Microsoft Planner: Increased number of tasks per premium plan in Microsoft Planner

Create and manage up to 1,500 tasks within a Microsoft Planner premium plan (formerly known as a Project for the web project).
More info: https://aka.ms/thenewplanner

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Admins can block top level domain addresses within Tenant Allow/Block List

Admins can block top level domain addresses within Tenant Allow/Block List.

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Microsoft Viva: Copilot deployment kits in Viva Amplify

Prepare for and launch Copilot in your organization using our new deployment kit in Viva Amplify. This is a set of pre-written and formatted publications that will educate users on how to use Copilot, all of the M365 endpoints, and develop their AI skills. This is a tested set of communications that the Microsoft team used internally to ensure the right messages are reaching your end users and preparing them for Copilot.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on Mac Endpoints

In Purview policies like Data loss prevention (DLP), auto labelling can scan for sensitive content in most of the textual files, but images are not supported for content scanning today on Mac endpoint devices. We are adding OCR support on Mac endpoints to detect sensitive content in images and apply policies to protect these images.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New logs for Audit activities

Activities performed by users within the Purview Audit feature, like submitting an Audit search query, viewing and exporting Audit logs, and deleting search history, will now begin to generate Audit logs.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview Activity Explorer – Limiting sensitive data access to “Data Classification Content Viewer” role

With this change, an additional role will be introduced which will be required to “View Source” content and expand on “Sensitive Info Type” surrounding context within Activity Explorer. Only users with the specific role of “Data Classification Content Viewers” will be able to access this sensitive data.

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Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Webinars

This feature allows the organizers of webinars to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams.

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Word: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Start a new document using up to three files

No need to start from scratch. Copilot can create your new document based on three different Word or PowerPoint files. In “Draft with Copilot,” select Reference a file and choose up to three files that Copilot should use when creating the new document. Or, in “Compose,” type “/” and the name of the file you’d like to use. You can only use files you have permission to access in your organization’s SharePoint or OneDrive.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Browse OneDrive and SharePoint folders to find files to ground prompts in Copilot with Graph-grounded chat

Browse OneDrive and SharePoint folders to find files for grounding prompts in Copilot.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Copilot Adoption Community

We are introducing new capabilities in Engage that will help organizations with their M365 Copilot rollout and adoption journey by bringing together employees in a community of practice. This community will provide a place for employees to ask questions, seek support from both their peers and IT admins, share best practices, and learn more from articles and quick tips on how best to use Copilot. This templatized Copilot adoption community will take away much of the work from the community manager with a set-up checklist, suggested content, suggested members (based on Copilot license assignment), and other features like conversation starters and top Q&As to help with community member engagement.

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