End-to-end encrypted Meetings – 200 participants (Premium)

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 6, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

For meetings that require heightened confidentiality, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is an extra layer of security that encrypts data at its origin and decrypts it at its destination. Only audio, video, and video-based screen sharing is end-to-end encrypted. Apps, avatars, reactions, chat, and Q&A are not end-to-end encrypted. 

We had launched end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for meetings with 50 participants in February 2023. We are increasing the meeting size to 200 participants. We support:

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – New cmdlet for hold removal

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 6, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

We are launching a new cmdlet to enable removal of orphaned and legacy eDiscovery holds. Today, customers often contact Microsoft support to remove legacy and orphaned eDiscovery holds from mailbox and SPO sites. This cmdlet will help users self-serve to remove eDiscovery holds and is available only in Security & Compliance PowerShell.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 174597, 174604

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Announcing the general availability of the new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 6, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of the new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac including education customers. We’re also beginning to roll out new Teams to public preview for our Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and government cloud customers (GCC and GCC-High).

This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap Id: 122540

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OneDrive: Add individual file shortcuts in OneDrive for Web

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 5, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

This feature will let you create a shortcut to files stored in other people’s OneDrive and document libraries to be able to easily find it within your OneDrive. These file shortcuts can be moved, renamed, or deleted without impacting the source content, and they will show up in OneDrive for Web, Android, iOS, and sync client endpoints.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-New attributes and features for alert and case

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 5, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

With this update, Insider Risk Management will provide additional attributes for alerts and cases to make it easier to understand which alerts and cases should be prioritized. The additional attributes include details, such as the date the last activity was detected and the last working date of departing employees. In addition, admins with appropriate permissions can customize columns and save a preferred combination of filters and columns.

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: Manage Microsoft Surface Hub as a Teams Rooms on Windows device

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 5, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

With the transition of Microsoft Surface Hub devices to the Teams Rooms on Windows platform, Admins can now manage Surface Hub devices as Teams Rooms on Windows devices in the Teams Admin Center and Teams Rooms Pro Management (available for Teams Rooms Pro
license customers).

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OneDrive: Admins can configure a group policy to block specific folders from OneDrive Sync

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 5, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

In addition to being able to configure a group policy to exclude specific files or file extensions from Syncing with OneDrive, admins can now exclude folders as well. End-users will be able to see the excluded folders in the Sync configuration applied to them via their OneDrive Advanced Settings.

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Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Microsoft Teams

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 5, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Copilot in Microsoft Teams helps users stay organized and on top of all their information in chat, meetings, and calls, with the ability to ask Copilot any question and discover insights. Use one of the suggested prompts or enter a free text question of your own.

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Outlook: New Feedback Experience Update

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 5, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

The feedback entry point for Outlook for Web will be moving from the bottom of the Help pane to the Help tab of the ribbon, for ease of discovery. A streamlined experience, diagnostics log collection and the ability to add screenshots and video make it easier and quicker for users to describe their feedback and helps Microsoft act on it. Users can also search for information related to their feedback, including updates on features under development, workarounds for problems and how-to from Help. This change obeys the general Feedback policy.

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Syntex OCR for image-only multi-page PDF and TIFF

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 5, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

With this update, multi-page image-only PDF and TIFF files in the libraries you have configured for Syntex OCR will also have text extracted.  This extracted text will be available to Microsoft Purview scenarios and to end user search powered scenarios. For multi-page PDF and TIFF documents, OCR is charged on a per page basis.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124940

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Joao Ferreira

I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.