Group ownership governance policy is now Generally Available

We apologize for not honoring our customer commitment by letting you know in advance of this release. We are however pleased to introduce the new ownership governance policy for Microsoft 365 groups. The policy will help you automate the management of ownerless Microsoft 365 groups in your tenant.

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NPS Sentiment Insights available to empower IT Admins to help end users

NPS survey insights is an AI-driven dashboard available in Microsoft 365 Admin Center (Health -> Product feedback -> NPS survey insights tab). This feature has been helping Admins like you to obtain actionable insights derived from Microsoft NPS surveys as responded by your users.

Based on your feedback, we are introducing a new feature that identifies the sentiment for each NPS verbatim feedback, so that you can learn what your users are feeling regarding Microsoft 365 products.

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Microsoft Search: Microsoft Search in GCCH

Organization-wide Search with search suggestions via Search Box in SharePoint, Office.com, and on Microsoft Search in Bing; People Answer and Customizable Bookmarks and Q&A Answers. Search Usage Analytics coming soon. Microsoft Graph connectors not included in this release.

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Microsoft Search: Microsoft Search in GCC updates

Additional features including search suggestions updates, Calendar, Files, and Acronyms Answers, and Search Usage Analytics. Microsoft Graph connectors are coming soon.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Announcing GA of named entities SITs

New named entities sensitive information types (SITs) and enhanced unified policy authoring templates are now generally available. This GA release also includes support for Exchange Online workloads.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 72221.

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Announcing Microsoft Purview: Your home for Microsoft 365 compliance solutions

Microsoft 365 compliance solutions will be consolidated under the Microsoft Purview brand name. This change will bring together Microsoft 365 compliance solutions and Azure Purview into a single portfolio and will align the naming of various solutions for consistency with other offerings.

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Microsoft Information Protection: Configure display colors for sensitivity labels

This feature will simplify the policy management experience by enabling administrators to set a label color in the Microsoft 365 compliance center for their sensitivity labels. Once applied, labels will display this coloring within first-party and third-party applications that support reading the color property, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (Win32 native apps), or Power BI to name a few.

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Microsoft Graph connector for Azure DevOps Work Items GA announcement

Microsoft Graph connectors enable your organization to index third-party content in Microsoft Search. With the Microsoft Graph connector for Azure DevOps, you would be able to index and search for work items like bugs, tasks, user stories, features and epics from any of Microsoft Search endpoints like Bing, SharePoint, Office.com etc.

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Reminder: IE11 desktop application retires in 2 months on June 15, 2022 – Set up IE mode today (non-LTSC, non-Server)

As previously announced, the future of Internet Explorer on Windows is in Microsoft Edge. Internet Explorer mode (IE mode) provides legacy browser support within Microsoft Edge. Because of this, the IE11 desktop application will be retired on June 15, 2022, on certain versions of Windows 10. This means that the IE11 desktop application will no longer be supported and afterwards will redirect to Microsoft Edge if a user tries to access it.

With 2 months left before retirement, we highly recommend you begin testing your sites in IE mode, followed by disabling the IE11 application completely via policy, to ensure readiness.

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Communication Compliance: Announcing GA of additional classifier language support

The Communication Compliance solution in the Microsoft 365 compliance center will soon support additional languages for built-in classifiers. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88995.

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