Word: Copilot in Word

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Copilot in Word transforms your writing with efficiency and creativity—create, summarize, ask questions, refine, and elevate your documents. Copilot in Word can now help you to draft content, bring in specific information from other documents into your content, generate summaries, ask questions about your document, get ideas about specific topics, and even transform text into tables or provide suggestions for ways to rewrite your content.

More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot-word

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PowerPoint: Copilot in PowerPoint

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Copilot in PowerPoint is a tool that can help you create, edit and understand presentations. It can draft a presentation based on your topic or Word doc, or add slides and images for you. It can design using your template, organize your slides, and summarize and extract the main points from a longer presentation.

More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot-powerpoint

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy deletion enhancement

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions can delete all associated alerts, cases, and users in scope when deleting a policy to help quickly reset and remove inactive policies. 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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Product-wide disablement of email to private message feature in Viva Engage (Yammer)

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

After 13th November 2023, Viva Engage (Yammer) will no longer support the creation of private messages through email. It will still be possible for users to post messages to communities through email.

Today, users can create private messages by emailing user alias+network name@yammer.com. This flow will soon stop working. Users must instead go to the Engage app or browser experience to create private messages.

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Pin based verification process for support callers

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

In 2020, we added a PIN-based verification step to our existing phone-based verification process, to better protect your organization. If you call support, the Microsoft support representative will send a verification code to your registered email or phone in your Admin Center profile. Provide this code to the support representative to grant them access to your organization’s account.

How this will affect your organization:

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New security capabilities of Event Tracing for Windows

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Whether you’re in cybersecurity, IT, performance, or software development, improved resources can help you diagnose cybersecurity threats. While you could previously use Event Tracing for Windows for limited audit functions, nine events have recently been improved for better insight. Specifically, several security-related events now show Process ID and Process Start Key in the event schema, allowing you to confirm the causal process of these events. We’ve also increased the event version as events are updated over time, following the application compatibility policy.  
 

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Syntex OCR is generally available

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

With this update, the Syntex OCR feature will move from public preview to generally available.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Syntex is available in the non-primary region of multi-geo tenants

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

With this release, Syntex capabilities such as document processing, image tagging, taxonomy tagging, content assembly, and OCR are available in the non-primary region of multi-geo tenants.

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Outlook: Pick a local folder for saving attachments

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Users are now able to pick a folder when saving an attachment in the new Outlook for Windows.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Manage ownerless Microsoft 365 groups and teams

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Teams, Outlook groups, Team Sites etc. powered by Microsoft 365 Groups supports two roles: members and owners. Members can collaborate with others in the group through files, emails, messages etc. Owners manage the group membership and monitor content and conversations. When employees leave an organization or switch projects internally, it results in their existing user accounts getting deleted. If such employees were group owners, keeping track of their groups becomes critical to ensure accountability within the organization. We have introduced a new ownership governance policy to help automate the management of ownerless groups by requesting active members to become owners of the group. Admins can define who is eligible for these notifications and configure what notifications and how often these notifications are sent to active group members. Users, who are members of the ownerless groups can simply accept or decline request via the actionable email message.

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Joao Ferreira

I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.