Microsoft Defender for Office allows submission of up to 100 emails

Applicable to Tenants with Exchange Online Protection, Microsoft Defender for Plan 1 or Plan 2 or Microsoft 365 Defender plan. 

Coming soon, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 will allow you to submit up to 100 emails at once from quarantine, threat explorer (or real-time detections tool) and User reported page to Microsoft for analysis.

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Microsoft Teams Premium: Configuration Change for Watermark

We are making some changes to Watermark Premium Policies for licensed Teams Premium users.

Users will soon have the ability to utilize watermarks on shared content and video feeds without the need to establish watermark policies via the Teams Admin Center or PowerShell.

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SharePoint: Create Pages and News from the SharePoint app bar

With this update, users will soon be able to start creating pages and news as an action from the SharePoint app bar. This means that no matter where users are in SharePoint, they can jump right into the creation process and stay in the flow of work.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98143

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Microsoft Teams: Teams Rooms on Windows and VTC endpoint calling via CVI partners

Users can make one-to-one calls between Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows and VTC endpoints enabling ad-hoc video calls across services.? The Teams Rooms platform enables Cloud Video Interop (CVI) partners to offer this feature for Teams Rooms Pro licensed customers.
Please check with your CVI partner for availability.

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Microsoft Teams: Give Feedback for GCC

Users in GCC can give feedback via the Help icon in Teams regarding their experience with the product. This drives how Microsoft addresses trends and influences future features and product updates. From the help icon, click on give feedback to provide verbatims on your product experience.

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Microsoft Teams: Speaker View in Teams Meetings

Microsoft Teams is introducing a new feature: Speaker View. This option can be selected from the view switcher within meetings, allowing users to effortlessly track the current active speaker. Speaker View is particularly effective in scenarios with a limited number of key speakers and a large audience, such as town halls, trainings, or lectures – especially from the student’s perspective.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 116009

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Releasing the Web version of Viva Engage Admin Center

The Viva Engage admin experience currently available within the Teams application will soon be available within the Yammer web surface (being renamed to Viva Engage) for Microsoft Viva customers.

This web Viva Engage admin center is accessible from web.yammer.com and provides an additional entry point for admins (especially users who don’t have access to Teams due to licensing constraints) to setup, configure and manage the various features for their organization.

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Office Apps on the Web can create PDFs that inherit the source files sensitivity labels

When using Microsoft 365 Apps on the web for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, files that have a sensitivity label will also apply those labels to PDFs created in those apps. Documents that also have encryption cannot be converted to PDF without first removing protection.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117594

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OneNote to Block Embedded Files that Have Dangerous Extensions

OneNote is making an important change to how it treats embedded files that have dangerous extensions. Previously, OneNote would show users a warning dialog when users tried to open an embedded file with a dangerous extension; users could open the file by choosing OK in the dialog.

With this update, OneNote will show users a dialog that will let them know that their administrator has blocked them from opening the embedded file that has a dangerous extension, to also align with the same extensions that Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint currently block. For a list of extensions, please visit Blocked attachments in Outlook.

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Teams Video Clip Auto-Generated Captions

Teams Video Clip was released last November, we are updating the feature with auto-generated captions support. 

When this will happen:

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