SharePoint: Page Sharing Feature

With this feature, users can share SharePoint pages and news posts individually without having to share the entire site, just like other Microsoft 365 files. All sharing settings at the site and tenant level will be respected.

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Viva Pulse Admin Experience

Viva Pulse is a new employee feedback experience that is available for use with your Viva Suite subscription. Viva Pulse empowers managers and project team leaders to request and receive feedback from their teams at any time. Managers and project leads can choose from research-based templates to quickly create a survey and send it to select individuals or groups. They can also track feedback to understand team sentiment over time and show teams they’re being heard by working together to take clear steps to address needs.

We have begun rolling out a new admin experience for Viva Pulse. This update is designed to create more consistency and clarity navigating the admin experience across the Viva suite.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 end user report results to factor in grader insights

It is applicable to customers with Exchange Online Protection, Microsoft Defender for Office plan 1 or plan 2 service plans.

Soon, the results of end user reported messages on User reported tab of the Submissions page will start factoring in human analyst (grader) insights.

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Microsoft Viva: Share an Update (Broadcast) Feature for Viva Goals

With the new “Share an Update” feature, leaders can share updates of their team goals to the members of their organization directly from Viva Goals. Updates are sent to users via email.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 148471

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Microsoft Viva: Hero Image for Connections Mobile

Hero image which is currently visible to users on desktop will be available to users on mobile and tablet as well.

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Microsoft Viva: Engage – Storyline per-user control

This feature will allow admins to designate which users in their Viva Engage network have the ability to create new storyline posts. It gives admins another option for how to support storyline in their network in addition to the current choice of enabling or disabling storyline for all users. This feature will not change who can reply or react to the storyline posts from those users who have been given storyline privileges. That is, all users with access to Viva Engage can reply and react to storyline posts.

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Microsoft Teams: Decorate your space in Teams Meetings (Premium)

Create more personal and engaging backgrounds by applying advanced effects that enhance and decorate your real-life space.
Available only in the new Microsoft Teams experience.

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Microsoft Viva: Topics setup and configuration updates

Viva Topics setup and configuration will be updated to make it streamlined and easier to setup with fewer required steps.

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Microsoft Intune: Hardware backed device attestation

Enhancing Windows compliance policy – device health: adding 5 additional hardware attestation settings specific to Windows 11 – using advanced platform security features like Memory Integrity and Access Protection, Firmware protection, Virtualization-based security, and Early Launch Antimalware protection.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insightful Policy Performance

The Communication Compliance homepage provides two columns that offer a quick overview of policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over communication compliance. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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