Microsoft Project: Baseline with Project level variance

Record a snapshot of the project and view project level variance to know if the project is on track or delayed.

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Visio: Define Shape Data in Visio for the web

Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to harness the full potential of shape data in Visio for the web. This powerful feature enables users to create custom data fields and associate them with shapes, simplifying the process of tracking and analyzing information in their diagrams.

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Together mode and content share layout improvement

With the new layout, Together mode will be displayed under the shared content. The users will be able to see the participants in Together mode and shared content simultaneously in a completely new way. Full Together mode experience is available including raised hands, reactions and name labels.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 181615

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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: Public preview of insider risk insights in DLP alerts

Coming soon, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out public preview of insider risk insights in DLP alerts.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 179880

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OneDrive Open in App availablility

In the same way that you can open a Word, PowerPoint, or Excel file in their respective desktop apps, you can now open any file in its desktop app, edit it, and the changes will sync to OneDrive. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124813

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Data Loss Prevention – Admin Units support for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal

We’re recently released a new GA capability that enables admins to delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC) via Azure Active Directory Administrative Units. For example, German Admin Unit investigators would be able to investigate alerts and audit events for only German users.

With the GA rollout of this new feature, we are extending the Admin Units capability currently available in Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.

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Customized Retention Policies: Long-Term Retention

We’re rolling out a new feature to enable customers with Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium) and the 10-Year Retention Add-on to create additional customized retention policies.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 144251

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting chat invitations from unmanaged users

When using external access for Teams, users receiving a meeting chat invitation from an unmanaged Teams user will be prompted with the option to acknowledge or leave the meeting chat.

When this will happen:

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Tailor Windows Update for Business reports with Power BI

If you’re an IT pro using Windows Update for Business reports, check out comprehensive guidance on how to customize them. Power BI simplifies your device monitoring and management with an array of visualizations, filtering, drilling down, and data slicing options. Learn from a few practical scenarios and start building unique reports that meet your organizational needs. See how it works in Tailor Windows Update for Business reports with Power BI. Then replicate the steps with a starter template and guide in Build custom Windows Update for Business reports using Power BI
 

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Windows Office Hours: November 16th, 2023

If you are an IT admin with questions about managing and updating Windows, we want to help. Every third Thursday of the month, we host a live chat-based event on the Tech Community called Windows Office Hours. Members of the Windows, Intune, Windows Autopilot, Windows Autopatch, and Windows 365 engineering teams will be standing by to answer your questions. We also have experts from FastTrack, the Customer Acceleration Team, and Microsoft public sector teams. 

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