Microsoft Outlook: Behavior change for “Org Data Notifications” for Android

Outlook for Android will soon align with documented behavior, ignoring the ‘Block’ setting for ‘Org Data Notifications’ after mid-September 2024. Organizations should review their settings before this date to ensure desired notification behavior, as no admin action is required for the rollout.

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Microsoft Teams: All your teams and channels view

A new ‘your teams and channels’ view provides you with a centralized hub where you can see all your teams and navigate to their channels from one page. This interface streamlines your workflows, enabling you to quickly access and manage your teams and channels.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Network Share Coverage and Exclusion Support on Mac Endpoints

With this feature, Sensitive data in files that are stored in network shares and mapped network drives will be protected by DLP policies across Mac endpoints as well.

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SharePoint: Enhancing SharePoint document translation with glossary feature

We’re thrilled to announce the addition of a glossary capability to our SharePoint AI content document translation model. This feature delivers precise, industry-specific translations, fostering unparalleled clarity and consistency for your documents. Experience effortless integration and user-friendly operation within your existing SharePoint libraries.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on Mac Endpoints

Purview policies like Data loss prevention (DLP) auto labelling can scan for sensitive content in most of the textual files, but images are not supported for content scanning today on Mac endpoint devices. We are adding OCR support on Mac endpoints to detect sensitive content in images and apply policies to protect these images.

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Windows Office Hours: August 15th, 2024

If you are an IT admin with questions about managing and updating Windows, we want to help. Every third Thursday of the month, we host a live chat-based event on the Tech Community called Windows Office Hours. Members of the Windows, Intune, Windows Autopilot, Windows Autopatch, and Windows 365 engineering teams will be standing by to answer your questions. We also have experts from FastTrack, the Customer Acceleration Team, and Microsoft public sector teams. 

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DNS hardening changes in the August 2024 security update may cause timeout errors for outdated domain configurations

After installing the Windows August 2024 security update, DNS Server Security hardening changes to address CVE-2024-37968 may result in SERVFAIL or timeout errors for DNS query requests. These errors may occur if the domain configurations are out of date.

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The August 2024 Windows security update is now available

The August 2024 security update is now available for all supported versions of Windows. We recommend that you install these updates promptly. For more information about the contents of this update, see the release notes, which are easily 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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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

We’ve released updates to the following update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel
  • Monthly Enterprise Channel
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview)
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

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Microsoft Viva: Copilot in Viva Amplify editor

The superpowers of Copilot will be directly available to you in the Amplify editing experience to revolutionize the way you create and enhance content. Auto-rewrite will create suggestions based on the text you’ve written. Additionally, you can expand or condense what you have written. Copilot in Amplify will also help you adjust the tone of your content to ensure consistency across your communications and to best suit your audience, whether you need a casual tone for social messages, an engaging tone to compel and draw in your audience, or a professional tone for business communications.

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