Data Loss Prevention- simulation mode for DLP policies

Simulation mode in DLP provides DLP admins with an isolated experience to try a DLP policy, assess its impact, and build confidence in the policy efficacy to eventually reduce the time to policy enforcement. Simulation mode is an enhancement to the existing test mode behavior to help Admins evaluate new policies confidently.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance-Detect Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions template

Communication Compliance is introducing a new template dedicated to analyzing all Copilot for Microsoft 365 prompts and responses, to help ensure content prohibited by customers’ policies, such as harassing or threatening language, is not being used Copilot for Microsoft 365 interfaces. This scales Communication Compliance’s reach, consistent with Microsoft 365’s expanding interfaces. In addition, administrators are also able to select Copilot chats as a checked location in the policy creation wizard for any new or existing policies. This empowers administrators to fine-tune their management strategy precisely to their organization’s needs, with a focus on user privacy protection. Whether it’s setting specific conditions or deploying trainable classifiers, this feature provides flexibility and adaptability in compliance management, ensuring your organization’s communications remain secure, compliant, and respectful of user privacy.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage question post update

Viva Engage is updating its questions to include two parts: a required field for the main question and an optional larger field for extra details.

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Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Support for Multiple Channels

Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. Through this new functionality, users can now join up to 5 channels in multi-channel mode, easily switch between these preselected channels to listen to incoming transmission or initiate PTT transmissions.

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Microsoft Teams: Ability to duplicate an existing town hall for simplified event creation

Organizers can schedule a new webinar by duplicating information from an existing scheduled one. This includes duplicating information such as details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also edit and update the information as needed for the new event.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Ability to delete indicator variants

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will be able to delete any of the indicator variants created. Deletion of variants will directly delete it from all the Insider Risk Management policies being used. Any old insights related to the variants will remain for future reference. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: Admin setting for uploading files using drag-drop

Admin will be able to control the default content app for local files uploaded using drag-drop in chat and channels. OneDrive / SharePoint are the existing default locations for uploads using drag-drop.

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Microsoft Teams: Private & shared channels links

Need to add your colleague to a channel discussion? Copy the link of a private or a shared channel, a channel post or one of its replies and share it with your partner, so they can join the discussion in one click.

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Microsoft Intune In Development for January 2024 is now available

The In development for Microsoft Intune page in our documentation has been updated.

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Microsoft Teams: Join Teams work meetings from Microsoft Teams (free) and vice versa

This feature enables users with personal Microsoft accounts (MSA) using the free version of Microsoft Teams to join and participate in Teams for work (or school) meetings with their signed-in personal account when joining meetings from within the Teams app. This feature also lets these users stay connected with the other meeting participants (retain access to the meeting chat) after the meeting has ended. These users are no longer prompted to join only via a browser and later treated as meeting guests (anonymous). 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 167326

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