Microsoft Viva: Diversity Equity and Inclusion report template in Viva Insights

Use this report template to measure the impact and efficacy of your DEI strategy. Companies know how to measure diversity, but often struggle with inclusion and equity measures. This report measures the impact of DEI strategies. Examining coaching time, access to leadership, network composition, engagement drivers, and other career advancement elements.

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SharePoint: Visual Refresh

We are introducing updates to the Microsoft Fluent Visual styling of the SharePoint platform that will improve the experience across the SharePoint Authoring Experience and Microsoft Syntex.

Aligning with the latest Microsoft Fluent design system principles includes updated icons with softer edges, a cooler grey palette, and more rounded corners on various UI controls.

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Microsoft 365: Italy datacenter region and Advanced Data Residency availability

Microsoft 365 will launch a new local cloud region in Italy. The Advanced Data Residency add-on (“ADR”) will be available in Italy and provide eligible customers with committed data residency in the Italy local cloud region, prioritized tenant migration services, and expanded coverage of Microsoft 365 workloads and Customer Data.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC)

Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC).For example,– German investigators should be able to investigate messages for only German users; German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin.

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Microsoft 365: Israel datacenter region and Advanced Data Residency availability

Microsoft 365 will launch a new local cloud region in Israel. The Advanced Data Residency add-on (“ADR”) will be available in Israel and provide eligible customers with committed data residency in the Israel local cloud region, prioritized tenant migration services, and expanded coverage of Microsoft 365 workloads and Customer Data.

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Microsoft 365: Mexico datacenter region and Advanced Data Residency availability

Microsoft 365 will launch a new local cloud region in Mexico. The Advanced Data Residency add-on (“ADR”) will be available in Mexico and provide eligible customers with committed data residency in the Mexico local cloud region, prioritized tenant migration services, and expanded coverage of Microsoft 365 workloads and Customer Data.

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Microsoft Teams: Extended Real-time telemetry retention for up to 7 days (Premium)

To facilitate meeting quality troubleshooting
for admins in Teams admin center, real-time telemetry available during the
meeting will be retained for an extended period of time (up to 7 days after
meeting is ended) for users with Premium licenses. This will help admins
identify and fix quality issues using granular telemetry after the meeting is
over for up to 7 days.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enhanced recommendations for no-alert policies

,With this update, admins with the appropriate permissions can get insights-enhanced recommendations for policies that do not generate alerts on the policy page. The enhancement provides admins with recommended thresholds derived from real-time analytics, making the recommendations highly actionable and enabling the effectiveness of the policy. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Teams: Pin / Favorite Channels on Teams Walkie Talkie

Teams Walkie is enabling users to pin/favorite up to five channels on the Microsoft Teams Walkie Talkie Home Page. Users can easily switch in between the favorited channels with a single tap going forward. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 99943

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Service health and Message center: ‘Identity Service’ rebranding to ‘Microsoft Entra’

Today, Tuesday, July 11th, 2023, we announced that Azure Active Directory will be rebranded as ‘Microsoft Entra ID’. Historically this service has been represented under the service name ‘Identity Service’, within Service health and Message center experience. To align on the changes included in today’s announcement, ‘Identity Service’ will be rebranded to ‘Microsoft Entra’ and represent Service health and change communications for that family of products.

When this will happen:

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