Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup

Microsoft 365 Backup Service is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services that provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users. Microsoft 365 Backup Service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis and can be enabled through the Microsoft 365 admin center.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals–Improved organization admin settings experience

Simplified organization admin settings page and additional organization management controls.

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Microsoft Teams: New Meeting Option and Meeting Policy “Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat” (Premium)

“Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat” is a new meeting option that gives meeting organizer the option to disable copying and sharing features on meeting chat messages for participants in order to reduce the risk of data leak. Once this restriction is enabled, meeting chat participants will not be able to copy chat messages using menu option or keyboard shortcut, forward messages or share messages to Outlook. There is also a new Meeting Policy setting in Teams admin center for admin to control whether user can see or use this feature in Meeting Options page. Admin can also set the default value for this meeting option in Meeting Templates they create.

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Microsoft Teams: Azure protected voicemail on Teams App

Teams users will now have link to their Azure protected voicemails from the Teams App. Users will get notification for the voicemail on the Teams App and can open the attached link to access the voicemail on the web browser.

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Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for scheduled channel meetings (Premium)

Intelligent recap is now available for scheduled channel meetings, so users can easily browse the meeting recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions.

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Outlook: To Do app opens in the new Outlook for Windows

Use the To Do app without leaving the new Outlook for Windows! Clicking the To Do icon in the navigation bar will open inline and will no longer open in a separate browser window. 

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Outlook: Choose how many days of emails sync to your device for offline usage

With the new sync window, you can choose how many days’ worth of emails and attachments you want to download to your device so you can always access them even while offline.

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Outlook on the web: Replacing “Activity-Based Authentication Timeout” with “Idle Session Timeout for Microsoft 365”

The Activity-Based Authentication Timeout for Outlook on the web will be replaced with Idle Session Timeout for Microsoft 365.

When this will happen

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Microsoft Whiteboard: External Guest Sharing via Specific People Share Link

Microsoft Whiteboard will soon leverage a new capability that allows guests of a tenant to access whiteboards shared with them via Specific People Share Links (PSL).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124990

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Data Loss Prevention – File Name and File Path filters for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal

We are announcing a new feature in Public Preview where we are enhancing the filtering experience for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal with the capability to filter the DLP alerts/incidents queues by File Name or File Path.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 180989

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