Microsoft will end support for password management in its Authenticator app at the end of July as part of a broader move toward passwordless authentication methods such as passkeys and FIDO2. Microsoft suggests users who continue to use passwords to use dedicated password managers such as Microsoft Edge or Google Password Manager.
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Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts.
Microsoft shares workaround for Outlook crash issue
Microsoft has released a temporary fix for an issue that crashes the classic Outlook client when opening or starting emails, which affects users in the Monthly Enterprise Channel who updated to Version 2504. While a permanent fix is being developed, Microsoft has a workaround that involves creating a missing “FORMS2” folder.
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Join Teams meetings anytime, anywhere, from any device. For the best experience, join from the Teams desktop or mobile apps.
If you’re having trouble joining a Teams meeting, try these tips: I can’t join a Teams meeting.
In your meeting invite, select Join the meeting now to join on Teams for web or desktop.
If you already have the Teams app, the meeting will open there automatically.
Use your Teams account to attend a meeting set by a Teams personal account user. You can join from your Teams calendar. If someone sends you a meeting invite in Chat, select the link and select Join now.
to see your meetings.You’re not required to switch between Teams personal use and Teams (work or school).
If you join a meeting on Teams for personal use, you’ll join the meeting with your personal Teams account. The Microsoft Privacy Statement governs data for meetings with personal Teams accounts.
Note: Some meeting features may be unavailable for Teams personal accounts. Learn more about meeting experiences for Microsoft Teams Free participants.
on the leftmost side of Teams. on the leftmost side of Teams.
3. Select Join meeting to join the meeting as a participant.
If a meeting takes place in a channel, you’ll see an invitation to join, relevant content, and who’s in the meeting right in the channel. Just select Join .
To start or join an instant meeting from a group chat:
To learn more, see Start an instant meeting in Microsoft Teams.
Dial in or out to join a Teams meeting with your phone or invite someone else by calling their phone. If you see a phone number and conference ID in your meeting invite, dialing into the meeting is available. To learn more, see Join a Teams meeting by phone.
Note: If you can’t find a phone number in the meeting invite, contact your IT admin.
To dial out to your phone to join a meeting:
in Teams.To dial out to another person’s phone during a meeting:
in your meeting controls.The person will be called and will need to say “OK” or press 1 to join the meeting, depending on org settings.
To join a Teams meeting with a different account:
To join a Teams meeting anonymously:
Before you join a Teams meeting, you can connect to a meeting room and use its audio and video devices.
To connect to a room:
Note: Select X to close a suggested room and search for a different one. Rooms with the Cast icon 
are in close proximity.
Note: Editing your display name is available as part of the public preview program and might undergo further changes before being released publicly. To get access to this and other upcoming features, switch to Teams public preview.
Customize your presence during a Teams meeting by editing your display name.
To change your name:
in your meeting controls.
> Edit display name.Your edited name will remain throughout the duration of the meeting.
You can join any Teams meeting as a personalized avatar by following the instructions here .
You can join a Teams meeting anytime, from any device, without signing into a Teams account.
If you’re having trouble joining a Teams meeting, try I can’t join a Teams meeting.
Important: For some meetings, admin settings prevent unverified people from joining the meeting. Depending on the meeting, you may have to enter a one-time passcode sent to your email or create a Teams account.DesktopMobile
Join the meeting before it starts to test your setup from the pre-join screen. From there, you can enter the meeting up to 15 minutes before its start time to troubleshoot or see how Teams works. Meeting participants and organizers will be notified when you enter the meeting.
To join a Teams meeting without signing into an account:
Note: People who are signed in will have access to more meeting features than those who aren’t signed in.
If you enter the meeting lobby, wait for someone in the meeting to admit you. If no one admits you within 30 minutes, you’ll be removed from the lobby. If that happens, you can try rejoining.
Depending on how you joined the meeting, other participants will see a label next to your name. If you joined:
If you’re the meeting organizer, we’ll alert you when someone is waiting in the lobby.
Select Admit to let them right into the meeting, or View lobby to see a list of everyone in the lobby and admit or deny them.
