Outlook: Video Unfurl and Playback

Video links will be unfurled into a thumbnail for easy and delightful recognition when reading an email that contains a video link. Upon tapping the thumbnail, the video will be opened in an in-app player (OnePlayer) to view the video in the full mobile screen.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – User management Start/Stop scoring users (U.S. Government clouds)

The “Start scoring activity for users” feature will move from the Users page to the Policies page. Admins can use “Start scoring activity for users” on the Policies tab to manually add a user (or users) to one or more insider risk policies for a specific amount of time, to start assigning risk scores to their activity without a detected indicator. 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: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to sequences for unallowed and allowed domains

With this update, sequence detection in Insider Risk Management will recognize both allowed and unallowed domains. Sequences that involve allowed domains will be excluded from being scored, and sequences that involve unallowed domains will receive higher risk scores. With this update, sequence detection in Insider Risk Management will recognize both allowed and unallowed domains. Sequences that involve allowed domains will be excluded from being scored, and sequences that involve unallowed domains will receive higher risk scores.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Alert triage experience (U.S. Government clouds)

This update introduces various improvements to the alert triage experience to accelerate time to action, including the ability to further drill into detected sequences within activity explorer, new alert filtering capabilities, and an enhanced user activity timeline view with a richer alert history. 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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Updates to the User Administrator role in Microsoft Entra Entitlement Management

On May 3, 2023, Microsoft will update Microsoft Entra Entitlement Management. This update will remove the ability for a user in the User Administrator role to manage Entitlement Management catalogs and access packages. If your organization has relied on users having the User Administrator role to manage Entitlement Management catalogs and access packages, add those users to the Identity Governance Administrator role. This ensures that those users can manage catalogs and access packages in Entitlement Management.

We want to ensure minimal customer impact when we remove Entitlement Management permissions from the User Administrator role. By assigning admins the Identity Governance Administrator role, they will have the necessary permissions to continue managing catalogs and access packages.

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Changes in Normalization

Stopping normalization on number that starts with plus sign (+)

Normalization in Microsoft Teams was not designed to do normalization when the phone number starts with plus sign (+) as documented, but we’ve never enforced this in the Teams desktop or Web client. We are planning to enforce this in the future but for now we recommend avoiding this pattern. 

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Chat RSC in Microsoft Teams

We are pleased to announce the extension of the resource-specific consent (RSC) permission model for chat and channel scope in Microsoft Teams. RSC permissions have been expanded to include the ability for chat members to grant access to chats for applications running within Teams.

When this will happen:

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Universal Print: Integration with macOS

The native integration of Universal Print with macOS will empower macOS users to print from any app, just like Windows users can today. Whether people are on Windows or macOS, they have a seamless, no learning curve print-experience. Organizations benefit from the simplicity of a single print-solution for all users.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Extend sensitivity labels to meetings (U.S. Government clouds)

Extend sensitivity labels to Outlook appointments, invites, and Teams online meetings.

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Microsoft Teams: Content camera for Teams Rooms on Android

Content cameras can present analog whiteboard content digitally and appear in the Share menu in the meeting. Available with Teams Rooms Standard, Premium, and Pro licenses.

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