Microsoft Viva: Improvements for Topic Management

This update will empower Knowledge Managers, providing additional metadata for sorting and filtering through the list of topics, including additional quality and usage columns, and segmentation to help manage topics at scale.

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Microsoft Teams: Public Preview: Teams follow Office preview

Public Preview has provided IT admins with the ability to allow their users to receive preview features before they are released to the public. Coming up in June 2021, not only can users be opted-in to use Teams Public Preview, but IT admins can even configure Teams users preview state to follow Office preview state. All of this functionality will be accessible from the Teams Admin Center.

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Microsoft Graph: Confluence Cloud Graph Connector

Confluence Cloud Graph Connector will index content like pages, blogs from Confluence Cloud site into Microsoft Search and allow users to query them from SharePoint, Microsoft Bing, Office .com, Microsoft Teams and Windows Search Box.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Records management multi-stage disposition review

This update allows organizations to use a multi-stage disposition process, including multiple stakeholders and reviews before deleting the content.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/disposition?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft Teams: Operator Connect

Operator Connect is a new way for customers to simply and quickly enable PSTN calling for Teams, using services from non-Microsoft telephony operators. Administrators can select their desired operator in the Teams Admin Center, and provision phone numbers to their users in just hours, with no required hardware.

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Outlook: Outlook on the web – Share to Microsoft Teams

Send a copy of email messages or conversations, including attachments, into Teams chats and channels or start a Teams chat related to a specific email message. When sharing to Teams from Outlook on the web, a popup window will appear to confirm to which channel or person you want to share, you can also select whether you want to include attachments or not.

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

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

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

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

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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