Microsoft Teams: Control your mic state during meetings from Windows taskbar available in the new Teams on Windows

This feature, available in the new Teams experience on Windows, enables you to mute and unmute your audio by clicking the mic icon in Windows taskbar. To control your mic during the meeting from the taskbar, do the following: select the mic icon on your taskbar or press Windows logo key + Alt + K to mute or unmute.

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Data Privacy: Microsoft Online Services Subprocessor Disclosure

This notice is to inform you of an update regarding the Microsoft Online Services Subprocessors List.

Microsoft may use non-Microsoft organizations to help provide Online Services. As a function of their role for Microsoft, a small set of these organizations may process your customer data or personal data, only to deliver the services Microsoft has retained them to provide; they are prohibited from using your data for any other purpose. In accordance with GDPR, we disclose these subprocessors to you in advance of their first engagement and provide notification of any changes over time.

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November skilling snacks: Bite-sized learning for IT pros

Visit our updated learning series on all things Windows. Every two weeks, we package available resources on a different topic in a way that is easy to consume in under two hours each. This professional development opportunity is appropriate for all skill levels, from entry-level to senior and seasoned. This month, learn about Application Control in Windows and ways to reduce bandwidth for Microsoft content delivery. 
 

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Copilot with commercial data protection now Generally Available

As announced in MC689933 (November ’23), Copilot with commercial data protection (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise) is now generally available as of December 1, 2023.

Read more in our general availability blog.

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Communication Compliance – Empower end users to report inappropriate posts and comments in Viva Engage

Coming soon to public preview, Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance will release a feature that empowers users to report policy-violating posts and comments in Viva Engage:

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 144596

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Pick a local folder when Saving Attachments in the new Outlook for Windows

Starting mid-January 2024, users will be able to pick a folder when saving attachments to their system in the new Outlook for Windows. Previously, all attachments downloaded were saved to a default local folder, which users could not change. This meant that if users wanted to move the file to a specific location, they would have to perform multiple clicks to get to the folder where the file was saved and then move the file to the desired folder.

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User experience improvements and persistent views in Threat Explorer by Microsoft Defender for Office 365

As part of our user experience enhancements, we will be rolling out the following improvements to the user experience of Threat Explorer by Microsoft Defender for Office 365:

  • Persistent views
  • Navigation between URL Clicks and All email tab
  • Custom inputs for timestamp filter
  • Remediation action results in Explorer

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Additional capabilities for Microsoft 365 users in Microsoft Project for the web

Currently, users with Microsoft 365 licenses can view projects shared with them by users of Microsoft Project for the web. This update will enable Microsoft 365 users to collaborate with Project users by editing shared projects.

The added capabilities will enable them to access any functionality where Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Project for the web overlap. For any non-overlapping fields, a Project license will still be required. For example, a Microsoft 365 user can edit the task name, its priority, and its start date. To edit or create a dependency, they will need a Project license. More information on the additional capabilities offered to Microsoft 365 users will be available in our service description following the feature rollout. 

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Introducing monthly Search newsletter for Search administrators

Monthly search newsletter provides key tenant search metrics and insights for your organization directly into the search admin’s mailbox.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 177895

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Tags management settings now include option to exclude / include guests

We are introducing guest setting option in Tag management settings.  

When this will happen:

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