Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Keyword highlight support for document trainable classifiers

Highlight the keywords/phrases that contribute significantly to trainable classifier results, so that users can more easily understand the classification of the documents and use these insights to inform creation of DLP policies.

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Microsoft Secure Score is retiring the option to share recommended action details through Microsoft Planner

The option to share recommended actions details from Microsoft Secure Score using Microsoft Planner is being retired.

You can continue to share recommended action details through a link, email or Microsoft Teams.

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SharePoint Syntex Per User License End of Sale Notice

On June 30th, 2023 we’re retiring the SharePoint Syntex license. SharePoint Syntex was provided as a per user license that allowed access to Syntex services. Syntex is an add-on license and requires users also to have a license for Microsoft 365.

On July 1st, 2023, customers will no longer be able to purchase the per user license and will need to opt-in to Microsoft Syntex pay-as-you-go billing to continue using existing and new Syntex features. If you have current Syntex per user licenses, these will remain available along with its individual features through the duration of your term. You will be able to renew, if elected, prior to the end of your term.

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Your To Do users will no longer be able to join shared lists from consumer accounts

In Microsoft To Do, users from your tenant can be members of lists that are shared with them through consumer accounts (sharing accounts can only be consumer accounts and not accounts from other organizations). We are retiring this feature in the near future.

When this will happen:

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Conditional Access and OneNote iPad for features that use Webview

Note: If your organization does not use the OneNote iPad app you can safely disregard this message.

The OneNote iPad app leverages a technology called WebView for certain features, such as Meeting Details. However, when Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Conditional Access, as part of Microsoft Entra, is applied to the user of this device, WebView features are not supported, and conditional access checks will fail. This means that, the feature will be inactive and not available for use.

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Microsoft Teams: Together Mode Usability Improvements in Teams Meetings

We are bringing new usability improvements to Together Mode in Microsoft Teams. Participants in Together Mode will have name labels attached to their videos. Name labels will also support status icons that indicate microphone, active speaker, spotlight or pin within the meeting. Additionally, your own video in the gallery will now be removed while Together Mode is active to avoid duplication of the self-preview. Lastly, Together Mode will display raised hands and reactions within the view.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122127

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Microsoft Syntex Image Tagger

Syntex Image Tagger uses AI to automatically tag images that reside on SharePoint libraries with descriptive keywords. These keywords are stored in a managed metadata column on the item, making the images easier to search, sort, filter, and manage.

Syntex Image Tagger is available on a pay-as-you-go basis and is not included in the Syntex seat license. Learn More

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New Lobby Policy for Microsoft Teams Webinar

Currently in Public webinars, you are unable to distinguish registered users in the lobby. This means that you cannot allow registered users to directly bypass your lobby and enter your webinar. With this new change, we will be offering two new lobby options that will allow you to better control security in your webinar. These new lobby options are:

  • A new ‘Allow registered users to bypass’ lobby policy that allows registered users to bypass the lobby in your webinar.
  • A new ‘Reject users who cannot bypass the lobby’ that rejects users who cannot bypass the lobby.

Currently in Public webinars, you are unable to distinguish registered users in the lobby. This means that you cannot allow registered users to directly bypass your lobby and enter your webinar. With this new change, we will be offering two new lobby options that will allow you to better control security in your webinar. These new lobby options are:

  • A new ‘Allow registered users to bypass’ lobby policy that allows registered users to bypass the lobby in your webinar.
  • A new ‘Reject users who cannot bypass the lobby’ that rejects users who cannot bypass the lobby.

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium): Review Set – Advanced filters

We are excited to introduce several usability enhancements for filtering items in review sets within the eDiscovery (Premium) solution in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124796.

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GradeSync for Teams Assignments retirement

Effective May 31, 2023, Grade Sync feature of Microsoft Teams Assignments will no longer be available to new customers. Existing customers may continue to use it until June 30, 2023. 

When this will happen:

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