Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): New case creation wizard (U.S. government clouds)

Case creation in eDiscovery (Premium) will follow a step-by-step wizard configuration which allow users to configure case settings such as case member during the creation process.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Targeted Release for GCC, GCC High and DoD customers

GCC, GCC High and DoD customers will be able to opt-in to Targeted Release and get early access for OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, Outlook for the web and Microsoft 365 Admin Center features.

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Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): List, collection, and jobs usability enhancement

This batch of usability updates includes UX indication of case format, list page title, description, empty/error state improvement, addition of job duration time, and additional collection-related enhancements such as including review set name in collection detail and ability to save collection in its draft state.

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Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): Jobs report (U.S. government clouds)

eDiscovery administrators can access an aggregate report for all eDiscovery jobs across the tenant. This provides additional detail on the total number of jobs to ensure limits are not exceeded.

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Basic Authentication retirement in Microsoft 365 Apps

Microsoft 365 Apps are disabling server sign-in prompts using Basic authentication in Office Apps. We are making this change because basic authentication is a legacy authentication method that sends a username and password with each request. As a result, an attacker can access these credentials and use them to access resources. Continued use of Basic Authentication is a big security concern, so we have decided to deprecate it from all tenants.

We will retire this feature in Office Apps version 2209+. Instead, we recommend moving to a more secure authentication method, preferably Modern Authentication, and enabling multi-factor authentication based on OAuth2.0 token-based auth.

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IT Admin Policy Change for the New Webinars Experience on Teams

We are excited to announce the upcoming launch of the new webinar experience. This experience is an intuitive end-to-end webinar solution addressing key feedback received since the initial webinar launch last year and is built to scale for advanced webinars in the future. The new webinar will be found by clicking the New Meeting dropdown in the calendar app and selecting Webinar.

With the launch of the new webinar experience, we are introducing a new policy called Teams Event Policy to TAP IT Admins and TAP customers. This policy (Settings: AllowWebinars and EventAccessType) will control the new webinar experience, and the current webinar experience will be controlled by the existing Teams Meeting Policy (Settings: AllowMeetingRegistration and WhoCanRegister). As we make this transition from the current and existing webinar experience to a new one, we are giving you the option to either use the new, current/existing, or no webinar experience. When we launch the new webinar experience, this experience will by default be ON (AllowWebinars: ON).

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Advanced Virtual Appointments in Teams Premium

Advanced Virtual Appointments in Teams Premium provides an end-to-end solution designed to help you drive better customer experiences and operational excellence for business-to-customer engagements.

You can read details about the Advanced Virtual Appointments in Microsoft Teams features here.

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Popular Around Me view in OneDrive Web for Business under Shared will be permanently disabled.

We will be retiring the Popular Around Me view from in OneDrive Web under Shared.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance: Ability to exclude bulk email (preview)

Coming soon to public preview, Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance policies will allow filtering of bulk emails such as newsletters to help customers reduce noise and false positives. The setting can be configured at the per-policy level.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100513.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: New ways to find advanced deployment guides

You’ll see a new look on the Advanced deployment guides page in the Microsoft 365 admin center and the setup.microsoft.com website. We’re updating the search tools, recommendations, and layout of both locations so it’s easier to find step-by-step guides for the product or scenario you’re deploying. You’ll also see new guides on setup.microsoft.com that are currently available only within the Microsoft 365 admin center.

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