Microsoft Purview compliance portal: new roles added for built-in Compliance Administrator, Information Protection, and Privacy Management related role groups.

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 30, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Purview provides a unified solution for managing data security, governance, compliance, and privacy across your organization’s landscape. Microsoft Purview built-in role groups are being extended with new roles to prepare for upcoming features and capabilities relevant to those role groups. Additional roles will be added to Microsoft Purview built-in role groups for Compliance Administrator, Information Protection related role groups, and Privacy Management related role groups. This change will not disrupt the current capabilities for these role groups, it will enable admins in these built-in groups to manage additional data types in the future.

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Microsoft 365 app: Catch Up Improvements on Web

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 30, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Catch Up allows you to stay in sync with your collaborators in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint by showing you the latest comment activity that is directed at you and a summary of recent changes. Based on your feedback, we made improvements to the Catch Up feature. The comment activity directed at you will now persist in Catch Up between sessions for up to 28 days. New items will be indicated with a blue dot for clarity. You can also dismiss items individually if you do not wish to keep them in Catch Up.

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Microsoft Teams: Archive channels

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 30, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

With Archive Channels, owners and administrators can archive channels that are no longer in use while preserving their content, including messages, files, and tabs. The archived channel is removed from the active teams and channels list and no more actions will be allowed. If needed, the channel can be restored.

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Microsoft Teams: Updates to in-call user experience

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 30, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Making it easier for users to access calling capabilities with a redesigned user experience during
calls.

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Control Inbox and Calendar Sharing Options in Outlook on the Web and in the New Outlook for Windows

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 30, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Outlook on the Web and the new Outlook for Windows provides users with the ability to share mail and calendar with other users at different permission levels.

Starting in November 2023, tenant admins will be able to turn off the ability for users to share inbox and calendar folders by utilizing the new Office Cloud Policy Service “Turn off folder sharing.”

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Analytics Insights for Virtual Appointments in Microsoft Teams

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 30, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Tenant admins can see updated virtual appointment analytics with new insights in Teams to help driving business outcomes, including average lobby wait times for scheduled vs. on-demand appointments, percentage of appointments completed after scheduled end time, and percentage of appointments with a late start.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 161629

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Microsoft Teams: Automatically view up to 9 videos (3×3) in Teams meetings in Chrome and Edge

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 30, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams Meetings currently supports a maximum of 4 videos (2×2) on the screen by default (i.e., Gallery view) on web browsers. With this update, users will be able to automatically see up to 9 videos (3×3) on Chrome and Edge on their screen by default without an explicit action.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122139

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Ux support to identify ODB site for an inactive mailbox in eDiscovery (Premium)

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 30, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

We are rolling out support through the user interface to auto identify the OneDrive for Business sites associated with an Inactive mailbox when adding Custodians in an eDiscovery (Premium) case. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 183498

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Planned Maintenance: Microsoft Managed Desktop configuration update – October 2023

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 30, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

As part of our routine device management services, we will deploy the next update of the Microsoft Managed Desktop configuration baseline (version 2310) to your Microsoft Entra ID organization (tenant).

When will this happen:

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Planned Maintenance: Windows Autopatch configuration update – October 2023

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 30, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

As part of our routine device management services, we will deploy the next update of the Windows Autopatch baseline (version 2310) to your Microsoft Entra ID organization (tenant).

When will this happen:

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