Microsoft Graph connectors: Sync your non-Azure AD users and groups to support search permissions

Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search now supports syncing of non-Azure AD users/groups from your external data source with your Azure AD users/groups so that your end users can see search results permissioned to them.

The following Microsoft-built connectors support this functionality:

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Extend Compliance Manager capabilities beyond Microsoft 365 assets

Microsoft Compliance Manager is a feature in the Microsoft 365 compliance center that helps you manage your organization’s compliance requirements with greater ease and convenience. This new release of pre-configured assessment templates extends Compliance Manager capabilities beyond Microsoft 365 assets.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 72223.

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Now GA for Communication Compliance: OCR support and 7 added languages for pre-trained classifiers

Previously announced in public preview (MC238655), the following Communication Compliance features are now generally available:

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Briefing Email Language Expansion (FR, DE, IT, PT)

The Briefing email from Cortana 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 and Spanish. We are expanding to support Exchange Online mailboxes in French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81999.

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Reminder: Skype for Business Online retires July 31, 2021

Note: If your organization has already transitioned from Skype for Business Online to Microsoft Teams, please disregard this message.

Originally announced in MC219641 (July ’20), as Microsoft Teams has become the core communications client for Microsoft 365, this is a reminder the Skype for Business Online service will retire July 31, 2021. At that point, access to the service will end.

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New Communication Compliance features: Teams conversation context

The Communication Compliance solution in the Microsoft 365 compliance center will soon support Teams conversation context (public preview) and provide new reporting for sensitive information types.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68872 and 81970.

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Announcing new options for custom sensitive information types

As part of your data classification efforts in the Microsoft 365 compliance center you can now customize built-in classifiers (sensitive information types) to meet your organization’s needs. We are rolling out some minor feature updates to enhance this customization experience.

When this will happen:

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Tenant background image is being retired.

As outlined in MC243041 (March ’21) we will be retiring support for tenant background images. Instead we recommend the utilization of the improvements we’ve made to Organizational Theming.

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Exact Data Match support for Customer Managed Key

After a successful public preview (MC246007) in April 2021, this new release will enable you to be able to encrypt Exact Data Match (EDM) data using your own Customer Managed Key (CMK), further enhancing EDM data security.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81987.

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Microsoft Secure Score improvement action updates

We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture.

When this will happen:

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