The April 2024 Windows non-security preview update is now available

The April 2024 non-security preview update is now available for Windows 11 and all supported versions of Windows 10. Information about the contents of this update is available from the release notes, which are accessible from the Windows 11 and Windows 10 update history pages. To learn more about the different types of monthly quality updates, see Windows monthly updates explained. To be informed about the latest updates and releases, follow us on X @WindowsUpdate.

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Classic Teams Timelines for end of support and end of availability

Classic Teams will end support on July 1, 2024, and availability on July 1, 2025. Users will see informational banners starting April 2024 and experience non-dismissible dialogs post-availability end. Users should update their OS and address installation issues to prepare for the transition.

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Excel: Comment filtering

Enable filtering capabilities for the comment pane.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Risky AI usage

With this update, Insider risk management will help admins identify risky AI usage. We are adding new detections of intentional and unintentional insider risk activity on generative AI apps that can pose a risk to an organization. Activities will include risky prompts containing sensitive info or risky intent and sensitive responses containing sensitive info or is generated from sensitive files or sites. Coverage will span across Microsoft Copilots and 3P generative AI apps. These detections will also contribute to Adaptive Protection insider risk levels.

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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedrive

,As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Enable associated SharePoint sites to be excluded from retention policies after deletion of Modern Group

If a modern M365 group is deleted, the associated SharePoint has a retention policy, a file with a retention label, or a legal hold, it remains active but orphaned. These sites cannot be excluded from the retention policy after the deletion of the group because of designed modern group scope. The site-level holds are applied when a group is added to a retention policy and the Tenant-level holds are applied when the complete modern group workload is added to a retention policy. Currently, to remove such a hold, the customer has to raise an escalation. With the rollout of this feature, users will be able to exclude the orphaned SPO site from both site-level holds and tenant-level holds as a self-service.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Plugins in copilot.microsoft.com

Users can now use plugins via copilot.microsoft.com to expand Copilot skills.

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Microsoft Teams: Draggable Presenter Toolbar while screensharing

Introducing the ability for presenters to freely drag Presenter Toolbar appearing on top of screen while screensharing.

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Cloud Discovery anomaly detection policy to be retired

Microsoft is retiring the “Cloud Discovery anomaly detection” policy from Defender for Cloud Apps due to high false positives. Rollout begins early June 2024 and ends late July 2024. Affected users should switch to “App discovery policy” and set filters as needed.

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“Investigation priority score increase” Policy to be retired

The “Investigation priority score increase” policy in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps will be retired between June and July 2024 due to high false positives and limited value. Administrators should use the Advanced Hunting query as an alternative.

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