Planner: Announcing public preview of Project Manager agent

We’re introducing the preview of the new Project Manager agent in Microsoft 365. This agent adds specialized skills and knowledge while automating specific tasks. This out-of-the-box agent takes on unique roles, working alongside or on behalf of a team or organization to handle both simple, mundane tasks and more complex, multi-step business processes.

The new Project Manager agent works within Planner to automate project and task management and completes tasks.

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Microsoft Teams: Explicit Consent for recording and transcription in group calls and Meet Now

The Microsoft Teams Explicit Consent meeting policy is expanding to support group calls and Meet Now. When applied to a user, this policy will ensure that any recording/transcription initiated by that user in a group call or Meet Now will prompt all participants to provide consent for their media to be included in the recording and transcription. Participants cannot share audio, video, or screenshare/content-share until consent is given. 

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Facilitator in Teams Meetings and Chats

The Facilitator is a new agent in Microsoft 365. This agent works within Teams meetings and chats for more effective collaboration. This new agent is available in public preview and customers are required to have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license to access the public preview.

• In meetings, the Facilitator generates real-time AI notes and suggested tasks during your meetings, allowing everyone to co-author and collaborate seamlessly.
• In chats, Facilitator maintains an up-to-date summary of important information as the conversation happens, including key decisions, actions items, and open questions to resolve.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Data Security Analytics

Data Security analytics will serve as a launchpad for administrators, enabling them to swiftly navigate day-to-day tasks. It will provide a comprehensive overview of an organization’s sensitive data landscape, visibility into potential risks, and offer contextual recommendations to strengthen the organization’s data security posture. The Data Security Copilot will serve as an intelligent AI assistant layered on top of data security analytics, supporting tasks related to administration, risk assessment, alert triage, and reporting.

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 Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Data Loss Prevention to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on content with sensitivity labels

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is extended to Microsoft 365 Copilot. This feature will allow DLP policies to provide detection of sensitivity labels in enterprise grounding data and restrict access of the content in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Restrict access action support for semantic models in Fabric

Your organization can now control who can access your data depending on the sensitive information detected in Fabric semantic models. DLP restrict access action allows you to block access to guest users or all users depending on what labels or sensitive information types match your sematic models. This is in addition to the ability already supported by DLP policies to audit and notify users via Policy Tips based on sensitive content within Fabric semantic models and lakehouses.

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Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution available in additional meeting spaces

You can now take advantage of speaker recognition and transcript attribution, and AI capabilities in additional meeting spaces, from those equipped with a Teams Room to those relying on a user’s PC in a bring you own device (BYOD) room. This feature identifies and attributes people in live transcripts, utilizing a unique voice profile for each participant enabling intelligent recaps and maximum value from Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams meetings. Users can easily and securely enroll voices via Teams Settings. A Teams Premium license is required on the host desktop in a BYOD room.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview AI Hub – Data Assessments

Data assessments in Microsoft Purview AI Hub provides a way for admins to drive data security outcomes by creating scoped assessments, reviewing the data sensitivity and user accesses on locations, and performing remediation actions to mitigate risk.

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OneDrive: Create a presentation from a Word file

With Copilot, you can create the first draft of your presentation using a Word file in just a single click. 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 365 admin center: New EWS usage report

We are introducing an Exchange Web Services (EWS) usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center that provides comprehensive insights into the applications in your tenant that use EWS. The report provides detailed information on the specific actions performed by these applications along with their respective call volumes over a selected period. This new report enhances your ability to understand EWS activity prior to EWS deprecation in Exchange Online.

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