Microsoft Default for Tag Management to include Team Members

We are updating Microsoft Default setting to Team Owners and Members for Teams Tag Management settings in Teams Admin Center.

If you have already explicitly made a selection to your Tag Management settings your tenant will not be affected by this change.

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Viva Goals: Export OKRs to Powerpoint

Viva Goals is introducing the option to export OKRs to PowerPoint in various templates. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117483

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro and Basic service plans backfill

This change was originally announced in MC540241 (April ’23), we apologize for the delay in providing the new timeline.

Teams Rooms provide rooms specific functionality through room specific licenses and underlying products (Service plans) included in these licenses. To ensure consistency of experiences across current and future room licenses, all Teams Rooms Pro licenses will be backfilled with Microsoft_Teams_Rooms_Pro service plan while all Teams Rooms Basic licenses will be backfilled with Microsoft_Teams_Rooms_Basic service plan.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Multiple external benchmarks

Organizations can now receive external benchmarks as part of the standard platform for comparison; Ability to enable multiple external benchmarks in reports

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Outlook: New Outlook for Windows – Automap shared mailboxes

Automapping occurs by default when a user has been granted full access privileges to a shared mailbox in Microsoft Exchange Online. The new Outlook for Windows will automatically mount the mailbox as a resource under the account that has been granted full access.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Viva Glint admin role in Microsoft 365 admin center

Glint admin role in MAC

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights homepage refresh for organizational leaders

Leaders will see a refreshed homepage with content tailored to them. This will include more emphasis on leader specific metrics, actions, and articles. Additionally, leaders can now access filters on the homepage to toggle between teams, time periods, and benchmarks.

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Microsoft Stream: Collaborative notes in Teams meeting recordings

This feature enables users to view and edit collaborative meeting notes while watching Teams meeting recordings in Stream. Collaborative notes allow meeting attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned tasks in collaborative meeting notes automatically sync with To Do & Planner.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Support for Advanced classification scanning and protection for Endpoints running on Mac OS

With this capability, admins can now extend Advanced classification support to Mac Endpoints as well. Advance Classification scanning and protection allows the more advanced Microsoft
Purview cloud-based data classification service to scan items, classify them and return the results to the local machines.

This means admins can take advantage of classification techniques like fingerprinting, exact data match classification and named entities in their DLP policies.

Currently available in GA for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, we’re introducing the ability to extend Advance Classification support to Mac endpoint devices for Government Clouds.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service to customize reminders

Ability to customize survey reminders, nudges and other notifications and support additional languages

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