Microsoft Purview compliance portal: AI hub in Microsoft Purview

The AI hub in Microsoft Purview is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts – both for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft AI applications.

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SharePoint: SharePoint Hub Analytics for US Government Clouds

View, Viewer, dwell time and content level analytics aggregated at a SharePoint Hub level. These features are an enhancement to the existing site and page level analytics in SharePoint.

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Azure Active Directory: Cross-tenant manager synchronization

Cross-tenant synchronization will support provisioning a user’s manager across tenants. For existing synchronization configurations that use the default schema (where you haven’t made any customizations to the attribute mappings or scoping rules), the manager will start to provision automatically for new users. For existing synchronization configurations that do not use the default schema, you can add the manager attribute to your attribute mappings.

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Outlook: Image based theming

Outlook for Mac will soon support image-based theming, allowing users to choose an image from a selection available in the General settings.

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Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup

Microsoft 365 Backup Service is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services that provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users. Microsoft 365 Backup Service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis and can be enabled through the Microsoft 365 admin center.

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Catch Up Improvements on Web

Catch Up allows you to stay in sync with your collaborators in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Web by showing you the latest comment activity that is directed at you and a summary of recent changes. Based on your feedback, we made improvements to the Catch Up feature. The comment activity directed at you will now persist in Catch Up between sessions for up to 28 days. New items will be indicated with a blue dot for clarity. You can also dismiss items individually if you do not wish to keep them in Catch Up.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 184359

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Data Loss Prevention – Out-of-box Advanced Hunting queries for Data Loss Prevention incidents in Microsoft 365 Defender

Organizations can click the “Go Hunt” dropdown from the DLP alert page in Microsoft Defender XDR and select from a list of pre-populated queries for common scenarios such as understanding if a file is shared externally, participants of a Teams meetings, and more.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 185708

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Viva in the left rail

The Viva Admin experience is moving from the Setup tab into the Settings tab in the left rail under “Viva”. It can now be found as below: 

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Quick Conflict Peek when you RSVP on Calendar Event Detail page

We are expanding the RSVP dialog box with scheduling form. The users will now see their meeting schedule in snippet window indicating the conflicting slots, while taking any RSVP actions. 

When this will happen:

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Data Loss Prevention – View-only mode for Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection Policies and Labels

This capability allows the admin with view-only restricted permissions to view the Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection policy configuration details without editing the policies or label configurations.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 186527

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