Microsoft Search: Video Search in Bing, Office.com, SharePoint, and Stream

Our new Video tab will improve video search in your organization by having a dedicated place to search through Stream, OneDrive, SharePoint videos. This Video tab will appear on Microsoft Search in Bing/Office/SharePoint and Stream.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117552

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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 now have the ability to display a background image in the reading pane whenever emails are not selected. This feature will be turned off by default for commercial customers.
A user will be able to turn on a background image by going to Settings General Appearance from Outlook.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Detect if a label is not assigned (not labeled as a condition) – U.S. Government clouds

With this capability you will be able to configure specific restrictions for PDF and Office files that are not labeled on the endpoint devices.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Review set: Advanced filters

Updates to eDiscovery (Premium) review filters experience that allow admins to construct compound nested filters with either “AND” or “OR” conditions, go back and forth (undo/redo) between different iterations of filters, manage saved filter queries without navigating to a different panel, and use “Is empty/Is not empty” condition for each filter.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Viva Goals Usage Report

A new report will be made available to help you understand how Viva Goals is used within your organization. The new usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center will provide metrics on the number of active users including trial and paid licenses and platform distribution (Teams, Slack, Azure DevOps, and Web) with the ability to view 7/30/90/180 day timeframes.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117599

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Improved management of Teams apps with capabilities extended to Outlook and the Microsoft 365 app via Integrated Apps

In January 2023, Microsoft released the feature to manage Teams Apps with certain capabilities that extend to Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App (formerly known as Office.com) via the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Now, we are introducing controls at an app and tenant level, for admins to define which users in their organization can install and use these apps on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App via Integrated Apps in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88942

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In-product announcements for the Yammer website rebrand to Viva Engage

We are thrilled to share the exciting news that the rebranding of Yammer and all its surfaces is nearly complete! The Yammer website, the SharePoint and embed integrations, as well as the Power Automate integration rebranding will take place during the last week of June of 2023.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117366

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Microsoft Purview – Data Lifecycle and Records Management – Scope the administration of retention and label policies

To assist in the implementation of security best practices, we are introducing new way to assign administrative privileges in the Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management and Microsoft Purview Records Management solutions that will provide admins the least privilege access required for their job duties.

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Introducing Support for Concurrent Exchange Online License Assignments

We recently enabled a new feature in Office 365, which allows tenant admins to assign more than one Exchange Online license per AAD user. This provides license stacking support and automatic license feature upgrades and downgrades based on the most superior Exchange Online license pack assigned to a user.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Topics Teams app

Viva Topics Teams app as the new destination for discovering new and trending topics in the organization, providing feedback on suggested topics, catching up on activities on topics of interest and more.

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