Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – New alerts report (U.S. Government clouds)

The new alerts report summarizes alert status to help you readily identify the number of alerts with “Needs Review” status that still require action. 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.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/insider-risk-management?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft Teams: Avatars for Microsoft Teams

Avatars for Microsoft Teams gives you that much-needed camera break, while still allowing you to collaborate effectively. You can add a new layer of choice to your meetings and represent yourself the way you want with customizable avatars and reactions.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – SIT Feedback Loop for Content explorer and DLP alerts (U.S. Government clouds)

Admins can provide feedback for sensitive information type (SIT) False Positives via Content explorer and DLP Alerts. This feedback can be provided in a compliant manner and users can see a summary view of the feedback in the SIT overview page. The feedback will be used to make systematic fixes to SITs for improved accuracy.

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Retirement of custom default result sources in Microsoft Search for modern search experiences

Classic SharePoint search supports the feature of result sources where you can define custom KQL filters on what items should be returned for your search result. This feature has been honored in Microsoft Search, but as the same result source is used across all verticals with SharePoint content it limits the flexibility and intention of the feature.

In November 2021 Microsoft shipped the capability for administrators to add KQL to the verticals in Microsoft Search. Vertical configuration succeeds the classic result source rewrite capability and allows for greater flexibility per vertical, and the change reflects what has been documented in Differences between the classic and modern search experiences in SharePoint.

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management and Records Management setup guide updates

The Advanced deployment guides & assistance page is getting revamped to help you manage data in your tenant. We’ll differentiate deployment tasks based on your license: Office 365 E3, Microsoft 365 E3, Office 365 E5, and Microsoft 365 E5. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117373

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New Tenants as of March 31 will have Azure B2B Integration with SharePoint enabled by Default

We’re making some changes to the default configuration for new tenants for Azure B2B integration with SharePoint & OneDrive.

When this will happen:

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Toggle to try the Preview of new Outlook for Windows

In Fall 2022, we expanded access to the preview of the new Outlook for Windows to all of Office Insiders in both Beta and Preview channels. With a wealth of feedback from these early adopters, we are excited to expand access to users in Current Channel. The experience is an option to try, and nothing will change without end users taking action. We will give notice before any required changes occur, after the preview has received sufficient usage and feedback.

When this will happen:

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Important Changes to Whiteboard in Teams tabs

Microsoft Whiteboard is making Whiteboard tabs in Teams configurable using Teams app permission policies. This provides more control and flexibility to enable or disable Whiteboard tabs in Teams and complements the already existing meeting policy for Whiteboard in Teams meetings.

When this will happen:

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Viva Connections Customer Facing Analytics

Soon, Viva Connections will include an analytics experience. Use analytics to understand how and when users engage with components of the Viva Connections experience, popular content types, and the platforms used to access the app.

This feature is associated with Roadmap ID 93367

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Microsoft Search: People centric search in SharePoint and Office.com to GCC and GCC-H environments

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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