Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Adaptive Protection

Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Windows 365: Custom Name template for Cloud PCs in Provisioning Policy

An Administrator will have the ability to associate a custom naming template as part of the provisioning policy.

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Windows 365: Utilization insight reports

Cloud PC performance low utilization report will surface all Cloud PCs that never had any user login.

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Retirement of some Teams/Microsoft 365 connectors

We will be retiring some Microsoft Teams connector apps (or Microsoft 365 connectors) starting January 2023. The list of retiring apps is available in the below documentation:

  1. Considerations when using Connectors in Teams
  2. Connect apps to your inbox in Outlook on the web

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Updates to Viva Insights Teams and Web App

We’re consolidating the Viva Insights app in Teams and on Microsoft365.com into four tabs: Home, Wellbeing, Productivity, and Teamwork. We’re also updating the design, modifying the navigation, adding new insights and recommendations for qualifying managers, changing how we define teams, and bringing over some functionality from the now-retired MyAnalytics dashboard. 

Note: Senior leaders with three or more reporting layers will continue to see the previous Viva Insights app, including the Organization trends tab. In the coming months, we’ll share an updated roadmap of improvements tailored to this audience. 

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SharePoint Platform: Theme updates

In an update to the Classic change the look experience, updates the images of the Office (blue) theme will be made to match the colors used. The Office theme images will transition from blue to teal to create consistency in the experience of what you select and the impact to the site.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 101150

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Microsoft Teams Rooms Licensing Support in Teams admin center

Microsoft has recently introduced new Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro and Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic licenses for Teams Rooms on Windows, Teams Rooms on Android, and Surface Hub devices.

To support these new licenses, Teams admin center now offers:

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Outlook: Pronouns available on the profile card

Users on Outlook on the web will have the ability to add pronouns to their profile card. By adding pronouns to their profile card, users can express who they are and help inform others how to address them.

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Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management: Records Management advanced deployment guide

Expanding and distinguishing the tasks within the Data Lifecycle and Records Management advanced deployment guide based on licensing requirements.

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Microsoft Project: Email notifications for late project tasks

Task assignees will now get email notification for late Project Tasks.

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