Outlook: Image based theming

Outlook for Mac will soon support image-based theming, allowing users to choose an image from a selection available in the General settings.

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Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup

Microsoft 365 Backup Service is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services that provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users. Microsoft 365 Backup Service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis and can be enabled through the Microsoft 365 admin center.

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Catch Up Improvements on Web

Catch Up allows you to stay in sync with your collaborators in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Web by showing you the latest comment activity that is directed at you and a summary of recent changes. Based on your feedback, we made improvements to the Catch Up feature. The comment activity directed at you will now persist in Catch Up between sessions for up to 28 days. New items will be indicated with a blue dot for clarity. You can also dismiss items individually if you do not wish to keep them in Catch Up.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 184359

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Viva in the left rail

The Viva Admin experience is moving from the Setup tab into the Settings tab in the left rail under “Viva”. It can now be found as below: 

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Data Loss Prevention – Out-of-box Advanced Hunting queries for Data Loss Prevention incidents in Microsoft 365 Defender

Organizations can click the “Go Hunt” dropdown from the DLP alert page in Microsoft Defender XDR and select from a list of pre-populated queries for common scenarios such as understanding if a file is shared externally, participants of a Teams meetings, and more.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 185708

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Quick Conflict Peek when you RSVP on Calendar Event Detail page

We are expanding the RSVP dialog box with scheduling form. The users will now see their meeting schedule in snippet window indicating the conflicting slots, while taking any RSVP actions. 

When this will happen:

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Data Loss Prevention – View-only mode for Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection Policies and Labels

This capability allows the admin with view-only restricted permissions to view the Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection policy configuration details without editing the policies or label configurations.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 186527

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Outlook Web and New Outlook for Windows: Sort by Category

Soon, users will be able to sort their emails by categories in inbox and other folders. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 183902

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Microsoft Intune In development for December 2023 is now available

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

How does this affect me?

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Overview page redesign

The Microsoft 365 admin center Usage report Overview page has been redesigned to better navigate the most important usage insights in your organization and provide a holistic view of Microsoft 365 apps usage. The redesign includes new engagement metrics such as enabled and active users, user state compositions (e.g. first time, returning users), storage by product, and key usage metrics for Microsoft 365 apps.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 185799

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