Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Disposition review: Export of items pending review using a cmdlet

This change will enable admins to export the list of items pending disposition review or disposed items for a label using a PowerShell cmdlet without the 50,000-item limitation that applies to exporting via the UX.

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Live Copy/Paste Support for Loop Components in Microsoft Whiteboard

The ability to copy/paste live Loop components from other Microsoft 365 apps (such as Teams) is coming soon to Whiteboard for the web, Whiteboard app in Teams, and Whiteboard for Windows.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98161

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Health dashboard moving to admin center homepage

A new Dashboard page was added to the Health section of the Microsoft 365 admin center in July 2022. Based on feedback from users, it is being moved out of the Health section to become an optional view on the admin center homepage. You can switch from the traditional dashboard view to the health view by clicking the on the top right hand of the homepage.

The original service health page remains in the Health section with no changes.  

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Email notifications for “Issues in your environment that require action”

In December 2021, a new section was added to the service health page in the Microsoft 365 admin center, featuring “Issues in your environment that require action.” These types of issues are not caused by Microsoft services being unhealthy, but by something specific to your organization that require an admin to take action.

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Introducing Threat Explorer V3 by Microsoft Defender for Office 365

We are happy to share that Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is rolling out the Threat Explorer-Version 3. Threat Explorer has been an integral part of security operations workflow allowing users to explore the email data and take remediation actions on threats. And we strive to make the security operations experience better for the users by enhancing the filtering, navigation and data visualization experiences.

With this new version, we are improving the filtering experience by adding four new filtering conditions. The existing “Advanced Filters” functionality has been made available with the new filter, thereby reducing the complexity in applying multiple filter conditions and providing users an easy to navigate and rich filtering experience. 

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Mac is retiring support of Catalina (10.15)

Note: this message applies only to organizations with macOS devices in their environments.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint will no longer support macOS version Catalina (10.15) as Apple ended support for Catalina (10.15) in December 2022.

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Microsoft Purview | Compliance Manager: Upcoming changes to included assessment templates

We’re making updates to the compliance assessment templates included with your Microsoft 365 license for use in Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager.  

When this will happen:

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Text Formatting Support for Microsoft Whiteboard

The ability to format all or a portion of text in text boxes, notes and shapes is coming soon to Whiteboard web, Teams and the Windows app (mobile users will be able to view formatted text but not format it).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100497

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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: New data leaks policy template enabled by HR data connector (GA)

Currently available in public preview for Insider Risk Management (MC382820), we’re rolling out a new data leaks policy template that leverages data from an HR connector

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83959.

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Changes to Cloud App Catalog and Risk score calculation

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps are making some changes to the Cloud App Catalog as part of improving the scoring of Apps.

1) As part of the changes, the following non-relevant/redundant indicators are being removed from the catalog:

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