Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Support continues after Log Analytics Agent retires on August 31, 2024

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint will continue to be supported after the retirement of Log Analytics Agent on August 31, 2024. No immediate action is required, but it is recommended to upgrade to the latest available agent and versions will cease to function as of October 1, 2024. Notify admins and update documentation as appropriate. Learn more through provided links.

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Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Contextual Summaries with Copilot for Security

Microsoft Purview’s Communication Compliance will introduce contextual summaries of policy matches in Copilot for Security. This feature will help investigators identify potentially risky content and understand the meaning of the content with just one click. Public preview will begin in early April 2024 and general availability worldwide will begin in early June 2024. Users must have a Copilot for Security license and proper permissions to use this feature. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides tools to detect business conduct and regulatory compliance violations.

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Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Interact with Copilot in the new Outlook for Windows and web

Interact with Copilot in Outlook, ask questions, or provide instructions directly inside Outlook. Users can type and receive responses from Copilot in a right-hand side panel that can be opened by the user by clicking on the Copilot icon in the top nav bar. #newoutlookforwindows

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Protect your most sensitive content with double key encryption

Double Key Encryption (DKE) provides organizations with a second encryption key for your most sensitive content.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/double-key-encryption

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow Block list in GCC, GCCH, and DoD

All the Tenant Allow/Block functionality as present in WW environment will be available to admins and security analyst of GCC, GCCH, and DoD.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel – Graph Grounded Chat

Ask Copilot for answers grounded in your work content from the Microsoft Graph—your chats, documents, meetings, and emails—beyond your active Excel workbook. If you’re analyzing a workbook and want to enhance your understanding using information from another source in your tenant, just ask Copilot in Excel.

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What’s new in the Microsoft Intune Service Update for March 2024

The message announces the latest Microsoft Intune Service Update for March 2024, with changes to be seen in the Tenant Status blade of the Intune console soon. Users can learn more about the update by clicking on the provided links.

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Retirement of Policy Management for Draft with Copilot in Outlook

The message announces the retirement of the Policy Management feature for Draft with Copilot in Outlook on April 15, 2024. Administrators will no longer be able to disable Draft with Copilot in Outlook, and instead, eDiscovery for Copilot in Outlook is recommended.

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Upgrading Teams webinar users to new version

Microsoft Teams will replace the ‘Add registrations to meetings’ feature with the new ‘Webinar’ meeting type. The change will take effect on June 30th, 2024. Teams Admins will not be able to assign the “-AllowMeetingRegistration” to any new users, and Teams users with this policy will not be able to create any new ‘meetings with registration’ post-June 30th, 2024. Users can create webinars using the new ‘Webinar’ meeting type, and may update their internal documentation accordingly. Detailed documentation is available on the Microsoft Support website.

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Manage Distribution Groups URL update in Microsoft Outlook on the web points to the new Microsoft Exchange Admin Center

The URL to manage distribution groups in Microsoft Outlook on the web will be updated to point to the new Exchange Admin Center. The old URL will continue to work until mid-2024. Non-admin users will be redirected to the new Exchange Admin Center. The update will happen automatically in early April 2024 and users are advised to refer to the article on managing Distribution Groups for more details.

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