Changes to the Registration campaign feature in Azure AD

Publicly switched telephone networks (PSTN) such as SMS and voice authentication are the weakest forms of MFA. To help your users move away from them we are introducing changes to the Microsoft managed state of the Registration campaign feature in Azure Active Directory.

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PDF Tools app retirement

We will be retiring the PDF Tools app from Teams, Office and Outlook store by mid-July, 2023. 

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Group chat message copy links are now available!

This feature allows group chat members to create and share links to specific messages within the chat, with the intention of improving communication and organization of information in group chats.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122522

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Microsoft Viva: Answers in Viva on Mobile

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the mobile version of the Answers in Viva experience for iOS and Android. Our goal is to bring the power of organizational knowledge sharing to the convenience of your mobile device. 

Answers in Viva is available to licensed Viva Suite customers and/or licensed Viva Topics customers.

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Viva Pulse availability

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 pulse request and send it to select individuals, or groups. They will receive confidential feedback from their team, and they can take immediate action to increase employee engagement and wellbeing. To ensure that your organization has access to this app, our engineering team will conduct a procedure which will ensure that customers having an active subscription to the Microsoft Viva Suite will see the new Viva Pulse service plan alongside other existing Viva service plans.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 117393

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Automatic redirection from Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to Microsoft 365 Defender public preview announcement

Soon, the entire Defender for Cloud Apps experience in Microsoft 365 Defender will be generally available.

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Upcoming changes to direct email notifications

Direct email notifications are sent to users who are assigned users who are assigned a pre-configured administrator role in an impacted Dynamics 365 or Power Platform environment, or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Lifecycle Services (LCS) project or environment.

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Microsoft Intune: Intelligent recommendations

Intelligent Recommendations powered by Machine Learning model add insights to baselines giving you confidence in configurations that have been successfully adopted by similar organizations.

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Microsoft Project: Access custom environment projects in Teams

Users can now use the Project app to add Custom environment projects in their Teams channel.

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Sensitivity label required to restrict permissions for labeling-enabled users

Users with sensitivity labels available will no longer be able to restrict permissions without a label in most cases. Entry points to the legacy Set Permissions dialog will redirect to a sensitivity labeling dialog, where users can select an appropriate label to restrict permissions. UX allowing users to remove encryption or permission information without changing the sensitivity label will also be removed.

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