Microsoft 365 Backup

Updated January 2, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft 365 Backup Service is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services. This service 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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Microsoft Viva: Weekly Active User Reporting in Viva Learning

Total number of unique users who have launched the Viva Learning personal app in the last 7 days.

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Microsoft Viva: Browser optimized playback for SuccessFactors content

Desktop client content consumption for SuccessFactors content is enhanced with browser optimized playback.

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Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Recap now available for Copilot users

Copilot users can access intelligent recap after meetings to get a summary of the meeting, including: personalized timeline markers to easily browse the recordings by when you joined or left, when a screen was shared, and when your name was mentioned; browse recordings by speakers, chapters, and topics; as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, tasks, and jump to name mentions in the transcript.

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Microsoft Teams: Share contact information of people in Microsoft Teams chat

Users can now share the contact information of someone who is not in a chat to make it easy for others to confidently get to know other collaborators.

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eDiscovery Premium-Enhancements to eDiscovery experience for Microsoft Forms content

Now admins can search for Microsoft Forms content specifically within their collections, see the full metadata associated to those items including the Form title, and review both the original Form and responses to the Form as related items within both review and export. Simplification and ease of use for managing Forms content via eDiscovery will help reduce the pain points of the challenging discovery process and improve the confidence of organizations using Forms for critical tasks that may require eDiscovery capabilities.

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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: Public preview of policy wizard enhancements

Coming soon, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out a public preview of policy wizard enhancements.

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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Viva Engage: Answers in Communities

Answers in Microsoft Viva lets people learn from each other by asking and answering questions. Now, if you have a premium license, you can use Answers in your Viva Engage communities. This new feature lets you:

  • See related questions to avoid duplicates and save time.
  • Ask questions with separate title and details for easy scanning.
  • Earn badges for answering questions in communities.
  • Track question activity in communities with Answers Analytics and Global Answers Analytics.
  • Reach more people with your questions through Answers feeds and digests.

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Updates to adding topics to posts in Viva Engage

New developments to adding topics to posts within Answers in Viva are being extended to all topic experiences in Viva Engage (Yammer). Adding topics to posts helps improve the visibility, engagement, and organization of content.

These updates will help employees select a topic by providing more topics to choose from, coaching tips, and additional room for supporting topic information. Questions will also have the topics field open by default to help encourage the use of topics on questions and drive higher likelihood of a response.

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Viva Learning enables tagging content with interests and export content metadata

We are excited to announce that Viva Learning now enables admins to tag content with interests to enhance recommendations and search relevance and also enables admins to export content metadata for offline review and analysis of the tags on content.

Note: If you organization is not using Viva Learning you can safely disregard this message.

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