Microsoft Release Notes

• Voice and face profile data export controls: This new feature provides controls for data export for users. To ensure security and protection of user privacy, only individuals can export their own voice and face profile data, limiting the risk of download or sharing by tenant administrators.
• Easily recall content around any person: Users can now easily recall content around any person they work closely with, by narrowing down search results to a relevant person while typing search terms. With introduction of person-pilling, clearly share person intent while formulating search query, see relevant content suggestions around the person in suggestions box, and further extend this search on search results page.

• Sensitivity label support for town hall and webinars: This feature will now allow organizers to set sensitivity labels for town halls and webinars.
• Speed dial customization on line keys for nontouch phones: This feature lets users quickly access frequently dialed contacts and numbers with the ability to set up custom contacts and speed dial on the line key buttons and sidecars for nontouch phone devices certified for Microsoft Teams. This feature enables one-touch dialing capabilities and easy management of contact lists on line keys and sidecars.
• Deploy frontline teams with flexible membership: Using our Deploy Teams at Scale tool on the Teams admin center, you'll be able to deploy location-based frontline teams that are backed by dynamic rules. Also, frontline managers will be able to add/remove members to their teams as necessary.
• Event Chat for town halls: With this new update, everyone in a town hall will be able to chat using Event Chat.

Version 2410 (Build 18129.20158)

Security updates listed here.

Resolved issues

OneNote

• Resolved an issue where all characters didn't appear correctly when creating an Outlook task from OneNote.

Outlook

• Resolved an issue where all characters didn't appear correctly when creating an Outlook task from OneNote.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an issue where embedded BMP images in the PowerPoint slide weren't opening.
• We disabled the PowerPoint QuickStarter feature. See Research a topic with PowerPoint QuickStarter for more information.

Word

• Resolved an issue where all characters didn't appear correctly when creating an Outlook task from OneNote.

Version 2410 (Build 18129.20116)

Feature updates

Excel

• Comment Filtering: Enable filtering capabilities for the comment pane.
• Python in Excel code editor released to GA: We released the Python in Excel code editor, a task pane that provides an editing space for large code blocks when authoring Python in Excel formulas, including features like IntelliSense and text colorization. Blog post describing new feature.

Resolved issues

Access

• We fixed an issue where the app closed unexpectedly with possible data loss and/or data corruption when a user attempted to copy certain hyphen characters.
• We fixed an issue where Microsoft Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) connections to Salesforce were no longer working.

Excel

• We fixed an issue where some users couldn't see checkboxes getting rendered after inserting them.
• We fixed an issue where making Application.ScreenUpdating = false in macros caused screen flickering.
• Fixed an issue where Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) calculation caused the Excel app to stop responding.
• We resolved an issue where the RTD ThrottleInterval setting wasn’t working as expected.
• We resolved a graphics-related issue that caused the app to close unexpectedly at times.

Outlook …

• Refreshed view of your teams and channels: A new 'your teams and channels' view provides a centralized hub experience, where you can see all your teams and navigate to their channels. This refreshed view streamlines your workflows, enabling you to quickly access and manage your teams and channels.
• Room audio auto-detect and preselect in BYOD meeting rooms: When users connect their laptop to a room's shared peripheral through USB, Teams automatically detects the room's audio and recommends connecting on the prejoin screen, streamlining the bring your own device (BYOD) meeting room experience. For room devices (for example, displays, audio devices) recognized as shared and on Microsoft's known BYOD devices list, users will automatically transition to the room's audio upon connection.

Version 2409 (Build 18025.20140)

Security updates listed here.

Resolved issues

Access

• Chart gridlines are now darker, so they're more visible.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users in hybrid environments to be unable to apply labels to emails.

Project

• Fixed an issue where signed macros wouldn't run even if the Trust Center Macro Settings "Disable all macros except digitally signed macros" option was selected.

Word

• Resolved an issue where text wasn't clearly visible in High Contrast Mode when using "Draft with Copilot" and referencing a meeting under "Reference your content."

• User onboarding to teams: The updated teams and channels onboarding flow will let users opt into channels of their interest while joining a team and have a lightweight teams and channels list experience. Users can choose to show/hide channels from a complete list of channels. When added to a new team, users can see which channels the team owner recommended, and select to show only the channels that are relevant to them. With the onboarding flow, "show for members" will change to "recommend to users," which will result in the channel no longer being shown in the members' teams and channels list, but will render the channel a "recommended one" for users to opt into by enabling its display on the onboarding page.
• Ability for external presenters to join on Android and iOS Teams: This enhancement will allow presenters who were invited using the External Presenter feature to join via their Android and iOS Teams clients.

