Microsoft Teams: Attach cloud files in chat and channel from teams mobile

Introducing ability to upload files from OneDrive from Teams Mobile chat and channel. Also, view Recent files and attach most used files upfront from the Recent section.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New contextual predicates in service-side auto-labeling

This feature will support adding the following new contextual based predicates to auto-labeling: Document property is; File extension is; Document size equals or is greater than; Document created by (only available in advanced rules in OneDrive and SharePoint locations); Document name contains words or phrases.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New contextual predicates in service-side auto-labeling (U.S. Government clouds)

This feature will support adding the following new contextual based predicates to auto-labeling: Document property is; File extension is; Document size equals or is greater than; Document created by (only available in advanced rules in OneDrive and SharePoint locations); Document name contains words or phrases

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Microsoft Teams: Excel Live

Collaborate easily in Teams with our new Excel Live feature. With this feature, you can easily collaborate with all meeting participants on your Excel worksheet during the meeting. Select the file you want to share, grant permissions to meeting participants, and enable all meeting participants to edit the document from the meeting window.

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Open-sourcing Microsoft Teams sample Power Apps

In 2020, we released Microsoft Teams sample apps to help our customers accelerate adoption of Power Apps in Teams. We also received many requests for new functionality and customizations and love the passion our customers have for our sample app ecosystem.

We are excited to announce that we will fully open source all the Power Apps sample apps for Teams. This will empower the passionate open-source community to invest further in customizations, new capabilities, and even additional apps – and to share them with everyone.

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Standard) to eDiscovery (Premium) case upgrade tool

We are releasing a tool to allow eDiscovery administrators to upgrade their existing eDiscovery (Standard) case to eDiscovery (Premium) to unify cases into a single platform.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 106106.

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle and Records Management: Simulation mode for retention labels

We’re introducing “simulation mode” in Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management and Microsoft Purview Records Management for auto-labeling policies of retention labels.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98146.

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Start Configuring Viva Engage in the new Engage admin experience

The Viva Engage experience has now arrived! You can discover this experience through search by searching for Viva, or Engage, as well as navigate to the experience via the setup tab, and then click on the Viva Collection. From the Viva suite page admins can navigate to the Viva engage app page where admins can begin their Viva Engage deployment process.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management: New cmdlet for disposition review

We’re releasing a new PowerShell cmdlet for Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management to support export of items for disposition review.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 106102.

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Microsoft Teams: Power Automate Connector – Updates App (Microsoft 365)

Updates App (Microsoft 365) connector enables creation of Power Automate flows which trigger when an update is sent to the flow owner. Currently, the connector supports two triggers, 1) When a new update is received, 2) when a new update tied to a specific request is received.

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