Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer (U.S. Government clouds)

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 Power Platform and Azure Logic Apps – Potential Service Disruption for Twitter Connector Update

On Wednesday, February 1, 2023, Twitter made the following announcement: “Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead”

On February 14th, we first notified you about the possible impact to our service because of these changes. We have been working with Twitter to explore an agreement that would result in uninterrupted service – however at this point, there will be imminent disruption in our service connection with the Twitter API.

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Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android: User Experience Update 1 2023

This update introduces several new features for Teams Rooms on Android that improve the meeting join, content sharing, and hybrid collaboration experiences.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 119621, 119620, and 119622

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Viva Goals: Increased Functionality and Terminology Change of Team Field

Viva Goals currently has a field named “type” while creating and filtering OKRs which designates where the OKR would be created. The terminology is now changing from “type” to “teams.” In addition to the name change, the functionality of the “teams” field will expand to include additional context and faster search capability as OKR owners assign a team to an OKR.

All OKRs created from the My OKRs page will now be set to unassigned by default. OKRs being created from a specific team or organization page will continue to have the current default of the selected team or the organization.

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SharePoint Syntex rebrand on Service health and Message centerSharePoint Syntex rebrand on Service health and Message center

In October we announced at Microsoft Ignite that SharePoint Syntex will be rebranded to become Microsoft Syntex. As a continuation of this, the service listings on Service health and Message center will also be rebranded. In the month of March, the service titled “SharePoint Syntex” will be retitled “Microsoft Syntex”.

When this will happen:

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Creating Yammer External Networks Now Require Verified Admin PrivilegesCreating Yammer External Networks Now Require Verified Admin Privileges

Creating external networks in Yammer and Viva Engage will now require verified admin privileges for reasons of security and system reliability.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Smart Alerts and Alert Spotlighting for admins

Smart Alerts are Out of Box alerts/insights for admins that are system generated and surface the top risks the admins must triage as a priority. These are intelligent alerts that leverage various signals including previous alerts, rule matches, user activity across workloads and combine them within and across solutions to flag high risk detections to the admins. They are not dependent on policies and admins can benefit from these detections even if they don’t have policies in place.

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Microsoft Viva: Feature Access Management

Admins will have the ability to enable or disable designated Viva Engage features for specific users through the M365 admin center.

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Microsoft Viva: Topics engagement analytics in Topic center

Usage and engagement analytics showing Topics adoption and value will be available to knowledge managers in a new analytics tab in Topic center. Analytics will include Unique users and Usage counts for Topics usage activities all up; Unique users and Usage counts for Topics for consuming, contributing and sharing Topics activities; Usage count details for Topics consumption activities from Topic card, page, search, Topic center cards; Usage count details for Topics for contribution activities like Editing and publishing topics, providing feedback.

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Microsoft Viva: Expanded Viva Goals Analytics Feature

Viva Goals Analytics now includes actionable insights and recommendations expanded to team admins, OKR Champions, and organization admins.

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