Changes in CSPM support – CSPM will now be supported only in “Microsoft Defender for Cloud”

We will be retiring the Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) support from “Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps” and officially moving it to “Microsoft Defender for Cloud” beginning late November 2023. We recommend the reconfiguration of CSPM tool in “Microsoft Defender for Cloud”, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.  

This message is complementary to the banners we displayed in the last year in CSPM related pages in “Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps” and the notes in our documentation pages notifying these upcoming changes in 2023.

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Microsoft Teams Who bot to be retired

The Who bot within Teams was designed to help you find information about anyone in your organization. As we are working to improve the functionality delivered in this feature and provide a better user experience the current version of the Who bot will be retired. This functionality will transition to Microsoft Copilot in the future.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Teams: Improved View Switcher for Teams Rooms on Android

The latest version of Teams Rooms on Android Update 3 (2023) includes improved view switcher and front of room display controls.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 159128

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New Microsoft Defender Antivirus services on Windows Devices

Microsoft Defender Antivirus on Windows 10 and Windows 11 will be shipping with two new services:

  • Microsoft Defender Core service.
  • Microsoft Data Loss Prevention Service

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Display outbound pool names used to send messages externally from within Exchange Online

We are introducing a change to display the name of the outbound pool used to send a message externally from within Exchange Online. The name of the outbound pool will be included within the message tracing output. This will simplify troubleshooting of mail flow scenarios for Exchange Service Administrators.

When this will happen:

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Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – support for two new predicates

With this new feature for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP), we’re introducing support for two new conditions that you can use in your policies for endpoint devices.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 181623

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Microsoft Teams Shared Device License on Mobile App for Android

We wanted to share an update on the previous Message center post (MC662254) we sent around support for Teams Shared Device License on Android Mobile. We are glad to announce that support for Teams Shared Device License on Android Mobile is generally available now on Teams mobile version >= 2023143401. Only Calling and Walkie Talkie apps are supported when the Android mobile application is signed into an account with Teams Shared Device license. To access other apps on Teams Android mobile including chats and channels, please assign eligible licenses to the account and remove the Teams Shared Device License. 

For more information, please visit Set up an Android mobile phone as a common area phone.

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Custom Backgrounds for Announcement Posts in Channels

Microsoft Teams users will soon be able to create custom backgrounds for their Announcement posts with the generative AI power of Microsoft Designer. For organizations with Teams Premium, users will have access to DALL-E, a text to image generator, which they can use for their backgrounds. This release of Custom Backgrounds for Announcement Posts will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Desktop and Web for Channels 2.0 in English – US markets only. In line with current announcement behavior, Mobile will only support the consumption of custom backgrounds. Feature is disabled for EDU tenants while the team implements a policy setting. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 183785

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour for Viva Engage

This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour for Viva Engage private messages and community conversations, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations.

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Outlook: Updated Outlook for iOS Settings

The whole Outlook for iOS Settings page is being updated to be better organized so that you can find the settings you need more efficiently.

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