Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Auto-labeling policy supports excluding locations (U.S. Government clouds)

Auto-labeling policy supports excluding specific locations in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Exchange.

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Microsoft To Do: Auditing for Microsoft Project, Planner and ToDo

Identify data risks and manage regulatory compliance requirements while using Planner, Project and To Do with audit log retention and access to crucial events that help determine scope of compromise.

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New Microsoft Teams Continuous Web Logs Extend the Window for Troubleshooting

Debug log files are automatically produced by the Microsoft Teams client, which can aid in monitoring and troubleshooting Teams. Also known as “Web logs”, Debug logs have historically been constrained by a limited memory buffer. If not collected by the user immediately after an issue occurs, the “signature” of the issue may not be present in the Debug logs, making it more difficult to resolve recent and future issues.

This is being addressed with Continuous Web Logs (CWL). With CWL enabled, once the in-memory buffer reaches the limit, log lines will be saved to a file on user’s machine extending the log capturing window up to one business day for an average user, providing a significantly larger window for troubleshooting.

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A new experience to search within chat and channels

We are excited to introduce a new and improved experience to search within chats and channels.  

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122550

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Outlook – Calendar board view retirement

We will be retiring the Outlook Calendar board view from the options in the Outlook on the web calendar. 

We recommend that you make sure links to any frequently used items in the board are saved somewhere else.  

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Microsoft Teams: Two-way lobby chat

The Virtual Appointments app provides a central hub for all your virtual appointments needs in Microsoft Teams. The app enables a seamless end-to-end experience for business-to-customer engagements.

Queue view in Virtual Appointments app is a premium advanced virtual appointment feature that allows businesses to Empower employees to manage and service scheduled and on-demand virtual appointments in one location with advanced capabilities to track wait times, live status of a meeting, and more. Scheduling administrators and staff conducting virtual appointments can monitor incoming requests and process them appropriately.

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OneDrive: Sharing Experiences – Refreshed Manage Access

We are completely revamping the Manage Access experience to be more people-centric and more usable. You can now view the extensive list of all the people who have gained access to your files, search for an individual or a group and manage their access with even more control. You can also drill down into the group or link information for more details.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83726

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Outlook – New Outlook for Windows and web – Reading Pane Background Image

To offer more personalization to end users, Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows will offer the ability to display a background image in the reading pane whenever emails are not selected.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 126221

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Microsoft Stream Migration Tool: Partial Migration and Orphan Video Support

The Stream migration tool helps IT admins migrate video content from Stream (Classic) to Stream (on SharePoint). We are releasing two features to the tool soon:

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Live translated captions for meetings requires Teams Premium license

Earlier this year we announced the grace period for several Microsoft Teams Premium features that were in preview, including live translated captions for meetings. Starting April 2023, a Teams Premium license is required to use this feature.  

License enforcement will be enabled in July 2023. Once licensing enforcement is enabled, the only users who will be able to access live translated captions for meetings are:

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