Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Enhancements for eDiscovery support of Loop content

Now eDiscovery admins can review Loop components created in Outlook or Teams within eDiscovery (Premium) as rendered HTML files to help understand the content that has been created within the Loop component.
Once the component has been reviewed, it can then be exported as an HTML file to meet the requirements of the case.

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Microsoft Viva: Mobile quick access to Homesite in Viva connections

Feature to improve the discoverability and access of SharePoint (SP) Homesite for customers of SP using Viva connections mobile

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy customization from alert review experience

This feature allows admins to customize an Insider Risk Management policy and adjust policy thresholds from within the alert review experience instead of going through the policy configuration wizard, so customization decisions can be made in the context of alert review 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 Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap (Premium)

As part of Teams Premium, Intelligent Meeting Recap is a comprehensive AI-powered meeting recap experience that helps users catch-up, recall, and follow-up on hour-long meetings in minutes by providing recording and transcription playback with AI assistance. This allows users to browse the recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes,
action Items, and @mentions.

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Microsoft Teams: Custom wallpaper enhancements for Teams Rooms on Windows

Admins can upload up to 3 images specifying which goes to the left or right room display and console.  Higher resolution images (minimum of 1280×800 on console and 1920×1080 on displays) in PNG, JPG, JPEG, and BMP formats are supported.

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Profanity filtering on/off control for Live Captions in Teams meetings

With the newly introduced toggle for turn on/off profanity filtering in Live Captions, users will now be able to control whether they want to continue to leverage the profanity filtering capability provided out of the box, or if they want to see every word as-is.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 113412.

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Teams Rooms: Windows 11 support for Teams Rooms on Windows devices

Teams Rooms on Windows devices that are eligible for Windows 11 upgrade will receive the Windows 11 22H2 release in May 2023. This will be offered and installed on their devices with 4.16 dot release (a newer release than 4.16.40.0 currently available). Devices that are not eligible due to an incompatible processor will continue to use Windows 10 per Windows hardware support policy. These devices will be offered Windows 10 22H2 release.

Devices that cannot upgrade to Windows 11 will continue to be supported until the end of Windows 10 End of servicing for General Availability Channel or hardware support from OEM, whichever comes first. Windows 10 releases information at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/release-information. Please note, not all Windows releases are supported for Teams Rooms, to find supported version, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/rooms/rooms-lifecycle-support#windows-10-release-support.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sequences policy configuration enhancements

With this enhancement, admins can now select sequences in data leak and data theft policies without the requirement to select underlying individual indicators. This will allow admins to create more targeted policies with improved alert signals. 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 Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – OCR support in Insider Risk Management

With this update, Insider Risk Management will support the scanning technique of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to detect potentially risky activities that may lead to data security incidents related to images in SharePoint, Teams messages, and endpoints. 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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