Plan for Change: Migrate classic Conditional Access policies

Azure AD Graph is retiring, and admins must migrate classic Conditional Access policies to Microsoft Graph by July 10, 2024. Failure to migrate will prevent new device enrollment and compliance via the Company Portal and Intune apps across various platforms.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bring the latest from your organization into your Word chats with Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded search

Ask Copilot a question in Word chat, and Copilot generates an answer using the rich, people-centric data and insights in the Microsoft cloud. That’s the power of Copilot and Microsoft Graph.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bing search integration brings the power of the web to your chats in Word

Ask Copilot a question in Word chat, and Copilot generates an answer using the power of integrated Bing search. And you never have to leave the app.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel – Formula Conditional Formatting

Additional support for complex conditional formats beyond the basic top and bottom or conditional operators. For example, Copilot analyzes two factors when highlighting all rows where the product is bikes and sales is greater than 100.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enhanced multiple action experience from Threat explorer

SecOps can take multiple actions such as purging emails, submissions, and Tenant-level block actions through a single wizard on the bulk of messages. In addition, Tenant-level block URL and File actions are now available directly from Threat explorer.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bing search integration brings the power of the web to your chats in Word

Ask Copilot a question in Word chat, and Copilot generates an answer using the power of integrated Bing search. And you never have to leave the app.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bing search integration brings the power of the web to your chats in Word

Ask Copilot a question in Word chat and Copilot generates an answer using the power of integrated Bing search. And you never have to leave the app.

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SharePoint: SharePoint Premium content AI Graph API in Beta (formerly known as Syntex)

We are releasing new Graph APIs for SharePoint Premium content AI capabilities in Beta (formerly known as Syntex models). You will be able to build applications using these new Graph API calls: get a Syntex model by its name, get a Syntex model by its ID, apply a Syntex model to document libraries, un-apply a Syntex model from document libraries, list all the applied document libraries of a Syntex model, create a document processing job, and get a document processing job.

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Microsoft 365 Apps: Availability of the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 Government GCC

The Cloud policy service will begin rolling out for Microsoft 365 GCC customers late June 2024. The Cloud Policy service allows Microsoft 365 administrators to configure policies for Microsoft 365 apps and assign these policies using Microsoft 365 or Entra ID groups. Once configured, these policies are automatically enforced as users sign in and use Microsoft 365 apps. The initial release will support policies for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on Windows and future updates will bring support for additional applications and platforms. For additional information about the Cloud Policy service, refer to Overview of the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/admincenter/overview-office-cloud-policy-service

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft 365 admin centers – Manage Teams apps that work on Outlook and Microsoft 365 App

Administrators using the Microsoft 365 admin center and Teams admin center who manage Teams apps that work on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App will be able to apply their changes across all three clients (Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 App). Before this update, changes made through the Integrated Apps section in the Microsoft 365 admin center would only affect these apps on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App; similarly, changes made in the Teams admin center would exclusively affect Teams. With this change, management of these apps will be unified across Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 App.

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