Note: Anyone who doesn’t have a Teams account and joins the meeting without entering a one-time passcode sent to their email will be labeled Unverified. Anyone who doesn’t have a Teams account and joins the meeting after entering a one-time passcode sent to their email will be labeled Email verified. To learn more about people with guest access, see Work with external guests.
If you can’t immediately join a Teams meeting, there are several possible reasons:
In Teams, you might receive a message about why you’re unable to enter a meeting. Here are the different messages you might encounter and how to resolve them.
If you see this message, the meeting doesn’t allow people to join unless they’re signed in with a Teams work or school account. You might need to take extra steps to join:
If you see this message, the policies set by your or the meeting organizer’s org prevent you from accessing the meeting. You might need to take extra steps to join:
After a meeting starts, organizers can lock the meeting to prevent new participants from entering.
Reach out to the meeting organizer to let them know you’re having trouble joining. If they unlock it, you can try joining again.
You can’t join because the organizer has enabled end-to-end encryption for their meeting. Contact the organizer to let them know you’re having trouble joining.
If the lobby is full, wait a few minutes before trying to join again. You may be able to enter if other attendees join the meeting or leave the lobby. For more on lobby settings, see Using the lobby in Teams meetings.
If you get this message after 30 minutes of waiting, your request has timed out.
If you don’t have meeting scheduling capability in Outlook or Teams, starting an instant meeting is a great option. Just like with scheduled meetings, everyone who attends your meeting will continue to have access to the meeting chat, the recording, and anything else people share in the meeting (like files and meeting notes), even after the meeting ends.
There are a couple of different ways to get an impromptu meeting going with just a few clicks.
on the left side of Teams, then select Meet now 
in the upper right corner.To start an instant channel meeting:
in the top-right corner. under the compose box.Instant meetings in group chats are a way to meet with members of a chat spontaneously, without disrupting or ringing others. Group chat meetings are also a way to make sure meeting recordings and messages all stay in the same place.
To start an instant meeting from a group chat:
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Start an instant meeting in any chat using commands.
To start an instant chat meeting:
To learn more, see Use commands in Microsoft Teams.
After you join the meeting, you’ll see a prompt to invite others.
to copy and share a link to the meeting that others can click to join.> Participants in the meeting, where you can search attendee names into the Invite someone or dial a number field. Hover over someone’s name and select Request to join to call them into your meeting.You can always add people later by selecting People in your meeting controls. Select Share invite 
To rejoin the same meeting anytime, find the meeting chat in your chat list and select Join.
Snipping Tool now has Text Extractor in the capture bar
Microsoft is adding a Text Extractor in the Snipping tool. This feature will soon show on the capture bar and will allow you to copy text to your clipboard without having to take a screenshot of your screen. This update is currently rolling out to Windows Insiders in all channels.
In this update, we are adding text extractor in the Snipping Tool capture bar – designed to minimize the number of steps it takes to copy text to your clipboard without having to take a screenshot of your screen.
To get started, open Snipping Tool via Win + Shift + S or launch the app and click the new “Text Extractor” button in the toolbar.
Select the region you would like to scan for text (just as you would for standard rectangle snip), and you will be able to manually select the text to copy to clipboard, or you can click on the “Copy all text” button in the toolbar to quickly copy all text in the region. You can also explore the “More options” dropdown menu to “Remove line breaks” from copied text or simplify the experience entirely with the “Automatically copy text” selection, which will dismiss Snipping Tool earlier and automatically copy all text in your selection region directly to your clipboard.
You can join a Teams meeting anytime, from any device, without signing into a Teams account.
If you’re having trouble joining a Teams meeting, try I can’t join a Teams meeting.
Important: For some meetings, admin settings prevent unverified people from joining the meeting. Depending on the meeting, you may have to enter a one-time passcode sent to your email or create a Teams account.DesktopMobile
Join the meeting before it starts to test your setup from the pre-join screen. From there, you can enter the meeting up to 15 minutes before its start time to troubleshoot or see how Teams works. Meeting participants and organizers will be notified when you enter the meeting.
To join a Teams meeting without signing into an account:
Note: People who are signed in will have access to more meeting features than those who aren’t signed in.
