Microsoft 365 admin center: Granular Add-ins availability control from education Office Store

With this feature, education tenant administrators will be able to manage the availability of Add-ins from the Office store at a more granular level. We will provide three options—Non-adult student, Adult student, and Faculty and staff—under Microsoft admin center > Org Settings > User owned apps and services > Let users access the Office store. The options are based on the user’s role and age group properties.

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Microsoft Stream: video reactions

This feature will allow users to add or remove reactions to specific points of a recorded video via Stream Web App and Embed. Viewers will be able to see how their colleagues feel about a video and show their support towards the video owner. These reactions will be present in the timeline to highlight the most important parts of the video and can be used for navigation. Also, owners of the video can see detailed analytics about when viewers are reacting to videos and have ability to disable the feature.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy tuning analysis for priority content-only policies

Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time prediction of the number of users in a tenant that could potentially match a given set of policy conditions. With this update, policy tuning analysis will support insider risk policies that are scoped for priority content. 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 based on their internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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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Updated behavior for browsing large online address books

This post summarizes a change when browsing online address books in Exchange Online.  Recently, Microsoft made a change to improve performance and encourage users to use search instead of infinite browsing. This change impacts browsing in any online address list with more than 500 objects and applies to the Default Global Address List, built-in address lists, and custom address lists. The change does not affect browsing Offline Address Books.

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Public Preview: Windows Autopatch Reliability Report

The Windows Autopatch Reliability report is a new feature that will be accessible in the Windows Autopatch Reports section of the Microsoft Intune admin center. This new report provides a calculated reliability score across update cycles based on the occurrences of stop code errors detected on managed devices. Scores are determined at both the service and tenant level. Details on modules associated with stop code errors at the tenant level will be provided to better understand how devices are affected.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – View-only mode for Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection Policies and Labels

This capability allows the admin with view-only restricted permissions to view the Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection policy configuration details without editing the policies or label configurations.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Microsoft Endpoint DLP Support for Windows on ARM (ARM64)

With this capability, customers can extend Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and actions to endpoints running Windows on ARM (ARM64) which allows them to detect and protect sensitive data in files part of their digital ecosystem. This allows admins to introduce policy controls for scenarios such as when an information worker using a Windows endpoint powered by ARM64 chipset is accessing sensitive files and performing an exfiltration action such as copying to a USB, or copy to clipboard, notepad, etc.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Administration in Microsoft Admin Center

Centralized IT administration of Viva Connections experiences along with home sites within the Microsoft Viva admin experience in Microsoft 365 admin center.

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Microsoft Viva: Create more than one Connections experience in the same tenant

This new capability enables customers to create multiple distinct Connections experiences and corresponding home sites within the same tenant. Common scenarios include conglomerates or subsidiaries that require different Connections experiences for different users, each with its own dashboard, feed and resources.

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Microsoft Stream: Add video to a playlist from an embedded video

Users will be able to add a video to a playlist directly from embedded videos across Microsoft 365 (SharePoint pages, Outlook, teams, Viva Engage, etc.) without having to open the video in Stream.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 12, 2024 Uncategorized 0 Comments