Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication compliance for Teams meeting

The Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance feature, which analyzes Teams meeting transcripts for policy violations, will be generally available in May 2024. No admin action is required before the rollout, but organizations should prepare by updating documentation and informing users. Global admins must consent to share Team transcripts for analysis.

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Power Platform – Public Preview of solution-aware cloud flow sharing limits in Managed Environments

We are announcing the Public Preview of solution-aware cloud flow sharing limits for Power Platform Managed Environments. This feature gives users the ability to turn sharing on and off at the managed environment level and provides a sharing rule that can be applied to entire environment groups.

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Register for the Graph API webinar on April 23

Learn how you can use Graph API to access information on Windows known issues and product lifecycle. Microsoft has heard your feedback and now gives you faster, programmatic access to Windows update data. To keep you up to date, we invite you to join us on April 23 for a webinar on Windows known issues and product lifecycle in the Graph API.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Improve prompt responses in Copilot with Graph-grounding chat with nudges to insert data sources

Use nudges to ground prompts in data sources to improve prompt responses in Copilot with Graph-grounding chat.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: AIR Initiated Remediation Logging

The AIR attribution update will empower customers with enhanced insights by deciphering between remediations produced by AIR versus truly manual remediations initiated independently by SecOps teams. Presently, all actions produced by AIR and approved by SecOps are logged as manual remediations throughout the portal. With this update, messages that are remediated as a result of approval of an AIR action will be logged as SecOps approved automated actions.

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting options to control participants’ ability to admit attendees from meeting lobby

Meeting organizers will have options in the meeting settings on who can admit attendees from the lobby into the meeting.

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Microsoft 365 Apps admin center: New Cloud Update Deactivation available now

The Microsoft 365 Apps admin center now allows admins to deactivate Cloud Update for specific channels, with immediate effect for onboarded customers. This feature does not change existing settings and devices will be updated within 30 minutes of deactivation. Deactivation is not available for legacy servicing profiles.

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Microsoft SharePoint Online and Microsoft Stream: New video page templates

New video page templates are coming to Microsoft SharePoint Online and Microsoft Stream, with a rollout starting in April 2024 for Targeted Release and June 2024 for General Availability. Users will be able to create video pages and news posts directly from the Stream web app. No admin action is required before the rollout.

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Viva Connections – Manage your organization’s brand in the new brand center preview

Microsoft is introducing a new SharePoint brand center to manage brand assets across sites and pages, with a preview rollout starting in mid-April 2024 and completion expected by June 2024. The brand center requires activation by a global administrator and the use of Public CDN.

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SharePoint: Manage your organization’s brand in the new brand center preview

The new SharePoint Brand Center, rolling out from mid-April to June 2024, offers centralized management of brand assets across sites and pages. Global administrators need to activate the Brand Center app in the Microsoft 365 admin center, which requires Public CDN use. Steps vary based on current tenant configuration.

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