OneDrive: Access Microsoft Lists, Power BI, Loop and Whiteboard content in OneDrive for Web

You will be able to easily find and open your Microsoft Lists, Loops, Power BI dashboards and
Whiteboard content in OneDrive for Web. If you have recently opened, shared, or favorited one of these files, then it will appear in your Recent, Shared, and Favorites views in OneDrive for Web.

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Microsoft Teams: Custom backgrounds for announcement posts in channels

Teams users will be able to create engaging custom backgrounds for channel announcements in just a few clicks. Powered by Microsoft Designer, use generative AI to create expressive images.

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Audit – Manage Audit permissions from Purview Compliance Portal

To search or export the audit log, administrators or members of investigation teams must be assigned to at least one of the View-Only Audit Logs or Audit Logs roles. Previously, these roles had to be assigned using the Exchange Admin Center. With this feature, administrators can now assign audit-related role groups directly from the Microsoft Purview Compliance portal.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 177888

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Automatic redirection from Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to Microsoft 365 Defender GA announcement

As originally communicated in MC584828, the entire Defender for Cloud Apps experience in Microsoft 365 Defender is generally available. All users accessing Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps will be automatically rerouted to the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.

Admins will still have the option to not automatically redirect their users. 

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End-to-end encrypted Meetings – 200 participants (Premium)

For meetings that require heightened confidentiality, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is an extra layer of security that encrypts data at its origin and decrypts it at its destination. Only audio, video, and video-based screen sharing is end-to-end encrypted. Apps, avatars, reactions, chat, and Q&A are not end-to-end encrypted. 

We had launched end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for meetings with 50 participants in February 2023. We are increasing the meeting size to 200 participants. We support:

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – New cmdlet for hold removal

We are launching a new cmdlet to enable removal of orphaned and legacy eDiscovery holds. Today, customers often contact Microsoft support to remove legacy and orphaned eDiscovery holds from mailbox and SPO sites. This cmdlet will help users self-serve to remove eDiscovery holds and is available only in Security & Compliance PowerShell.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 174597, 174604

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Announcing the general availability of the new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of the new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac including education customers. We’re also beginning to roll out new Teams to public preview for our Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and government cloud customers (GCC and GCC-High).

This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap Id: 122540

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OneDrive: Add individual file shortcuts in OneDrive for Web

This feature will let you create a shortcut to files stored in other people’s OneDrive and document libraries to be able to easily find it within your OneDrive. These file shortcuts can be moved, renamed, or deleted without impacting the source content, and they will show up in OneDrive for Web, Android, iOS, and sync client endpoints.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-New attributes and features for alert and case

With this update, Insider Risk Management will provide additional attributes for alerts and cases to make it easier to understand which alerts and cases should be prioritized. The additional attributes include details, such as the date the last activity was detected and the last working date of departing employees. In addition, admins with appropriate permissions can customize columns and save a preferred combination of filters and columns.

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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Microsoft Teams: Manage Microsoft Surface Hub as a Teams Rooms on Windows device

With the transition of Microsoft Surface Hub devices to the Teams Rooms on Windows platform, Admins can now manage Surface Hub devices as Teams Rooms on Windows devices in the Teams Admin Center and Teams Rooms Pro Management (available for Teams Rooms Pro
license customers).

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