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

The Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention will enable you to expend some of your existing DLP policies to macOS endpoints, including Removable USB device groups/Network share groups/Printer groups, Most restrictive, and Network share coverage and exclusions.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 174658

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Improved Frontline Workers Availability Preferences

We’re excited to announce significant product upgrades focusing on enhanced FLW Availability Preferences.

Frontline workers often balance various personal commitments and specific work-time preferences. Through shifts, FLWs can establish availability preferences for calendar dates alongside recurring days. This feature streamlines shift assignments for frontline managers, who can seamlessly assign shifts by reviewing these availability preferences within the Shifts app.

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Tasks in my area or department (a mobile Planner in Teams feature)

In the Tasks by Planner and To Do app in Microsoft Teams, buckets are a common way to organize tasks into different areas of work.

The mobile experience for the Tasks app in Teams will soon be updated to make it easier to filter to a specific bucket or set of buckets so that you can focus on the tasks in your area. We expect this simple user experience change to provide greater focus and greater productivity, while maintaining the familiar look and feel throughout the Tasks app.

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Enhanced User Request Management and Navigation in Teams Admin Center

We are excited to share some upcoming updates to the user app request feature in the Teams Admin Center aimed at enhancing the request administration process. Here are the key changes:

  1. User Requests Tab: A new ‘User Requests’ tab is now available on the App Details page. It provides detailed information about each request, including the requester’s name, email, job title, and request date, allowing for more informed decisions about app approvals.
  2. Dashboard Widget: A widget on the main Teams Admin Center dashboard now shows the most requested apps, giving a clear view of user preferences and helping you prioritize app management tasks.
  3. Improved App Request Browsing: The ‘Browse by app requests’ filter has been added to the ‘Manage apps’ page, making it simpler to view app requests by demand.

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SharePoint Tables: New Accessibility Labels

Accessibility improvements to SharePoint tables within the text webpart allow users to specify row and column layouts, as well as provide alternative text labels for screen readers. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 184511

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Microsoft Teams: Assign staff and Duration for On-demand virtual appointments

The Virtual Appointments app provides a central hub for all your virtual appointments needs in Microsoft Teams. The app enables a seamless end-to-end experience for business-to-customer engagements.

On-demand virtual appointments enable customers and clients to meet with a staff member of a business without booking a schedule in advance 

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Changes to FIDO2 security key registration and sign-in experiences

During FIDO2 security key registration, Microsoft Entra ID users may see an operating system or browser-generated prompt for creating a passkey on another device, such as a phone or tablet. In some cases, a QR code is shown to facilitate this option. When this happens, the user needs to select “Use a different device” to continue with their registration process.

This is due to an evolution of the ecosystem resulting in operating system and browser UI changes. For users on Windows 11 23H2, an updated system UI has been enabled to improve user discovery and selection of security keys and other passkey types. We are also aware that a similar prompt may be presented during sign-in time. Currently, we are investigating a mitigation to optimize the sign-in flow.

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Contact Unification across Outlook and Teams

Today, users can see Outlook contacts created with their Entra ID (AAD) account in Teams, but contacts created in Teams are not available in Outlook. To provide a consistent experience we are making changes to allow Teams contacts, created with a user’s Entra ID (AAD) account, to be visible in Outlook as well.

When this will happen:

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Planned Maintenance: Windows Autopatch configuration update – December 2023

As part of our routine device management services, we will deploy the next update of the Windows Autopatch baseline (version 2311) to your Microsoft Entra ID organization (tenant).

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Outlook web: Replacing “Activity-Based Authentication Timeout” with “Idle Session Timeout for Microsoft 365”

Updated December 4, 2023: Moving forward please reference MC694387 (Nov ’23) for the most up to date information about this change. 

The Activity-Based Authentication Timeout for Outlook on the web will be replaced by Idle Session Timeout for Microsoft 365.

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