Microsoft 365 apps: Microsoft Loop – a new app that combines a powerful and flexible canvas with portable components that stay in sync and move freely across Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft Loop is an app built for the new era of modern work aimed at redefining the boundaries of creation and collaboration. Microsoft Loop combines a powerful and flexible canvas with portable components that move freely and stay in sync across applications — enabling teams to think, plan, and create together.

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Microsoft to stop honoring mail flow rules tracking user reporting

Microsoft will be retiring the mail flow rule which help you track end user reporting. This change is being made to improve the availability and reduce the latency of the submission service so that you can respond to threats (false negatives) more quickly and efficiently.

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Prepare for device-bound passkeys in Microsoft Entra ID (changes to FIDO2 and Windows Hello for Business)

Beginning January 2024, Microsoft Entra ID will support device-bound passkeys stored on computers and mobile devices as an authentication method in preview, in addition to the existing support for FIDO2 security keys. This enables your users to perform phishing-resistant authentication using the devices that they already have.

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Microsoft 365 Archive: Public Preview

Microsoft 365 Archive enables you to save on costs of storage exceeding the quota limit by archiving the inactive sites in SharePoint. The feature is a part of the Pay-as-you-go features in Microsoft Syntex and can be enabled through Microsoft 365 admin center. 

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Organizational Data in Microsoft 365

Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 is a new capability that will be available worldwide for use with your Microsoft 365 Subscription. This new capability allows you to upload organizational data from HR information systems via .csv file to power a variety of capabilities and features across Viva and Microsoft 365. Apps and features like Viva Amplify, Viva Insights, People card, etc. rely on Organizational data to power high value capabilities and new scenarios. Tenants will be able to power Viva Amplify reporting, new displays on employees People cards, and more personalized experiences in Viva and in Microsoft 365

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Additional Teams Meeting Templates Added to Outlook Teams Add-In

Virtual appointment, Webinar, and Town hall are Teams meeting templates that are accessible via the ‘New meeting’ dropdown menu in Teams Calendar App. We are now expanding how you can access these meeting templates by adding them to the meeting templates menu in the Outlook Windows client in the Teams Meeting Add-In. When in Outlook Calendar, select the dropdown menu next to the Teams meeting Add-In button to see the list of meeting templates now available. When a meeting template has been selected, the Teams App will open via a deeplink and directly open the meeting template scheduling form. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 181621

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Updating Admin settings for paused Microsoft Viva Briefing emails

Based on customer feedback, early this year we paused Viva Briefing emails as part of a larger initiative to improve the overall Viva user experience. (MC486289 December ’22).

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Folder Recursive Search

This new feature will allow users to search for sub-folders within specific folders.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 151025

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Bing Chat Enterprise renamed Copilot; General Availability on December 1

Announced at Ignite 2023, Bing Chat Enterprise has been renamed to Microsoft Copilot. Copilot offers the same commercial data protection for Entra ID (work account) users as Bing Chat Enterprise did. Users will also be able to experience Copilot from a new location: copilot.microsoft.com.

Entra ID users with Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, Business Premium, or A3 or A5 for faculty licenses remain eligible for Copilot with commercial data protection at no additional cost. Microsoft 365 F3 licenses will also be eligible at no additional cost and those customers can refer to MC684891 for additional information and timing.

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Power Virtual Agents, now part of Microsoft Copilot Studio

We’re delighted to share that as of November 15th, Power Virtual Agents capabilities are now part of Microsoft’s new product, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft’s conversational AI platform to customize Microsoft Copilot and to build your own custom copilots. As a result, the Power Virtual Agents name will no longer be used.

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