Visio: Cause and Effect Shapes stencil in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2]

Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to create cause and effect diagrams, such as fishbone and Ishikawa diagrams, from a blank drawing using the new Cause and Effect Shapes stencil in Visio for the web.

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Visio: Electrical diagrams in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 2]

Users with a Visio Plan 2 license will be able to create graphical representations of electrical circuits and systems, among others, using new shapes for Electrical Diagrams in Visio for the web.

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Microsoft Teams: Approvals – Sequential Approvers Support

Requestors will now be able to toggle on sequential approvals to designate the approval order of the request.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Export API (U.S. Government clouds)

The Export function plays an integral role in eDiscovery. After a review set is added, with use of this Export API, organizations can create export jobs and get the download URL to successfully download the export created in a programmatic manner. This API will enable external applications and partners to successfully integrate the eDiscovery export function through scripting.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Topics – Yammer conversations and Q&A appears on Topic Card as Activity

Yammer conversations and Q&A which are associated to a topic appear on the Topic Card as new activity.

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Microsoft Viva: SharePoint content on Office.com and Edge New Tab Page Feed show related Viva Topics

Feed items are highlighted with a Topic Pill when they have relevant SharePoint content allowing the user to further contextualize their Feed.

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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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