Viva Learning – Semantic search support for in-app Searches

Viva Learning is transitioning to an intent-based search, enhancing search results by understanding user queries semantically. This update, rolling out in March 2025, will personalize search experiences and improve content relevance. It affects various Viva Learning surfaces and supports all Viva Learning languages. Curators should enrich content attributes for better results.

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New Outlook: “Automatically dismiss reminders for past events” will be on by default for Reminder window users

“Automatically dismiss reminders for past events” will be enabled by default in the new Outlook for Windows. This change will start rolling out in March 2025 and complete by May 2025. Users can re-enable past-due event reminders in Settings. More information is available [here](https://support.microsoft.com/office/add-or-delete-notifications-or-reminders-in-outlook-7a992377-ca93-4ddd-a711-851ef3597925).

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Device Management Changes for Microsoft Teams Android Devices (Intune AOSP migration)

Microsoft Teams Android devices will migrate to the new Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) platform with a firmware update starting in Q4 2024. IT admins must manually verify the update initially, with automatic updates following. Policies need to be recreated in Intune for successful migration. Certain legacy devices will not be updated.

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Attestation readiness verifier for TPM reliability

Consider a new tool to enhance Trusted Platform Module (TPM) reliability for Windows 11, version 24H2. It simulates verification of Measured Boot logs and proactively identifies security and reliability issues. Easily check for potential issues at the hardware and firmware layer, perform critical checks, and see the health state of devices at your organization in the Event Viewer Log.  
 

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Outlook: Read-only access to contacts within a PST file in new Outlook for Windows

With this update of support for .pst files (a.k.a. Outlook Data File) in the new Outlook for Windows, users will be able to browse and read contacts within a .pst file. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.

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Microsoft Edge: Intune policies in the Edge management service

Admins now can set Intune policies via the Edge management service, alongside the existing cloud policies. This enables admins to deploy both browser policies in the cloud and Intune policies from a single pane, making it easy to keep users safe and the browser workflow streamlined. This feature comes along with a new policy creation wizard that will streamline the creation process into a comprehensive, step-by-step flow.

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Microsoft Teams: Slide control for presenters

Meeting or event presenters can now share control of slides with fellow presenters eliminating manual slide changes and maintaining a smooth flow during meetings or webinars.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Share a prompt to a Microsoft Team’s team

Share custom prompts with members of a Microsoft Teams team from the Copilot Prompt Gallery in Copilot Chat, allowing team members to easily discover and utilize these prompts in Copilot Prompt Gallery.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal : MDM-independent support for Endpoint DLP on MacOS devices

Endpoint DLP is extending support to MacOS devices independent of the MDM solution used to deploy (previously supported through JAMF or Intune).

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Outlook: Read-only access to contacts within a PST file in new Outlook for Windows

With this update of support for .pst files (a.k.a. Outlook Data File) in the new Outlook for Windows, users will be able to browse and read contacts within a .pst file. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport.

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