Viva Learning content provider configuration feature will now be available in Viva Learning Admin tab

Provider configuration will now be available on Viva Learning Admin tab. Admins can add/edit/delete the LMS, 3P and global learning providers directly from Manage providers in Viva Learning app. The existing configuration capabilities on M365 Admin centre will no longer be available by 15th June.

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System preferred MFA method is Generally Available

In today’s landscape, organizations and users utilize various authentication methods with varying levels of security. Unfortunately, users often select less secure MFA methods, even when more secure options are available. This may be due to convenience, lack of awareness, or technical limitations.

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Microsoft Syntex: Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Customers will be able to turn on OCR for images in Exchange and Teams on a pay-as-you-go basis. The extracted text will be available for compliance scenarios, like DLP. The text will also be available to Microsoft search.

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Microsoft Syntex: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for SharePoint and OneDrive

With this update, you will be able to turn on OCR for images in SharePoint and OneDrive on a pay-as-you-go basis. The extracted text will be made available to Microsoft Search and Microsoft Purview.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sequence detections for obfuscation involving excluded events

This change enhances sequence detection to improve its effectiveness in identifying users who are performing obfuscation activities that may result in a data security incident, such as file renaming, to evade detection. With this improvement, Insider Risk Management can detect sequences that may result in potential data security incidents, even if the obfuscation activities in those sequences involve excluded events, such as an excluded keyword. 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 to manage security and compliance. 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 Viva: Answers-focused view for Viva Engage

Shift into an Answers-focused view for Viva Engage customers that are only using Answers.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Cumulative exfiltration detection tuning

With this update, cumulative exfiltration activities will no longer be detected and scored if they have already been identified in a previous cumulative exfiltration alert. This change will reduce unnecessary alerts generated from cumulative exfiltration activities. 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 to manage security and compliance. 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 Search: People centric search in SharePoint and Office.com to DOD

People centric search is a pattern that lets you zoom in on a person to view, explore, and search the enterprise graph around them. This has the dual purpose of enabling you to find content through people, and to understand people through their content. When you pick a person, you will be able to search through their work; however this will only include items that you already have permissions to view or modify.

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Microsoft Teams: Frosted Glass Backgrounds in Teams Meetings

Frosted Glass is a type of background effect that helps users keep their privacy with a background blur, but in a more professional and creative way. It let users have graphics with a blur effect together. Frosted Glass can be activated with a PNG image, that usually comes with some graphics in a transparent background. With the new frosted glass effects, the transparent area is turned into a blur background while the graphic remains as the part of background effect.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enhanced investigation and remediation experience (U.S. Government clouds)

Introducing enhancements to the investigation and remediation workflows to help designated investigators facilitate quicker and better-informed actions on policy matches. Enhancements will be available to designated Communication Compliance admins and investigators with the appropriate role-based access control permissions, and include bulk policy exports, interactive how-to demos, and additional context around policy settings and keywords/conditions flagged in a policy. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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