Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Noisy signal management – Site URL and keyword exclusions

Define specific site URLs and keywords to manage user activity signals that may be considered noisy. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie on iOS in GCC

Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly and always stay on the same page. This native built-in app in Teams turns employee or company-owned iOS smartphones and tablets into a walkie-talkie, reducing the number of devices employees must carry and lowering costs for IT.

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Microsoft Stream: Add or Edit captions and transcript for a video in SharePoint or OneDrive in DoD

You can upload, download, and delete captions in the Web VTT file format for a video in SharePoint or OneDrive. This will enable you to edit transcript files generated by Teams live transcript or Stream via downloading the file, editing in a text or VTT editor, and re-uploading it. The VTT file will be displayed as captions inside the video player and as a transcript in the transcript pane next to the video.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Enhancement to Insider risk audit logs

,Additional audit of events included in the Insider risk audit logs including activities within Content Explorer, Activity Explorer, and User Timeline. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Alert triage improvements

,Various experience improvements based on feedback to accelerate time-to-action including ability to further drill into Sequences within Activity Explorer, new filtering capability as well as enhanced User Activity Timeline view which includes a richer alert history. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Stream: Add or Edit captions and transcript for a video in SharePoint or OneDrive for GCC and GCC-High

You can upload, download, and delete captions in the Web VTT file format for a video in SharePoint or OneDrive. This will enable you to edit transcript files generated by Teams live transcript or Stream via downloading the file, editing in a text or VTT editor, and re-uploading it. The VTT file will be displayed as captions inside the video player and as a transcript in the transcript pane next to the video.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Inform users on how to reload a page in IE mode

We’re adding a new email template to the “Get fast, secure browsing with Microsoft Edge” feature on the admin center Setup page. Admins can send their users a quick reference on how to reload older sites in Internet Explorer mode when browsing in Microsoft Edge.

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Visio: Extend interoperability between the Visio web and desktop apps

Users will be able to open files that were previously not supported for editing in Visio for the web and edit shapes with 1D and 2D protection, and additional shape properties. However, some interactions will be blocked or optimized.

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Visio: Pictures for organizational charts in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2]

Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to add pictures of team members directly to new org chart shapes in Visio for the web.

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Microsoft Teams: LinkedIn Integration in Teams

Users will be able to see LinkedIn profiles of their colleagues in 1:1 chat. The LinkedIn profile is available via the LinkedIn tab in the 1:1 chat panel.

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