New Power BI OneDrive and SharePoint Viewer Admin Setting to be ON by Default

new admin setting will appear soon in the Power BI admin portal for Power BI Desktop OneDrive and SharePoint integration. The new setting is titled “Users can view Power BI files saved in OneDrive and SharePoint (Preview) – UPDATE. This setting will be ON by default starting in early October unless you take action before September 29th, 2023. The setting will have the exact same functionality as the current setting for “Users can view Power BI items saved in OneDrive and SharePoint (Preview)“. 

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Microsoft Syntex: Translation

A new service that enables users to translate documents quickly and accurately among dozens of languages based on specific metadata or on-demand.

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Microsoft Syntex: model processing status column

When a model is applied to a document library, a new processing status field is added to inform users if a file has been enqueued and whether it has completed or failed to be processed.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Full document fingerprinting

Document Fingerprinting in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) converts a standard form into a sensitive information type (SIT), which you can use in the rules of your DLP policies.
This update extends support for Fingerprint-based SITs to additional workloads, including SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Endpoint and enables admins to adjust threshold while creating Fingerprint SITs.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance: Enhanced Policy Conditions

Three updates are coming to enhance policy conditions. First, our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received both to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts. Secondly, with the new OR condition capability, you can combine multiple conditions within the same policy, creating custom logic to suit your unique compliance requirements.

Lastly, to make policy creation and updates a seamless process, we’ve introduced the ability to test conditions before implementing them. By using sample messages, you can evaluate how your conditions will perform and fine-tune them to align with your compliance goals.

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Walkie Talkie AutoConnect Feature Update

The purpose of Auto connect feature is to automatically connect the user to walkie talkie as soon as an intended channel to connect is determined, thereby reducing at-least 1 step in the process.

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Microsoft Teams: Live Translated Transcript for Teams Premium Users

Teams’ users will be able to experience a live translated transcript during the meeting on the transcript side-pane. Users can choose their spoken language and translated transcript language.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 126321

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Backfill Viva Amplify

Microsoft Viva Amplify will be made available as a new web experience for licensed users of Microsoft Viva Suite and Microsoft Viva Employee Communications and Communities.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals: Admin Option to Enable/Disable sharing to Microsoft Teams in Viva Goals

Viva Goals will be giving users the ability to share links to goals as rich adaptive cards, including progress and status. Users get the context they need around goals they’re working towards and can also update them in Microsoft Teams without losing focus or clicking away from the conversation. As part of this feature, Viva Goals will introduce a menu option to share goals content to Teams, under the “Share” menu in the application.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety

Coming soon to public preview, Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance will introduce advanced trainable classifiers that leverage large language models to detect workplace safety scenarios.

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