Microsoft 365: Mexico datacenter region and Advanced Data Residency availability

Microsoft 365 will launch a new local cloud region in Mexico. The Advanced Data Residency add-on (“ADR”) will be available in Mexico and provide eligible customers with committed data residency in the Mexico local cloud region, prioritized tenant migration services, and expanded coverage of Microsoft 365 workloads and Customer Data.

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Microsoft Teams: Extended Real-time telemetry retention for up to 7 days (Premium)

To facilitate meeting quality troubleshooting
for admins in Teams admin center, real-time telemetry available during the
meeting will be retained for an extended period of time (up to 7 days after
meeting is ended) for users with Premium licenses. This will help admins
identify and fix quality issues using granular telemetry after the meeting is
over for up to 7 days.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enhanced recommendations for no-alert policies

,With this update, admins with the appropriate permissions can get insights-enhanced recommendations for policies that do not generate alerts on the policy page. The enhancement provides admins with recommended thresholds derived from real-time analytics, making the recommendations highly actionable and enabling the effectiveness of the policy. 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 Teams: Pin / Favorite Channels on Teams Walkie Talkie

Teams Walkie is enabling users to pin/favorite up to five channels on the Microsoft Teams Walkie Talkie Home Page. Users can easily switch in between the favorited channels with a single tap going forward. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 99943

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Service health and Message center: ‘Identity Service’ rebranding to ‘Microsoft Entra’

Today, Tuesday, July 11th, 2023, we announced that Azure Active Directory will be rebranded as ‘Microsoft Entra ID’. Historically this service has been represented under the service name ‘Identity Service’, within Service health and Message center experience. To align on the changes included in today’s announcement, ‘Identity Service’ will be rebranded to ‘Microsoft Entra’ and represent Service health and change communications for that family of products.

When this will happen:

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Limiting public webinar attendee joins to three concurrent devices

Currently in public webinars, an attendee can use their registration link to join and be present in a webinar with any number of devices. For public webinars, there is also a possibility for that attendee to forward their registration link to others who have not registered and have them join with the registered attendee’s join link. With this new update, only 3 concurrent join instances can be present in a webinar using the same registration join link. This means that attendees can now use only up to three devices to participate in a webinar.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 147098.

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Introducing the Reminders Window in the New Outlook for Windows Preview

Introducing the reminders window. This reminders window is a new notification style for the New Outlook for Windows preview. It is a pop-out window that organizes your meeting/event reminders and task reminders in one place. You can also snooze reminders, dismiss reminders, or join Teams meetings directly from the window.

Here is how users can enable this reminder window:

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New Insights Report feature for information barriers in SharePoint and OneDrive

We are delighted to introduce the new Insights Report feature for information barriers in SharePoint and OneDrive. With new insights reports, SharePoint or Global administrators can generate standardized reports to discover and take actions to further reinforce the IB policies on SharePoint sites and OneDrive accounts in their tenant.

This capability is available for public preview for all organizations (IBv1 (legacy) and IBv2 architecture).

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Visual Update for Microsoft 365

The new look of Microsoft 365 introduced alongside Windows 11 in June 2021 will become the default look for Windows 11 Subscription and Perpetual 2021 users.

When this will happen:

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Manage result layouts for SharePoint results in Microsoft Search

We’re making changes to Microsoft Search. This update will allow Microsoft Search administrators to change result layouts for select SharePoint content using adaptive cards with Result Type feature in Microsoft Search administration.

The default result layouts for SharePoint sites, pages, list items and Portable document format (PDF) results can now be replaced with layouts built using adaptive cards. The changes can be made for Organization level search applicable to Office.com and SharePoint home.  

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