Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support auto-labeling (client-side)

Organizations will soon be able to configure new or existing client-side auto-labeling policies using Exact Data Match (EDM) sensitive information types, enabling more granular control over labeling sensitive content.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82071

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Releasing Fluid live components in Teams chat

Co-authoring content in Teams just got easier. Now you can send a chat message containing a live component that can be edited inline—in real time—by everyone in the chat.

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Dynamics 365 and Industry Solutions and Power Platform 2021 release wave 2 plans available now!

Today, we published the 2021 release wave 2 plans for Dynamics 365 and Industry Solutions and Microsoft Power Platform which is a compilation of new capabilities that will be released between October 2021 through March 2022. The new features and enhancements provide you with significant capabilities to help transform your business using our applications.

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Power BI sensitivity label data in Activity Explorer (preview)

Power BI will now send sensitivity label activity data to Activity Explorer for admins to search and review.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82086

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(Reminder) Adjusting Version Retention for Outlook Data Files (PST File Type) on One Drive and SharePoint Online

As communicated in MC256835 (May, 2021), starting August 16th 2021 the service will start retaining 30 days worth of versions for any PST files stored OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online team site document libraries. This change will prevent cases of previous versions of PST files from quickly consuming available storage.

  • The change will only impact previous versions of PST files stored in your document library storage.

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New default settings when opening Office files

This new feature allows users to set a default of browser, desktop or Teams when opening Office files (Word, Excel, and Power Point) that are shared in Teams.

  • The desktop setting can be selected if the user has Office version 16 or newer installed and activated.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

We’ve released updates to the following update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel
  • Monthly Enterprise Channel
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview)
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

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Announcing Communication Compliance discrimination classifier (preview)

We’re rolling out a new trainable classifier for the Communication Compliance solution in the Microsoft 365 compliance center

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81971.

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Real-time messaging protocol (RTMP) Streaming Support to Custom Endpoints

Microsoft Teams will support the ability for your users to stream their Teams meetings and webinars to large audiences through real-time messaging protocol (RTMP) including endpoints outside your organization.

This feature will rollout on desktop and Mac.

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Suggested Replies support for new languages

Suggested replies support for Outlook on the web, Outlook mobile extended to Arabic, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, and Russian.

This will rollout on web, and mobile.

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