Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: Bulk upload for priority user groups

Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management will soon support bulk upload for priority user groups. The Public Preview is set for mid-August 2024, with General Availability in early February 2025. This update allows admins to upload multiple UPNs via CSV, simplifying user group management. No admin action is required for the rollout.

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Outlook: Fonts in Outlook for iOS and Android

We heard feedback from you, our customers, and are adding support for choosing fonts while you compose in Outlook for iOS and Android. There is also improved support for fonts in the reading pane.

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Microsoft Teams devices: App-only updates for Android-based Teams devices

Updates for Android-based Microsoft Teams devices will be more flexible, allowing for stand-alone app updates. Rollouts start in August 2024 and will enable updates via the Teams admin center for individual components like Microsoft Intune and Authenticator, with automatic updates for certain apps. No action is required from administrators to prepare.

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Microsoft OneDrive: Bulk data export for OneDrive Sync admin reports

A new Microsoft OneDrive feature allows bulk export of admin reports on device status, including various user and sync details. It’s linked to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88870 and will be available between December 2024 and January 2025. Organizations should enable OneDrive sync reports for data availability.

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Microsoft Outlook: Open attachments in desktop apps from the new Outlook for Windows

The new Outlook for Windows allows users to open attachments in their preferred desktop apps by double-clicking, streamlining the workflow. This update, linked with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 401123, will roll out between late August and mid-October 2024. No admin action is required for this automatic update.

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Get started with July 2024 improvements in Windows 11

If you’re an IT professional or decision maker, start using the newest Windows 11 capabilities with helpful tips and actionable steps summarized in one place. Read this month’s recap of improvements in Windows security, device management, Windows Server, productivity and collaboration, lifecycle milestones, and preview opportunities. Get started with Secure Boot protections, checkpoint cumulative updates, security baselines and cross-region disaster recovery for Windows 365, Windows Server preview opportunities, IoT LTSC, and other improvements released in July. 
 

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Microsoft Teams: Voting and archiving questions in Teams Q&A feed

Microsoft Teams is rolling out a feature for meeting organizers to enable attendee voting on questions and archiving questions from the Q&A feed. This is part of Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 398445 and will be available worldwide by late September 2024. Organizers should be notified to prepare for these updates.

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Viva Goals – Copilot assisted catch up on important work related to goals

Copilot in Viva Goals helps users in finding and catching up on documents, meetings, chats, emails, and work related to all or a subset of the goals in view

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Viva Goals – Copilot assisted summarization and catch up on goals

Copilot in Viva Goals helps you save time by generating a comprehensive summary with tone, length of your preference for one or more goals in the view, allowing you to quickly catch up on and share your goal status and progress with leaders, stakeholders, and your team

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Ability to exclude spam and bulk emails

Communication compliance policies will filter out bulk emails such as newsletters to help customers triage policy matches more efficiently. This will be an option for all policies in Communication Compliance. New policies will have this filtering on by default, but admins will have the option to configure as well as remove the filtering.

Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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