Microsoft Copilot Dashboard for Viva Insights licensed customers

Additional insights that combine Microsoft Copilot usage metrics with collaboration and sentiment data will be available to Viva Insights licensed organizations in the Copilot Dashboard. These additional insights provide more granular views of Copilot adoption, usage patterns, user sentiment, and return on investment across teams, functional roles, and more. Viva Insights analysts can create custom reports based on these metrics as well.

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Introducing the ability to duplicate an existing town hall

Currently with town hall, you are unable to duplicate an event and create a new event based off an existing one. This can be time consuming if organizers would like to schedule multiple events that are similar to one another. To simplify event creation Microsoft Teams is introducing the ability to create a new town hall by duplicating the information for an existing scheduled one. Information includes a town hall’s details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also choose to edit and update the information as needed for their new town hall. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 376853

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New Cmdlets for Advanced Delivery Policy

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve the reliability of cmdlets, we are replacing the existing two cmdlets of advanced delivery policy with two new cmdlets. The new cmdlets are already available to use.

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Data Loss Prevention – Adding matched attachment details in Activity Explorer for Data Loss Prevention rules in Exchange

We are adding new fields in Microsoft Exchange to help prevent data loss. With these updates, admins can see more details about the attachments that are present in the email that violated the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) rules, including name, size, and labels. There will be new fields for the attachments that are in emails when they match a DLP rule that will be displayed in Activity Explorer, DLP Alerts, and Microsoft Theft Protection (MTP) Alerts. With these updates, you can get better insights into the violation that has occurred even before you start getting into the finer details of the issue.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 369015

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Microsoft SharePoint: Updated Lists in Team Sites, Lists progressive web app (PWA), and Teams

This update improves the overall performance of Lists in Microsoft SharePoint and introduces new features, including the ability to add ratings to any list, drag and/or paste images directly into a list, see who is collaborating with you in real-time, switch views by clicking tabs, and more.

This rollout is a continuation of MC600726 (Updated) Microsoft Lists User Experience Update (June 2023).

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Message/Attachment contains EXO predicates

Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on DLP evaluation on specific email components like email body or attachments only. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Streamlined False positive submission for Quarantined files from OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint

We are providing an easy and robust way for Admins and security operators to submit and temporary mitigate False positive files that have been Quarantined from the OneDrive, Teams and SharePoint workload.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-Insider Risk Management supports multicloud environments

Insider Risk Management extends its detection into multicloud environments by offering ready-to-use risk indicators in Azure, AWS, and SaaS apps including Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks 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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Microsoft Teams: View, download and delete OneDrive transcript files in Teams

We are simplifying the storage and management of meeting transcript files by focusing transcript actions such as view, download, and delete to source from one place (OneDrive for Business) instead of two places (OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online).

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Outlook win32 DLP Policy tip and oversharing popup support for new DLP Predicates

Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates support for DLP Policy tips and Oversharing popups for E5 users: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on client-side evaluation on specific email components like email body or attachments only. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only and show DLP Policy tips and oversharing popups accordingly in Outlook win32.

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