Outlook: Support pop-up warning for messages with sensitivity labels

Outlook for Windows native sensitivity labeling will support oversharing pop-up dialogue as AIP plug-in to warn, justify or block email being sent. Admins could use the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to define the oversharing pop-up DLP rules to groups of users. If users have the configured DLP rule trigger when they click send, a warn/justify/block pop up message will show up to make sure customer complies with admin’s security double check requirements.

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Introducing “Microsoft Default” setting to Teams Tag Management Settings

We are introducing a Microsoft Default setting to 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.
  • If you have not made changes to Tag Management settings, Microsoft Default settings will apply for your tenant. Microsoft Default settings currently map to “Team Owners” value but is subject to change in the future.
  • As Admin, please set tag management settings to reflect tenant-level preference. Select “Team Owners” to keep tag management limited to Team Owners, or select “Team owners and members” to allow all team members to create and edit tags.  

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Transition to the new Threat Tracker (Email)

We will be rolling out this change beginning in mid-June and expect to complete by late June.

How this affects your organization:

Once this change takes effect, the ability to toggle to the old version of Threat Tracker will be removed (along with the “New Version” toggle bar) and the new version will be the default experience. Users will be able to see their data in the new Threat Tracker.  

What you can do to prepare:

You may consider updating your training and documentation as appropriate.

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Microsoft Viva: Topic card expanded view shows more details about a topic

Stay in the flow of your work to learn more from
the topic card with this expanded view.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Self-Diagnostic tool for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Test-DlpPolicies (U.S. Government clouds)

A new diagnostic tool to test the functionality of DLP rules and policies configured for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.

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Excel: Insert Local Picture in Cell

Pictures in Cells are getting better! Now you can insert a local picture from your device into the cell, paste it from your clipboard or convert a floating picture and put it in the cell easily!

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Microsoft Bookings – Mobile Apps will be retired

Microsoft Bookings is part of Microsoft 365 suite of products and is available through most commercial SKUs. In February 2023, we have removed the mobile apps from the Google Playstore and Apple App Store (announced via MC441066, September ’22). However, users who had the app installed before this date could continue to use the app.

We will be retiring these mobile apps completely from July 15, 2023 so any users who had the mobile apps installed will not be able to access Bookings via the mobile app.

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection moving to AES256-CBC mode for encryption of email and Office files

Microsoft Purview Information Protection will begin to use Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with 256-bit key length in Cipher Block Chaining mode (AES256-CBC) by default for encryption of Office documents and emails. If your organization is part of any of the four groups listed in this post, you must take action to update or opt out of this change.

You can read about this on our Tech Community blog post and learn more in our documentation.

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Viva Goals: Manual status computation

Viva Goals unveils enhanced status control for OKRs and projects. Previously, when setting up an OKR or project, customers had limited control over the status, as it was solely dependent on progress. However, with the latest update, users now have the ability to compute the status independently, giving them greater control and flexibility. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124935

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Navigation Layout Options in OneNote Win32

The new vertical tabs feature in OneNote allows users to hide horizonal section tabs and streamline the user experience.

This message is associated with Microsoft Roadmap ID 100492

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