OneNote: iOS Home Tab

Quickly view all of your notes in a new grid style format.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Evaluations in audit mode

We are adding several new capabilities to our audit mode, which is used to evaluate Defender for Office 365 through a trial or a subscription that includes Defender for Office 365 Plan 2. 1) Security Administrators can now turn on/off specific evaluation policies. 2) You can now evaluate domain and user impersonation protection in audit mode where no action on messages will be taken. 3) If your organization’s MX is pointed to a 3rd party email filtering provider and you want to evaluate spoof filtering in Defender for Office 365, you will be able to do so in audit mode where no action, such as send to junk/quarantine, on messages will be taken.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention – User scoping RBAC

Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). The RBAC controls will extend to
the Microsoft 365 Defender portal for Information Protection and DLP related events.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Maintain label and protection when creating PDF files from VBA in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (U.S. Government clouds)

This feature is for VBA developers who use Office fixed format export functions to create PDFs from documents with sensitivity labels and encryption. By default, all PDFs created using Office’s fixed format export functions will automatically inherit the source document’s label or encryption. Some VBA add-ins may need to be updated to avoid issues when post-processing an encrypted PDF.

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Microsoft Viva: Sharing praise with others

With updates coming in January, users with Viva Insights subscriptions who send praise will have the ability to share a copy of the praise with others. Shared recipients will be notified via Teams and can see praise details in the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams.

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SharePoint: External File Request in SharePoint Document Library

,With the file request feature in SharePoint Document Library, you can choose a folder where others can upload files using a link that you send them. People you request files from can only upload files; they can’t see the content of the folder, edit, delete, or download files, or even see who else has uploaded files.

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Planner: Task Email Notifications for GCC-High

Task Email Notifications for GCC-High aims at bringing two primary categories of email notifications to the Planner customers in GCC-High. 1. Assignment email Notifications and 2. Due date digest email notifications.

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OneNote: Meeting Notes in OneNote

Every Teams meeting now comes with a collaborative OneNote canvas. Create notes from the Teams calendar or during a meeting. You can easily recall your notes and manage your tasks directly from OneNote.

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Microsoft Intune: Microsoft Tunnel Mobile Application Management

A light weight VPN solution for for secure access to premises resources from iOS and Android mobile devices that does not require device enrollment.

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Microsoft Teams Support for Co-organizer to Manage Breakout Rooms

The Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms feature enables co-organizers to create, manage and move between Breakout Rooms like meeting organizers. We will be updating this feature for co-organizers to have the ability to:

  • Create rooms
  • Configure room settings, including appointing additional Breakout Room managers
  • Assign participants
  • Add/Remove rooms
  • Open/Close rooms
  • Send announcements
  • Rename/Delete rooms

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