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Microsoft released the ability for users to choose between “Comfy” (the default) and “Compact” (the new option) spacing for Teams chat messages.

Microsoft Lists, one of the company’s latest additions to the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, is adding support for personal Microsoft accounts in preview today. Microsoft Lists is designed to help users track the information centered around their work.

REI is the largest consumer cooperative in the United States specializes in camping gear, outdoor apparel, and equipment. The popular Northwest company uses Microsoft Teams Connect capabilities to simplify how employees collaborate with external parties outside the company—with Microsoft Endpoint Manager and Intune key to its strategy for protecting mobile devices. During the pandemic, REI sold their campus and were fully committed to a hybrid work strategy. The fact that they had implemented products within the Microsoft 365 platform helped ensure their success in their new workplace environment.
 

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Microsoft has announced in its recent earnings call that it now has 270 million monthly active users, but Microsoft is looking to expand the reach of its collaboration software even more. To that end, Microsoft has partnered with Network Value to create the new Device Trade-in for Microsoft Teams program.

Microsoft has made it easier for Teams users to communicate beyond their organization by allowing them to start a chat with any Teams users, including free personal Teams accounts.
 

Microsoft announced last year in an email to Microsoft 365 customers that it planned to disable Excel 4.0 macros by default to protect customers from malicious documents
 

Microsoft Lists is getting a Board View, this will allow you to work with list data in a board format. Great for when you want to track items as you move forward in a process or workflow. Due mid-January to early February.
 

Microsoft is rolling out the ability for Teams Consumer users to communicate with Teams for business ones. This week, Microsoft updated its message center notifications to note that its external federation for chats between Teams consumer and Teams enterprise will be rolling out through mid-January.

Microsoft has announced the availability of Connected Templates for use with Microsoft Teams and SharePoint.  The connected templates will allow a user to combine Microsoft Teams templates with SharePoint templates
 

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Microsoft Teams has quickly become one of Microsoft’s most popular applications.  This is not surprising how versatile the app is.  One of the main features of Teams is the ability to share and manage files. These days, security is even more of a priority, it is even more important to know how to share files securely in Teams and help your organization to protect sensitive data.
 

Bookings app in Teams enables various organizations to schedule virtual appointments with external attendees and manages staff availabilities in a shared calendar experience.
 

Microsoft will be releasing a new feature to update the channel rename experience in Teams to simultaneously rename the corresponding folder in SharePoint sites whenever a channel in Teams is renamed.  

Microsoft announced that next year, customers and individuals without global or billing admin rights can sign up for Microsoft Project or Microsoft Visio 30-day trials before directly purchasing subscriptions or engaging their IT procurement team.