Visio: New capabilities in Visio for the web

We’re continuing to add new tools and capabilities to help enhance and personalize the diagramming experience in the Visio web app. With this set of features, you get access to new tools like Draw Shape, Recent Colors, Custom Colors, Format Painter, and Grids and Snap to grids in Visio for the web.

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MyAnalytics: Delay delivery inline suggestion feature available to New SKUs

Delay delivery inline suggestion is available to people who are using MyAnalytics and are enrolled in a MyAnalytics (Full) service plan. This feature is currently being rolled out to people who have the Insights by MyAnalytics service plan.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/workplace-analytics/myanalytics/use/mya-notifications#delay-delivery

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Microsoft Teams: Sharing device audio on iOS and Android for GCC High and DoD

Include device audio when sharing on iPhones/iPads and Android devices.

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Microsoft Teams: Auto-Expiration of Meeting Recordings stored on OneDrive and SharePoint

Newly created Teams meeting recordings in OneDrive and SharePoint will be automatically deleted by the service based on a default Teams policy setting. Teams Admins will be able to modify the default meeting recording expiration time via a setting in the Teams Admin Portal or by modifying policy attributes using Powershell scripts. Newly created meeting recordings in OneDrive & SharePoint will be automatically deleted after this point unless the meeting owner extends the expiration.

Meeting owners will be notified about expired recordings and may extend the expiration date in OneDrive and SharePoint. Compliance policies will override the expiration setting.

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Microsoft Teams: Share the system audio from meetings on web

Users in a Teams meeting on web can now share audio while screen sharing.

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Visio: Visio web app in Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 for commercial users now includes core functionalities of Visio – a Visio web app that allows anyone to create, edit, and share professional diagrams and integrates with a variety of Microsoft solutions, including Microsoft Teams for a collaborative diagramming experience.

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Microsoft Teams: Together mode for DoD

Together mode uses AI segmentation technology in meetings to digitally place participants in a shared background, making it feel like you’re sitting in the same room with everyone else.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) support for Advanced Delivery

We’re adding support for DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) domain entry to the Advanced Delivery policy. This enhancement enables security administrators to use DKIM domains in addition or instead of P1 sending domains to configure their third-party phishing simulations.

This option adds flexibility as well as another secure method for third-party phishing simulation vendors that utilize large number of P1 sending domains in their phishing simulation campaigns. Vendors can instead sign all their domains with one or a few DKIM domains. The end user (security administrator) will then just need to specify the DKIM domain in their advanced delivery policy configuration.

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Microsoft Teams Room on Windows – In meeting experience update

We will be updating the Teams meeting roster (viewable on the Teams Rooms console) to closely align with the current experience available on the Teams desktop application. This will provide new capabilities such as, participant grouping for instructed meetings, sorting roster by raised hand, an integrated user search and the ability to ask others to join meetings from an invite or from chat.

In addition to this, we will be making the roster position on the console better align with that of the Teams desktop application while adding a touch friendly interface for participant options. Users will also benefit from a unified universal bar that will provide in meeting call controls for presenters and attendees for Teams meetings, large meetings support, and Live events (presenter only).

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Exchange Online and Basic Auth – September 2021 Update

We’re making some changes to improve the security of your tenant. We announced in 2019 we would be retiring Basic Authentication for legacy protocols, and in early 2021 we announced we would begin to retire Basic Authentication for protocols not being used in tenants, but not disable Basic Authentication for any in-use protocols until further notice.

Today, we are announcing that we are restarting the program to end the use of Basic Auth in Exchange Online. Beginning October 1, 2022, we will begin to disable Basic Auth in all tenants, regardless of usage.

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