If you enter the meeting lobby, wait for someone in the meeting to admit you. If no one admits you within 30 minutes, you’ll be removed from the lobby. If that happens, you can try rejoining.
Depending on how you joined the meeting, other participants will see a label next to your name. If you joined:
If you’re the meeting organizer, we’ll alert you when someone is waiting in the lobby.
Select Admit to let them right into the meeting, or View lobby to see a list of everyone in the lobby and admit or deny them.
Note: Anyone who doesn’t have a Teams account and joins the meeting without entering a one-time passcode sent to their email will be labeled Unverified. Anyone who doesn’t have a Teams account and joins the meeting after entering a one-time passcode sent to their email will be labeled Email verified. To learn more about people with guest access, see Work with external guests.
If you can’t immediately join a Teams meeting, there are several possible reasons:
In Teams, you might receive a message about why you’re unable to enter a meeting. Here are the different messages you might encounter and how to resolve them.
If you see this message, the meeting doesn’t allow people to join unless they’re signed in with a Teams work or school account. You might need to take extra steps to join:
If you see this message, the policies set by your or the meeting organizer’s org prevent you from accessing the meeting. You might need to take extra steps to join:
After a meeting starts, organizers can lock the meeting to prevent new participants from entering.
Reach out to the meeting organizer to let them know you’re having trouble joining. If they unlock it, you can try joining again.
You can’t join because the organizer has enabled end-to-end encryption for their meeting. Contact the organizer to let them know you’re having trouble joining.
If the lobby is full, wait a few minutes before trying to join again. You may be able to enter if other attendees join the meeting or leave the lobby. For more on lobby settings, see Using the lobby in Teams meetings.
If you get this message after 30 minutes of waiting, your request has timed out.
Use the meeting lobby in Teams meetings to keep people from directly entering a meeting when they join. Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters will be notified when people enter the lobby and can let them into the meeting.
Each meeting defaults to the lobby settings set by your IT admin but you can change them before or during the meeting. You might not be able to change some settings if your meeting uses a template or sensitivity label.
As the meeting organizer, you get to decide who gets into your meetings directly, and who should wait for someone to let them in.
If you choose to have people wait, you (and anyone else allowed to admit people) will see a list of people in the lobby. From there you can choose whether to admit or deny them.
| Who can bypass the lobby? | What happens | Recommended when… |
|---|---|---|
| Only organizers and co-organizers | As the meeting organizer, you and any co-organizers can get into the meeting directly. Everyone else will wait in the lobby. | You want everyone else to wait in the lobby until you’re ready to admit them. |
| People who were invited* | Anyone who receives the invitation, including those to whom it is forwarded, will join the meeting directly.People without a Teams account won’t bypass the lobby. Additionally, distribution lists up to 10,000 users are supported. If you don’t want people to forward the invite to others, turn off Allow Forwarding in the invitation. | You want a specific, limited group of people who were invited via their Teams accounts to join the meeting directly, and everyone else to wait in the lobby. |
| People in my org | Only people within your org can get into your meeting directly. Everyone else will wait in the lobby. | You want all guests and external people to wait in the lobby so you can approve them one by one. |
| People in my org and guests | People in your org and people with guest access can get into your meeting directly. | You want all external people (anyone outside your org, except guests) to wait in the lobby so you can approve them one by one. |
| People in my org, trusted orgs, and guests | Anyone from your organization and organizations with which your IT admin has set up a connection, or anyone joining as a guest, will be able to bypass the lobby. | You want some external people (e.g., people joining without a Teams account and people from organizations with which your IT admin did not set up a connection) to wait in the lobby so you can approve them one by one. |
| Everyone | Anyone who has access to the meeting link gets into the meeting directly, including people who call in.Depending on the meeting policy set up by your IT admin, people joining without a Teams account,people from untrusted organizations, and people dialing in may be placed in the lobby until someone from your organization or a trusted organization joins the meeting, even if the Everyone option is selected. | You don’t want anyone to wait in the lobby. You want everyone to be able to join your meetings without specific approval. |
* For channel meetings, only those channel members who are directly invited can bypass the lobby.
You can change lobby settings before, during, or after a meeting (in the case of a meeting series). The changes will only apply to the meeting you change them in unless the meeting is part of a series. Then, changes will be applied to all future meetings in that series. To change default lobby settings, contact your IT admin.
