Changes to the registration campaign feature in Microsoft Entra (previously Azure Active Directory)

Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 20, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Updated September 18, 2023: Deployment will begin September 25th and will run to October 20th. These dates replace the dates mentioned in the email “We’re enabling a stronger form of multifactor authentication beginning September 15, 2023” that you might have received. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Publicly switched telephone networks (PSTN) such as SMS and voice authentication are the weakest forms of MFA. To help your users move away from these less secure MFA methods we are introducing changes to the Microsoft managed state of the registration campaign (aka Nudge) feature in Microsoft Entra (previously Azure Active Directory).

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced file type coverage for DLP on Windows endpoints

Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 19, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms.

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Microsoft Intune: Support-approved elevation for Endpoint Privilege Management

Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 19, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Enables elevation requests requested by an end user and approved by the support team

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- New reports page

Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 19, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

A new reports page will be available in Insider Risk Management. The three charts available on the alerts page – including total alerts that need review, average time to resolve alerts, and alerts summary – will be moving to the new reports page.

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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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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Outlook: Shared Calendar Notifications

Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 19, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

The feature gives the ability for a user to receive notifications for changes in a calendar they have shared or have been shared with. Delegates and editors for a principal’s calendar can subscribe to notifications for certain changes to the events in the principal’s calendar. Similarly, any user who has their calendar shared out can subscribe to notifications for certain changes done to their calendar by any delegate or editor. The notifications will be triggered for create, update and delete actions to events in the calendar.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Viva: New Location for Saved Feed Items on Viva Connections Mobile

Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 19, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Viva Connections Mobile users will soon see a new UI change. The home for saved links is moving from the app title bar into the Feed tab for improved alignment and access. This update will make it easy to toggle between the fresh feed and your saved items.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 161514

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Simplifying Meeting Join Experiences on Teams Mobile

Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 19, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

We are improving the meeting join experience on Teams Mobile (iOS / Android) in several ways:

  1. Streamlining the meeting join process by reducing the number of steps it takes to join the meeting, particularly for users joining from externally of the organization.
  2. Users who join without signing in will now have the capability to preset and preview video / audio settings prior to joining the meeting.
  3. Simplifying the join process for users with multiple accounts by improving the account switching user experience.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Named entity coverage for additional markets and languages (U.S. Government clouds)

Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 18, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Named entities are sensitive information types (SITs) that can’t easily be identified by a regular expression or a function; these include person names, physical addresses, and medical terms and conditions. This update expands name and address coverage to an additional 7 countries, such as China and Russia, and expands medical terms and conditions (specifically for the Diseases SIT) to an additional 29 languages covering much of Europe, China, Japan, and Korea.

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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: General availability of static alert and case IDs

Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 18, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Insider Risk Management will provide static alert and case IDs to help admins track and communicate investigation progress with colleagues more easily.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124777, 139455

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Meeting Protection Support and Improved View Switcher for Teams Rooms on Android

Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 18, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

The latest version of Teams Rooms on Android Update 3 (2023) includes new in-meeting experiences including:

  • Improved view switcher and front of room display controls 
  • Meeting protection support – End-to-end Encryption for meetings and Sensitivity labels

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Joao Ferreira

I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.

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