Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tagging support for groups

Today, only individual users are able to be added to the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 user tag feature. With this release, organizations will be able to tag groups so that group members will be added to or removed from tags automatically on an ongoing basis.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Apply Purview Message Encryption branding with DLP policy (U.S. Government clouds)

Purview Messaging Encryption supports customized branding templates for encrypted mail sent to external recipients. The functionality is being brought to Data Loss Prevention from Exchange mail flow rule. In addition, DLP policies provide additional configuration to control whether Microsoft 365 external recipients will be able to view the encrypted mail inline using Outlook or the encrypted portal experience.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: New filter option for messages blocked due to file type block

We are introducing a new filter for the ‘Quarantine Reason’ in the Quarantine page (Email). As part of this release, the SecOps can now apply this filter to display only the emails which are blocked when file extension/type of one or more of the attachments matches those configured in the common attachment filter in the Anti-malware policy. Currently these emails are shown under the ‘Malware’ as the Quarantine Reason.

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Zero-touch App Install

Microsoft Teams Zero-touch App Install uses intelligent signals from your users to install and surface the apps that the admin has already allowed for the tenant. An admin can enable it to help users naturally discover and use apps that are highly relevant to their needs within Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Teams: Curriculum Management in Teams

New capabilities are coming to Teams for EDU that allow educators to create and organize course resources including Assignments, Files, Links, Channels, Class Notebook pages, and more. This will be a one stop shop for content creation and organization for your Class Teams.

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Self-service trial experience available for Viva Goals

In March, individual users in your organization will be able to sign up for a self-service trial of Viva Goals from the website. This self-service experience allows individuals and teams to try Viva Goals with no requirement to input payment information, while providing complete visibility and control to their Microsoft 365 admin.

Previously, only admin-initiated trials of Viva Goals were available, which were limited to one trial per tenant. Customers told us they wanted a way for multiple departments across their organization to try Viva Goals at the same time. To meet this demand, we’re launching self-service trials.

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Microsoft Viva: Topic Discovery Analytics to Show Sites Processed

This update will provide transparency on topic discovery through analytics, by showing the Sites processed counts in Microsoft Admin center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100060

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Outlook for Mac updates will be released weekly to the Current Channel

Outlook for Mac will soon transition from a monthly update cycle to a weekly update cycle. By providing faster updates, we will be able to provide you with new features and product updates more quickly.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows store application 4.16 update

The latest version of Teams Rooms on Windows, 4.16, includes several new and improved features, such as:

  1. A revitalized Teams Rooms User interface
  2. Enhanced Layout Switcher
  3. Teams Premium support, including Watermark, End-to-end Encryption for meetings, and Sensitivity labels

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DMARC aggregate reports for enterpriseDMARC aggregate reports for enterprise

As part of the DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting & Conformance) standard, the owner of the domain whose MX is pointed to Office 365 can request DMARC aggregate reports through the RUA of the DMARC record. This will help the domain owner to monitor their domain’s traffic passing through Office 365 and adjust their sender authentication configurations to reach an actionable DMARC policy.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109535

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