Azure Active Directory (AAD) renaming in Microsoft Secure Score

Microsoft renamed Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to Microsoft Entra ID for the following reasons:

  1. To communicate the multicloud and multiplatform functionality of the products
  2. To alleviate confusion with Windows Server Active Directory
  3. To unify the Microsoft Entra product family

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Introducing the ability to duplicate an existing webinar

Currently with webinars, you are unable to duplicate a webinar and create a new webinar based off an existing one. This can be time consuming if organizers would like to schedule multiple events that are similar to one another. To simplify event creation Microsoft Teams is introducing the ability to create a new webinar by duplicating the information for an existing scheduled one. Information includes a webinar’s details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also choose to edit and update the information as needed for their new webinar.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 375177

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Microsoft Outlook: Hide favorites in the New Outlook for Windows and web

Users are now able hide their favorites section in Microsoft Outlook, which provides more space in the folder pane.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 167071

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Office provider in Research pane transition

We will be transitioning translation support in the Research pane to leverage Microsoft Translator.

When this will happen:

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Walkie Talkie: Generic Headset Support on Adnroid

Use any generic wired (USB-C and 3.5mm) headset for instant team communication on Android.

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Power Platform – Dataverse Customer Managed Key with Azure Key Vault key versioning is now available

The Microsoft Power Platform empowers you to do more with less by making it easier than ever to securely scale low-code adoption, increase organizational collaboration, and infuse AI and automation into all your business processes. Microsoft Power Platform comes with advanced risk and compliance features that give you an easy cost-effective way to cover your risks and compliance needs. As part of these investments, we are pleased to announce the Azure key vault key versioning to support your key rotation is now generally available.

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Reminder: Changes to Windows Boot Manager revocations for Secure Boot effective April 9, 2024

Windows updates released July 11, 2023 and later include security measures which protect against a Secure Boot bypass vulnerability disclosed in CVE-2023-24932. Secure Boot is a Windows security feature designed to protect devices from bootkit malware.

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Bookings: Bookings in GCC High and DoD

With this update, Bookings will be available to customers in GCC High and DoD environments.

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OneNote: Loop components in OneNote

Tap into the real-time, online collaborative solution provided by Loop directly within the powerful multimodal OneNote canvas—the opportunities are endless. You can create or insert Loop components into your OneNote notebook. Navigate to Insert > Loop to create a new component or try pasting a link to an existing component to have it show up in your OneNote canvas.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enhanced Classification Support for Thai language in Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive

In our continued efforts to enhance classification capabilities, we have added a new feature, Word-Breaker, to our existing Thai Language support in Classification. Words in Thai language sentences do not have spaces between them. And for classification purpose, we relied on the right keywords to be added while creating Sensitive Information Type for ensuring accurate match. However, with this feature, spaces will be added automatically in keywords which will ensure higher match accuracy across all cloud locations (Exchange, Teams, One Drive, SharePoint).

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