Microsoft 365 Announcements
Retiring Teams support for devices running on Android 4.4
July 10, 2020
Microsoft will be retiring the Teams support on Android 4.4. Instead they recommend that users upgrade to newer Android builds. The exiting Teams build 1.0.0.2020050801 will continue to work on …
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External Email Banner Project
July 9, 2020
Date: July 9, 2020 To: ROSI Users From: Student Information Systems Re: External Email Banner Project Dear Colleagues, Since March 2020, Enterprise Applications and Solutions Integration and Information Security have been evaluating the introduction of external email notification …
Retirement of the Outlook People Pane (formerly the Outlook Social Connector)
June 26, 2020
Microsoft will be retiring the People Pane (formerly the Outlook Social Connector) feature from Outlook for Office 365 with minimum version 16.0.12712.10000 beginning in late July. Instead of the People …
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Microsoft StaffHub to be retired on June 30th, 2020
June 5, 2020
This is the final reminder that Microsoft StaffHub will be retired on June 30th, 2020. Microsoft Teams is evolving to include a new set of capabilities that will simplify schedule …
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Microsoft releases new features to improve your Teams video conferencing experience
June 4, 2020
This May, Microsoft launched several new important features to the University of Toronto’s Teams environment. These updates cover new features such as background effects, downloadable attendance lists and a larger nine-person video grid. Providing value to …
Teams meeting call and meeting chat size to increase to 300
May 28, 2020
Microsoft is increasing the maximum Teams meeting call and meeting chat size from 250 to 300 in response to customer requests. When this will happen Microsoft will begin rolling this …
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What’s new in Microsoft Teams for May 2020
May 21, 2020
Please read the following announcement from Microsoft regarding new Teams features. What’s New: Meetings & Calling Increase in the number of simultaneous videos in Teams meetings Virtual face to face …
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Outlook for iOS – Retiring support for 27 languages
May 20, 2020
In order to maintain consistency across the Microsoft 365 apps for iOS, Microsoft is retiring support for 27 languages in the Outlook for iOS app at the end of June …
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Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows and Office 2016 for Mac End of Support
May 13, 2020
As of October 13, 2020, Office 2016 for Mac and Office 2010 for Windows will reach their end of support. After that date, Microsoft will no longer provide technical support, …
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Microsoft Stream people timeline retirement
May 5, 2020
In response to low feature usage during a time of unprecedented growth in Microsoft Stream, Microsoft is retiring the people timeline feature in Microsoft Stream. They will begin feature retirement …
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