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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.

Microsoft has released some new features in Teams, including an improved search experience, mentioning everyone in a chat, and viewing the full chat conversation thread when searching Teams.

Microsoft has introduced Teams Premium. Some unused/rarely used, existing features of Teams will now require a Teams Premium license

Support for the Teams mobile app on iOS 14 is being retired beginning March 1, 2023. 

Stream (Classic) is being retired and will be replaced by Stream (on SharePoint). Stream (on SharePoint) has additional features that allow for improved video management and increased productivity.