Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Object Character Recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams

Currently, Object Character Recognition (OCR) is available only for standalone images. This update supports OCR for images embedded in: 1. Hybrid PDF files, which are PDF files with both images and searchable text. 2. Office files with the extensions DOCX, PPTX, XLSX. 3. Container files such as zip, rar, 7z, and more.

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Outlook: To Do in Outlook for Mac

To Do helps you manage your tasks and stay on top of what’s next. These features will be available in Outlook for Mac for commercial users.

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting invite improvements

Meeting invite is the first thing that the user invited to the meeting sees before joining. We are making some design improvements to make sure we have the most important information there and it’s better grouped.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Support for Four New predicates on Endpoint DLP

With this capability, admins can extend the below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint
– Document is unscannable
– Document didn’t complete scanning
– Document name matches patterns
– Document size equals or is greater than

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Microsoft Teams: Allowing participants to create Collaborative notes before and after meetings

This enhancement to Collaborative notes enables anyone invited to the meeting to create collaborative meeting notes and agendas both before and after the meeting. This means more collaboration, more efficiency, and an even more seamless teamwork experience.

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Microsoft Teams: Track usage of your frontline teams and apps in the Teams Admin Center

Track usage across all your frontline teams deployed via DTAS (Deploy Teams at Scale) and frontline apps like Shifts, Tasks, Walkie Talkie in the Teams Admin Center.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection

Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management.

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 to manage security and compliance. 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 Teams: Organizers can select languages for live translation for captions in a town hall

Organizers can select up to six languages for attendees to choose from for live translation for captions during a town hall.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Custom Check-In Templates

Check-In templates will allow team owners and admins to specify a template for check-ins. Goal owners can use these templates when making check-ins on their goals.

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Microsoft Teams: UX improvements for Multi-Tenant Organization (MTO) users

This release features user experience improvements when Microsoft Teams users interact with users in another tenant that belongs to their organization (e.g., for conglomerates, as a result of mergers and acquisitions). Key changes include removing the possibility of split 1:1 chat threads, richer profile information, removal of the “External” label, and introducing support for an optional admin configurable label.

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