Viva Goals – Copilot assisted catch up on important work related to goals

Copilot in Viva Goals helps users in finding and catching up on documents, meetings, chats, emails, and work related to all or a subset of the goals in view

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Viva Goals – Copilot assisted summarization and catch up on goals

Copilot in Viva Goals helps you save time by generating a comprehensive summary with tone, length of your preference for one or more goals in the view, allowing you to quickly catch up on and share your goal status and progress with leaders, stakeholders, and your team

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Ability to exclude spam and bulk emails

Communication compliance policies will filter out bulk emails such as newsletters to help customers triage policy matches more efficiently. This will be an option for all policies in Communication Compliance. New policies will have this filtering on by default, but admins will have the option to configure as well as remove the filtering.

Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- New scenario based policy templates

We are adding two additional pre-configured quick policy templates for crown jewel protection and email exfiltration for admins that want to deploy scenario specific policy templates with little configurations needed to get started faster. These templates are in addition to the existing data leak and data theft quick policies. All 4 scenario based quick policies can be found in the Policies page> Create Policies. Additional tuning post deployment to meet individual alert volume needs can be expected. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Copilot for Microsoft 365: Direct connection to Microsoft SharePoint organization asset libraries

Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 now supports direct searches and downloads from SharePoint organization asset libraries for brand-approved content. Rollout starts mid-August 2024, with completion by early September 2024. Tenant admins must prepare by identifying brand content and using a new cmdlet for library consent.

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Viva Amplify – Copy a publication within a campaign

Gone are the days where you must rewrite or manually copy and paste content from an old publication to a newly drafted one to reuse it. Soon in Viva Amplify, you will be able to copy a publication within an existing campaign with just a few clicks. This new feature streamlines the content creation process, enabling communicators to easily reuse existing content across SharePoint, Outlook, and Teams, including all channel-specific customizations and related audiences, saving you time and effort.

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Viva Learning – Copilot Academy Nudges to all Copilot SKU users (Seeded and Premium Viva Learning Users)

All Users having Copilot SKU (Viva Learning Seeded and Premium) will be nudged about Copilot Academy through a notification on Teams. Users will also get a monthly recurring notification in Teams about Copilot Academy.

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Viva Learning – Use the Egress API to provide learner access to “My Learning” records

The Egress API can be used by learners to view their My Learning records and corresponding course details.

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Rewrite in Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge introduced a new feature, Rewrite, which aids in editing text. It’s enabled by default with commercial data protection for eligible users. No action is needed, but policies are available to manage this feature’s allowance or restriction. Apologies were made for any confusion caused by its rollout.

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Microsoft 365 Backup is now generally available

Microsoft 365 Backup will soon be available, enabling quick restoration of OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online data after cyberattacks. It’s accessible in the Microsoft admin center, requires a Microsoft Azure subscription, and will roll out from July 31st to mid-August 2024. No admin action is needed for the rollout.

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