See your Recent Microsoft Planner plans and Microsoft To Do Lists on Microsoft 365 Homepage

Currently, you cannot see your recently accessed Planner plans or Microsoft To Do lists in your Microsoft 365 homepage. With this update, you will be able to see and access all your recent plans and lists alongside your Microsoft Project for the web projects, Word documents, PowerPoint decks, and more on office.com. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 149272

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery: Retiring User Data Search Case tool

The User data search case tool is retiring, and its functionality is merging with eDiscovery Standard as of August 30th, 2023. The previous cases created will be available in the eDiscovery Standard solution going forward.

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Microsoft Authenticator Lite (for Outlook) Support in Legacy, Per-user MFA Policy

We recently made Microsoft Authenticator Lite (for Outlook) Generally Available. Until now, a prerequisite to using this feature was to have Microsoft Authenticator enabled in the modern Authentication methods policy. We’re now also making it available as a part of the “Notifications through mobile app” method in the legacy, per-user MFA policy

Note: We strongly recommend migrating your authentication methods to the Authentication methods policy. The ability to manage authentication methods in the legacy, per-user MFA policy will be retired September 30th, 2024. 

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP – Authorized network share paths (U.S. Government clouds)

With this capability, you will be able to create groups of network share paths and designate restrictive actions for each group within your DLP policy in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.

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Microsoft Teams: Shifts: Notifications improvements

Several improvements to notifications for open and assigned shifts, including notifications will be sent to impacted team members only, schedule owners will have more control on who get the notifications, improved information for end user in the notification (such as location and department information), and consistent notifications across all platforms (desktop, web, iOS, Android).

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Microsoft Teams: Task publishing: Schedule recurring lists in task publishing

The task publishing experience in Microsoft Teams is a feature for frontline organizations that have employees distributed across many geographically dispersed locations.

The task publishing feature allows an organization to centrally define a set of work, choose the set of frontline locations that should complete that work, create the appropriate tasks for each frontline location, and monitor how that work is going. One of the top feature requests for task publishing has been the ability to create a set of tasks once and set them to automatically repeat at a scheduled cadence.

Common examples are daily opening and closing tasks or weekly/monthly site inspections and compliance walks. When this feature is available, you’ll be able to set recurrence on a draft task list, which will allow you to choose the cadence (such as every month on the 15th of the month). You can then publish the list and task publishing will take care of scheduling the publication so that the list publishes automatically at that cadence going forward.

We know from a wide range of customer conversations that this will be a big time saver for distributing recurring tasks across frontline organizations.

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Outlook Mobile Advanced Logging

Outlook mobile users will be able to control the state of Advanced Logging, by enabling it prior to uploading logs to Microsoft.

When this will happen:

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Refiners Available in Outlook Web

We are launching Refiners on Outlook Web which will appear after a user completes a search. These will allow users to filter down their search results further to find their emails easily.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 141109

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Microsoft Syntex: Taxonomy tagging

Customers will be able to turn on Taxonomy tagger in SharePoint document libraries on a pay-as-you-go basis. With Taxonomy tagger turned on, you can automatically tag documents that reside on SharePoint libraries with terms configured in the Taxonomy store using AI.

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Microsoft Teams: Allow participants to join public webinars with three concurrent devices

Participants attending an external facing webinar can use up to three concurrent devices to join the event using the same registration join link.

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