Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel

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Windows 11 2023 Update available

Windows 11, version 23H2 – also referred to as the Windows 11 2023 Update – has reached general availability (GA). This is the second feature update for Windows 11, offering the features announced in September as part of continuous innovation plus a scoped set of new enhancements to the Start menu, taskbar, and chat experience, which is now Microsoft Teams (free)

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Classic Teams Users Will be Automatically Updated to New Teams After March 31, 2024

On October 5, 2023, we announced general availability of the new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac. Read the message center post MC679451 for details.

We mentioned in our GA announcement that classic Teams users will be automatically updated to new Teams in the coming months. Today, we want to inform you that after March 31, 2024, any classic Teams users who have not updated to new Teams, will be automatically updated to new Teams.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery Premium-Enhancements to eDiscovery experience for Microsoft Forms content

Now admins can search for Microsoft Forms content specifically within their collections, see the full metadata associated to those items including the Form title, and review both the original Form and responses to the Form as related items within both review and export.

Simplification and ease of use for managing Forms content via eDiscovery will help reduce the pain points of challenging discovery process and improve the confidence of organizations using Forms for critical tasks that may require eDiscovery capabilities.

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Outlook: Org Explorer

Org Explorer for Outlook helps you to visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Insider risk insights in DLP alerts

With this update, a DLP analyst with the right permissions can access an insider risk summary of user activities that may lead to potential data security incidents, as a part of the DLP alert investigation experience in Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Defender. This feature can help analysts gain context of a DLP alert and make more informed decisions on responses to potential incidents.

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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Microsoft Viva : Connections Boosted News Notifications

Soon, in addition to existing news notifications, user of Viva Connections will also receive notifications for boosted news on the organization’s news site. This will allow communicators to more directly reach end user with important company news and communications. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 174470

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New Feature in Teams Admin Center to Communicate with Third-Party App Publishers via Teams

Microsoft Teams admins will soon be able to initiate private groups chats with a limited set of third-party Teams app publishers via a new ‘Click-to-Chat’ (C2C) feature being added to the Teams Admin Center (TAC).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 182034

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management: Retention policy support for more types of Microsoft Teams control messages

Microsoft Teams control messages are system-generated artifacts that contain information about actions taken in Teams – for example, adding or removing a user from a chat. These messages show up on the Teams client as system messages. More information on these types of messages can be found here.

Currently control messages generated while adding or removing a member to a chat or Team, within Teams chats and Teams Channels (Standard Private, Shared) locations were included in the supported types of messages for retention policies for Teams.

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Microsoft Secure Score – New Microsoft Defender for Identity recommendations

We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture.

The improvement actions listed below will be added to Microsoft Secure Score. Your score will be updated accordingly.

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