Viva Connections: Default experience for Home site customers

Coming soon: We will automatically set your Home site as the default experience for Microsoft Viva Connections app in Microsoft Teams.

Note: This change will only apply to customers who have not yet set a Viva Connections experience in their tenants. Customers who already have a Viva Connections experience (either standalone or backed by a Home site) will not be affected by this change.

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Microsoft Outlook: Notifications will be batched in the Notifications pane

Coming soon to new Microsoft Outlook for Windows desktop and Outlook for the web: Notifications will be batched in the Notifications pane.

Batches are groups of cards in the user’s Notification pane separated by subject. Items from the same email thread, document, spreadsheet, etc. will be grouped into a batch. This message applies to new Outlook for Windows and Outlook for the web.

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Hotpatch for client comes to Windows 11 Enterprise

Protect your organization faster with hotpatch updates for Windows 11 Enterprise, version 24H2. This public preview offers the same level of security patching as the standard monthly security updates without restarting devices or disrupting the users. To get the latest new features, eligible devices will install the standard monthly security update and restart the first month of each quarter. You can use a new Windows quality update policy in Microsoft Intune and Windows Autopatch to opt devices in or out. To learn more, read Hotpatch for client comes to Windows 11 Enterprise
 

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Get started with November 2024 improvements in Windows 11

If you’re an IT professional or decision maker, start using the newest Windows 11 capabilities with helpful tips and actionable steps summarized in one place. This month, learn how to get started with Windows Server 2025, hotpatching in Windows client, multiple tools to manage or transition to the cloud, do more with Copilot+ PCs and AI, and many more security and productivity improvements. With each topic, find relevant Microsoft Ignite sessions included for on-demand watching. 
 

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OneDrive: Agents in OneDrive

Find yourself referencing the same files to Copilot in OneDrive? We are bringing the power of agents to OneDrive, allowing you to build, use, and share your own agents using files and content stored in your OneDrive. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web.

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Microsoft Teams: Auto detection of room audio in BYOD rooms expanded to audio devices with video

The room audio auto-detect and pre-select feature for BYOD rooms that was released in October 2024 now activates the video component of composite audio-video peripherals as the selected camera in Teams.

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Outlook: Minimize the compose window to multitask in the Outlook app for iOS and Android

Outlook will help you compose emails more quickly and efficiently by allowing you to minimize your draft emails and quickly access them again from the message list or calendar view. This means that, while composing an email, you can easily get information you need from your calendar or other emails and easily get back into the draft you are working on without ever having to go to the Draft folder.

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Microsoft Secure Score: Changing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint recommendation

We’re updating the Microsoft Secure Score improvement action of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture.

As part of this change, we will gradually retire the MDE recommendation on SCID-2020, Turn on all system-level Exploit protection settings.

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Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: Updates to email scoring

Coming soon: Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out updates to email scoring.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 469505.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot: New user license requests

Coming soon: A new license request feature for Microsoft 365 Copilot will be widely available. This new capability allows users to request a Microsoft 365 Copilot license directly from their admin. This helps you efficiently assign unused licenses or purchase additional ones as needed. Global admins, license admins, and user admins will be able to manage these requests seamlessly in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Microsoft will enable users to self-service purchase or request a license from you for Microsoft 365 Copilot, honoring your settings, from within Microsoft 365 apps like Microsoft Copilot. This message is related to MC853238 (Updated) Microsoft 365 admin center: New self-service purchase and trial settings (published August 2024, updated September 2024).

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