Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Exact Data Match updated UI wizard

We’re rolling out a new Exact Data Match (EDM) UI wizard experience to provide a more simplified and automated way to configure EDM sensitive information types (SITs) in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88895.

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Planned Maintenance in Teams Devices Management under Teams Admin Center

We have maintenance planned for Teams Admin Center – Teams Devices Management area as per the plan below:

  • Starting 13-Aug-2022, Saturday 12 PM IST
  • Ending 14-Aug-2022, Sunday 6 PM IST

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Sensitivity labels now apply to modified documents (WXP on PC and Mac)

Currently available in public preview (MC393822), default labeling policies can be applied to any supported document that a user edits, not just a new document. This update applies to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents on PC and Mac platforms.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93209.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enforce authentication to pass on AntiSpam allowed domains & senders for Spoof protection

Currently, EOP and MDO tenant administrators can specify domains and senders to be allowed using Anti-Spam policy. However, these domains and senders can be easily spoofed by attackers. We are making changes to improve the security of sender and domain allows defined in the Antispam policy and within user allow lists so that they require the domain or sender to pass authentication in order for the allow to be honored. The change only impacts messages that are considered to be internal, that is, the sender or domain is defined as an accepted domain in your organization. All other messages are handled as they are today.

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Microsoft Stream: Edit the transcript text directly in the UI in Stream (on SharePoint)

This feature allows you to edit the transcript text of a Stream (on SharePoint) video directly in the transcript pane. The feature also works with any videos stored in SharePoint or OneDrive for business that contain transcripts. To edit a transcript, you must have edit permission to the video. Transcript editing helps you improve the quality of your transcript by quickly correcting minor mistakes such as misinterpreted acronyms, names, or incorrect punctuation.  Changes in the transcript are also reflected in the closed captions.

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Microsoft Teams: Deploy Teams at scale for frontline workers

Deploying Teams at Scale
enables your admins to deploy up to 500 teams and add 25 users per team using
one Teams PowerShell command and 2 csv files. This allows admins to meet their
organization’s scale needs and significantly reduces deployment time. Admins
can also use this solution to add and remove members from existing teams at
scale.

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Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Information Protection – New Credentials SITs (U.S. Government clouds)

The addition of new Credentials Sensitive Information Types (SITs) will allow your company to detect individual credential patterns (access keys, tokens, general passwords, etc.). Additionally, we will be offering a SIT which bundles all individual credential types for more holistic detection.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitive-information-type-learn-about?view=o365-worldwide

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Outlook Mobile Now Supports Multiple S/MIME Certificates

Outlook mobile (iOS and Android) will allow users to manually select their S/MIME signing /encryption certificates if there is more than one valid certificate available, and set them as active for signing and encryption. 

When this will happen:

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My Activity retirement in Teams mobile Activity

We will be retiring the support for ‘My activity’ in Teams mobile Activity App. This will be retired from other clients in the future. 

Activity will now support only activities directed to you (the option to view activities initiated by you will be retired).

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Convert Word/Pdf form or quiz to Microsoft Forms

This feature allows you convert you existing forms or quizzes into Microsoft Forms, making it much quicker to get started. After import, you can still edit as needed before collecting responses.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93411

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