Before a meeting
New calendar
To change lobby settings before a meeting:
in Teams.
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To learn more about the new Teams calendar, see Get started with the new calendar in Microsoft Teams.
During a meeting
If you change lobby settings during a meeting, people waiting in the lobby will still be there.
Select Save.
Select More actions > Settings 
In Security
Choose an option from the Who can bypass the lobby? dropdown menu.
Turn the People dialing in can bypass the lobby toggle on or off, if available.
Choose who can let people into the meeting from the Who can admit from the lobby dropdown menu.
During a meeting, people you designated to manage the lobby can admit or deny entrance to the meeting.
The meeting organizer, co-organizer(s), and presenter(s) can manage the lobby. If you’re the organizer, choose which of those roles can manage the lobby during that specific meeting. You can also make someone a co-organizer or presenter by changing their meeting role.
To change who can manage the lobby:
in Teams..
., choose who can let people into the meeting from the Who can admit from the lobby dropdown menu.To learn more about the new Teams calendar, see Get started with the new calendar in Microsoft Teams.
During the meeting, people managing the lobby can see a list of participants waiting to get into the meeting and choose whether to admit or deny them.
To admit or deny participants:
in your meeting window.People managing the lobby will receive notifications that people are waiting in the lobby. In the notifications, select View lobby to go right to the lobby or Mute these notifications 
Select Undo to turn the notifications back on.
If you want everyone to join your meeting directly, set Who can bypass the lobby? to Everyone. This change will apply to that meeting and future meetings if it’s part of a meeting series. Contact your IT admin if you want to change this setting for all the future meetings you organize.
Note: If anonymous participants join first, they’ll wait in the lobby. They’ll be let into the meeting automatically after someone from your org, a trusted org, or a guest user joins. Contact your IT admin to allow anonymous participants to start meetings.
You can also remove people or lock your meeting.
To remove people from the meeting:
in your meeting window.Applies To
Guests have similar capabilities to team members and can participate in meetings, chats, and work on documents.
A guest will have the label “Guest” attached to their name in Microsoft Teams. You can also check the top of any channel to see how many guests are in it.
To share files, use the Files tab and folders since document links may not work with guests.
Note: Before guests can join a team, an admin must enable guest access in Teams. If you can’t add a guest, check with your admin.
Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Gokul Subramaniam, and I’m a Product Manager on the OneNote team. If you’re a OneNote fan, you’re aware of the many ways it can streamline and boost note-taking and content generation. But even the most experienced OneNote users among us might not be benefitting from all it has to offer, which is why we’ve singled out some of our favorite features that you may not be aware of – or wish existed but didn’t know they already did. Check them out, supercharge your productivity, and let us know what you think!
With OneNote Web Clipper, you can easily capture and save online materials directly into your OneNote notebooks, saving you time manually copying information and allowing you to preserve the content in its original form. By simply adding the OneNote Web Clipper extension to your preferred browser, you can instantly begin clipping articles, recipes, YouTube videos, or other types of web pages, and neatly organize them into your notes for reference later.
The print to OneNote feature enables you to send any type of file, including documents, spreadsheets, emails, drawings or diagrams, web pages, and PDFs, directly to a OneNote notebook as a printout. This can be particularly useful for students saving lecture notes, professionals archiving important reports or correspondences, and anyone else wanting to keep a digital copy of physical documents for easy access and annotation. Simply select Print on the file, and then choose OneNote (Desktop) or OneNote (Desktop) – Protected in the Printer list to add it as an image in your chosen notebook or page.
Availability: This feature is only available to OneNote on Windows users.
Made a mistake or written over crucial content in OneNote? You can restore previous versions of your notes, ensuring that all important information is not lost for good. Perhaps most crucially, this feature gives you peace of mind that should someone else have access to your notebook and make edits, you can still go back to earlier versions if you don’t like what they’ve added. Try it out the next time you want to track progress on a school essay, or revisit old versions of a work project, or revert back to an earlier draft. Under History, you can locate a version of your notebook based on timeframe or author, view all previous page versions, and delete certain versions you no longer need.
