Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Update of blocked transport rule count volume in Mailflow status report

We are updating the aggregate count volume of blocked transport rule emails in Mailflow status report.  

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New Meeting Option and Meeting Policy “Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat”

“Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat” is a new meeting option that gives the meeting organizer the option to disable copying and sharing features on meeting chat messages for participants to reduce the risk of data leak. Once this restriction is enabled, meeting chat participants will not be able to copy chat messages using menu options or keyboard shortcuts, or forward or share messages to Outlook. There is also a new Meeting Policy setting in Teams admin center for admin to control whether users can see or use this feature in the Meeting Options page. Admins can also set the default value for this meeting option in Meeting Templates that they create. This meeting capability can also be configured within a sensitivity label policy: Configure Teams meetings with protection for highly sensitive data.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 186675

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Microsoft Stream: View and Edit mode toggle

You will be able to toggle between View and Edit modes when viewing a Stream video. In View mode users can only view the video. In Edit mode users with edit permission can edit the video metadata such as title, description, chapters, and transcript. The default mode will be View. The View/Edit mode toggle is designed to prevent accidental edits to video metadata.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124992

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Azure Protected Voicemails on Teams Mobile App

Teams mobile users will now have a link to their Azure protected voicemails from the Teams mobile App. Users will get notification for the voicemail on the Teams App and can open the attached link to access the voicemail on the web browser.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 186553

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Retiring Delve Web

We will be retiring Delve on December 16th, 2024. Most of the features and value offered by Delve today are already available and improved in other experiences in Microsoft 365. The main one being Profile Cards in Microsoft 365. Here is a list of features offered in Delve and the experiences we recommend using instead:

  • Delve Home – discover relevant documents recommended on Office.com, in Office apps and in Profile Cards.
  • Delve Profile – view profile data in the Profile Cards cross M365, through people in search on Office.com and search in SharePoint.
  • Edit profile – a new edit profile experience tightly coupled with Profile Cards are being developed and will be released in second half of 2024. It is also possible for users to edit their profile data in the SharePoint profile edit experience (editprofile.aspx).
  • Organizational view – exists in the Profile Card and as a dedicated experience in Org Explorer
  • Favorites – favorites on Office.com and OneDrive is not connected to Delve and is a good option for users with similar functionality and improved availability.
  • Boards – will not be replaced.

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Threat Protection report page retirement

We will be retiring the Threat Protection report page – https://dev.security.microsoft.com/mde-reports/threatProtection (accessed through Reports > Endpoints > Threat protection). Instead, we recommend the utilization of Advanced hunting queries and Alert queue filter in Defender XDR, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources. 

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Control your activity notifications from the activity card

Users will be able to control what shows in their activity feed by clicking on the ellipsis from the activity card, helping them to stay on top of the information that matters most to them.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 186571

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Update Microsoft Teams client applications to most up-to-date version by March 2024

Microsoft Teams is governed by the Modern Lifecycle Policy and requires users to stay on the most up-to-date version of the client application. Automatic updates ensure that users have the latest capabilities, performance and security enhancements, and service reliability.

Microsoft is constantly investing into innovations and improvements for more effective, reliable, and secure communication infrastructure. The latest improvements for chat messaging scenarios are enhancing the resiliency of message delivery in Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Teams: Discover Feed in Channels

We are bringing users a personalized channel feed from people and topics users care about. Instead of going through each channel listed to catch up on what’s happening in the org, users can come to Discover Feed in Teams to catch up quickly on relevant channel conversations.  

Users can see why a specific channel post is being shown in their feed and they can also customize their feed preferences by selecting “Do not show post from X person/channel”.  Users can also give direct feedback if a post seen on the feed is useful to them or not. 

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Agenda View Refresh in Teams Mobile

Teams calendar on mobile devices displays the live status of a meeting with avatars of the participants who are in the call, whether the meeting is being recorded and the duration of the meeting.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98328

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