Outlook: Choose how many days of emails sync to your device for offline usage

With the new sync window, you can choose how many days’ worth of emails and attachments you want to download to your device so you can always access them even while offline.

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Outlook on the web: Replacing “Activity-Based Authentication Timeout” with “Idle Session Timeout for Microsoft 365”

The Activity-Based Authentication Timeout for Outlook on the web will be replaced with Idle Session Timeout for Microsoft 365.

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Microsoft Whiteboard: External Guest Sharing via Specific People Share Link

Microsoft Whiteboard will soon leverage a new capability that allows guests of a tenant to access whiteboards shared with them via Specific People Share Links (PSL).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124990

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Data Loss Prevention – File Name and File Path filters for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal

We are announcing a new feature in Public Preview where we are enhancing the filtering experience for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal with the capability to filter the DLP alerts/incidents queues by File Name or File Path.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 180989

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Admin controls for mandating team assignment for OKRs

Viva Goals Admins or IT admins can mandate that objective and key results (OKRs) should always have a team assignment.

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Preview enterprise secure AI controls in the Microsoft Edge management service

The Microsoft Edge management service is a new, dedicated, and simplified management experience for Microsoft Edge in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Controls for enterprise secure Ai in the Edge management service is rolling out now for preview. This new feature allows IT admins to configure all AI-related policies in one single page, enhancing security for their users and devices.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 186540

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Syntex OCR for image-only multi-page PDF and TIFF

With this update, multi-page image-only PDF and TIFF files in the libraries you have configured for Syntex OCR will also have text extracted.  This extracted text will be available to Microsoft Purview scenarios and to end user search powered scenarios. For multi-page PDF and TIFF documents, OCR is charged on a per page basis.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124940

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Specific People Link (PSL) Support for Collaborative Notes

With the launch of Collaborative Notes, we’re also improving the shareable link type that is created by Collaborative Notes to help make meetings more effective and secure. The new Collaborative Notes file will now support a Specific people link (PSL) which offers more controlled access than People in your organization link (CSL). This change will automatically align the Collaborative Notes file link type with customer’s default setup. Customers who previously had Collaborative Notes disabled due to lack of PSL support can now enable and use the feature.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 167328

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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: General availability of Enhancements tothe unusual activity booster detection

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out general availability of Enhancements to the unusual activity booster detection.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 115493

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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 of Microsoft Copilot features in Microsoft 365. This AI assistance category includes a score on a 100-point scale to help track the overall adoption of Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. This score for the AI assistance category will be available in preview and will not impact the overall Adoption Score. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 185700

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