Microsoft Viva: A new reactions look and feel in Viva Engage

Viva Engage will feature a new look and feel for reactions in conversations. Users will see a more interactive style, showing others’ reactions as clickable pills across the conversation card. This design brings Engage reactions more in line with other Microsoft 365 products, including Teams. There are no changes to the number of icons available in Engage with this new design. Users will see this change in Engage web and Teams and Outlook apps. Mobile apps and other integrated surfaces will follow.

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SharePoint: Site access review from Sharing link reports in Data Access Governance

Site access review allows SharePoint admins to delegate access governance to site owners in the context of potential oversharing as defined within DAG reports. We earlier released site access review from within “Content shared with everyone except external users” report. Now, the same functionality will be available from all “Sharing link” reports as well.

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Microsoft Teams: Remote contact management for common area phones

IT admins will be able to manage and add contacts to Teams phone devices deployed in shared spaces through the Teams admin center. This ensures users across the organization can easily call important contacts, such as emergency numbers or help desks.

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Outlook: Categorize single items in conversation view in new Outlook for Windows and Web

This functionality will allow users to categorize individual emails within the conversation view, enhancing organization and tracking. #newoutlookforwindows

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Microsoft Teams: Queues app on Teams phone devices

Queues app on Teams phone devices enhances call management capabilities by allowing agents to handle incoming calls, view call queues, and manage call history directly from their Teams phone devices, improving efficiency and ensuring effortless communication for agents.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enrich triage in Communication Compliance with Insider Risk context

Enhance the triage experience in communication compliance with Insider Risk Insights. This integration provides investigators with a deeper understanding of the risk profile of message senders, along with a more comprehensive view of the sender’s risk severity and historical risk-related actions. With this enriched context, investigators are empowered to make more informed and effective remediation decisions, ensuring a robust compliance posture.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams menu bar icon with Presence on Mac

Introduction of a Menu Bar icon with a flyout for common workflows that reduces clicks and simplifies checking for at-a-glance information like the presence status.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Windows devices

With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Outlook win32 DLP Policy tip & oversharing popup support for new DLP Predicates

Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates support for DLP Policy tips and Oversharing popups for E5 users: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on client-side evaluation on specific email components (like email body or attachments) only. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only and show DLP Policy tips and oversharing popups accordingly in Outlook win32.

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The September 2024 Windows security update is now available

The September 2024 security update is now available for all supported versions of Windows. We recommend that you install these updates promptly. For more information about the contents of this update, see the release notes, which are easily accessible from the Windows 11 and Windows 10 update history pages. To learn more about the different types of monthly quality updates, see Windows monthly updates explained. To be informed about the latest updates and releases, follow us on X @WindowsUpdate.
  

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