Important Changes to Whiteboard in Teams tabs

Microsoft Whiteboard is making Whiteboard tabs in Teams configurable using Teams app permission policies. This provides more control and flexibility to enable or disable Whiteboard tabs in Teams and complements the already existing meeting policy for Whiteboard in Teams meetings.

When this will happen:

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Viva Connections Customer Facing Analytics

Soon, Viva Connections will include an analytics experience. Use analytics to understand how and when users engage with components of the Viva Connections experience, popular content types, and the platforms used to access the app.

This feature is associated with Roadmap ID 93367

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Microsoft Search: People centric search in SharePoint and Office.com to GCC and GCC-H environments

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 Purview compliance portal: Audit (Premium) – Customized retention policies for 10-Year Audit Log Retention Add On

This feature will enable customers with the 10-Year Audit Log Retention Add On for Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium) to create additional customized retention policies. The new options are 7 days, 30 days, 3 years, 5 years, and 7 years retention.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – Real-time policy tuning analysis

Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time prediction based on the number of users that could match a given set of policy conditions. It helps organizations efficiently adjust the selection of indicators and thresholds of activity occurrence, so they don’t have too few or too many alerts from a policy. 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.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/insider-risk-management?view=o365-worldwide

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SharePoint: Site Sharing will use Azure B2B Invitation Manager for External Sharing

The SharePoint Site sharing experience will now use Azure B2B Invitation Manager when new external users are invited, instead of the SharePoint Invitation Manager.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – Bring your own detections

Allow customers to bring their own user activity indicators from homegrown, SIEM/UEBA platforms, or other line-of-business applications, and leverage them in existing Insider Risk Management playbooks.
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.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/insider-risk-management?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft 365 app: Completing Authentication Requests in Outlook

Authenticator Lite (in Outlook) is a feature that allows your users to complete multi-factor authentication (MFA) for their work or school account using the Outlook app on their iOS or Android device.

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Microsoft OneNote : improved protection against known high risk phishing file types

We add enhanced protection when users open or download an embedded file in OneNote. Users will receive a notification when the files deem dangerous to improve the file protection experience in OneNote on Windows.

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MDO: Safe Attachments policy: Deprecate policy action ‘Replace’ for malware detections in attachments (Phase 2)

In Safe Attachment policies, as part of Phase 1 changes for ‘Replace’ action retirement (MC424901 August ’22), the behavior of the ‘Block’ action was applied to the policies configured with ‘Replace’ action.

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