Availability: This feature is only available to OneNote on Windows, OneNote for Mac, and OneNote for the web users.
The Recycle Bin in OneNote is a feature that temporarily stores deleted notes and sections, allowing users to recover content that’s valuable or has been accidentally removed. Items in the Recycle Bin can be restored to a specific location in your notebook or permanently deleted, providing an additional layer of security against unintentional data loss. For instance, you can bring back mistakenly deleted project plans, or pull out discarded meeting notes, from the last 60 days.
Availability: This feature is only available to OneNote on Windows, OneNote for Mac, and OneNote for the web users.
Quick machine recovery (QMR), part of the Windows Resiliency Initiative announced at Ignite 2024 is now available in the latest Windows Insider Preview build. This feature, when enabled, addresses widespread boot issues on Windows 11 devices by automatically detecting and applying fixes directly from the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) thereby reducing the system downtime and manual intervention. When a critical boot failure occurs, the device enters WinRE, connects to the network, and sends diagnostic data to Microsoft, which can then deploy targeted remediations via Windows Update. IT admins are encouraged to enable, customize, or test this feature, which is enabled by default for home users. Windows Insiders can start testing it today and provide feedback via Feedback Hub to refine the feature further. In the Feedback Hub app on your Windows device, select Recovery and Uninstall > Quick Machine Recovery. Keep an eye out for a test remediation package coming your way in the next few days, allowing you to experience the quick machine recovery in action.
Find and Replace content in a word document:
On the “Home” Tab in the “Editing” section, click the down arrow and select either Find or Replace.
The Find or Replace Navigation will open in the left section of the document.
Type the required content to find in the search box and the results will show
If you selected Replace: The Find and Replace search box will display in a window. Fill in the Find What text in the firsts box and what you want to replace it with in the “Replace with:” dialogue box. Select either “Replace” aor “Replace All“. You will see that the R in Replace and the A in “Repalace All” is under lined so you can use those characters on the keyboard, without having to click on the buttons. If you choose “Replace” you can then click “F” to find the next instance without replacing the instance to skip some choices.
To open the “Find” or “Replace” sections use the keyboard shortcut sequence: CTL F to Find and CTL H to Replace or type “Find” or “Replace” in the Tell me what you want to do Search feature in Ribbon.
I hope that this tip will help you
Microsoft InfoPath is now obsolte and Power Apps is the recomended Replacement.
Microsoft InfoPath a forms generator for SharePoint or desktop is being phased out and has been replaced by other Microsoft products such as SharePoint Lists, Flow, and PowerApps.
PowerApps, in particular, is highlighted as a superior replacement due to its ability to build new business applications quickly and efficiently. Microsoft announced the discontinuation of InfoPath on January 31, 2014, and PowerApps was introduced as the replacement in late 2016.
Power Apps is a suite of tools within the Microsoft Power Platform designed to help users create custom business applications without extensive coding knowledge. It includes services, connectors, and a data platform that enables rapid development of applications tailored to specific business needs.
Users can build various types of apps, such as canvas apps, model-driven apps, and cards, using Power Apps Studio, which provides a user-friendly interface similar to building a slide deck in Microsoft PowerPoint. These apps can be accessed from any device, including mobile phones and tablets, and can run offline, syncing data when a connection is re-established.
Power Apps integrates with other Microsoft services like Azure, Dynamics 365, and Teams, as well as third-party applications, allowing for seamless data connectivity and automation. It also supports custom code development and provides a low-code programming language called Power Fx, which can be used across the Power Platform.
Power Apps Studio supports a wide range of controls, including forms, buttons, date pickers, text inputs, rectangles, text boxes, and vertical galleries, among others. These controls help you create interactive and functional apps tailored to your business needs.
For those experiencing performance issues with Power Apps Studio, switching to Microsoft Edge as your browser is highly recommended, as it can significantly improve the performance and reduce lag.
Microsoft PowerApps Studio Desktop was deprecated in favor of the web studio experience. The web studio offers a more up-to-date and feature-rich environment for creating canvas apps, surpassing the capabilities of the desktop app in both features and performance. As of June 1, 2018 the desktop app’s authoring experience was deprecated.