Version 2409 (Build 18025.20096)

Feature updates

Excel

• Data Aggregation Functions: We added two incredibly powerful new data aggregation functions: GROUPBY and PIVOTBY
• Information Protection: Improved DLP policy tip reliability: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows now consistently show the same policy tips that SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business sites have determined should be shown on a file.

PowerPoint

• Information Protection: Improved DLP policy tip reliability: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows now consistently show the same policy tips that SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business sites have determined should be shown on a file.

Word

• Information Protection: Improved DLP policy tip reliability: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows now consistently show the same policy tips that SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business sites have determined should be shown on a file.

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue where the ToolTips of pivot tables connected to OLAP cube aren't displayed.
• We fixed an issue where Excel may close unexpectedly when a Drill Down worksheet is moved to a new workbook.
• We fixed an issue where the Drop-down list menu options in Excel cells become unclickable after opening a User Form that uses a WebBrowser object.
• We fixed an issue where the user would experience changes in column widths unexpectedly when using PivotTables. …

• New VDI solution for Teams for Azure Virtual Desktops, Windows 365, and Citrix VDI environments: New VDI solution for Teams is a rearchitecture of the current WebRTC-based optimization solution for the new Microsoft Teams in virtual desktop environments. This feature introduces a new media engine that is decoupled from the VDI Clients (Remote Desktop client, Citrix Workspace app, or Horizon client) and VDI Agents (Remote Desktop agent, Citrix VDA, or Horizon agent). The new media engine is based on the native media engine used in the Microsoft Teams Windows Desktop client. New VDI solution for Teams will be supported first on Windows endpoints only. Mac and Linux will be added later.

Version number: 18.4.1.1 Released: July 31, 2024

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• Custom emojis and reactions: This feature lets users create their own expressive content in Teams using custom emojis and reactions.
• Have better control over notifications sound: You can choose from an extended list of sounds for notifications. You can choose if some or all notifications should produce sound or if notifications should produce sound when you're busy or in a meeting.
• Teams devices: Cancel scheduled device operations through Teams admin center: If a device operation is no longer required, admins will be able to cancel scheduled device operations, like software update and device restart through Teams admin center.

• Bookable desks: With the bookable desks feature in Teams, users can reserve desks upon arrival by plugging in to desk peripherals without a reservation. IT admins can discover bookable desks in shared spaces and add them to inventory in the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. IT admins can also get insightful utilization data for bookable desks via the Pro Management portal for proactive management and planning.
• New and refreshed 3P app purchase experience in Teams and Teams admin center: This feature provides a new and refreshed purchase experience in Teams look and feel for Teams third-party application in both Teams store and Teams admin center. This feature will slowly roll out, first to customers with a commerce billing account then to customers without a commerce billing account.

• Teams meeting recordings will be saved to meeting organizers OneDrive for Business: This change will ensure that Teams meeting recordings are saved to meeting organizers OneDrive for Business (OdB) instead of recording initiator's OdB. This would lead to improved compliance for recordings as meeting organizer can then manage access permissions and recording file management.
• Meet now in Teams group chat: With meet now in group chat, user would be able to instantly discuss articles with relevant people without disrupting other users in the chat.
• Closed captioning support in Teams Walkie Talkie: This feature allows users to view captions on the Walkie Talkie home screen for transmissions being received.
• Block download and access level improvement of OneDrive transcript file: Teams now supports IT admins to block the download of OneDrive transcript file for any users within the tenant. By default, only the owners can download or delete OneDrive transcript file while participants of the meeting can still view transcript in Teams app or Stream. In addition, owner of OneDrive transcript file will be able to configure who are blocked from downloading, who can view or edit on Stream.

• Redirect an incoming call to voicemail without having to accept or reject the call: This feature allows users to redirect incoming calls directly to voicemail from incoming call toast.
• Manual ingestion by teachers to update parent data inside Parent app: This feature allows teachers to add and edit existing parent data inside the Parent app. This request to update parent information can be directly made by teachers inside the Parent app. Once the request is raised, it needs an admin approval before updating the parent information in the app.
• Prevent user from screen sharing in externally hosted meetings: If a user attends a meeting hosted by an external tenant, the IT admin for the user attending the externally hosted meeting can decide if this user is enabled to share their screen or not. If this setting is disabled, the user can't share their screen in an externally hosted meeting.
• Enabling call forwarding directly from phone device home screen through Teams admin center: Users can enable call forwarding directly from phone device home screen, including common area phones. Admins can control display of call forwarding on phone device home screen through Teams admin center.
• Advanced calling and contact management support on non-touch phones: On nontouch phones, users can use advanced calling features such as park/unpark calls, busy on busy, auto restart, and manage contacts and contact groups.