Microsoft Purview compliance portal: [OCR] [ODSP] OCR Support for embedded images on SPOD

Currently, OCR is available only for standalone Images.

Aim is to Support OCR for images embedded in:
1. Hybrid PDF file – PDF files with both images and searchable text
2. Office files – DOCX, PPTX, XLSX
3. Container files – zip, rar, 7z, etc.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Enhanced Planner integration

With the enhanced Viva Goals integration with Microsoft Planner, users can now filter their tasks by buckets and labels, and integrate directly with specific tasks, enabling easier portfolio management and customizability for how your organization structures planning.

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Planner: Planner component in Microsoft Loop

Users of Planner and Loop will be able to bring their plans into Loop-enabled apps as a Planner component. Using the power of Loop, you’ll be able to view and edit a plan with Planner’s board view in context with your other work. The component will first be available in the Loop app. Support for other Loop-enabled apps will follow.
More info: https://support.microsoft.com/office/use-the-planner-component-in-loop-545e967a-7c69-4e9a-9458-dfabdcf1d752

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Detect AIP labelled files (pfile) using the condition “content contains sensitivity label”

Data Loss Prevention policy supports a condition “content contains sensitivity label” to detect if a file contains certain label. Today, office (DOCX, PPTX, XLSX) and PDF files are supported.
This feature will support files other than Office and PDF also where MIP label with protection (.PFILE) is applied using AIP labelling client.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to Precedence of User and Organizational Email Allows and Blocks

This post applies to customers with Exchange Online Protection and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 plan 1 and plan 2 service plans.

We will be updating how tenant and user allows are handled in the filtering stack to better align with customer expectations. These changes will provide more controls for the tenant administrators and ensure that users are better protected.

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Microsoft Default for Tag Management to include Team Members

We are updating Microsoft Default setting to Team Owners and Members for Teams Tag Management settings in Teams Admin Center.

If you have already explicitly made a selection to your Tag Management settings your tenant will not be affected by this change.

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro and Basic service plans backfill

This change was originally announced in MC540241 (April ’23), we apologize for the delay in providing the new timeline.

Teams Rooms provide rooms specific functionality through room specific licenses and underlying products (Service plans) included in these licenses. To ensure consistency of experiences across current and future room licenses, all Teams Rooms Pro licenses will be backfilled with Microsoft_Teams_Rooms_Pro service plan while all Teams Rooms Basic licenses will be backfilled with Microsoft_Teams_Rooms_Basic service plan.

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Viva Goals: Export OKRs to Powerpoint

Viva Goals is introducing the option to export OKRs to PowerPoint in various templates. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117483

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Multiple external benchmarks

Organizations can now receive external benchmarks as part of the standard platform for comparison; Ability to enable multiple external benchmarks in reports

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Outlook: New Outlook for Windows – Automap shared mailboxes

Automapping occurs by default when a user has been granted full access privileges to a shared mailbox in Microsoft Exchange Online. The new Outlook for Windows will automatically mount the mailbox as a resource under the account that has been granted full access.

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