Microsoft Defender for Identity: Administrative functions in Microsoft 365 security center

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

As part of the ongoing work to improve the experience of Security Operations professionals and consolidate the functionality of multiple portals into a single space that SecOps can interact with their threat and incident data, Defender for Identity’s administrative functions will be available to view and edit within the Microsoft 365 security center. In this time frame, you can expect to see the following functions and features be made available in the Microsoft 365 security center: Defender for Identity onboarding, VPN configuration, email notifications, sensor deployment and sensor health, entity tagging and SIEM configuration.

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Microsoft Edge v.92: Navigate PDF documents using page thumbnails

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

You will now be able to navigate through your PDF document using thumbnails representing the pages. These thumbnails will appear in the pane on the left side of the PDF reader.

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Microsoft Viva: Select sensitivity label to exclude sites from topic discovery

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 4, 2021 Microsoft Viva, Viva Topics 0 Comments

Use Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) sensitivity labels to control which sites should not be included in topic discovery.

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Microsoft Lists: sticky first column – built on SharePoint

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 4, 2021 Microsoft Lists, SharePoint Online 0 Comments

As you scroll left and right, the first column of your list remains in place; similar to the sticky header that is already a part of Lists.
More info: https://aka.ms/MSLists

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Microsoft Planner: Move tasks to any of your plans

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

You can now move tasks to any plan you’re a member of. Comments cannot move to a plan in a different group, and labels do not move across plans.

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Microsoft Viva: Exclude content from topic discovery based off applied sensitivity labels

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 4, 2021 Microsoft Viva, Viva Topics 0 Comments

Use Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) sensitivity labels to control which files should not be included in topic discovery.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Quarantine integration for user and admin submissions

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

With this change we’re giving admins the ability to allow senders for a specified period of time, right from the quarantine workflow. When releasing emails to end users, admins can now opt to remember this decision by creating an entry in the tenant allow/block list that corresponds to the indicator of compromise aligned with the message in question. Admins can now choose to allow or prevent users from submitting messages to Microsoft for analysis.

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Microsoft Teams: Adobe Sign Integration in Approvals App for GCC-High and DoD

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

There may be times when you need something approved and recorded with more formal attestation, and adding signatures to the approval process is necessary. We’re working closely with key partners to allow you to create an electronic signature approval using Adobe Sign, DocuSign, and other 3rd party providers natively within the Approval app. Simply choose your electronic signature provider and add the details. Once submitted, signers are notified with an email and can easily review and sign. Approvals will keep track of the entire workflow right in context within Teams.

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Outlook for Windows: calendar sync protocol transition to REST API

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 4, 2021 Outlook 0 Comments

The new sync protocol will make your RSVP responses to meetings visible in the Tracking Status for organizers and attendees, even if you chose not to send a response, as well as the details of past events of a recurring meetings will not change if the end date of a series is updated.

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Microsoft Edge v.91: Now you can view Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDATP) threat signals from Application Guard (AppGuard) containers

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

Application Guard is now integrated with Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDATP), which allows IT admins track threat activity detected by MDATP inside the container.

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