Teams Room Windows: Simplified Device Registration Process for Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal

Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 1, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

We are pleased to announce an enhancement to the device registration process for Windows-based Teams Rooms devices on the Pro Management portal, aimed at making it more convenient for IT admins.

With the upcoming Teams Rooms app update (v. 4.17) scheduled for release by the end of June 2023, we have streamlined the registration process for Windows-based Teams Rooms devices. IT admins will no longer need to manually download and install the Pro Management agent on each device.

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Answers in Viva Information Panel

Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 1, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Next month, more enhancements for Answers in Viva will be available for Microsoft Viva customers. Admins will see a new information panel appear in the right column of the Answers tab within the Viva Engage app in Microsoft Teams, and on Yammer.com.

Answers is a conversational experience for asking questions and connecting people to answers that lives within Viva Engage. The new information panel in Answers helps you provide bespoke guidance to your employees to support their use of Answers in your organization. This feature is only visible to administrators until the content is saved and published, then all licensed users of Answers will be able to see the information panel. Consider publishing getting started guidance, key contacts and links to help your employees get the most out of their experience using Answers.

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Answers-focused view in Viva Engage

Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 1, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Next month, more enhancements for Answers in Viva will be available for Microsoft Viva customers. A new Answers-focused view will be rolling out for organizations with limited Viva Engage communities to help focus their Viva Engage experience on asking and answers questions.

Answers is a conversational experience for asking questions and connecting people to answers that lives within Viva Engage. Organizations with two or fewer active Viva Engage communities will gain the ability for a global admin to hide Viva Engage experiences other than Answers. This helps organizations get the most out of the knowledge sharing capabilities of Answers in Viva, even if they aren’t ready to get started more broadly with Viva Engage. This control is only available to global administrators within the Viva Engage admin center. Once enabled, employees will no longer be able to navigate to other areas of Viva Engage such as Communities, Storylines or Leadership corner.

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Viva Learning content provider configuration feature will now be available in Viva Learning Admin tab

Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 1, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Provider configuration will now be available on Viva Learning Admin tab. Admins can add/edit/delete the LMS, 3P and global learning providers directly from Manage providers in Viva Learning app. The existing configuration capabilities on M365 Admin centre will no longer be available by 15th June.

When this will happen:

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System preferred MFA method is Generally Available

Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 1, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

In today’s landscape, organizations and users utilize various authentication methods with varying levels of security. Unfortunately, users often select less secure MFA methods, even when more secure options are available. This may be due to convenience, lack of awareness, or technical limitations.

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Microsoft Syntex: Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Originally posted by Microsoft May 31, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Customers will be able to turn on OCR for images in Exchange and Teams on a pay-as-you-go basis. The extracted text will be available for compliance scenarios, like DLP. The text will also be available to Microsoft search.

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Microsoft Syntex: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for SharePoint and OneDrive

Originally posted by Microsoft May 31, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

With this update, you will be able to turn on OCR for images in SharePoint and OneDrive on a pay-as-you-go basis. The extracted text will be made available to Microsoft Search and Microsoft Purview.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sequence detections for obfuscation involving excluded events

Originally posted by Microsoft May 31, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

This change enhances sequence detection to improve its effectiveness in identifying users who are performing obfuscation activities that may result in a data security incident, such as file renaming, to evade detection. With this improvement, Insider Risk Management can detect sequences that may result in potential data security incidents, even if the obfuscation activities in those sequences involve excluded events, such as an excluded keyword. 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 Viva: Answers-focused view for Viva Engage

Originally posted by Microsoft May 31, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Shift into an Answers-focused view for Viva Engage customers that are only using Answers.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Cumulative exfiltration detection tuning

Originally posted by Microsoft May 31, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

With this update, cumulative exfiltration activities will no longer be detected and scored if they have already been identified in a previous cumulative exfiltration alert. This change will reduce unnecessary alerts generated from cumulative exfiltration activities. 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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Joao Ferreira

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