Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Introducing Built-In-Protection

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 8, 2021 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 0 Comments

We’re are introducing a powerful new default security preset called Built-in-Protection in Defender for Office 365.

  • Built-in-Protection is a third preset security policy (like the Standard and Strict preset policies), and is enabled by default for all new and existing customers. It will implement a version of Safe Links and Safe Attachments resulting in low impact on the end-user. It’s low impact as the end user experience will not be changed – URL links will not be wrapped. However, it will implement delivery time file and URL detonation as well as time of click protection.

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Stream on SharePoint – Viewership Retention

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 8, 2021 Stream 0 Comments

Users will now be able to identify the key moments in a video using “Viewership Retention” chart. This chart is available for all ODSP videos from when the feature is turned on. You will be able to see the percentage of views, relative to the peak viewed moment in your video, across it’s duration

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85643.

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Aligning OneDrive sync on Windows support with Windows OS lifecycle policy

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 8, 2021 OneDrive for Business 0 Comments

Beginning January 1, 2022, we will be aligning the OneDrive Desktop application (sync app) support lifecycle with the Windows support lifecycle.

  • Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 will be supported until January 10, 2023.
  • Windows 8 reached end of support on January 12, 2016.

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Viva insights Manager insights

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 8, 2021 Microsoft Viva, Viva Insights 0 Comments

This month, Viva insights is releasing expanded insights for managers and team leads. Viva Insights features for managers and team leads will be available to users with a Microsoft Viva Insights license. These new insights expand the value of Viva insights to managers and team leads who have at least one direct report. Viva insights stores a team definition that is built upon your org data from AAD. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85622

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Microsoft Teams: Check-in and room release for Teams panels

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 5, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Allow users to “check in” to a meeting room from a Teams panel. If no users check in to the room, the scheduled meeting is removed from the room’s calendar. The room is then returned to the room inventory and available for other users to reserve and use.

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Microsoft Teams: Sign out from Teams Admin Center on Teams displays

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 5, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Tenant admins can remotely provision, sign-in and sign-out of a Teams device that has previously not been provisioned from the Teams Admin Center.

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Announcing continuous compliance assessments in the Microsoft 365 compliance center

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 5, 2021 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

We’re enhancing Compliance Manager’s automated testing and evidence generation functionality, and enabling additional improvement actions and solutions for automated testing.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 72222.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider Risk Management analytics

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 4, 2021 Microsoft 365 compliance center 0 Comments

The Microsoft 365 Insider Risk Management solution will now provide aggregated and anonymized analytics to help identify potential insider risk activity within the organization. This is currently available in public preview.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/insider-risk-management-settings?view=o365-worldwide#analytics-preview

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Historical versions

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 4, 2021 Microsoft 365 compliance center 0 Comments

Now eDiscovery admins can designate specific SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business sites to enable
for historical versions functionality. This capability will enable organizations to quickly search across not only the current version of documents, but all the versions of the document.
Preview date: November CY2021

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Integration with Microsoft Sentinel

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 4, 2021 Microsoft 365 compliance center 0 Comments

,New integration with Microsoft Sentinel provides the flexibility to collect, detect, and investigate insider risk activities within Microsoft Sentinel. This native connector allows for seamless import of alerts, which provides analysts with a single pane of glass to review alerts for insider risk in a broader organizational context.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/insider-risk-management-configure?view=o365-worldwide
Preview date: November CY2021

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Joao Ferreira

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