Follow up to MC510331: Microsoft Teams support for Targeted Release

Microsoft Teams will support Targeted Release for commercial cloud customers.

With this support, users opted-in to Targeted Release will be the first production users to see the latest Microsoft Teams features and help shape the product by providing early feedback.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Admin email notifications (U.S. Government clouds)

With this update, admins will have the ability to manage email notifications through the “Admin notifications” section of the insider risk settings. Admins will be able to control the types of emails they receive, including a daily notification for newly generated high-severity alerts, or weekly emails summarizing policies with unresolved warnings. 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 Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Review set data minimization – Identify exact duplicates by default

,Harness the built-in review set query within eDiscovery (Premium) review sets, specifically designed to pinpoint exact duplicates and encompassing email threads, to systematically reduce your review set data by an average of 30%, eliminating the need to trigger analytics manually post ingestion. Gain full visibility into all hash values utilized in de-duplication and email threading algorithms, ensuring a seamless and efficient review process.

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Microsoft Teams: Pre-pin meeting apps via Admin Policy in TAC

Admins can now pre-pin meetings apps for users (much like personal apps and messaging extensions) in TAC.

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Microsoft 365 apps: Microsoft 365 Apps and Services update to AES256-CBC for encrypting emails and files with Purview Information Protection

Microsoft 365 Apps, Exchange Online, and SharePoint Online will begin to use AES256 in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode by default when emails and documents are encrypted with Microsoft Purview Information Protection.

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Microsoft OneDrive: PDF Annotation and Interactable Form Fields

Using the “Edit” action in Microsoft OneDrive for the Web, you can seamlessly annotate with hand-drawn ink into your PDF documents and have your modifications automatically saved to your OneDrive account. Additionally, OneDrive for Web allows you to interact with form fields, making it simple for editing and modifying PDF documents.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124802

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Handwriting Beautification and Ink Straightening for Microsoft Whiteboard

The ability to make handwriting more legible & readable is coming to Whiteboard for the web, Microsoft Teams, Windows app and Surface Hubs/MTR experiences as well as Annotations in Teams meetings. The new capability will enable smoother collaboration while using ink.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124897

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SharePoint Promoted Results Import into Microsoft Search – retirement

After July 15, 2023, we will be retiring the capability to directly import SharePoint Promoted Results in Microsoft Search.

Note: This will not affect your tenant if you are not using this feature.

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Relocating Sync Command in OneDrive’s My Files view to Settings

We are relocating the Sync command in OneDrive for Business Web for My Files. Currently the command is in the command bar, and we are moving it to the setting gear.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124902

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Viva Learning content provider configuration feature will now be migrated to Viva Learning Admin tab

Currently content provider configuration for Viva Learning happens on the Microsoft 365 Admin center. We will be migrating the provider configuration capabilities on Manage providers in the Viva Learning admin tab, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.  

When this will happen:

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