The new webinar experience now allows for more powerful and controlled registration, additional email capabilities, smooth external presenter capabilities, access control, and so much more!
Currently, Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise), is available through your UWaterloo account. It is essential that if using an AI system, that you do so responsibly. IST urges proceeding with caution and due diligence when using University data with AI systems.
The voicemail feature that automatically activates an out-of-office greeting based on an out-of-office event in Outlook calendar will be retired by the end of August 2024.
Learn about new features available and coming to Teams!
There is now a UW colour palate option available when designing a SharePoint site.
Wiki's are being retired from Teams starting January 2024. To replace the wiki feature, Microsoft is introducing note-taking capabilities within Teams channels using OneNote. To make the transition to OneNote, existing Wiki's must be exported.
The new version of Microsoft Teams will be enabled for University of Waterloo clients on February 20, 2024. This version delivers improved performance and enhanced reliability, security, and IT management, resulting in a faster, simpler, smarter, and more flexible app.
SharePoint now has out-of-the-box document library templates. Creating document libraries will now be easier with ready-made templates that come with a scenario-relevant structure, metadata, and content types.
Scheduling Poll (formerly the FindTime add-in) is now available in Outlook. It brings the capabilities of FindTime as a native feature in Outlook.
You can now let people know if you’re working from the office or remotely.