What's New This Week in Microsoft 365

macOS Alert
As of the Microsoft 365 for Mac November 2020 update, macOS 10.14 Mojave or later is required to receive updates to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. If you continue with an older version of macOS, your Office apps will continue to work but you will no longer receive any updates including security updates.
macOS users will need to update by November 10^th to be fully compatible. Microsoft 365 for users on macOS 10.13 will not receive any further updates. Users will need to upgrade to 10.14 or later to continue receiving Microsoft 365 updates.

Tasks in Microsoft Teams is now generally Available.
Microsoft has completed the rollout of the Tasks app to both Teams desktop and web for all Microsoft 365 subscribers and all non-government tenants. GCC tenants is still scheduled for later this year.

The next stage of the App rollout will be the name change of Tasks by Planner and To Do to Tasks. This change will take place over a weekend to reduce confusion with different names appearing. Look for this update to take place and the end of October. Administrators will be alerted to the update in the Admin Message Center.
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Soon, users will be able to create tasks from Teams chats or channel conversations.

Free for one year: users can join Team meeting via call-in number
Microsoft 365 customers now have the option to activate one year of free dial-in Audio Conferencing for Microsoft Teams.
To take advantage of this offer, an administrator will need to navigate to the Admin center à Purchase services à Add-ons then select the free Microsoft 365 Audio Conferencing Adoption Promo.

After the promo has been activated, the Admin will then need to assign the licenses to the users.

New Advanced Teams Audio Feature
Teams is always improving, and Microsoft has designed new functionality for meeting organizers to have better control over their sessions.
Hard mute: this allows organizers to prevent attendees from unmuting themselves, this can be switched on or off from within the meeting, and individually for attendees who put up their had to speak.

This functionality can be controlled from the Teams Admin Center.

Priority Accounts in Microsoft 365
Timely email is critical for certain people within an organization, such as the CEO and other leaders and managers. These people are often considered to be priority accounts, as they are essential to running your organization and often have access to sensitive and high priority information.
Priority Accounts are available for tenants that meet both of these requirements: