Briefing Email Language Expansion (JP, ZN)

The Briefing email from Microsoft Viva helps users start their day on track by surfacing information to prepare for upcoming meetings, follow up on outstanding tasks as well as protect time for independent work. Currently, the Briefing email is available for Microsoft 365 Enterprise users with Exchange Online mailboxes in English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. We are expanding to support Exchange Online mailboxes in Japanese and Simplified Chinese.

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Advanced eDiscovery: General availability of Communication templates and issuing officer settings

We’re soon rolling out new features to improve the efficiency of your hold notifications. Communication Library in Advanced eDiscovery allows eDiscovery administrators to create communication templates to quickly draft hold notifications. Issuing officer settings allows eDiscovery admins to manage a list of issuing officers for your organization to send hold notifications on behalf of.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88813

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Permanent Redirection of Office 365 Security

We are announcing that we will be completing the final step in the transition from the legacy Security & Compliance Center (SCC) portal to three new portals.  Due to the broad reception and adoption from you, our customers, to the new portals, we feel confident to complete the journey and make Microsoft 365 Defender portal, Microsoft Compliance center and the Modern Exchange Admin portal – the homes for Office 365 Security and Compliance management.

Office 365 Security

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Communication Compliance: New machine learning classifier for customer complaints (preview)

Coming soon to public preview, a new machine learning classifier for Communication Compliance will enable you to detect customer complaints.

Coming soon to public preview, a new machine learning classifier for Communication Compliance will enable you to detect customer complaints.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 88872.

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OAuth interface for Office 365 Reporting web service

Currently, users accessing Reporting Web service use “Basic Authentication” and must provide their credentials. With this feature update, Microsoft will improve the security of your tenant by replacing “Basic Authentication” access in favor of the recommended OAuth user interface which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.

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Microsoft Graph connector for Jira and Confluence cloud standard release announcement

Microsoft is releasing two new Graph connectors for Atlassian Confluence and Jira.

With the Microsoft Graph connector for Confluence cloud, you would be able to index and search for Confluence pages and blogs from any of Microsoft Search endpoints like Bing, SharePoint, Office.com etc. Similarly, with the Graph connector for Jira cloud, you will be able to index and search for Jira issues and tickets.

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Rebrand Privacy Management as Microsoft Priva

As announced at Ignite last November, Microsoft Priva will become the new brand of privacy solutions that help companies build a privacy-resilient workplace. Privacy Management for Microsoft 365 will be rebranded as Microsoft Priva, offering 2 products – Priva Privacy Risk Management and Priva Subject Rights Requests.

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Certificate based Authentication for Security and Compliance Center PowerShell

With this update, which will improve the security of your tenant, Security & Compliance PowerShell will enable configuration of certificate-based authentication to allow unattended App-only access. 

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Automatically configure Teams DLP policies to protect files shared in team messages

This new update will enable Teams DLP policies to protect chats in Teams. With this capability, all your existing and new policies will automatically protect files shared in Teams private chats and channel messages.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 85667.

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Exchange auto-labeling policy now supports replacing manual label and encrypting email received from any organization

Exchange auto-labeling policies can protect mail in transit by applying sensitivity labels to mail received from inside or outside the organization that are not manually labeled. Currently, encryption can only be applied to unencrypted mail received from inside the organization. We are now adding the capability to configure policies that can apply encryption to mail received from outside the organization. In addition, policies can be configured to replace a label even if mail already has a manual label applied, provided the label priority on the mail is lower or same.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85668.

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