Power Platform – Public preview of the Modern Hierarchy Security Editor Interface is now available

We are pleased to announce that the public preview of the Modern Hierarchy Security Editor User Interface is now available for Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC) admins.

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Power Platform – Customer-Managed Key (CMK) service updates new feature announcements

We are announcing Customer-Managed Key (CMK) service updates for Power Platform. CMK provides the ability for your organization to manage your encryption keys in your Azure key vault and allows you to use separate encryption keys for different Dataverse environments. New features will be available on Friday, September 8, 2023.

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Power Platform – Announcing General Availability of Access Check to view all users who have access to a record

We are preparing an update that will allow record owners to view all users who have access to their record(s). This update is expected to be released by the end of September.

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Follow up to MC666629: Suppressing Authenticator Notifications from Risky Sources

This is a follow up to MC666629 (August ’23) which was incorrectly removed from the Message center. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The proposed approach seeks to streamline the authentication process by suppressing authenticator notifications for requests originating from unfamiliar locations. By intelligently identifying risky sources like unknown IP addresses, the system can effectively differentiate potential malicious attempts from legitimate ones. This suppression of notifications will apply to both Phone-Sign in and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) notifications.

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Outlook: MIP Label Support for Events on Android

Tenants who have setup MIP sensitivity labels for use on events will now have support in Outlook for Android to both read and write labels to their meetings with enforcement of rules, such as encryption, as defined by tenant admins. This feature will also include support for other admin defined event label settings such as auto-label policies, do not forward, and cross-tenant events.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 163358

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Outlook: MIP Label Support for Events on iOS

Tenants who have setup MIP sensitivity labels for use on events will now have support in Outlook for iOS to both read and write labels to their meetings with enforcement of rules, such as encryption, as defined by tenant admins. This feature will also include support for other admin defined event label settings such as auto-label policies, do not forward, and cross-tenant events.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 163359

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score Group Level Aggregates – Attribute Configuration

You can soon select which of the available Azure Active Directory attributes to display when using Group Level Aggregates within the Microsoft 365 Adoption Score. This option lets you control which attributes e.g. Company, Department, Country – City appear in the Adoption Score category-level filter.

This message is associated with Microsoft Roadmap ID 170780

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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: Public preview of sequence detection for obfuscation involving excluded event

Coming soon to public preview, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out sequence detection for obfuscation involving excluded events.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124970

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights secure bridge to Microsoft Fabric

Create custom solutions with unique insights! Microsoft Graph Data Connect provides secure bridge from Viva Insights to Microsoft Fabric, where you can create even deeper views of how workforce behaviors influence the outcomes your care about by combing computed metrics from Viva Insights with additional data sources, such as data warehouse or line of business and custom applications. Create custom views and experiences by embedding calculated metrics – either directly from Viva Insights or enriched metrics – into third-party and bespoke applications.

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Microsoft Viva: Changes to Viva Engage Connector for Topic Name

In support of migrating tenants from using legacy Viva Engage topics to Viva Topics, changes are coming to the Power Automate connector for Viva Engage. The topic name parameter will be deprecated from the connector. Legacy flows will continue to work, but the topic name parameter will not be available for new flows.

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