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

,New integration with Azure Sentinel provides the flexibility to collect, detect, and investigate insider risk activities within Azure 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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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Healthcare connector and policy template

,New healthcare policy template with built-in indicators that leverages data from Epic and other electronic medical records (EMR) solutions – using our Data Connectors – to help healthcare companies identify potential insider risks related to patient data misuse.
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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Microsoft Teams: Chat with Teams personal account users

Teams users will be able to chat with team members who are outside their work network and have a Teams personal account. This is expanding on external access capabilities, enabling Teams users to invite for a 1:1 or group chat any other federated Teams users using an email address or phone number and remain within the security and compliance policies of their organization.

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Microsoft Teams: Home page customization for Teams admin center

IT
admins can drag and drop widgets to customize their Home page in Teams admin
center.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams device management for Surface Hubs

Administrations will be able to setup, manage, and monitor their Surface Hubs through the Teams admin center.

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OneDrive: Limit OneDrive access and sharing to specified users

Ability to allow only specified users access to OneDrive in your tenant.

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Microsoft Information Protection: Updated user experience for picking and seeing sensitivity labels in Office apps

,Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps provide a highly visible sensitivity label and easy-to-use interface for choosing labels. Includes label color defined in compliance portal.
Preview date: March CY2022

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Microsoft Information Protection: Apply default label policies to existing documents being edited

,Users with default labeling policies will now support applying that default to any supported document they edit. Previously this only applied to new documents.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitivity-labels-office-apps?view=o365-worldwide
Preview date: December CY2021

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Microsoft Viva: Topic engagement analytics

This update will introduce usage and engagement analytics on topics (views, edits, etc.) to the Microsoft Admin Center.

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Microsoft Viva: Support bookmarks with topic answers in Microsoft Search

You’ll be able to see both bookmarks and topic answer cards in Microsoft Search if both exist and are relevant to your query.

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