Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals: Admin Option to Enable/Disable sharing to Microsoft Teams in Viva Goals

Viva Goals will be giving users the ability to share links to goals as rich adaptive cards, including progress and status. Users get the context they need around goals they’re working towards and can also update them in Microsoft Teams without losing focus or clicking away from the conversation. As part of this feature, Viva Goals will introduce a menu option to share goals content to Teams, under the “Share” menu in the application.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety

Coming soon to public preview, Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance will introduce advanced trainable classifiers that leverage large language models to detect workplace safety scenarios.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 146859

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection – New Contextual Conditions in Service- Side Auto-labeling

Microsoft Purview Information Protection has historically focused on content-based classification. Large advances in this area have occurred over the past few years, including accuracy improvements for sensitive information types and the addition of new classifiers like Exact Data Match, Entity Match, Credential Scan and Trainable Classifiers.

Although customers consider content-based classification to be critical to the detection of sensitive data, especially for regulatory compliance reasons, they also want to extend the ability to classify sensitive information based on contextual attributes.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

We’ve released updates to the following update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel
  • Monthly Enterprise Channel
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview)
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

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Planner: Rosters supporting container sensitivity labels

Organization admins will now be able to apply container labels to rosters in Microsoft Planner. This is enabled directly in Planner and by using Microsoft Graph APIs. Rosters are created automatically for task lists in Microsoft Loop. Tenant admins can make container labels for these rosters mandatory and set a default label, or not make them mandatory. The roster and the Planner plan contained by the Roster then follow container policy settings. For Graph API requests, if labels are mandatory as per tenant settings, roster creation fails if a label is not provided at the time of request.

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Microsoft Teams: Tasks in my area (a Tasks in Teams mobile feature)

In the Tasks app and Microsoft Planner, which helps power the Tasks app in Teams, buckets are a common way to organize tasks into different areas of work. The mobile experience for the Tasks app in Teams will soon be updated to make it easier to filter to a specific bucket or set of
buckets, so you can focus on tasks in your area. We expect this simple user experience change to provide greater focus and greater productivity, while maintaining the familiar look and feel throughout the Tasks app.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium): Export Teams messages as individual messages

Today with large cases in eDiscovery (Premium), organizations have the ability to export Microsoft Teams conversations. For many organizations, there is a need to export the searched messages as individual messages. With this new feature, you will have an opportunity to choose from exporting individual messages or whole conversations in eDiscovery (Premium).

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Microsoft Teams: Shifts notification deep link improvements

Frontline workers and managers will be able to take appropriate actions when they receive notifications on key activities. For example, when a manager receives a notification for requests, clicking on notification will take them directly to the request approval page. When frontline workers gets notified of new shift schedule, the message will take them directly to the schedule view.

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Microsoft Intune: On demand remediations – single device

Remediations are script packages that can detect and fix common support issues on a user’s device before they even realize there’s a problem. These remediations can help reduce support calls. On demand remediations enables admins to execute a remediation on demand and as soon as possible on a single device.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Protect files on remote / mapped network devices

With this capability organizations can leverage Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to protect sensitive content on files stored on remote network shares or mapped network drives with the same protection behavior as a file on a mounted hard drive.

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