2.6.x), the Power Apps team are unifying caching approach for capacity-based portals and add-on portals.

After changes in this release, you won’t have to manually clear configuration entity cache for capacity-based portals. Additionally, high load portals should see improved performance and a reliable data cache refresh.

Find out more:

• Caching changes for Power Apps portals with version 9.2.6.x or later
• What is the difference between Power Apps portals, Dynamics 365 portals and add-on portals?
• Caching changes for portals with version 9.2.6.x or later (Microsoft documentation)

ThisRecord, As, and Sequence formulas

You can now refer to the whole record in ForAll and other record scope functions with ThisRecord. With this change you can name records with the As operator, allowing you to clarify formulas and work with all the records in nested ForAll and Gallery controls.

The Power Apps teams have also added Excel’s Sequence function to generate a table containing a sequence of numbers, perfect for iterating a specific number of times with ForAll.

Find out more:

• Formulas: ThisRecord, As, and Sequence
• ForAll function in Power Apps

Monitor tool now supports model-driven apps

The monitor tool is now available to support model-driven apps. Monitor tool provides a way to view a stream of events from a user’s session in order to diagnose an issue.

The latest build currently supports:

• KPI for page loads, command executions, and other major events
• Network request details
• Warnings for synchronous XHR’s
• Custom script errors (e.g. onload, ribbon rule evaluation)
• Form execution event details (e.g. onload, onchange)
• Form visibility reasons for controls and related menu items
• Power BI control failure and performance events

Find out more:

• Monitor now supports model-driven apps
• Use Monitor to debug your published app
• Power Apps Monitor Feedback discussion thread

Column Comparison through FetchXML, SDK, and OData

The Power Apps team have announced the availability of column comparison in CDS-based queries. Column comparisons will allow you to use FetchXML, SDK or OData to perform column comparisons for the Common Data Service.  Column comparisons will also work in the Power Apps expression language with CDS version 9.1.0000.19562 or later.

Find out more:

• Announcing Column Comparison through FetchXML, SDK, and OData
• Use column comparison in queries

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Power BI

On-premises data gateway July 2020 update

The July update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.51.7) is out now. The latest update includes:

• OAuth support via the gateway
• Set your own Azure Relay for the data gateway
• July  Version of the mashup engine

Find out more:

• On-premises data gateway July 2020 update is now available
• Download on-premises data gateway (standard mode)
• Download on-premises data gateway (personal mode)

React Power BI component

The new React Power BI component supports both JavaScript and TypeScript and will help you embed your analytics in a React web application. Using the React component you can now get up and running quickly with embedded analytics in your application.

Find out more:

• Announcing React Power BI
• https://github.com/microsoft/PowerBI-Client-React
• https://reactjs.org/

External tool support in Power BI Desktop (public preview)

The Power BI team have announced the public preview of external tool support in Power BI Desktop providing:

• BI professionals a range of additional semantic modeling features, DAX query/expression optimization and authoring, and application lifecycle management (ALM) capabilities.
• An extensibility model empowering customers to build their own tools to extend the core functionality of Power BI Desktop for their own needs.

Find out more:

• Announcing public preview of external tools in Power BI Desktop
• Announcing read/write XMLA endpoints in Power BI Premium public preview

Power BI Desktop July 2020 Feature Summary

July’s desktop feature summary includes several enhancements to Q&A, gradient legend support, ability to further customize slicer header text and the general availability release for both relative time filter and model view enabled for live connect, plus lot’s more!

Find out more:

• Power BI Desktop July 2020 Feature Summary

Contact list for Power BI apps & allow contributors to update

Two new enhancements in Power BI that are available now. First, the new contact list for apps makes it easier for app users to get help when they need it and for app owners to receive notifications about the app. 

Also, a new option to allow contributors to update app content helps workspace admins manage access more effectively. A workspace Admin will find the Allow contributors to update the app for this workspace option in the settings pane for a new workspace experience workspace.

Find out more:

• Announcing: New contact list for Power BI apps and the option to allow contributors to update apps
• Publish an app in Power BI

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Power Virtual Agents

Create & manage chatbots from Power Apps

Power Apps users can now access a Chatbots component in the Power Apps maker portal in order to create and manage their Power Virtual Agents bots.

Once you create the bots in your environment, you can easily manage them from the Chatbots > List view.

Find out more:

• Create and manage your chatbots from Power Apps
• Create chatbots from Power Apps

Power Virtual Agents 2020 release wave 2 notes available

Information around the features planned to be released as part of the 2020 release wave 2 are out now. Some planned features include expanding capabilities in the authoring experience from deeper Microsoft Teams integration, tools to create richer content, Adaptive Cards capabilities, authentication improvements, improved Power Automate integration, plus more.

Find out more:

• Overview of Power Virtual Agents 2020 release wave 2
• Power Virtual Agents documentation

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Related

Remove unwanted background noise from videos in Stream

Noise suppression in Stream can be turned on by video owners to allow viewers to isolate speech from other sounds and music during playback.

Noise suppression can be switched on or off for each newly uploaded video.

Find out more:

• Roadmap ID: 57301
• Now Available: Remove Unwanted Background Noise From Videos

On-demand training sessions for SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Yammer, and Stream

A series of training videos covering the recent updates across SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Lists, Microsoft Teams, Project Cortex, Yammer, and Stream  – including information for employees, admins, and developers can be found below:

Microsoft 365 Collaboration [keynote]	OneDrive powers intelligent file experiences across Microsoft 365	Collaboration & external file sharing across Microsoft 365
Microsoft Lists – Share and track information across Microsoft 365	Design productivity apps with SharePoint lists and libraries, Power Apps, and Power Automate	Knowledge and Project Cortex – the Microsoft 365 Vision
Connect the workplace with engaging, dynamic experiences across your intranet	The New Yammer	Microsoft 365 Live Events and remote work
Architecting Your Intranet	Migration to SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams in Microsoft 365, free and easy	SharePoint developer overview
Jumpstart your projects with community projects from Patterns and Practices (PnP)	Security and compliance in SharePoint and OneDrive	View and share all via the “SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Yammer training – 2020-H2” YouTube playlist

Find out more:

• On-demand training sessions for SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Yammer, and Stream – 2020-H2

Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Now in public preview, Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) extends data loss prevention to devices. Building on Microsoft Information Protection, Endpoint DLP extends the existing DLP capabilities in Microsoft 365 to your devices, helping you to meet compliance requirements and protect sensitive information.

Find out more:

• Preventing data loss and mitigating risk in today’s remote work environment

Azure Sentinal

Several new third-party connectors have been introduced across Microsoft Azure Sentinel to simplify gaining security insights across many leading solutions and partners, including networks, firewalls, endpoint protection and vulnerability management.

Azure Sentinel lets you build a more complete picture of the threats that your organization faces, conduct deep threat hunts across your environment, and use the power of automation and orchestration in the cloud to help free up your security analysts to focus on their highest-value tasks.

Find out more:

• Azure Sentinel

Universal print

Universal Print, a cloud-based print infrastructure that creates a simple, secure print experience for Microsoft 365 customers, is now in public preview.

With Universal Print, organizations no longer need to maintain on-premises print servers or install printer drivers, reducing the time and effort needed by IT to maintain the print environment.

Find out more:

• Announcing the public preview of Universal Print

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Resources

• Microsoft SharePoint blog – SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: July 2020
• Microsoft Teams blog – What’s new in Teams July 2020
• Microsoft OneDrive blog
• Power Automate blog
• Power Apps blog
• Power BI blog
• Microsoft 365 blog – What’s new in Microsoft 365 July 2020