SharePoint: Security- Data access governance

,Expanding our insights story to help you easily see what matters most in your organization. With our new Data Access Governance insights, you can monitor sharing activity to detect oversharing. You can review and monitor sites based on the type of sharing. You can quickly see essential information about the sites like sensitivity, level of access from unmanaged devices or if the site can be shared externally.

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SharePoint Syntex: local document understanding model creation

,Allows for the creation of local Syntex models in Team and Communication sites.
Preview date: December CY2021

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Office 365: New create experience

Office.com ‘Create’ is your place for beginning something new. You can start from a template or by the type of content. The new Create goes beyond common Office files; you can start a Form, a list, or post for Yammer. You can create files using templates, even company-branded templates.

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Microsoft Information Protection: Updated user experience for picking and seeing sensitivity labels in Office apps

,Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps provide a highly visible sensitivity label and easy-to-use interface for choosing labels. Includes label color defined in compliance portal.
Preview date: March CY2022

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OneDrive: Limit OneDrive access and sharing to specified users

Ability to allow only specified users access to OneDrive in your tenant.

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Microsoft Information Protection: Apply default label policies to existing documents being edited

,Users with default labeling policies will now support applying that default to any supported document they edit. Previously this only applied to new documents.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitivity-labels-office-apps?view=o365-worldwide
Preview date: December CY2021

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Microsoft Information Protection: Auto-labeling policies support overwriting manual label and encrypting mail received from any organization

,New and existing Exchange auto-labeling policies can be configured to apply encryption to email received from outside the organization. In addition, policies can be configured to enforce classification on any email by replacing existing manual labels that have the same or lower label priority.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/apply-sensitivity-label-automatically?view=o365-worldwide
Preview date: January CY2022

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Microsoft Information Protection: Maintain label and protection when creating PDF files from Office apps

,Labels and protection applied on Office documents will be persisted to the output file when converting to PDF in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on PC, Mac, Web.
Preview date: March CY2022

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Built-In Protection

We are introducing Built-In Protection for Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to automatically elevate all users within your organization to the base level of security protection. Built-In Protection will implement a low impact version of Safe Attachments and Safe Links, removing burden on admins to configure users with recommended security settings and policies. This new preset security policy will require no admin action and will be turned on by default for all new and existing customers. As a result, customers will be automatically protected from unintentional configuration gaps in their policies and experience overall improved protection against phish and malicious message delivery to end users.
More info: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-office/mastering-configuration-in-defender-for-office-365-part-three/ba-p/2906990

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Microsoft Teams: Mute Notifications During Meetings

Users
will be able to mute notifications during meetings thereby helping focus during
meetings. A user can choose to mute notifications for all meetings or per
meeting basis.

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