Microsoft Forms: Re-use previously created polls in Teams meetings

Meeting organizers and presenters can now access the polls previously created to re-use or modify, so that they can apply them to new meetings instead of creating repeated polls every time from scratch.

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Outlook to block new attachment file types to improve security

As we continually assess to improve security, we are adding additional attachment file types to the list of BlockedFileTypes.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Recipient Block Using Tenant Allow/Block List Senders

Today, the Tenant Allow/block List is used to prevent users from receiving email from selected senders using the sender block. However, users are still able to send email to that email address or domain as recipient. With this update, the Tenant Allow/block List will be extended to prevent users from sending emails to these email addresses and domains that are added or part of the sender block list.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93363

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Microsoft Edge: Microsoft Edge sidebar

The Microsoft Edge sidebar enables users to access Edge features side-by-side with their browsing window. Available features include Discover, Bing search, Outlook, Office, Games, and Tools such as a unit converter and internet speed test. Administrators can control the availability of the Microsoft Edge sidebar by using the HubsSidebarEnabled policy.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Classification globalization support (CCJK) (U.S. Government clouds)

Microsoft Endpoint DLP will support content authored using double-byte character sets in Windows devices (including Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese) in service workloads.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/endpoint-dlp-getting-started?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Archived file support (U.S. Government clouds)

Support the scanning for sensitive content in ZIP and ARJ archive files in Windows devices.

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Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Application of a “default label” to an unlabeled file uploaded to a SharePoint Online document library (U.S. Government clouds)

With this update, all newly uploaded documents to a document library can “inherit” the configured label for the document library (if not already labeled).

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Contextual policy conditions (U.S. Government clouds)

Support to identify when a file is sensitive based upon the file type or extension in Windows devices. Extend your Endpoint DLP policy controls to detect and protect even more content types such as CAD drawing files, video and audio files, and custom file types used in your specific industry.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/endpoint-dlp-getting-started?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft Teams: App Based Link Unfurling supported in ‘Share to Microsoft Teams’

‘App Based Link Unfurling’ will work exactly in ‘Share to Teams’ as it works today in normal Teams messaging.

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SharePoint Online Inside Look Retirement

We will be retiring the Inside Look on top of the file preview card from SharePoint online. Inside look provides a peek into documents with an estimated time to read the document and the author’s key points. This feature was available exclusively on Word documents written in English. Additionally, we will retire the auto summary info when sharing a document over email.

When will this happen:

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