Microsoft 365 compliance center: new search for Microsoft 365 Audit (U.S. Government clouds)

This is a new search for Basic Audit and Advanced Audit. This new search offers increased reliability and efficiency for search jobs. It also allows for search jobs to be completed in the background and saved for later reference.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: New search for Microsoft 365 Audit

This is a new search for Basic Audit and Advanced Audit. This new search offers increased reliability and efficiency for search jobs. It also allows for search jobs to be completed in the background and saved for later reference.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: New default (URL click) alert policy

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 offers many default alert policies.  One of the current default alert policy, A potentially malicious URL click was detected, generates alerts when users click URLs (which are potentially malicious) in email messages. Currently, there are two scenarios that generate this alert.

  1. The URL verdict changes to bad after the user has already clicked it.
  2. A user clicks through (overrides the warning page) for a known, bad URL.

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SharePoint: Updates to channel site layouts and parent site settings

Two updates are coming for the SharePoint sites that get created for every team and private channel in Microsoft Teams. The first update is to simplify the layout for all private channel sites to make them more useful and easier to navigate between the parent site and the associated team. The second update is to adjust the way site theme and navigation is inherited when the Teams-connected sites are added to a hub site.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88963

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Office 365: New Capabilities in Information Barriers v2 (IB v2)

Information Barriers v2 (IB v2) is the new enhanced IB architecture in Substrate which brings a set of new features to customers including flexible people discoverability, increase scalability, and multi-segment support.

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Service health dashboard refresh and ability to show multiple services being impacted by a single issue

When there is a broadly impacting issue that affects multiple services across the M365 services, Microsoft will create a single incident that will properly reflect the overall status of the different services if affects. In the message details of this incident, we will call out specific services impacted. With this change we will also be giving a refreshed user experience to the service health dashboard. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88666.

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Microsoft Information Protection: Updates to Sensitive Information Types (SITs) definitions

In our continued efforts to improve the accuracy of out-of-the-box sensitive information types (SITs), we will be updating the definition of five existing SITs for better accuracy and to stay updated with the latest definition published by relevant authorities.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: ZAP (zero-hour auto purge) alert enhancements

We are enhancing the successful ZAP (zero-hour auto purge) alert and introducing a new ZAP failure alert.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/zero-hour-auto-purge?view=o365-worldwide

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Outlook: Loop components in Mail

Loop components are live, interactive objects that you can embed across Microsoft 365 canvases such as chats and email to provide real-time collaboration. This feature brings support for loop components in the email messages.

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows store application 4.12 update

The below message is for organizations using Microsoft Teams Rooms for Windows. If you are not using Teams Rooms for Windows, you can disregard this message. 

Teams Rooms on Windows is releasing Teams room Windows store application version 4.12 that includes improvements to existing functionality and additional controls for the device administrators to control application and device behavior:

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