Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage Communications Dashboard

A central hub for corporate communicators and network administrators to access information and manage tasks across the communications lifecycle, starting with campaigns, analytics, leader and audiences, and advanced moderation.

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Microsoft Teams: Facilitator agent real-time notes in meetings

The Facilitator agent in Microsoft 365 takes real-time notes during your meetings, allowing everyone to co-author and collaborate seamlessly. This frees everyone up to focus and engage deeply in meetings. To enable real-time notes in meetings, users can toggle the ‘AI-generated notes’ setting on when scheduling the meeting in the Teams calendar or toggle it on during the meeting through the Notes button in the toolbar. To access the real-time notes, select Notes in the toolbar to open the notes pane where everyone can see live notes being generated every few minutes as the conversation happens. The notes are organized by topics and follow-up tasks.

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Microsoft Copilot Studio – Support Lockbox for GenAI

We are announcing the Support Lockbox for GenAI feature for Microsoft Copilot Studio. This feature provides an interface for customers to review and approve or reject data access requests; used in cases where a Microsoft engineer needs to access customer data during, for example, a support request. This feature will reach general availability on February 28, 2025.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Enhancements to Integrated apps page

The Integrated apps page in the Microsoft 365 admin center provides IT admins with tools to manage agents. With this rollout, we are introducing a new Shared Agent management section, enabling IT admins to gain visibility into individually shared agents and take actions such as blocking agents to ensure compliance and security. 

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: DLP alerts as indicators

Coming soon to Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management (IRM) admins will be able to select Data Loss Prevention (DLP) alerts as indicators in IRM policies. After this rollout, IRM admins can select DLP policies that they would like to bring into IRM and detect if a user has alerts for the pre-selected DLP policies. When an IRM alert is generated, admin and analysts can see if there are any high-risk alerts for this user within DLP for the policies that are enabled as indicators. This feature will help admins and analysts view this information in IRM without switching to DLP.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 475057.

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Microsoft SharePoint: New preview mode for Pages and News posts

Coming soon to Microsoft SharePoint: The new Preview mode can be used to understand how Pages and News posts will appear on different device types when viewed by an audience.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 473452.

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The January 2025 Windows non-security preview update is now available for some supported versions of Windows

The January 2025 non-security preview update is now available for Windows 11, version 24H2 and Windows 10, version 22H2. The non-security preview update for Windows 11, versions 23H2 and 22H2 will be available soon. Information about the contents of this update is available from the release notes, which are 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.

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Microsoft Teams: Monitor Teams client updates in Teams Admin center

IT Administrators can now monitor Teams client version update adoption and access detailed adoption information. This feature enables administrators to proactively understand version adoption, assess version health, and access granular details about devices and users who are on the latest client versions. Additionally, it provides visibility on recency of client versions. Administrators can now proactively view insights and address issues preventing users from automatically updating to the latest and most secure version of the Teams client.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Sessions Grouped by Time frame

This feature will provide users conversation history list structure through grouping conversations by time frame to make it easy for users to visually parse.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Labeling improvement for non-Office/PDF files using endpoint DLP

This allows the customer to use a label for a non-Office/PDF file without productivity impact.

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