Communication Compliance: Expanded optical character recognition support (public preview)

Coming soon to public preview, we’re expanding optical character recognition (OCR) support in Communication Compliance beyond text extracted from images or PDFs to also include handwritten and printed text.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88920.

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Briefing Email – 16 additional languages supported

The Briefing email from Microsoft Viva helps users start their day on track by surfacing information to prepare for upcoming meetings, follow up on outstanding tasks as well as protect time for independent work. Currently, the Briefing email is available for Microsoft 365 Enterprise users with Exchange Online mailboxes in English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, German, Chinese Simplified and Japanese. Starting in March 2022, we are expanding to support Exchange Online mailboxes in the following languages:

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Advanced Message Encryption – Office 365 Message Encryption portal access logs (preview)

Coming soon to public preview, admins can enable logging of external user activities accessing the Office 365 Message Encryption Portal to retrieve encrypted mail.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88914.

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Export feature in Teams Admin Center

Teams admin center is adding support for downloading the data from the list pages like teams list page, members list page, channels list page and users list page. The downloaded data will be in the form of a CSV file. Admins can click on the “Export” icon placed on the table headers in these pages to generate the data and download the CSV from the downloads section in the header of the Teams admin center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 85704

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Co-authoring on Microsoft Information Protection encrypted documents is in public preview on mobile devices

With hybrid work here to stay, organizations are increasingly looking for ways to facilitate seamless collaboration among workgroups and across organizations while keeping their data secure and compliant.

At Microsoft, we have been working hard to introduce product innovations to help organizations achieve this. Today – we are excited to announce that co-authoring on Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) encrypted documents is now coming to mobile for both Android and iOS. Customers will no longer be locked out of these documents on a mobile device which means greater flexibility to choose your device for being productive on the go. This expands upon our current co-authoring support for desktops Windows and Mac and Office on the web.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Prepare your users for Internet Explorer retirement with “Reload in IE mode” instructions

With the upcoming Internet Explorer 11 desktop application retirement (June 15th), for certain versions of Windows 10, we recommend that you move users to Microsoft Edge and explain how to access legacy websites by reloading those sites in Internet Explorer (IE) mode.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88905.

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Microsoft Teams: Usability improvements to informational messages in meetings for Android

Notification drawer for in-meeting informational messages, so users can preview, collapse and clear all notifications with one tap.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Data purge capabilities for Microsoft Teams content (US Government clouds)

Extend data purge functionality to Microsoft Teams content to facilitate purge of sensitive or misplaced data.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/data-spillage-scenariosearch-and-purge?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Multilingual Dashboard

You can create a Viva Connections Dashboard that can be viewed in multiple languages.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/connections/create-multilingual-dashboard

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Microsoft Information Protection: Auditing and Analytics in Outlook for iOS, Android, and Mac (GCC, GCC-H)

Outlook for iOS, Android, and Mac will send user label activity data to the Audit Log and Activity Explorer for admins to search and review.

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