Send Praise from Viva Connections Dashboard

Site owners/authors of Viva Connections can add the Praise card from Microsoft Insights on the dashboard, allowing employees to send praise to their colleagues. The Praise experience is the same experience as the one available within Microsoft Viva Insights today.

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Viva connections is being released to Android tablets.

Viva connections is being released to Android tablets.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Upcoming Changes to Intra-Org Messages

We will be updating the way intra-organizational SCL ratings are assigned for intra-organizational messages.

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Exchange: Microsoft multi-geo admin operation auditing

We are pleased to announce that Exchange Online Multi-Geo will be introducing a new feature release in early March, allowing admins to audit operations across all locations with the help of Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet and Microsoft Purview portal. Once the feature has been rolled out to tenants, users can begin testing it by using either Microsoft Purview portal or Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet(not Search-AdminAuditLog) to track admin operations. Please note that this feature is limited to admin operations only and does not include other types of audit logs.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business

With this update, you will be able to detect and protect sensitive content in images in SharePoint Online and OneDrive and subsequently apply DLP policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and BMP.

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Microsoft Syntex: Split PDF pages into new PDF files with the Extract action in OneDrive for iOS

Users of Microsoft Syntex can now split a PDF file into multiple PDFs with the Extract file action in OneDrive for iOS. The Extract file action lets you quickly split and extract multiple pages of a PDF into a new PDF file stored in SharePoint or OneDrive.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Scope the administration of retention and retention label policies

Organizations can leverage Administrative Units in Azure Active Directory to define who can configure and manage policies in Microsoft Purview. This update will include the ability to set a Records Management admin for a specific geography, department, or other unit, who can manage retention and retention label policies for their unit.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data loss prevention – | Configure Power BI DLP policies to automatically detect upload of sensitive data to Power BI premium workspaces

DLP policies can be configured to automatically detect upload of sensitive data to Power BI premium workspaces and trigger custom policy tip for data owner and/or alert to security admin.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Protect sensitive content on Citrix and Windows Virtual Desktop

With this capability you will be able to protect sensitive information in files stores in virtualized environments such as Windows Virtual Desktop.

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SharePoint: New SharePoint site templates

We are introducing 3 new SharePoint site templates dedicated to helping you create sites for your portal home site, to provide guidance and assets for your brand, and a template powered by Microsoft Syntex for your Accounts payable team.

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