Microsoft Teams: Breakout Rooms participant shuffle

Meeting organizers can randomly re-assign participants after initial room creation.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds)

Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: 100 Admin Submission at once

With this change, Admins can submit upto 100 emails from advanced hunting, Threat explorer and user report to Microsoft for analysis.

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Take Action on Meeting Category Insights in the Viva Insights app in Teams and on the web

Categories in Outlook and Teams allow users to easily tag and label calendar events. Users can get insights on the time they spend per meeting category in the Viva Insights app in Teams. Using meeting category insights, they can see how their meeting time is distributed (percentage breakdown), how that has changed (meeting trends), and details about each of their meetings contributing to their categories (meeting details). An upcoming update to this feature will allow users to take actions on these meetings to align their time spent in meetings with their goals. These actions include viewing/editing meeting invites, cancelling, declining, and categorizing/recategorizing.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117374

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Microsoft Teams: Join Meetings from Calendar View on Apple CarPlay

Users will soon be able to view upcoming meetings and join meetings via the new meetings view on Apple CarPlay with Teams after connecting iPhone to vehicles that support Apple CarPlay.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 114306

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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention: Detecting password protected PDF files in DLP for Exchange

Data Loss Prevention policy in Microsoft Purview supports detecting Exchange email attachments which are password protected using the condition called “Attachment is password protected”. Currently this condition supports detecting password protected Office and zip file types. We are now extending this support to PDF files. With this, any PDF file encrypted through a password will be flagged as password protected and DLP will protect this file.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft 365 admin center: New Visio Usage ReportsMicrosoft 365 admin center: New Visio Usage Reports

A new product usage report will be made available within Microsoft 365 admin center usage reports to help Admins understand how Microsoft Visio is used within their organization by daily active users and active users by platform.

The report can be viewed for trends over the last 7/30/90/180 days, includes a per-user view, and contains the user’s last active date and license information.

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OneDrive: Favorite/Unfavorite files

Not all M365 documents are used in the same way. You’ll inevitably have a few that you use every week and some you’ll use occasionally. This is where using Favorites can help you stay organized. Favoriting files is a great way to mark content of personal importance and can help you to get back to the content you’re looking for right away. We have made sure that the favorites experience is consistent across Office.com, OneDrive, Document Libraries, and the Files app in Teams by building on top of the existing pinning and favorites experience in Office.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Upcoming Changes to Intra-Org Messages

This change will modify logging and handling of intra-org messages.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Contextual summary support in service-side auto-labeling

Contextual summary will be supported in simulation mode for service-side auto-labeling. When reviewing matched items in the Contextual Summary tab, you’ll now be able to easily review what sensitive information type was found as a match in the document.

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