Expansion for Alert Generation for Alert Policy ‘A Potentially Malicious URL Click was Detected’

The current default alert policy named ‘A potentially malicious URL click was detected’ generates an alert on URL clicks for specific scenarios. One of the primary scenarios is called verdict change. The URL in the email was identified as “good” when it was delivered to the Inbox, however, when the user clicked the URL, Time of Click validation identified the URL as “bad” (as conditions / actions of the URL changed since email delivery). This verdict flip now describes the previous user clicks as clicks on malicious URLs, however, no alert is currently generated for the previous clicks.

We are expanding on this scenario to identify any user clicks on URLs going back 48 hours from the time of the verdict change. This reevaluation gives SecOps teams more insight into the historic clicks on malicious URLs and takes the appropriate actions.

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Power Platform diagnostics monitoring with Azure Application Insights now available

We are announcing the availability of Power Platform diagnostics monitoring with Azure Application Insights. Subscribing to the Power Platform diagnostics monitoring with Azure Application Insights will allow you to receive telemetry on operations that applications perform on your Dataverse database and model-driven apps.

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Skype for Business Planned Maintenance

We have maintenance planned for Skype for Business.

When will this happen:

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Outlook: [Android] Adding the option to Save attachments to OneDrive for Business

Quickly and easily save files from your email to your configured cloud storage accounts.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Reports in the Admin Center – API available to manage user, group, and site names

An API will be released that helps Global Administrators change how user, group, and site names are displayed in the Microsoft 365 admin center based on their organizations privacy practices without having to manually change the setting in Org Settings – Reports.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour (U.S. Government clouds)

This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance-investigate-remediate?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft Teams: Expanding up to 10,000 users in Distribution Lists for lobby policy in Teams meeting

Currently, if you change your lobby policy in a Teams Meeting to “Invited Users Only” and invite a Distribution List (DL), only the first 1,000 users of that DL will be recognized and let through the lobby. All other users a part of the DL will not be recognized and will be placed in the lobby. With this update, up to 10,000 users of that given DL will be recognized and let through the lobby if the lobby policy is set to “Invited Users Only.”

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Custom organization branding for quarantine notification (custom sender address and Custom subject)

We will be adding capabilities to making it possible for Security Operations (SecOps) to customize end user quarantine notifications with their respective organization sender address and custom subject.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93301.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Net Promoter Score (NPS) Sentiment Insights per topic available to IT Administrators

The sentiment per topic feature in the NPS survey insight dashboard will help IT admins like you to obtain actionable sentiment insights per specific topics derived from Microsoft NPS surveys as responded by your users.

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Outlook: Integration with other Microsoft 365 apps

We are adding a way for users to quickly access To Do, Org Explorer, Yammer Communities, and Bookings directly inside Outlook. You can also customize this experience by pinning preferred Outlook and Microsoft 365 apps.

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