Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Enhancements for Teams meeting recordings & videos stored in OneDrive & SharePoint

Enhancements to Teams meeting recording & video files in OneDrive & SharePoint to improve management within eDiscovery workflows. Including collection and review of metadata associated to Teams meeting recordings and video files in OneDrive and SharePoint including transcripts/captions, chapters, and custom thumbnails.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – New disposition review Progress column for approved items (U.S. Government clouds)

A new progress column in the Disposed items view will display the status of an item approved for disposition. For example, whether an item is Approved but not yet deleted or if it already has been deleted.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Hide the Preservation Hold Library from site users

This change will hide the Preservation Hold Library (PHL) from site users. Only site collection administrators can access the PHL in SharePoint by navigating directly to it using the URL.

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Authenticator number matching to be enabled for all Microsoft Authenticator users

Microsoft Authenticator App’s number matching is Generally Available! Microsoft will start enabling this critical security feature for all users of the Microsoft Authenticator app.

When this will happen:

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Azure Active Directory (AAD) and Microsoft (MSA) accounts can be linked to earn Microsoft Rewards points

Microsoft now offers the ability to link an Azure Active Directory (AAD) work account and a personal Microsoft account (MSA). With this change, AAD users with a linked MSA account can now earn Microsoft Rewards points for Microsoft Bing searches done in their browser or Windows search box while signed in with their AAD account. This expanded Rewards eligibility was made based on user feedback.

The ability to link accounts will be enabled by default so account linking is available to an organization’s employees, but still requires employees to opt-in. The choice to link accounts is in an employee’s hands, and they need to take action to connect their AAD and MSA accounts.

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Create “Nested” Groups with Azure AD Dynamic Groups (preview)

This feature will help you better manage group memberships by allowing you to build dynamic Azure AD Security Groups and Microsoft 365 groups based on other groups. For example, you can now create Dynamic-Group-A with members of Group-X and Group-Y.

The groups that define the membership of the dynamic group can be any group type represented in Azure Active Directory, such as user or device security groups, Microsoft 365 groups, and groups synced from on-premises. Unlike existing nested security groups today, memberOf dynamic groups return a flat list of members, so they can be used for licensing assignment and application assignment.  

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Emails Related to AAD Groups are Changing Format

When using Microsoft 365 and Security groups, emails are sent to users in the following scenarios:

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Update on who can manage sensitive attributes of user objects

Today, there are several user attributes that are considered sensitive, and we will be simplifying this model.

  • Some rely on Global Admins (GA) to be able to manage them for all users (admins and non-admins).
  • Others don’t have a Global Admins dependency but the set of admin roles that can manage them and for whom is not consistent.

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Enablement of combined security information registration for Azure Active Directory

In April 2020, the combined security information registration experience for registering both multifactor authentication (MFA) and self-service password reset (SSPR) was released for you to opt in. Upcoming, we will be making the new combined security information registration experience the default for all tenants.

Note: This change will not impact you if your tenant was created after August 15th, 2020, or your tenant is located in the China region.

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Identity Service: Upcoming feature to recover accidentally deleted service principal objects

Microsoft Graph API will soon start supporting the ability to recover accidentally deleted service principal objects. The application object already supports this ability. The update will make the recovery story better for managing the life cycle of applications in your tenant.

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