Azure Active Directory: Cross-tenant manager synchronization

Cross-tenant synchronization will support provisioning a user’s manager across tenants. For existing synchronization configurations that use the default schema (where you haven’t made any customizations to the attribute mappings or scoping rules), the manager will start to provision automatically for new users. For existing synchronization configurations that do not use the default schema, you can add the manager attribute to your attribute mappings.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score AI assistance category

We are introducing a new people experiences category in Adoption Score in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The new category helps organizations understand the adoption Microsoft Copilot features in Microsoft 365.

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Outlook: Image based theming

Outlook for Mac will soon support image-based theming, allowing users to choose an image from a selection available in the General settings.

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Microsoft Search: Microsoft Graph connector results merged inline in “All” vertical for GCC and GCCH

Results from external data sources that are ingested with Microsoft Graph connectors will be displayed in the “All” vertical alongside content from Microsoft 365 apps and services for GCC and GCC-High.

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Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup

Microsoft 365 Backup Service is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services that provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users. Microsoft 365 Backup Service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis and can be enabled through the Microsoft 365 admin center.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals–Improved organization admin settings experience

Simplified organization admin settings page and additional organization management controls.

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Microsoft Teams: New Meeting Option and Meeting Policy “Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat” (Premium)

“Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat” is a new meeting option that gives meeting organizer the option to disable copying and sharing features on meeting chat messages for participants in order 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 option or keyboard shortcut, forward messages or share messages to Outlook. There is also a new Meeting Policy setting in Teams admin center for admin to control whether user can see or use this feature in Meeting Options page. Admin can also set the default value for this meeting option in Meeting Templates they create.

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Microsoft Teams: Azure protected voicemail on Teams App

Teams users will now have link to their Azure protected voicemails from the Teams 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.

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Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for scheduled channel meetings (Premium)

Intelligent recap is now available for scheduled channel meetings, so users can easily browse the meeting recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions.

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Outlook: To Do app opens in the new Outlook for Windows

Use the To Do app without leaving the new Outlook for Windows! Clicking the To Do icon in the navigation bar will open inline and will no longer open in a separate browser window. 

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