Windows: New Autopatch feature

Windows Autopatch is a new service that automates the process of managing and rolling out updates for Windows and Microsoft 365 apps. By July 2022, Autopatch will be offered as a feature to Windows 10/11 Enterprise E3 at no additional cost.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention – Deep link to Content Viewer from DLP alert

This feature allows admins to easily open Content Viewer and view the content of the document that has triggered a DLP alert. Admins can pass the event ID and the creation time of the DLP rule match alert to the deep link to open and view the related document in the Content Viewer.

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Microsoft Teams: Cameo in PowerPoint Live

Cameo is a new PowerPoint experience that seamlessly integrates your Teams camera feed into your presentation, letting you customize how and where you want to appear on your slides and offering layout recommendations for optimal viewing.

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Excel: Insert data from a picture

Add table data from an image from the Data tab.

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Microsoft Viva: Inline suggestions available while composing an email or meeting invitation in Outlook on the web

While composing an email or a meeting invitation in Outlook on the web, users will see inline suggestions from Microsoft Viva Insights to help improve productivity and wellbeing. These complement the inline suggestions they already see while reading emails and meeting invites.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/personal/use/mya-notifications

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Microsoft Teams: Export API support for Teams Message Reactions

Export Teams Reactions (heart, thumbs up, laugh, surprised, angry, sad) on a message using the Export API.

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Microsoft Search: Personal query history

As you start typing in the search box, you will see suggested searches and results based on your previous activity in Microsoft 365 and based on content that’s trending in your organization. Personal query history will show the queries you have previously used. These personal query suggestions are served from your personal search history. Personal query suggestions are a quick way to get back to results you’ve found before. You just need to remember the beginning of a query, after you’ve typed just a few characters the query is suggested for you.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftsearch/microsoft-search-us-government-environments

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Microsoft Search: Natural Language search support in Microsoft Search

Natural language search in Microsoft Search enables support for common search patterns when searching for content such as files, people, calendar events (meetings), messages, emails.

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Microsoft Information Protection | Microsoft Purview: Advanced Message Encryption (DoD)

With Microsoft Purview Advanced Message Encryption, you can control sensitive emails shared outside the organization with automatic policies. You configure these policies to identify sensitive information types such as PII, Financial, or Health IDs, or you can use keywords to enhance protection. Once configured, you can pair policies with custom branded email templates and then add an expiration date for extra control of emails that fit the policy. Also, admins can further control encrypted emails accessed externally through a secure web portal by revoking access to the mail at any time.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/ome-advanced-message-encryption?view=o365-worldwide#get-started-with-office-365-advanced-message-encryption

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Microsoft Viva: New module powered by Viva Goals

Microsoft Viva Goals connects employees to your organization’s goals, helps them stay aligned at scale, and drives business results to empower people and teams to understand their impact. Use Viva Goals as a standalone web application or directly from inside Teams and our other integrations.
More info: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-viva/goals

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