Whiteboard: Text Styles

This introduces the ability to choose between three different text styles, allowing greater flexibility and personalization of text in whiteboards.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions template

Coming soon to Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance is a new template dedicated to analyzing all Copilot for Microsoft 365 prompts and responses.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 375640

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Now get Real Time Calendar Notifications in Teams

You can now get the Calendar Notifications in Teams from the Activity Feed.

  • You will get calendar notifications in the Activity Feed for the below scenarios: 
  • Meeting invite (including channel meetings you are explicitly invited to)
  • Meeting updates
  • Meeting cancellations
  • Meeting forwards (as an organizer)
  • When you get a calendar notification, you will see an unread notification in the Activity Feed pane or at the bell icon.
  • When you click on a notification, you will see the details of the meeting/event in the right pane.
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    Microsoft Teams Connect chat – Extended Directory

    Microsoft Teams is now introducing enhancements on top of Teams Connect for chats. With the Teams Connect chat extended directory, IT admins can create an external directory of known external collaborators using their phone numbers. Once created, it will be easier for users in the tenant to:

    • Search external users by name and establish 1:1 or group chats with them.
    • View a company curated profile that includes information like a user’s location, job role, or business unit and even assign an organization manager for these external partners.

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    Data Loss Prevention- simulation mode for DLP policies

    Simulation mode in DLP provides DLP admins with an isolated experience to try a DLP policy, assess its impact, and build confidence in the policy efficacy to eventually reduce the time to policy enforcement. Simulation mode is an enhancement to the existing test mode behavior to help Admins evaluate new policies confidently.

    This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 173626

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    Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance-Detect Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions template

    Communication Compliance is introducing a new template dedicated to analyzing all Copilot for Microsoft 365 prompts and responses, to help ensure content prohibited by customers’ policies, such as harassing or threatening language, is not being used Copilot for Microsoft 365 interfaces. This scales Communication Compliance’s reach, consistent with Microsoft 365’s expanding interfaces. In addition, administrators are also able to select Copilot chats as a checked location in the policy creation wizard for any new or existing policies. This empowers administrators to fine-tune their management strategy precisely to their organization’s needs, with a focus on user privacy protection. Whether it’s setting specific conditions or deploying trainable classifiers, this feature provides flexibility and adaptability in compliance management, ensuring your organization’s communications remain secure, compliant, and respectful of user privacy.

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    Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage question post update

    Viva Engage is updating its questions to include two parts: a required field for the main question and an optional larger field for extra details.

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    Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Support for Multiple Channels

    Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. Through this new functionality, users can now join up to 5 channels in multi-channel mode, easily switch between these preselected channels to listen to incoming transmission or initiate PTT transmissions.

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    Microsoft Teams: Ability to duplicate an existing town hall for simplified event creation

    Organizers can schedule a new webinar by duplicating information from an existing scheduled one. This includes duplicating information such as details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also edit and update the information as needed for the new event.

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    Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Ability to delete indicator variants

    With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will be able to delete any of the indicator variants created. Deletion of variants will directly delete it from all the Insider Risk Management policies being used. Any old insights related to the variants will remain for future reference. 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 own 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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