Microsoft Teams: New Class & Lecture Meeting Templates

Class and Lecture Meeting Templates help Educators easily set-up highly secure meetings for their classes and lectures!

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Outlook: Bookable time

From Outlook, create bookable time that can be shared with people to book a time with you. This complements the work of Bookings with me.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Standard) to eDiscovery (Premium) case migration tool (U.S. Government clouds)

This feature release enables user to move their existing eDiscovery Standard case to eDiscovery Premium’s new case format. Existing search and hold inside the case will be maintained. After migration, user has the ability to continue their work in the migrated case following eDiscovery Premium’s workflow pipeline.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Extend DLP controls to Firefox browser

With this update, you will be able to extend the Microsoft Purview DLP controls to Firefox browsers. DLP admins will be able to set policies to prevent exfiltration of sensitive information through the Firefox browser by preventing actions such as copying data from a sensitive document to another document using the Clipboard, printing a sensitive document, copying to USB removeable media, or copying to a network share.

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Exchange: Test-Message Cmdlet

Last year we disabled the test-message cmdlet for further enhancements. We are happy to announce that we are introducing the new and improved test-message cmdlet for external use. With this cmdlet, tenant admins can now independently investigate issues related to the execution of their Exchange Transport Rules (ETR) without engaging Microsoft support for assistance in investigation.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints

This update provides several DLP capabilities for macOS, including support for Bluetooth, ability to customize notifications, auto-quarantine, tamper protection, ability to create app groups and granular app restrictions policies, and support for Japanese language. These capabilities will be made available by enabling advanced classification on macOS endpoints.

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Microsoft Viva: Leadership Corner in Viva Engage

This space is an employee’s personalized hub to discover (leader discovery & suggested leaders), see content from (leader stories, activity feed, & sponsored campaigns), and engage with (AMAs & AMA history) their leaders. For more on leadership corner in Viva Engage.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Collections options settings enhancements (U.S. Government clouds)

Now eDiscovery admins can define default collection settings, enable eDiscovery managers to customize those defaults for each case and collection, and for each collection the eDiscovery manager can choose from a range of options to ensure the right content is collected per the requirements of the case. These options will include collection of cloud attachments, Teams as conversations, partially indexed items, and more.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer

The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer.

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Microsoft Viva: Goals Audit Logs

Audit Logs will be available in Compliance Center.

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