General Availability of Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot agents are now available, with full deployment expected by the end of November. Users can create agents in BizChat or Teams, and admins manage them via the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Assign a Copilot license to users to prepare.

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Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for macOS – Planned update to compatibility Office add-ins and ODBC drivers

The message details a planned update for Office on macOS, requiring Office add-ins and ODBC drivers to be codesigned with a valid Apple Developer ID. This change, expected in mid-November 2024, may affect workflows using unsigned dynamic libraries. Developers must ensure compliance, and admins should verify and prepare for this update.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Admin units support for SharePoint Online

Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). For example, German investigators should be able to investigate alerts and audit events for only German users. This update extends support to SharePoint for Microsoft 365.

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SharePoint: Approvals integration in Document Libraries

SharePoint Document Libraries will begin to leverage the Approvals app in Microsoft Teams. Users will be able to navigate to the Automate dropdown, Configure Approvals to enable the feature on the library. Once enabled you can specify the approver for the file, submit a request which will appear in the Approvals app in Teams or can be approved directly in the library. Once approved, the file metadata will update in the Approval status column.

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Microsoft Teams: Stream Custom Agent and Bot Responses

Custom engine agents and Teams bots can now stream responses like Microsoft Copilot. They can provide real-time updates on their actions while delivering parts of the response as they generate it, making interactions feel faster and more engaging.

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Microsoft Viva: Skills and AI transformation scenarios for Leaders in Viva Insights

Enable leaders to ask questions about skills their team possess based on user-confirmed skills and Viva AI engine. Furthermore, they can dive deeper with dynamically curated reports. Along with this, they will have the ability to learn about AI adoption and impact on their team with Microsoft Copilot features.

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Microsoft Viva: Copilot for leaders in Viva Insights

Empower leaders to ask questions about their organization and how their team is doing through responses that leverage Viva Insights behavioral metrics and organizational context data.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Top questions

Top Questions shows community members the most-viewed questions in their community over the last 90 days. It is designed to help people quickly find the most relevant and popular questions in their communities.

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Microsoft Edge: Authorized group setting in Microsoft Edge for Business

The authorized group setting ensures that Edge respects the settings for “Printer groups,” “Removable USB device groups,” and “Network share groups” in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. This change will prevent users from bypassing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protections by using Edge, thereby enhancing security and compliance.

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Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Multi-geo support for shared Loop workspaces

This ensures data storage for shared Loop workspaces is in the correct geo. M365 group-owned workspaces are created in the group’s geo, while non-M365 group-owned workspaces are created in the creator’s preferred data location.

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