Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rajiv Ramaiah

Kevin D Morrison

Shiraz Jitendra Cupala

Eric Jonathan Hull

Mansoor A Malik

Archana Saseetharan

Siddharth Uppal

Yuri Dogandjiev

Rajesh Rangarajan

Aaron William Linne

Alexander Tobias Powell

Lei Yang

Manasi Sharma

Beste Nazilli

Sagar Nagaraja Shastry

Jason Thomas Faulkner

Sonu Arora

Tiphanie Lau

Kevin Daniel Morrison

Updating user-specific instances of a second application for individual users of a group based on a data file for the second application being shared via a collaboration object that corresponds to the group within a first application. The instances of the second application present each individual user with their own custom user experience that is configured to provide access to specific content based on object permissions data. An application extension is executable, by the first application, to extend content editing functionalities of the second application into the collaboration object. Responsive to specific content being associated with the collaboration object via the application extension, each of the instances of the second application may be automatically updated to provide direct access to the specific content. Thus, each user within the group defined for collaboration object can access the data file via the collaboration object and their own instance of the second application.

Updating user-specific application instances based on collaborative object activity

A system and method directed to determining one or more polls that a user may have missed during a period of inactivity is provided. Initially, a polling system may determine that a user is now active and may determine one or more polls that were created for or assigned to a user, or a group to which the user belongs, during the period of inactivity. The polling system may then surface a notification and/or an input window such that a user may provide polling input. In some instances, a user may have missed multiple polls; the polls presented to the user may be based on recent user activity and/or whether such missed polls are still live, or open.

Catch-up poll: missed poll

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