Microsoft Teams: Task publishing: Schedule recurring lists in task publishing

The task publishing experience in Microsoft Teams is a feature for frontline organizations that have employees distributed across many geographically dispersed locations.

The task publishing feature allows an organization to centrally define a set of work, choose the set of frontline locations that should complete that work, create the appropriate tasks for each frontline location, and monitor how that work is going. One of the top feature requests for task publishing has been the ability to create a set of tasks once and set them to automatically repeat at a scheduled cadence.

Common examples are daily opening and closing tasks or weekly/monthly site inspections and compliance walks. When this feature is available, you’ll be able to set recurrence on a draft task list, which will allow you to choose the cadence (such as every month on the 15th of the month). You can then publish the list and task publishing will take care of scheduling the publication so that the list publishes automatically at that cadence going forward.

We know from a wide range of customer conversations that this will be a big time saver for distributing recurring tasks across frontline organizations.

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Outlook Mobile Advanced Logging

Outlook mobile users will be able to control the state of Advanced Logging, by enabling it prior to uploading logs to Microsoft.

When this will happen:

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Refiners Available in Outlook Web

We are launching Refiners on Outlook Web which will appear after a user completes a search. These will allow users to filter down their search results further to find their emails easily.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 141109

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Microsoft Syntex: Taxonomy tagging

Customers will be able to turn on Taxonomy tagger in SharePoint document libraries on a pay-as-you-go basis. With Taxonomy tagger turned on, you can automatically tag documents that reside on SharePoint libraries with terms configured in the Taxonomy store using AI.

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Microsoft Teams: Allow participants to join public webinars with three concurrent devices

Participants attending an external facing webinar can use up to three concurrent devices to join the event using the same registration join link.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will have the ability to view a sensitivity analysis, which shows the count of users in the organization that would meet specific indicator thresholds. The sensitivity analysis is presented as a bar chart, with potential inputs of an indicator threshold on the x-axis and the corresponding count of users on the y-axis. Admins can utilize this chart to make informed decisions on which threshold to apply for each indicator. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Granular RBAC for priority user groups

Priority user groups in Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management help admins with the right permissions define the users in your organization who need more sensitive risk scoring. With this update, organizations can also restrict review of activities related to the priority user groups to specific analysts or investigators. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Policy template limit increase

With this update, the maximum number of policies for each insider risk policy template increases from 5 to 20. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Viva: Personalized Viva Goals Digest Emails

Viva Goals activity summary digest emails summarize and curate the most relevant content for users across their Viva Goals experience.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Create Simulations with Attack Simulation Training Graph API

Introducing the Attack Simulation Training Graph APIs for creating and managing phishing simulations and training campaigns with enhanced control and flexibility. Automate and customize attack scenarios based on real events within your organization to effectively identify vulnerabilities and test security measures. Seamlessly integrate with other security tools to
streamline analytics and achieve centralized management for enhanced efficiency.

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