Microsoft Teams: Updated Copilot for Teams meetings controls

Microsoft Teams is updating Copilot meeting controls, with enforceable policies for using Copilot with transcription post-meeting. Changes include new wording and descriptions for settings in the Teams admin center and meeting options. Rollout begins mid-April 2024, with completion by early May 2024. Admins should update policies and inform users.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts on local files when using Copilot with Graph-grounded chat

Ground prompts on local files when using Copilot with Graph-grounded chat by clicking “Upload” in the ContextIQ interface.

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Microsoft Teams: Bookable desks

With the bookable desks feature in Teams, users can reserve desks upon arrival by plugging in to shared desks. IT admins can discover bookable desks in shared spaces in the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management portal and collect utilization data from these desks for proactive management and planning.

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SharePoint: Change history reports

Create custom reports to monitor changes made to the SharePoint configuration across various levels of your organization. Review CSV reports of site actions or organization setting changes made within the last 180 days.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Draft with Copilot in Word based on text, list, or table selection

Use Draft with Copilot in Word with the on-canvas Copilot menu when a user selects text, a list, or a table. This generates new content from Copilot and provides a richer, more interactive experience.

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summary in Chat support for document text selection

Summary requests in chat can be limited to operate only on the user-selected text in the document rather than operating on the entire document.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Enhancements to the DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints

Mac DLP will have the following capabilities with these enhancements: Context Based Classification and Matched condition and short evidence for advanced classification.

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Microsoft Teams: Slash Commands

User will be able to type slash in Teams compose box and select a command, helping them complete their task quickly.

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Microsoft Teams: New tenant federation setting to block all subdomains of domains in blocklist

Microsoft Teams has a new setting to block all subdomains of domains in the federation Block list. This setting is disabled by default and can be enabled using a PowerShell cmdlet. It affects new communications and existing chats with users from blocked subdomains. Rollout began mid-March 2024.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection

A new product usage report will be added in the Microsoft 365 admin center providing insights into active usage of Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection. The report will include total active users, average daily active users, and active users per platform (i.e. Bing, Edge, Windows, copilot.microsoft.com, and Copilot mobile app). Usage insights can be viewed as totals and trends for the past 7, 30, 90 or 180-day periods. The report will also show the last activity date per user, anonymized by default.

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