Introducing Meeting Prep for Financial Services (Preview)

Meeting Prep for Financial Services is now in public preview, offering investment bankers a centralized app for meeting preparation. It integrates data from various sources with AI insights and is available now, with general availability starting early December 2024. Licensing includes Microsoft 365 E3/Business Basic and LSEG Workspace.

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Auto-labeling policies will support “Fingerprint based SIT”

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection will soon support auto-labeling with “Fingerprint based SIT”. Rollout starts late November 2024, completing by mid-December 2024. This feature will be enabled by default, requiring no pre-rollout action from admins but review and setup are advised.

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Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience

The new, streamlined chat and channels experience makes it easier to stay on top of what matters most and organize your digital workspace. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, use filters to triage messages and more.

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Outlook: Drag and drop to download attachments and emails for GCC

Users can drag and drop attachments and emails from the new Outlook for Windows to their desktops or local folders to download them directly to that location. A feature that is already available in world-wide multitenant will now be available for customers in GCC.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence (Microsoft managed storage)

With this capability, Admins can choose to store a copy of the file that resulted in a DLP policy match. The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity.

To configure Microsoft managed storage, similar to customer managed storage, the user can go to endpoint DLP settings and select Microsoft managed storage. As compared to customer managed storage, the admin need not configure any additional settings like adding a blob, assigning permissions, or selecting storage in policy workflow.

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Planner: Unified Planner tab experience in Microsoft Teams

With this unified tab experience, you can now create and add any basic or premium plan to a Planner tab in Microsoft Teams. To try it, go to any Teams channel and search for Planner after selecting the Apps icon.

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Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Require Existing Microsoft 365 Group for New Loop workspaces

Ensure new Loop workspaces are connected to and managed by an existing Microsoft 365 Group, similar to SharePoint Team sites.

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Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Microsoft 365 Groups for Managing New Loop workspaces

When creating a new Loop workspace, users can specify an existing Microsoft 365 Group to manage the workspace’s lifetime, governance, and compliance, similar to SharePoint Team sites.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence (customer managed storage)

In the alerts triage and incident management experience, the admin can access a copy of the file that was restricted by DLP. The original file is uploaded to a customer managed storage (Azure blob). The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity.

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OneDrive: Enable OCSI for Tenants

If a tenant has the (EnableAllOcsiClients) GPO enabled, Office and OneDrive are able to communicate smoothly. Right now, tenants have the option to disable the GPO, and when they disable the GPO, it becomes difficult to ensure that all internal versions of Office files are kept up to date so that features like autosave, version history, real time user collab, and merging in the case of conflicts can work.

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