Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Extend DLP controls to Firefox browser (U.S. Government clouds)

With this update, you will be able to extend the Microsoft Purview DLP controls to Firefox browsers. DLP admins will be able to set policies to prevent exfiltration of sensitive information through the Firefox browser by preventing actions such as copying data from a sensitive document to another document using the Clipboard, printing a sensitive document, copying to USB removeable media, or copying to a network share.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints (U.S. Government clouds)

This update provides several DLP capabilities for macOS, including support for Bluetooth, ability to customize notifications, auto-quarantine, tamper protection, ability to create app groups and granular app restrictions policies, and support for Japanese language.

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Outlook: Refiners in Outlook Web

Users will now be able to click on refiners after they complete a search, to filter down their results. These refiners will show up after each search.

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Microsoft Teams: Teacher-led announcements for parents

The Parents App inside Teams will now allow educators to send broadcast messages (announcements) to all the parents of a class.

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OneDrive: Colored Folders

You’ve asked for ways to personalize and customize your OneDrive and we’re delivering. Soon you’ll have the option to create colored folders or change the color of existing folders on OneDrive for Web. Colored folders give you at-a-glance signals to help you locate your content while adding a touch of personality to your OneDrive.

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Microsoft Teams: EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report for user access

Users who are not designated as admins, now have access to the EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report through the Virtual Appointments App in Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Teams: meeting participants time-zone

When scheduling a meeting with people from different time-zones, the user will be prompted with suggested start times and additional insights that correspond to the participants respective time-zone, ensuring a more suitable time for all meeting participants.

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SharePoint: Updated site creation experience

With this update, you will choose a site template based on your scenario to get started creating your site. When choosing a template you can see its capabilities, and even see a preview. This change will help site owners through the process by simplifying and providing additional guidance while creating the site.

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New Viva Connections Analytics Experience Coming Soon

Microsoft is pleased to announce the next set of features for Viva Connections usage analytics. The analytics experience now includes a full page dashboard view that will help organizations better understand user engagement by being able to visualize the metrics. The analytics dashboard will be available through both the Viva Connections desktop experience in Teams and through a SharePoint home site if your organization has one. Additionally, this release also includes engagement metrics for individual dashboard cards which will enable a more in-depth view of popular cards and those with less engagement. 

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Service side auto-labeling shifts scoping of OneDrive workload to users/groups

Service side auto-labeling will support scoping of OneDrive workload to OneDrive users and groups instead of Site URLs (previous implementation).  

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124914.

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