Microsoft Search: People centric search in SharePoint and Office.com to DOD

People centric search is a pattern that lets you zoom in on a person to view, explore, and search the enterprise graph around them. This has the dual purpose of enabling you to find content through people, and to understand people through their content. When you pick a person, you will be able to search through their work; however this will only include items that you already have permissions to view or modify.

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Microsoft Teams: Frosted Glass Backgrounds in Teams Meetings

Frosted Glass is a type of background effect that helps users keep their privacy with a background blur, but in a more professional and creative way. It let users have graphics with a blur effect together. Frosted Glass can be activated with a PNG image, that usually comes with some graphics in a transparent background. With the new frosted glass effects, the transparent area is turned into a blur background while the graphic remains as the part of background effect.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enhanced investigation and remediation experience (U.S. Government clouds)

Introducing enhancements to the investigation and remediation workflows to help designated investigators facilitate quicker and better-informed actions on policy matches. Enhancements will be available to designated Communication Compliance admins and investigators with the appropriate role-based access control permissions, and include bulk policy exports, interactive how-to demos, and additional context around policy settings and keywords/conditions flagged in a policy. 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, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Teams: Click Through Collaborative Annotations Layer

Users are now able to click through the annotation layer to interact with content in meetings without restarting the current annotation session.

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Microsoft Stream: Add videos to playlist from OneDrive and SharePoint

For videos stored in OneDrive or SharePoint, this feature will allow you to add videos to playlists. Upon selecting these videos, now users will also have an option to add this to playlists from a modal window that shows the user’s playlists and the recent ones that they have accessed.

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection uses cipher block chaining mode for encrypted content by default.

Today, when protecting content Microsoft Information Protection uses AES in electronic codebook (ECB) mode to encrypt Office files and emails. Starting in July, M365 Apps, Exchange Online, and SharePoint Online will begin to use cipher block chaining (CBC) mode by default.

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Microsoft Teams: Breakout rooms support and Select Together Mode for everyone on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

  • Breakout room support
  • Choose your Together Mode scene and select it for everyone

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95680, 126105

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score Default On

Adoption Score in the Microsoft 365 admin center will soon be enabled by default without the need to opt-in before first use. If you want to opt-out, you can still navigate to the Adoption Score dashboard and opt-out of the experience. Adoption Score continues to be backed by Microsoft’s commitment to user-level privacy.

When will this happen:

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Microsoft Stream: Playlist View in SharePoint List Webpart

Users can soon select a playlist to be displayed in the list webpart in the full-blown playlist view along with video playback.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124808

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Introducing zooming controls while viewing screenshare

This change is applicable to Microsoft Teams users using meetings and calls.

Users in a Teams call or meeting will now see new buttons to zoom in, zoom out and restore the original size of the incoming screenshare. This will greatly enhance the experience of users viewing screenshare. (Ability to zoom was previously only available using pinch to zoom gesture on trackpad or other shortcuts.)

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