SharePoint: Updated site creation experience

With this update, you will choose a site template based on your scenario to get started creating your site. When choosing a template you can see its capabilities, and even see a preview. This change will help site owners through the process by simplifying and providing additional guidance while creating the site.

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New Viva Connections Analytics Experience Coming Soon

Microsoft is pleased to announce the next set of features for Viva Connections usage analytics. The analytics experience now includes a full page dashboard view that will help organizations better understand user engagement by being able to visualize the metrics. The analytics dashboard will be available through both the Viva Connections desktop experience in Teams and through a SharePoint home site if your organization has one. Additionally, this release also includes engagement metrics for individual dashboard cards which will enable a more in-depth view of popular cards and those with less engagement. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124918

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Service side auto-labeling shifts scoping of OneDrive workload to users/groups

Service side auto-labeling will support scoping of OneDrive workload to OneDrive users and groups instead of Site URLs (previous implementation).  

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124914.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Export Teams messages as individual messages

Today with large cases in eDiscovery (Premium), organizations have the ability to export Microsoft Teams conversations. For many organizations, there is a need to export the searched messages as individual messages. With this new feature, you will have an opportunity to choose from exporting individual messages or whole conversations in eDiscovery (Premium).

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Named entity coverage for additional markets and languages

Named entities are sensitive information types (SITs) that can’t easily be identified by a regular expression or a function; these include person names, physical addresses, and medical terms and conditions. This update expands name and address coverage to an additional 7 countries, such as China and Russia, and expands medical terms and conditions (specifically for the Diseases SIT) to an additional 29 languages covering much of Europe, China, Japan, and Korea.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Copilot product usage report

The new Microsoft 365 admin center Copilot product usage report shows enabled and active user time trends across 7/30/90/180 days.

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Outlook: New Outlook for Windows and web – Find Related Search (Sender & Conversation)

Find related search allows users to search for similar emails based on one selected from the message list. Right clicking an email and selecting “Find related” offers users the chance to search
for “Messages in this conversation” and “Messages from sender”.

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New UI to view OneDrive files excluded from Sync

Introducing a UI in OneDrive Sync Advanced Setting to allow users to view the admin configuration of files to be excluded (ignored) from Sync.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124868

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for EXO – Deliver the message to the hosted quarantine

We are adding a new column that enables messages delivered to hosted quarantine to be viewed under “Data Loss Prevention” rather than needing to be filtered under transport rules.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Policy Tips revamp on Outlook Win32 desktop (U.S. Government clouds)

Expand the functionality of DLP Policy Tips in Outlook Win32 to support additional top predicates and exceptions, and advanced classification for E5 users.

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