Microsoft Purview compliance portal: new role added for built-in Compliance Administrator, Organization Management, Purview Administrators role groups

Microsoft Purview provides a unified solution for managing data security, governance, compliance, and privacy across your organization’s landscape. Specific Microsoft Purview built-in role groups are being extended with a new role to prepare for upcoming features and capabilities relevant to those role groups: Compliance Administrator, Organization Management, and Purview Administrators role groups. This change will not disrupt the current capabilities for these role groups; it will enable admins in these built-in groups to manage Purview resources within Purview administrative unit scopes in the future.

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Microsoft Teams: Hiding of inactive channels

Easily keep your channels list relevant. Teams will automatically detect inactive channels you haven’t interacted with in a while, and automatically hide them for you. You have the option to review the list of channels and unhide some or all of them, opt out of automatic hiding from settings, or initiate this process on demand.

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Microsoft Teams: Voting, Filtering, Sorting, and Archiving Questions now available in the Q&A App on Teams

Take your Q&A to the next level with this new update that lets attendees vote on the questions they want presenters to answer. Organizers can sort questions by most voted, filter, and archive questions to keep the discussion focused in meetings and events.

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Microsoft Intune: Device Action – Remove apps and configuration

Intune will have the ability to temporarily remove apps and config from a single device, and then initiate a restore. This is intended to help solve customers’ challenges external to Intune and quickly restore end user productivity.

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Microsoft Teams: Updated developer tools to share content from Teams apps to chats, channels, and meetings

Microsoft Teams is updating developer tools to enable sharing content from Teams apps to chats, channels, and meetings. The rollout, starting early June 2024, will combine Share-in-Meeting controls with Share to Teams dialog, introduce Present Now feature, and enhance future meeting content sharing. No admin action is required before the rollout.

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Microsoft Teams: Channel cards

Microsoft Teams will introduce Channel cards providing an overview of a channel, including description, activity, team name, and membership. They will appear on desktop and web by hovering over channel names and offer quick access to settings and management. Rollout begins early July 2024, completing by late July 2024, with no admin action required.

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Microsoft Viva Engage: Results in Workplace Search

Microsoft Viva Engage will show search results from public Communities, Storylines, and Answers on office.com, sharepoint.com, and Bing at Work. This feature starts rolling out in early July 2024 and completes by early August 2024, with no admin action required.

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PowerPoint: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Copilot can create presentations from a PDF file

Copilot in PowerPoint will now be able to support automatically generating a presentation based on a PDF file. This is in addition to the existing support for automatically generating a presentation based on a Word document.

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Microsoft Teams: View attachments for Meetings in Teams Calendar

File attachments added to a meeting invite in Outlook desktop or web app are now visible for invitees in Teams calendar.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Priva Privacy Management – Multicloud environments

Microsoft Priva Privacy Risk Management extends its overexposure policies into data contained in Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3. Organizations can create privacy policies that specify which data sources, databases, or storage buckets are in scope and Priva will automatically notify data asset owners when matches are detected.

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