Viva Connections – Manage your organization’s brand in the new brand center preview

Microsoft is introducing a new SharePoint brand center to manage brand assets across sites and pages, with a preview rollout starting in mid-April 2024 and completion expected by June 2024. The brand center requires activation by a global administrator and the use of Public CDN.

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SharePoint: Manage your organization’s brand in the new brand center preview

The new SharePoint Brand Center, rolling out from mid-April to June 2024, offers centralized management of brand assets across sites and pages. Global administrators need to activate the Brand Center app in the Microsoft 365 admin center, which requires Public CDN use. Steps vary based on current tenant configuration.

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SharePoint: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint preview

SharePoint is introducing custom fonts for its brand center, allowing brand managers to upload and manage custom font packages for use within SharePoint and Viva Connections. This feature will roll out from mid-April to June 2024 and will initially support various site components, with more to be added later. Preparation may include updating training and documentation.

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Microsoft Viva: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint and Viva Connections Desktop preview

Microsoft Viva introduces custom fonts for SharePoint and Viva Connections Desktop, available in preview from mid-April to June 2024. The SharePoint brand center allows brand managers to upload and manage custom fonts, which can be applied across various elements within SharePoint and Viva Connections Desktop. Eight Microsoft-provided font packages are also available. Custom fonts are supported in multi-geo environments with specific configurations.

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Microsoft Teams: Join Zoom meetings with an ID and passcode from a Teams room on Android

Teams Rooms on Android can now join Zoom meetings with an ID and a passcode. This feature is only available with the Teams Rooms Pro license and your room must be configured to enable Direct Guest Join meetings. Learn about how to enable Teams Rooms devices to join third-party meetings at the link below.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/rooms/third-party-join

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find the perfect visual with Copilot and Designer in Word

Copilot in Word now integrates with Designer to help you find the perfect image or create a banner to bring your document to life.

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Outlook: Shortcuts to copy and paste emails (Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V) in the new Outlook for Windows and web

Users will be able to copy and paste emails in Outlook using the shortcuts Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, allowing them to quickly transfer emails to the desired folder, streamlining workflow, and enhancing productivity. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Exfiltration of business-sensitive data to free public domain emails

In this update, we are enhancing the existing email insight alerts to provide additional information when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident. The new domain detection group “Free public domains” will list the common domains used for personal email accounts. Admins with appropriate permissions can choose to select these domains in their indicator variants.

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New filters in Audit Search

Audit Search allows customers to retrieve audit logs relevant to a security or compliance investigation. With this change, customers will now be able to search for relevant audit logs using additional fields such as Record ID, UserKey, UserType, and ClientIP.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enriching Insider risk management with Communication compliance as an indicator

Enhance Insider Risk Management by incorporating communication compliance policy matches as a new indicator for detecting various communication risks, including inappropriate text. Additionally, our system now extends its capabilities to identify potential financial regulatory compliance breaches and violations of any custom communication compliance policy on Teams, Exchange, Yammer, Copilot, or third-party channels. This expansion ensures a comprehensive approach to risk detection in diverse communication scenarios.

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