Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Enhancements to the DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints

Mac DLP will have the following capabilities with these enhancements: Context Based Classification and Matched condition and short evidence for advanced classification.

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Microsoft Teams: Slash Commands

User will be able to type slash in Teams compose box and select a command, helping them complete their task quickly.

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Microsoft Teams: New tenant federation setting to block all subdomains of domains in blocklist

Microsoft Teams has a new setting to block all subdomains of domains in the federation Block list. This setting is disabled by default and can be enabled using a PowerShell cmdlet. It affects new communications and existing chats with users from blocked subdomains. Rollout began mid-March 2024.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection

A new product usage report will be added in the Microsoft 365 admin center providing insights into active usage of Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection. The report will include total active users, average daily active users, and active users per platform (i.e. Bing, Edge, Windows, copilot.microsoft.com, and Copilot mobile app). Usage insights can be viewed as totals and trends for the past 7, 30, 90 or 180-day periods. The report will also show the last activity date per user, anonymized by default.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): File reference – PDF and Excel file type support

This introduces the ability for users to reference PDF and Excel files when generating content.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summary in Chat support for document text selection

Summary requests in chat can be limited to operate only on the user-selected text in the document rather than operating on the entire document.

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Microsoft Intune In Development for April 2024 is now available

The “In development for Microsoft Intune” page has been updated with a list of upcoming features for April 2024. It is advised to inform IT staff and helpdesk about these changes and update user guidance accordingly.

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Windows known issues and product lifecycle in Graph API

The Windows updates API in Microsoft Graph now offers easy access to data on Windows known issues and product lifecycle. Before today, this data could be accessed via the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy site, known issues, and the Windows release information pages. A new article describes how you can build applications and reports faster as we centralize Windows update data from across public documentation sites. 
 

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Improvements to “Deleting of SharePoint files/folders” indicators

Today “Deleting of SharePoint files” and “Deleting of SharePoint folders” indicators include permanent file or folder deletion event operations FileDeleted, FolderDeleted respectively. With this update, these indicators also capture files/folders moved to recycle bin which includes FileRecycled, FolderRecycled, so you will see more activities being captured by these indicators. 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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Bookings: SMS Notifications for Staff scheduled appointments in Bookings (Premium)

If you have a Microsoft Teams Premium license you can now set up SMS text notifications in Microsoft Bookings to be sent to the person booking an appointment. Currently, SMS notifications will be sent only when appointments are scheduled by an attendee via a published booking page. With this update, the capability is extended to include sending SMS confirmations and reminders to the attendee when appointments are booked through the calendar scheduling experience in Bookings by a scheduler or a staff member.

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