Microsoft Teams: Freehand by InVision Feature Change

The Freehand by InVision feature that was able to be initiated from the Share Tray in a Teams Meeting is being removed. Users can use the new Freehand by InVision Meeting App to create and collaborate on Freehands during their meetings.

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Universal Print: Secure release with QR code on Microsoft Office mobile app

Secure release prevents waste from unnecessary printing and maintains user privacy by holding their jobs until they show-up at the printer. Universal Print will allow secure release to be configured for any printer. Users can retrieve their print jobs by scanning a QR Code and using the Microsoft Office mobile app. Users need to be authenticated with their work or school account. QR code-based release will work with both Universal Print ready printers and printers using the Universal Print connector. We may add more secure release options in the future.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management – Classic EAC features migrating to Microsoft Purview compliance portal

Information governance features currently available in the Classic Exchange admin center (Classic EAC) – including Retention policies, Retention tags, and Journal rules – are moving to the Microsoft Purview compliance portal and will be available as part of the Data Lifecycle Management solution.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/data-lifecycle-management?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft Teams: Honor Tenant admin control settings for Microsoft Bookings SMS functionality in the Bookings app in Teams

Tenant admin settings in Bookings admin page in Microsoft Teams Admin center to enable/disable SMS functionality in all Bookings calendars in the tenant.

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Microsoft Viva: Recommendations to send praise in Viva Insights

Praise recommendations coming in the Viva Insights app in Teams will surface pre-populated suggestions to send praise-based signals such as collaboration activity.

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Microsoft Project: People view in Project for the Web

Visualize and balance your team’s workload in your project through the People view.

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle

In order to improve the consistency of how retention labels and policies work in SharePoint sites, going forward retention labels published to a group-connected SharePoint site will require the retention label publish policy to select the “Microsoft 365 Groups” location. Once this change rolls out, only those retention labels published to “Microsoft 365 Groups” locations will appear within the dropdown selection menu for the corresponding group-connected sites.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery API for Microsoft Graph now generally available

We are excited to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Graph API for Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium) to help you automate common eDiscovery workflows and integrate 3rd party applications into eDiscovery (Premium).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 63068

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Incident & Alert determination – retirement of old values

We recently changed the Incident and alert classification experience, including an updated classification and determination values list, previously supported values “Apt” and “SecurityPersonnel” will soon be retired.

When this will happen:

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Addition of Shared Mailboxes to the Mailbox Usage Report

In the coming weeks, the mailbox usage report will be expanded to include additional mailbox insights.  

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