Expanding our AI capabilities to meet the everyday needs of people and business

We are bringing Copilot and new Microsoft AI experiences to the Windows PC. Today, Microsoft took the first step to unify our AI capabilities as Microsoft Copilot, providing a consistent look and feel across our products. Available as a side pane in Microsoft applications like Microsoft 365 and Edge, and on your Windows taskbar, the Copilot icon will be a consistent experience and entry point.
 

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Outlook: Expand and Collapse Folders

Stay organized and navigate easily by expanding or collapsing your nested mail folders using the “” button at the right of the folder row.

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Outlook: Dictation Support

Dictation lets you use speech-to-text to author messages in Outlook with a microphone and reliable internet connection. It’s a quick and easy way to draft emails, send replies, and capture the tone you’re going for.

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Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Error Messaging

Microsoft Teams Meeting users will be notified directly through the error message for why they cannot access meeting chats when their chat access is limited by policy or due to system limitations and unexpected errors. This will only be available in the new Teams experience.

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Microsoft Teams: Controlled-content meeting template (Premium)

We are launching an out-of-the-box template that can be useful when meeting with external participants. The controlled-content meeting template has preset defaults for meeting options to provide tight controls over lobby bypass, who can present, allowing chat in lobby/in-meeting, and who can record.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – SharePoint site selection enhancement

With this update, Insider Risk Management admins can add any SharePoint sites as priority content or exclude certain SharePoint sites in Insider Risk Management policies by searching the site names or using the exact URLs. 

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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Self-service trial experience available for Microsoft Purview

Beginning in mid-October, users in your organization will be able to initiate a self-service trial of Microsoft Purview using their Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) credentials. Administrators have the option to opt their organization out of this trial offering, however if your organization allows it you will have full visibility and control. 

With this update, end users will be able to start a trial and generate signals on utilization for admins to identify users that would benefit from a Microsoft Purview license. Enabling this trial will not require your users to input payment information.   

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Changes to Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) following June 2023 updates for Windows 11

Beginning with updates released on June 27, 2023 for Windows 11, version 22H2, Microsoft has changed how it updates PCs that run the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). WinRE will be updated using the monthly cumulative update. This change only applies to PCs running Windows 11, version 22H2, which get updates from Windows Update (WU) and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). 

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Audit – New default retention for Audit (Standard)

The default retention period for Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard) will change from 90 days to 180 days. The default retention period for Audit (Premium) remains at 1 year.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 171160

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Microsoft Viva: Engage Network Analytics

This new analytics capability helps users understand engagement trends across their entire organization. Network analytics provides an at-a-glance overview of your organization’s top usage trends including employee sentiment, cross-community insights and AI-powered summarization to help you stay up-to-date with all the activity that occurs within your company.

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