We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture. The improvement actions listed below will be added to Microsoft Secure Score. Your score will be updated accordingly.
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As part of the effort to upgrade non-native and hybrid Viva Engage/Yammer Networks, private unlisted (“secret”) groups in Yammer were made inaccessible on September 1, 2023. The retirement of this feature was first announced via the Message center on September 1, 2022 (MC424414), then postponed on May 24, 2023 (MC560717). You can read more about the retirement of unlisted groups in this blog post which covers the announcement of three features due for retirement beginning December 1, 2022.
If you have already received an approved exception from Microsoft support delaying your migration to Native Mode, your private unlisted groups will not be affected by this change.
We are pleased to announce the release of the Delete Thread API. This release will allow Tenant Admins to delete 1:1 chat threads, meeting chat threads, and group chat threads as well as restore them via PowerShell scripts.
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Custom Meeting Themes, a Teams Premium feature, will now support branding assets for light theme meetings. IT admins will be able to upload brand image and logo that specifically appear for users using light theme meetings to a customization policy.
This is a Teams Premium feature and requires a Teams Premium or Advanced Communications license to use.
We’re rolling out an update for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to improve the performance of DLP policies to block sensitive information from being shared via Teams chat and channel messages.
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Microsoft Defender for Identity reports will be moved to a new location in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. They can be found under Identities in the Reports area on the main menu in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.
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You will soon see a new service plan associated with your Microsoft 365 or Office 365 license: Customer Lockbox (A).
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,With this capability, admins can extend the below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint – Document is unscannable- Document didn’t complete scanning- Document name matches patterns- Document size equals or is greater than.
The calendar on Teams Rooms on Android gets a new look and expanded functionalities. Users can view the calendar for the current and next day. Any available 10 minute or more time slots are shown. A visual indicator (green/purple vertical bar) is added to each time slot for users to easily see whether a room is booked or available. Available in all Teams Rooms licenses.
The Hide Favorites feature allows users to personalize their folder pane by hiding the Favorites
section. By default, Favorites will be visible, but with this feature, users have the option to hide the Favorites experience from their view.
Once hidden, users can always go back and unhide their Favorites.
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