Microsoft Teams Room Pro on Android: Join Zoom meetings with an ID and passcode

Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android will soon support joining Zoom meetings using an ID and passcode. This feature requires enabling ‘Direct Guest Join’ and will roll out between late June and late July 2024, depending on the region. The feature will be off by default.

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Microsoft Defender XDR services: Consolidation of Approve release and Release action

In Microsoft Defender XDR services, the ‘Approve release’ action will be merged with the ‘Release’ action starting mid-July 2024, streamlining the process for admins to approve end user release requests. No admin action is required for this update.

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Save filters for Microsoft 365 Activity Explorer

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection will soon allow admins to save and share filters in Microsoft 365 Activity Explorer, enhancing collaboration and productivity. Public Preview starts early July 2024, with General Availability Worldwide from early August 2024. The feature will be on by default.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Support for SharePoint audience targeting

When publishing to one or multiple SharePoint sites from within Viva Amplify, you can now promote the news post to specific audiences by indicating security groups, Microsoft 365 groups, or AAD dynamic groups.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights homepage and navigation refresh for organizational leaders

Homepage and left-hand navigation will be updated to highlight the value of recently released reports. In addition, a new library page will be introduced where users can filter on metrics by sub-organizations, time periods and peer benchmarks and access all of their available reports.

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Microsoft Teams: Avatar interaction improvements in Immersive space view

Introducing more avatar reactions, personal boundary on avatars, and improved active speaker indication on avatar name tags.

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Outlook: Users can scope suggestions to specific entities in the new Outlook for Windows and Web

,Users will be able to scope their search suggestions down to specific entities such as Files, People, Mail etc in order to sort through their suggestions more easily. They will be able to navigate from the suggestion directly to the entity tab in their search results. #newoutlookforwindows

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public domain emails

In this update, we are enhancing the existing email insight alerts to provide additional information when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident. The new domain detection group “Free public domains” will list the common domains used for personal email accounts. Admins with appropriate permissions can choose to select these domains in their indicator variants. 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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Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights employee engagement with leader communications report

Leaders will have a new report to help them understand the reach of their communications within their organization, and their employees’ engagement with their sent emails, meetings, and shared files to better understand the effectiveness of different modes of communication.

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Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 backup storage

,The new Microsoft 365 Backup Storage API enables developers to build customized versions of their applications that are integrated with the Microsoft 365 Backup Storage platform. This helps to ensure exceptionally fast recovery from typical business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) scenarios, such as ransomware attacks, accidental/malicious deletion, or overwriting of content by employees.

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