Microsoft Defender for Office 365: False positive email release from Quarantine through threat explorer, email summary panel, and email entity page take action

SecOps can now mange False positives and take move to inbox (i.e. release) quarantined messages from Threat explorer and Email entity page without the need to tab out to the Quarantine portal to take the action.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Browsed to generative AI websites indicator

With this update, we are adding a new indicator, “browsed to generative AI sites,” for the risky browser usage policy template, giving visibility into organizational usage of generative AI domains. User information is pseudonymized by default with strong privacy controls in place
to protect end user trust.

While visiting one of these AI domains may be authorized by an organization, this indicator is designed to help ensure they are correctly accounting for whether and how, these sites may be accessed in policies.

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Teams: Domain-specific search

Users will be able to narrow down their search results and find what they are looking for faster. Get more precise search results by picking up a specific domain like files, group chat or Teams and channels. You can also search files or group chats by entering a person name.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Recommended actions for finetuning policies

We are introducing additional recommended actions to provide guidance on fine-tuning your insider risk policies and implementing advanced configurations.

These new tasks and journeys will be accessible through the Recommended Actions page.
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Teams: Remove items from your activity feed

Users will be able to remove items they no longer need from their activity feed, helping the user
stay on top of their notifications.

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Outlook: Cloud-based Message Recall on Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows for GCC, GCC High, and DoD

We will be enabling Cloud-based Message Recall on Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows, a feature that is already available in world-wide multitenant, for customers in GCC, GCC High, and DoD.

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Windows Server 2012/R2: Extended Security Updates

You can now get three additional years of Extended Security Updates (ESUs) if you need more time to upgrade and modernize your Windows Server 2012, Windows Server R2, or Windows Embedded Server 2012 R2 on Azure. This also applies to Azure Stack HCI, Azure Stach Hub, and other Azure products. A new article provides details and step-by-step instructions to extending limited protection for up to three consecutive 12-month increments. Read it at Windows Server 2012/R2: Extended Security Updates. ESU online and proxy activation scenarios are covered in Extended Security Updates (ESUs): Online or proxy activation
 

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Virtual Events – Green Room License

There are two new updates to the current Green Room feature experience.

  1. Green Room will be available on Office/Microsoft 365 Enterprise E1/E3/E5/ and Education A1/A3/A5 licenses. It will no longer need a Teams Premium license to be used in your organization’s meetings, webinars, and town halls.
  2. Green Room will be turned on by default for Teams webinars. When a webinar is joined, organizers and presenters will join the webinar in the Green Room and attendees will wait in the Waiting Room until the event starts.

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Microsoft Stream: Add a survey, poll, or quiz to a video at specific times

Make your video interactive and more engaging by adding a survey, quiz, or poll using Microsoft Forms. You can add forms anywhere in the video timeline. Interactivity can be added, edited, and previewed in Stream Web App in Edit mode by users with editing permissions. Go to Microsoft Forms to view responses and share a summary link with answers and scores in Microsoft Forms. Viewers can use video timeline markers to navigate interactive content.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 180796

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Outlook Browser extension is being retired

As we focus our efforts on improving the Outlook on Edge sidebar, which offers a more seamless and integrated experience for our users, we are retiring the Outlook browser extension. and it will not be accessible after November 30, 2023. This applies to both Edge and Chrome browsers.

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