New for Communication Compliance: policy health check and ability to pause policy

New capabilities coming soon to the communication compliance solution in the Microsoft 365 compliance center will give you additional guidance and control over your policy settings.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68687.

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Updates to Microsoft Defender for Office events in Office 365 Management API

We have been working to meet the extensibility requirements of our customers who are using our detection information within custom tools. As part of this effort, we are enhancing the information around email detections within the Office 365 Management API.

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Prevent attendees from sharing video feed in Microsoft Teams Meetings

Meeting organizers and presenters will be able to prevent meeting attendees from turning their camera on to share video during a meeting. Currently meeting organizers and presenters have no control over whether meeting attendees can share video.

This feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 70620 and 70621.

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Release of new Yammer Desktop experience and Retirement of existing Yammer Desktop App

As announced at Ignite and MC226941 (November ’20) the new Yammer experience and capabilities will now be available to our current Yammer Desktop App users, either through the Communities App in Teams or the new Yammer Desktop experience in the form of a Progressive Web App (PWA). The new installable Yammer Desktop Application (PWA) will be released by the end of March 2021 to all customers and the Communities App in Teams is already available for all users to download. We will be retiring the current Yammer Desktop Application on June 30th, 2021.

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Viva Connections for Microsoft Teams desktop clients

Viva Connections for Teams enables users to discover and search intranet content, sites, and news from across the organization in Microsoft Teams (desktop and web). Viva Connections for Teams, formerly known as the Home site app, combines the power of your intelligent SharePoint intranet with Teams chat and collaboration tools.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 66584.

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Customizable website tabs in Teams Templates

This new Microsoft Teams release will add an additional functionality to team templates enabling admins to specify URLs for website tabs for channels in custom team templates.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70794.

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Announcing Teams PowerShell Module 2.0

We are excited to announce Version 2.0.0 of Teams PowerShell Module. The release is available at PowerShell Gallery | Microsoft Teams 2.0.

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Service Health email notifications for specific incidents and advisories

As was previously announced in MC225596, the service health dashboard in Microsoft 365 admin center will soon support the ability to opt in to email notifications for a specific incident or advisory. This feature will allow you to input up to two email addresses to receive status updates for a specific issue including notification when the issue is resolved.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68717

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Request/Release workflow for quarantined messages

With this new quarantine policy, tenant admins will be able to configure end user access to messages quarantined by the Exchange Online Protection (EOP) anti-spam, Microsoft defender for office 365 (MDO) anti-phishing, anti-malware and Microsoft defender for office 365 (MDO) safe attachment policies. End users will also now have a process to request message release.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 62449 and 62450

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Customization of quarantine notification

We are making it possible for you to customize quarantine notifications with your organization logo, custom display name, and a custom disclaimer.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 64781

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