Microsoft Defender for Identity: Alert exclusion in Microsoft 365 security center

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 4, 2021 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 0 Comments

One of the most widely used features relating to alerting in Defender for Identity is being able to tune them and make sure you are only alerted on what should be getting your attention. With the exclusion capability landing in Microsoft 365 security center for Defender for Identity, you can tune the alerts and filter the detections based on entities that matter to you. We are also improving the experience in the allow-list functionality, making sure you can allow entities across all detections as opposed to allowing them per detection.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Priority account filtering for quarantine

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 4, 2021 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 0 Comments

We’re including the priority account tag in the quarantine experience, allowing admins to prioritize their focus on the organization’s most targeted and most visible users.
More info: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-office/announcing-priority-account-protection-in-microsoft-defender-for/ba-p/1696385

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Word: Dictation in Word for the Web now available for GCC and GCC-High Tenants

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 4, 2021 Word 0 Comments

Dictation is now available for those in government GCC and GCC-High Tenants.

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Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Insider risk management – Enhancements to Cumulative exfiltration activities

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

Enhancements to the cumulative exfiltration activity presentation to update how we explain the user’s activity compared to the organization. Enhancements to assign higher risk scores when cumulative exfiltration activity involves Microsoft Information Protection labels that have been configured as priority content in a policy.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/insider-risk-management-policies?view=o365-worldwide#cumulative-exfiltration-detection-preview

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance policy cloning and consumption visibility (Government clouds)

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

New policy cloning feature helps you easily create similar policies for different audiences but with the same conditions for instance. The new policy consumption visibility will help you manage policies within your tenant.

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Excel: Natural Language Queries in Ideas

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 4, 2021 Excel 0 Comments

With Natural Language Queries, Ideas in Excel allows you to ask questions about your data, whether it is retrieving a specific fact or summarizing the data in your preferred way. For example you can ask ‘total number of products’, ‘top 10 products by sales’, or even more complicated questions like ‘what percentage of products have sales higher than 2000 in 2018?’

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Microsoft Teams: Pilot and deploy Teams for frontline with the FLW onboarding wizard

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 4, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

The frontline worker (FLW) onboarding wizard empowers IT admins to pilot and deploy Teams for frontline workers in just a few steps. This wizard allows admins to streamline team creation, license assignment, and policy package assignment in a few simple steps.

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Microsoft Teams: New default for Teams notification style for GCC High

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 4, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Teams notification style will be defaulted to native notifications for new users. Currently the default style is Teams purple, with this change to native notifications the user will benefit from support for assist mode, action center, accessibility and more.

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Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Insider risk management – Enhancements to Cumulative exfiltration activities

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

Enhancements to the cumulative exfiltration activity presentation to update how we explain the user’s activity compared to the organization. Enhancements to assign higher risk scores when cumulative exfiltration activity involves Microsoft Information Protection labels that have been configured as priority content in a policy.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/insider-risk-management-policies?view=o365-worldwide#cumulative-exfiltration-detection-preview

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Microsoft Graph: Webhooks for To-Do Tasks (Preview)

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 4, 2021 Microsoft Graph 0 Comments

Developers can now create webhook subscriptions allowing their applications to receive notifications when To-Do Tasks change.

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Joao Ferreira

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