New Share to Stage APIs in Teams SDK

Shared meeting stage allows meeting participants to interact with and collaborate on app content in real time. Until now, it was possible to share an entire app to the meeting stage using the Share to Stage button in Teams client.

With this update, we are releasing new APIs in the Teams Client SDK that will provide developers with the ability to share specific parts of their app to the meeting stage from the app side panel experience.

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Yammer Communities Expiry Autorenewal

We apologize for not communicating about this release in a timely manner and any inconvenience it may have caused. With this feature update, Yammer activity is included in activity-based automatic renewal of Microsoft 365 Groups. When a user has viewed a post within a Yammer community or within an interactive email in Outlook, the community will automatically renew group expiration.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82186

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

We’ve released updates to the following update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel
  • Monthly Enterprise Channel
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview)
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

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Upcoming beta API retirement for Microsoft Secure Score

Today, we are announcing the retirement of the beta API: https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/reports/getTenantSecureScores. Moving forward, we ask that you use the now generally available API for Microsoft Secure Score which is where we will continue to invest our resources.

If you are not using the API, you can safely disregard this message.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Expanded Optical Character Recognition to support handwritten and printed text

Expanding optical character recognition beyond text extracted from images or PDFs to include handwritten and printed text, which will then be evaluated against the customers policy conditions (such as keywords matches for threatening language), further reducing an organizations policy violation risk.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Empower end users to report inappropriate messages in Teams

Microsoft Teams users are empowered to report inappropriate or concerning messages within Teams chat and channels. These reported messages are then submitted to a Communication Compliance policy for investigators to review and take action if deemed necessary.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Prioritize policy matches using Azure Cognitive Services sentiment analysis

Leveraging Azure Cognitive Services sentiment analysis, messages will be flagged as positive, negative, or neutral sentiment, helping you prioritize riskier messages to address first.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour

This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond to communication compliance alerts promptly.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Gain context around ML model policy matches

Make more informed remediation actions with machine learning (ML) model highlighting. This feature gives investigators greater context around which word or key phrase triggered an ML model policy match and caused a classifier to catch a message.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Accelerate onboarding with step-by-step guidance

This feature will provide step-by-step guidance on how to properly configure, triage, and remediate policies, highlighting tasks that are heavily leveraged by a user’s role group.

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