Microsoft Teams: Call delegation feature enhancements

Shared line appearance lets a user choose a delegate to answer or handle calls on their behalf. We are launching a simplified experience for users who have set up call delegation which will be available on the Teams desktop app and Teams phone devices. The new UI will allow delegates to easily switch between the different delegator lines they manage and view call history for the delegator’s line.
Delegators will be able to view and join active calls handled by the delegate and grant delegates permission to join active calls.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams Connect chat enhancements

IT admins will be able to add external partners with phone-based Teams accounts not managed by an organization to their organization’s extended directory. These external users can have a company curated user profile including location and job role. Users in the organization, who are enabled for Teams external access, can search for these external users by name and establish 1:1 or group chats, just like they do with internal users.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Recommended thresholds by insider risk analytics

With this update, admins can receive recommended thresholds for insider risk policies, including potential data leak and data theft by departing employee policies, by leveraging the insights from insider risk analytics. By using these recommended thresholds, admins can improve the effectiveness of policies and generate an optimal number of alerts. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sequence and anomaly detection in insider risk analytics

With this update, insider risk analytics now includes sequence and anomaly detection indicators, providing more comprehensive and effective insights. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Analytics email digest

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will receive a monthly email summarizing the latest insider risk analytics insights scanned from the environment. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Tag templates and review set tagging usability enhancements

Streamline your review process with our refined tagging experience, designed to simplify your workflow. Leverage the tenant level tagging templates to easily manage your organization’s tagging needs.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections – Analytics Enhancements

Enhancements to existing Viva Connections analytics capabilities providing an analytics dashboard for data visualization and additional metrics at a Dashboard card level.

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Microsoft Secure Score is Adding New Improvement Actions

We are updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture.

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Microsoft EHR Connector: Auto updating public keys for EHR connector enabled virtual visits

This feature update will allow Microsoft Teams EHR Connector to automatically supply Epic EHR systems with customer specific public keys for OAuth2 authentication during EHR Connector meeting launches. This differs from the pre-existing workflow where public keys were manually uploaded into Epic. By automating this process, the feature provides reliability and security improvements by allowing more frequent automated rotation of certificates by avoiding manual steps in the rotation process.

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Microsoft Viva: Quick Access to Homesite on Viva Connections Mobile

To allow users access to their Homesite and intranet easily, we are redesigning the Viva connections dashboard layout by adding a shortcut button to the homesite. The same updates will be available for the Tablet experience as well.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117528

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