Microsoft Teams: Limit Presenter Role Permissions

Organizers who schedule meetings where attendees are presenters by default will now have a secured Microsoft Teams meetings experience. We are introducing a PowerShell, so admins can control the presenter role permissions in untrusted environments, such as EDU, where students assigned as presenters can remove other students from the meeting. 

Key changes that apply to personal and work or school accounts excluding Microsoft Teams Rooms:

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Data Loss Prevention – Enriched Data Loss Prevention (DLP) alert email notifications for DLP admins

There is now increased information in the alert email notification sent to the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) admins upon a DLP policy match. Previously a DLP alert email only included the user activity and the type of sensitive information matched in the alert. Now, DLP admins will get additional context such as alert ID, policy details, device details, and more. This will help admins quickly assess the priority of an alert and determine the next steps before navigating to the Microsoft Purview DLP alerts page or Microsoft 365 Defender DLP alerts page.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 369645

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Retirement of entities in Outlook for contextual add-ins

We’re making some changes to the way Outlook supports contextual add-ins. Contextual add-ins activate based on the content of an email message or a meeting request. Currently, Outlook supports two methods for activating contextual add-ins: entity stamping and regular expression (regex) matching.

Entity stamping is a process where Outlook identifies and highlights certain types of data in a message, such as addresses, phone numbers, meeting suggestions, and task suggestions. When a user clicks on a highlighted entity, Outlook shows a list of add-ins that are relevant to that entity.

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Microsoft Project for the web: New Assigned to Me view for Project tasks

The Assigned to me view in Microsoft Planner, Microsoft To Do, and the Microsoft Teams Task app currently displays all Microsoft 365 tasks assigned to the user, except for Project on the web tasks. With this release, users can access and edit their Project on the web tasks in the Assigned to me view of Planner, To Do, and the Teams task app.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 382207.

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID and passcode required to join Teams Rooms on Windows

For organizations with a Teams Room Pro license, admins will be able to configure and require a meeting ID and passcode to join a meeting from a Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows, to ensure higher levels of security and privacy. This means that, if the IT admin has configured the room to use this feature, the room user is required to enter the meeting ID and passcode when tapping the Join button from the Teams Room calendar. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 101332

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Introducing the New Teams Telephony Admin Role in Teams Admin Center

We’re thrilled to announce the addition of a new RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) role in Microsoft Teams Admin Center: the Teams Telephony Admin. This role has been specifically designed to manage telephony-related functions within the Teams Admin Center.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: General availability of granular exclusion

Coming soon, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will roll out granular exclusion for general availability.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124779.

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Intune moving to support Android 10 and later for user-based management methods in October 2024

In October 2024, Intune will be moving to support Android 10 and later for user-based management methods which includes:

  • Android Enterprise personally-owned work profile
  • Android Enterprise corporate owned work profile
  • Android Enterprise fully managed
  • Android Open Source Project (AOSP) user-based
  • Android device administrator
  • App protection policies (APP)
  • App configuration policies (ACP) for managed apps

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Microsoft Viva Glint: Use Microsoft 365 admin center to assign your organization’s Viva Glint admins

An organization’s Global Admin is set by default as the Microsoft Viva Glint Admin, but they likely are not the ones using the platform. They need the ability to assign the correct person as their organization’s Viva Glint Admin and remove themselves.

Viva Glint (Service) administrators can now be assigned through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center (MAC) in addition to being able to setup within the Viva Glint product. There will not be changes to existing user roles.

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Interim DST guidance for Kazakhstan, Samoa, and Palestinian Authority

Three Daylight Saving Time (DST) changes will be released as part of the March 2024 non-security preview update and the April 2024 security update. Samoa has abolished DST. Kazakhstan has switched to a single time zone. The Palestinian Authority has announced a delay in DST dates for 2024 and 2025. Microsoft recommends temporary workarounds for users affected by these changes. Read individual articles on the Daylight Saving Time & Time Zone Blog
 

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