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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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: 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 Information Protection: Auto-labeling policies support overwriting manual label and encrypting mail received from any organization

,New and existing Exchange auto-labeling policies can be configured to apply encryption to email received from outside the organization. In addition, policies can be configured to enforce classification on any email by replacing existing manual labels that have the same or lower label priority.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/apply-sensitivity-label-automatically?view=o365-worldwide
Preview date: January CY2022

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Microsoft Information Protection: Maintain label and protection when creating PDF files from Office apps

,Labels and protection applied on Office documents will be persisted to the output file when converting to PDF in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on PC, Mac, Web.
Preview date: March CY2022

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Built-In Protection

We are introducing Built-In Protection for Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to automatically elevate all users within your organization to the base level of security protection. Built-In Protection will implement a low impact version of Safe Attachments and Safe Links, removing burden on admins to configure users with recommended security settings and policies. This new preset security policy will require no admin action and will be turned on by default for all new and existing customers. As a result, customers will be automatically protected from unintentional configuration gaps in their policies and experience overall improved protection against phish and malicious message delivery to end users.
More info: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-office/mastering-configuration-in-defender-for-office-365-part-three/ba-p/2906990

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Microsoft Teams: Mute Notifications During Meetings

Users
will be able to mute notifications during meetings thereby helping focus during
meetings. A user can choose to mute notifications for all meetings or per
meeting basis.

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Records management Advanced eDiscovery – Preserve and discover the file version shared as cloud attachment

To help you efficiently meet regulatory obligations and improve the discovery of all elements which are part of electronic communications, Advanced eDiscovery will soon support the ability to discover the specific version of a file at the time that it was shared. This is facilitated by a new Records Management capability that enables you to automatically apply a retention label to the version of files shared as cloud attachments.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70580 and 70718.

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Service Communications API retirement

As previously announced in (MC275573 – Aug), the legacy version of the Service Communications API will be retired on December 17th, 2021. The new service communications API in Microsoft Graph replaces the legacy version of the API and provides access to Message center and Service health posts for your tenant.

When this will happen:

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Visio: Viewer enhancements in Microsoft Teams

This capability enables both users with and without a Visio license to complete simple tasks on Visio files stored in Teams, like commenting, sharing, printing, downloading their Visio diagram as an image or PDF, and more from within Teams.

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