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.
Sophisticated algorithms analyze the review set and pick out the best set of documents to review while hiding redundant information. A new analytics relationship view and detailed reports for each analytic run through the new unified reporting format allow you to have confidence in the results. The analytical information is available in both our new insights experience and export load files, allowing you to easily adopt this efficiency boost into any workflow.
We’re introducing a new ‘View and Upload’ permission for folder ‘Anyone’ links in the OneDrive Admin Sharing Settings. This feature allows tenants to restrict folder links to ‘Anyone can view’ while still enabling the ‘Request Files’ functionality. It offers tenants more granular control over content access, ensures compliance with internal policies, and helps administrators maintain a higher level of data governance.
Users can now share contact information in Microsoft Teams channels, making it easier to reach collaborators. This feature is available globally and requires no admin action. For more details, see the provided link.
Microsoft Viva Engage will modernize External Networks starting June 1, 2025. Admins must migrate to the new platform or face deprecation and data loss. Key steps include identifying network usage, exporting data, informing users, and checking for updates. Documentation will be provided before March 31, 2025.
Microsoft Teams is enhancing the default experience for frontline workers by making it easier to connect with their organization and introducing more intuitive app names. Changes include renaming the Connections app to ‘Home’ and adding the Engage app to default pinned apps. Rollout begins mid-April 2025 and completes by late April 2025.
You can now use Copilot to ask questions about images stored in OneDrive. This feature, requiring a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive web starting late February 2025. Users can explain image contents and extract text from images. No admin action is required.
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Endpoint will support Mac devices managed by additional third-party MDM solutions beyond Jamf and Microsoft Intune. Public preview starts mid-April 2025, with general availability in mid-June 2025. Existing deployments are unaffected.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps will disable three pre-defined policies by default on April 21, 2025, to improve alert accuracy. The policies affected are related to data usage, unusual activity, and access to sensitive data. Users can re-enable these policies if desired. No immediate action is required.
A new health issue for VMware sensors will be added to the Defender for Identity Sensors Health Issues tab in March 2025. Organizations should monitor this tab for alerts on network configuration mismatches and take recommended actions.
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