Microsoft 365 Copilot is now available in Viva Amplify to improve authoring with AI. It’s accessible without a Copilot license if you have a Viva Amplify license. Copilot offers rewriting, length adjustment, and tone setting features but is not available on SharePoint or mobile apps. No admin action is needed for the rollout.
Post-rollout, Microsoft Teams town hall and webinar organizers can download transcripts and view RTMP-In 708 captions. The rollout begins early November 2024, with full availability by late November. No admin action is required, but organizations should review configurations and inform users.
Starting early November 2024, Microsoft Copilot in Edge will reintroduce page summarization and contextual prompt suggestions, available for users signed in with a Microsoft Entra account or using Microsoft 365 Copilot in web mode. Rollout will be automatic, and admins can configure the feature.
Themes by Copilot will be available in Microsoft Outlook from November 2024, allowing users to create themes inspired by global locations or their current surroundings. This feature requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and will be available across various Outlook platforms. Rollout will be automatic with no admin action needed.
The Microsoft Purview compliance portal is being updated to introduce a new schema to track Power Apps and Power Platform Connector activities. Beginning in October 2024, both activities will start being logged under the PowerPlatformAdministratorActivity activity type.
We are announcing the ability to use your own encryption key for encrypting data at-rest for existing environments with flows in Power Automate. This will enable you to meet your data and privacy policy guidelines. This feature will reach general availability on November 15, 2024.
Microsoft 365 is introducing a Data Loss Prevention feature for Mac endpoints, protecting sensitive data on network shares and mapped drives. Public Preview starts early February 2025, with General Availability in early March 2025. Organizations can configure DLP policies and exclusions via Microsoft Purview.
Microsoft Viva Learning will soon allow admins to edit Learning path content, not just metadata. This feature, for Viva Learning premium users, starts rolling out in late December 2024 and completes by late January 2025. No admin action is required for this update.
Microsoft SharePoint Online will soon allow admins to export content from SharePoint Embedded containers, including Microsoft Loop, using third-party tools with guest app permissions. Rollout begins mid-October 2024, with full availability expected by late October 2024. This update requires no admin action before rollout.
New Outlook for Windows will soon support apps and add-ins for all accounts, with a dynamic interface reflecting the active account. Rollouts start late October 2024 for Targeted Release and late November 2024 for General Availability. No admin action is required before the rollout.
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