Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in town hall
Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event.

Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event.

As part of our transition to the Microsoft Defender XDR portal, the entire Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps experience in the Microsoft 365 Defender XDR portal will be available for all supported by Defender for Cloud Apps admin roles.
When this will happen:

As previously communicated in MC679529 (October 2023), we simplified permissions for Microsoft Purview Audit. This message is a clarification.
We have simplified the controls to manage Audit permissions in Microsoft Purview. You can now manage permissions from the Microsoft Purview Compliance portal. To search or export the audit log, administrators or members of investigation teams must be assigned to at least one of the View-Only Audit Logs or Audit Logs roles. These roles can be assigned through the Microsoft Purview Compliance portal. By default, these roles are assigned to the Audit Reader and Audit Manager role groups on the Permissions page in the Compliance portal.


With automatic tags, your frontline workers can reach each other by department or job title in Microsoft Teams channel conversations. Anyone on the team can use the tags in @mentions to notify the people who are associated with the tag.
Your frontline can quickly and easily reach the right groups of people. Because the tags are automatically created based on your mapped attribute values, team owners do not have to manually create and assign tags or manage them locally.

The briefcase icon which signals that a page is managed, has been moved into the lock icon within the address bar. If an admin would like to see whether there are protections for a given page, they can click to open the lock icon in the address bar to look for the briefcase icon.

Users can drag and drop attachments and emails from the new Outlook for Windows to their desktops or local folders to download them directly to that location.

Our new Video vertical on Bing, Office.com, and SharePoint will provide better search capabilities for videos in your organization.

Teams Phone Mobile users will now the flexibility to choose whether group calls, calls received as part of a call queue, and meeting nudges are received natively on their mobile phone or in the Teams app. This new capability enables greater flexibility and mobility and allows users to easily move these calls between their native dialer or the Teams app without interruption.

This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated.
