Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Standard) to eDiscovery (Premium) case upgrade tool

We are releasing a tool to allow eDiscovery administrators to upgrade their existing eDiscovery (Standard) case to eDiscovery (Premium) to unify cases into a single platform.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 106106.

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle and Records Management: Simulation mode for retention labels

We’re introducing “simulation mode” in Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management and Microsoft Purview Records Management for auto-labeling policies of retention labels.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98146.

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Start Configuring Viva Engage in the new Engage admin experience

The Viva Engage experience has now arrived! You can discover this experience through search by searching for Viva, or Engage, as well as navigate to the experience via the setup tab, and then click on the Viva Collection. From the Viva suite page admins can navigate to the Viva engage app page where admins can begin their Viva Engage deployment process.

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management: New cmdlet for disposition review

We’re releasing a new PowerShell cmdlet for Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management to support export of items for disposition review.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 106102.

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Microsoft Teams: Power Automate Connector – Updates App (Microsoft 365)

Updates App (Microsoft 365) connector enables creation of Power Automate flows which trigger when an update is sent to the flow owner. Currently, the connector supports two triggers, 1) When a new update is received, 2) when a new update tied to a specific request is received.

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Microsoft Viva: Search relevance improvements in Viva Learning

Improvements to relevancy of search results in Viva Learning including attribute boosting, spell correction, exact match, and personalized results based on interests.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams Button to bring Meeting Stage to foreground during meeting

With this feature, users can bring up the meeting stage to the foreground by pressing their Teams Button during a meeting. This allows users to more quickly return to the meeting stage to review chat discussions or the content being shared, especially if the meeting stage was hidden behind other windows. Note: This feature only applies to devices with dedicated Teams Buttons. If the device has a dual-purpose button (both hookswitch and Teams Button), pressing the button will end the call.

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Microsoft Teams: Geo filtering for Teams apps

ISV’s can now target applications to select geographies (countries/regions) via partner center. Thus, users will only see apps relevant for them given their country and region.

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Microsoft Teams: Support Breakout Rooms on VDI

Enable organizer support for Breakout Rooms for VDI users.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer (U.S. Government clouds)

The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer.

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