Microsoft Planner: Rich text and images in Planner task notes

The Planner task notes field will support rendering rich text formatting (bold, italics, underline, and more) and image previews. Users can insert rich text and images into task notes.

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Microsoft Stream: Toggle video or audio features on and off for all viewers

Users with edit permissions to a video or audio file uploaded to SharePoint and OneDrive can toggle features, such as transcript and comments, on or off for all viewers of that video.

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Microsoft Viva: Briefing email for Government Community Cloud

The daily briefing email- a personalized, actionable briefing email from Microsoft Viva, automatically delivered to your Outlook inbox to help you start the day on track and stay on top of tasks, will be available for Government Community Cloud (GCC).
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/personal/briefing/be-overview

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SharePoint: Updated site creation experience

We’ve updated the site creation experience to make it easier for site creators to select the right type of SharePoint site, understand roles, and site permissions. Updates to this experience include refreshed graphics, expanded site descriptions, and more context for different permission levels in the Site permissions panel.

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Microsoft Information Protection: Extend sensitivity labels to assets in Azure with Microsoft Azure Purview

With Azure Purview, you can now extend the reach of your Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) sensitivity labels and the value from built-in sensitive information types to a much broader set of data locations and data types. Use existing sensitivity labels or create new sensitivity labels via the Microsoft 365 compliance center to extend security and compliance intent to data assets in Azure.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/purview/create-sensitivity-label

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Microsoft Viva: Learning content discovery based on user’s interests

Users will be able to discover engaging learning opportunities by picking and saving their interests. Once interests are saved, learning content based on those interests will show in the Home page in ‘Based on your interest’ section and in the ‘Your interests’ tab in the ‘Browse courses’ section as well. Users will also be able to use their interests to filter learning content in the search results page.

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Private drafts for SharePoint pages and news

This new feature will provide users the ability to create private drafts for pages and news posts. A private draft will be visible to only the page author, the people the author chooses to share it with, and site admins. Users will be able to create and edit content that’s not ready for others to see except the people with whom users want to collaborate.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85629.

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Microsoft 365 Compliance Center Core eDiscovery – Search by ID retirement

We will be retiring the option to search by ID, as it is not functioning to an adequate level and creates significant challenges for organizations who depend on consistent and repeatable results for eDiscovery workflows.

When will this happen:

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View Switcher- a new dedicated menu of view options in Teams Meetings

This new feature will place all of the view related options that are found in Teams Meetings (Gallery, Large Gallery, Together Mode) into a separate, dedicated menu called View Switcher. This will show up on the top left of the meeting window.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70754.

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Simplified DKIM configuration for email protection

Domain Keys identified mail (DKIM) is part of email authentication mechanism which ensures the email is not modified during transit and can be used to validate the visible sender (FROM address) as part of the DMARC standard. By correctly configuring authentication through DKIM you can ensure better email deliverability and protect your domain from being spoofed.

As part of Microsoft’s continuous effort to help organizations configure email authentication, we reduced the complexity involved in configuring DKIM to set of simple steps.

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