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Meet the new Office 365 app launcher

Marcel

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Meet-the-new-Office-365-app-launcher-f7985f7b-c1f6-4cb7-b2ba-079a6375b379?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB

Meet the new Office 365 app launcher

The new Office 365 app launcher will be rolling out over the next couple months. Here’s an early look on how it’ll work so you can prepare the people in your organization for the change.The new app launcher is personalized and will help users open and switch between the apps they use most. The apps users see are still based on the licenses their admin has assigned. However, the redesigned main view now emphasizes the most used applications across Office 365. It also highlights additional apps relevant to your users. For example, teachers and students may see education-specific apps.

Video: Meet the new Office 365 app launcher

Check out the video of the new app launcher and see it in action.

Meet the new Office 365 app launcher

Frequently asked questions

Here’s a list of some frequently asked questions. Don’t see your question answered here? Leave us your question at the bottom of this page: Was this information helpful?

Can I pin admin custom tiles to the main view of the launcher for my organization?

  • Admins will continue to have the ability to add custom tiles to share line-of-business (LOB) apps, sites, and URLs with their organization. However, they will only show in the main view if pinned by an end-user.
  • The All view is optimized for search and there’s a new grouping at the top of this view called Admin selected apps for admin custom tiles so that users can easily discover them.
  • From the All view, users can easily pin any app to the main view of their launcher.

Will all my users see the same apps they do today?

With the new app launcher, any additional apps that aren’t already pinned by default, and a user has opened in the preview 45 days will be automatically added to their main view. This means that different users may see different apps based on the apps they actively use.

Will my users’ apps highighted in the main view keep changing based on their use?

After your users see the new launcher for the first time, apps in the main view will stay the same, unless a user chooses to customize their apps or an administrator adds or removes licenses. If you have difficulty finding an app, tap All your apps and search through the alphabetized list of apps available.

Do apps open the same as they do today?

The apps in the launcher will open in different tabs, so a user should not expect the browser Back button to always take them where they were.

How can I get an early look at the app launcher?

Join the First Release program

How to use Guest access in Microsoft Teams

Marcel

Source: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Guest-access-in-Microsoft-Teams-bd4cdeec-4044-4b4b-9df1-beb139013a3f?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

Guest access in Microsoft Teams allows teams in your organization to collaborate with people outside your organization by granting them access to teams and channels. A guest is someone who isn’t an employee, student, or member of your organization. They don’t have a school or work account with your organization. For example, guests may include partners, vendors, suppliers, or consultants.

Organizations using Microsoft Teams can provide external access to teams, documents in channels, resources, chats, and applications to their partners, while maintaining complete control over their own corporate data.

Microsoft Teams is built upon Office 365 Groups and provides a new way to access shared assets for an Office 365 group. Microsoft Teams is the best solution for persistent chat among group/team members. Office 365 Groups is a service that provides cross-application membership for a set of shared team assets, like a SharePoint site or a Power BI dashboard, so that the team can collaborate effectively and securely.

How a guest joins a team

A team owner in Microsoft Teams can add and manage guests in their teams via the web or desktop. Guests can have any email address, and the email account can be a work, personal, or school account.

Here’s how a guest becomes a member of a team:

  • Step 1 A team owner or an Office 365 admin adds a guest to a team.
  • Step 2 The Office 365 admin or the team owner can manage a guest’s capabilities as necessary. For example, allowing a guest to add or delete channels or disabling access to files.
  • Step 3 The guest receives a welcome email from the team owner, inviting them to join the team. After accepting the invitation, the guest can participate in teams and channels, receive and respond to channel messages, access files in channels, and participate in chat. While using Microsoft Teams, a combination of text and icons gives all team members clear indication of guest participation in a team. For more details, see What the guest experience is like.

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What the guest experience is like

When a guest is invited to join a team, they receive a welcome email message that includes some information about the team and what to expect now that they’re a member. The guest must redeem the invitation in the email message before they can access the team and its channels.

Screenshot shows an example of a welcome email message sent by a team owner in Microsoft Teams to a guest user. The message includes text that can be customized by the team owner and brief descriptions of Teams features like chat, calls, and meetings.

All team members see a message in the channel thread announcing that the team owner has added a guest and providing the guest’s name. Everyone on the team can identify easily who is a guest. As shown in the following screenshot of a sample team, a banner indicates “This team has guests” and a “GUEST” label appears next to each guest’s name.

 

Screenshot shows a portion of the Marketing channel for Northwind Traders, with the notification in the top banner stating "This team has guests" and users who are guests identified with the word "GUEST" next to their name.

The following table compares the Microsoft Teams functionality available for an organization’s team members to the functionality available for a guest user on the team.

Capability in Teams Teams user in the organization Guest user
Create a channel

Team owners control this setting.

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Participate in a private chat checkmark checkmark
Participate in a channel conversation checkmark checkmark
Post, delete, and edit messages checkmark checkmark
Share a channel file checkmark checkmark
Share a chat file checkmark
Add apps (tabs, bots, or connectors) checkmark
Create tenant-wide and teams/channels guest access policies checkmark checkmark
Invite a user via any email address outside the Office 365 tenant’s domain checkmark
Create a team checkmark
Discover and join a public team checkmark
View organization chart checkmark

NOTE: Office 365 admins control the features available to guests.

More information

Administrator settings for Microsoft Teams

Frequently asked questions about Microsoft Teams – Admin Help

How do I add links to my social profiles in Delve?

Marcel

Adding links to social media profiles (LinkedIn / Facebook) on Delve Profile Page

Delve enables you to manage your Office 365 profile, and to discover and organize the information that’s likely to be most interesting to you right now – across Office 365.  Your can view and update your profile

But what to do if you want to add links to your social profiles such as LinkedIn of Facebook?

 

This can be done by adding extra properties (Admin centers > SharePoint.) on the Delve Profile Page which will be shows under Additional Information. Delve uses information from User Profiles.

If you want to show more properties on the Delve profile page, make sure the properties with Default Privacy Setting: Everyone, and Show in the profile properties section of the user’s profile page and Show on the Edit Details page.

Admin Centers > SharePoint > User Profiles > Manage User Properties.

 

You can even add an extra section “Social” to store the properties

 

Extra section will only be shown under Edit > Edit Details

More information about adding sections / custom properties:

Introducing ‘Follow in inbox’ and other improvements for managing group emails in Outlook

Marcel

The latest set of updates for Groups in Outlook introduces new ways to manage the group emails you receive in your inbox. These updates are, in large part, based on customer feedback about the Groups subscription model. That model has now been replaced with Follow in inbox.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Outlook-Blog/Introducing-Follow-in-inbox-and-other-improvements-for-managing/ba-p/102611