Microsoft Teams: Teams device management for Department of Defense (DoD) customers in the Teams Admin Center

DoD customers can manage their Teams devices from the Teams Admin Center giving Admins control of the entire lifecycle for their Teams devices.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Results on user reported will factor in grading results

With this change, the results shown on user reports coming to Microsoft will start factoring in grading insights. This will help you triage user report more accurately and quickly.

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OneNote: Stream 2.0 and unfurled experiences for OneNote

OneNote will support Stream 2.0 and provide an enhanced unfurl experience, allowing users to insert a linked video and play it directly within OneNote pages. Furthermore, users will have the ability to apply formatting options, such as resizing and changing the shape of the inserted video.

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OneDrive: Configure Sync Setting to excluded specific files

This feature will allow you to configure OneDrive Sync Setting to exclude selected files and selected file types from syncing to OneDrive. When available the configuration settings will be located in the OneDrive admin center.

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Microsoft Stream: Stream Mobile app for GCC-H and DoD users

The completely rebuilt Stream mobile app on iOS and Android will soon be available for GCC-H and DoD users. The rebuilt app gives you seamless access to Stream (on SharePoint) videos as well as Teams meeting recordings. The app provides an enhanced video playback experience, an improved user interface as well as core functionalities like offline downloads, video recording and uploading.

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Microsoft Syntex: Admin Controls to Enable Users to Apply Prebuilt and Unstructured Document Processing Models

With this update, admins will be able to specify in what libraries end users will be able to create and apply Syntex Document Processing models. This setting will be all sites by default.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124983

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Microsoft Lists: Custom List Template Updates

The Custom List Templates feature will give organizations the ability to create their own custom list templates with custom formatting and schema. It will also empower organizations to create repeatable solutions within the same Microsoft Lists infrastructure (including list creation in SharePoint, Teams, and within the Lists app itself).

We have made some updates to the feature we are releasing:

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Retirement of Get-ATPTotalTrafficReport

We will be retiring the feature the Get-ATPTotalTrafficReport cmdlet from Microsoft Defender for Office 365 beginning September 1st, 2023. Instead we recommend the utilization of the Threat protection status report cmdlet, which is where we will continue to invest

Key Points:

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Retention support for files shared as cloud attachments or links (U.S. Government clouds)

This update enables organizations to automatically apply retention labels to the version of files shared as cloud attachments, which are live links of SharePoint or OneDrive content that can be shared via emails or Teams messages.

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Microsoft Viva: Alignment view

Viva Goals announces the release of the alignment view, designed to help users visualize how their work contributes to top-level organizational goals more efficiently than ever before. With this revamped experience, users can quickly gain a bird’s eye view of their objectives and expand or collapse them to different levels from the chart. This feature will provide users with a more comprehensive understanding of their progress towards team goals, helping them to stay aligned with the teams’ objectives.

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