Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Enhancements to the DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints

Mac DLP will have the following capabilities with these enhancements: Context Based Classification and Matched condition and short evidence for advanced classification.

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SharePoint: Autofill columns

This allows SharePoint Premium users to add natural language prompts to document library columns to extract or generate metadata from an uploaded file’s contents.

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Microsoft Teams: Meet now in Teams group chat

Start a huddle with you colleagues using meet now in group chat. Meet now in group chat is a ringless experience designed to enable ad-hoc, real-time communication with your team in a hybrid environment.

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Microsoft Teams: Explicit consent for transcription in Teams meetings

The meeting policy that requires explicit consent to be recorded is expanding to include transcription. When the policy is applied, a notification will pop-up when the recording or transcription is initiated requesting consent of all participants to be transcribed and recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user cannot unmute, turn on camera or share content in the meeting.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Data Loss Prevention – Gain comprehensive summary of Data Loss Prevention alerts with Copilot for Security

Copilot for Security is embedded in Data Loss Prevention to summarize alerts to help accelerate data security investigations.

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Announcing the retirement of legacy Power BI Apps (pre-audiences)

Legacy Power BI apps (pre-audiences) will no longer be supported after May 1, 2024. Users are encouraged to upgrade or rebuild their apps using Power BI apps with audiences. Technical support for legacy apps will cease after the deadline. Users can read about the changes and improvements in the new version of Power BI apps and how to upgrade in the provided link.

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting Chat shown by default in Gallery View with Teams Room

Microsoft Teams will show Meeting Chat by default in Gallery View with Teams Room. This will enable users to see incoming chat messages on the front-of-room display during a meeting. The default chat experience can be configured via Teams Admin Center or XML setting. No action is needed to prepare for this change.

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Microsoft Teams | Track usage of your frontline teams and apps in the Teams Admin Center

Admins can track usage of frontline teams and apps in the Teams Admin Center with a usage dashboard. A table with usage data for each frontline location on Microsoft Teams, Walkie Talkie, Shifts, and Tasks can be filtered by location and date range. Admins can export this data to a CSV file. Rollout begins in April 2024 and ends in May 2024. Admins should map frontline attributes and deploy frontline dynamic teams in the Teams Admin Center. Learn more about Frontline Usage Reporting.

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SharePoint Online: New heading level options for web parts

SharePoint Online will soon allow authors to choose heading levels for titles in web parts to define information hierarchy. The default heading font sizes in the Text web part will also change. This will roll out in early April 2024 for Targeted Release and mid-April 2024 for General Availability. Authors can set their own heading level, and existing pages and news posts will have the new default heading font sizes. No admin action is required for this automatic rollout. It is recommended to notify SharePoint authors and update relevant documentation.

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Out-of-band updates to address a Windows Server domain controller issue

Microsoft has identified an issue that affects Windows Server domain controllers (DCs), and has expedited a resolution that can be applied to affected devices. Out-of-band (OOB) updates have been released for some versions of Windows today, March 22, 2024, to addresses this issue related to a memory leak in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS). This occurs when on-premises and cloud-based Active Directory domain controllers service Kerberos authentication requests.

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