Announcing General Availability for Microsoft Shifts UKG Connector

Microsoft Teams Shifts connector for UKG Dimensions is now generally available. This bi-directional, near real-time connector provides a single, seamless interface to simplify scheduling.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Retirement of legacy DLP reporting cmdlets

As announced in November 2022 (MC455898), we’ve recently retired the Reports page from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Beginning in early February, we’re retiring legacy Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention reporting cmdlets. 

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Microsoft Online Services Subprocessor List

This notice is to inform you of an update regarding the Microsoft Online Services Subprocessors List.

Microsoft may use non-Microsoft organizations to help provide Online Services. As a function of their role for Microsoft, a small set of these organizations may process your customer data or personal data, only to deliver the services Microsoft has retained them to provide; they are prohibited from using your data for any other purpose. In accordance with GDPR, we disclose these subprocessors to you in advance of their first engagement and provide notification of any changes over time.

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Attribution support for sticky notes in Microsoft Whiteboard

To provide the ability to tenant admins to enable/disable Attribution functionality for OneDrive for Business (ODB) backed whiteboards.

  • This policy controls whether users can use the attribution functionality within Whiteboard application to view who was the first and latest to write on the sticky note.
  • If you enable or don’t configure this policy setting, everyone on the whiteboard can view attributions. When enabled, board owner of the whiteboard can disable attributions for that whiteboard from Settings Panel.
  • If you disable this policy setting, users on the whiteboard cannot view attributions

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New details on IE11 desktop application permanent disablement scheduled for February 14, 2023

The out-of-support Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) desktop application is scheduled to be permanently disabled on certain versions of Windows 10 devices on February 14, 2023, through a Microsoft Edge update, not a Windows update as previously communicated. All remaining devices that have not already been redirected from IE11 to Microsoft Edge are scheduled to be redirected with the Microsoft Edge update scheduled for February 14, 2023. Similar to how Windows updates work, redirection from IE11 to Microsoft Edge will be included in all future Microsoft Edge updates and will impact all devices within your organization at the same time with no ability for users to reverse the change. Therefore, if your organization still has dependencies on IE11, you must take steps now to complete your transition before February 14, 2023, or risk business disruption at scale when users lose access to IE11-dependent applications. As a reminder, IE11 has been out of support since June 15, 2022.

The change to use Microsoft Edge update to disable IE is intended to provide a better user experience and help organizations transition their last remaining IE11 users to Microsoft Edge. Users will see a dialogue box when they are transitioned to Microsoft Edge. When they try to click any IE11 icons or other entry points, they will be redirected to Microsoft Edge. Users’ browsing data will be automatically brought over to Microsoft Edge from IE11 so they can seamlessly continue browsing.

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The Devices > Policies page in the Microsoft 365 admin center is retiring

The Devices > Policies page in the Microsoft 365 admin center (https://admin.microsoft.com/Adminportal/Home#/IntunePolicies) is retiring. To view and edit your device policies, you can use one of these options instead: 

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Announcing SharePoint Sites Coverage in Search Usage Analytics

We are pleased to announce that SharePoint sites are now included in Usage Analytics in the Microsoft 365 Search & Intelligence Admin Center.

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Feature release status for your organization in Message center

With hundreds of new and updated feature announcements across Microsoft 365, it can be challenging to track when the feature or change is available in your tenant. To help you track feature availability in your organization, Microsoft will provide a release status for each new and updated feature announcement in Message center

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 108078

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Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance support for adaptive policy scopes (public preview)

Coming soon to public preview for Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance, we’re introducing support for adaptive policy scopes.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 98186

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Communication Compliance: Prioritize analysis of policy-driven alerts with Azure Cognitive Services (public preview)

Coming soon to public preview, Communication Compliance will support Azure Cognitive Services text analysis, helping customers’ compliance managers prioritize and investigate alerts related to violations of their organizations’ defined regulatory requirements. Using Azure Cognitive Services, this update helps investigation of potential regulatory incidents by providing customers more context. Only messages that have already triggered an alert in an existing Communication Compliance policy will be analyzed. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88918.

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