Microsoft Defender for Office 365: DMARC Policy Handling

In order to better protect our customers from exact domain spoofing attacks and improve deliverability of email, we are making changes to how we handle DMARC p=reject and p=quarantine.

For the enterprise customers, we are making updates to how DMARC policy-based reject can be handled. This change will help Security Administrators be able to choose how DMARC policy-based reject and quarantine can be applied within their organization.

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Microsoft 365 Lighthouse: Support for onboarding additional customers

If you are working with a partner, we are adding capabilities for your partner to better secure and manage your tenant on your behalf using Microsoft 365 Lighthouse. This will happen through the addition of a new service plan, “Microsoft 365 Lighthouse (Plan 1)” being added to one or more of your subscriptions. 

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Viva: Bulk Import Teams in Viva Goals

With the bulk import of teams, administrators and anyone with the permission to create teams will be able to create multiple teams at a time by importing them from an external source using an Excel template. This will also enable creation of organization hierarchy and addition of members into these teams by adding groups, as part of the team creation process.

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Microsoft Viva: Diversity Equity and Inclusion report template in Viva Insights

Use this report template to measure the impact and efficacy of your DEI strategy. Companies know how to measure diversity, but often struggle with inclusion and equity measures. This report measures the impact of DEI strategies. Examining coaching time, access to leadership, network composition, engagement drivers, and other career advancement elements.

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SharePoint: Visual Refresh

We are introducing updates to the Microsoft Fluent Visual styling of the SharePoint platform that will improve the experience across the SharePoint Authoring Experience and Microsoft Syntex.

Aligning with the latest Microsoft Fluent design system principles includes updated icons with softer edges, a cooler grey palette, and more rounded corners on various UI controls.

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Microsoft 365: Italy datacenter region and Advanced Data Residency availability

Microsoft 365 will launch a new local cloud region in Italy. The Advanced Data Residency add-on (“ADR”) will be available in Italy and provide eligible customers with committed data residency in the Italy local cloud region, prioritized tenant migration services, and expanded coverage of Microsoft 365 workloads and Customer Data.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC)

Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC).For example,– German investigators should be able to investigate messages for only German users; German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin.

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Microsoft 365: Israel datacenter region and Advanced Data Residency availability

Microsoft 365 will launch a new local cloud region in Israel. The Advanced Data Residency add-on (“ADR”) will be available in Israel and provide eligible customers with committed data residency in the Israel local cloud region, prioritized tenant migration services, and expanded coverage of Microsoft 365 workloads and Customer Data.

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Microsoft 365: Mexico datacenter region and Advanced Data Residency availability

Microsoft 365 will launch a new local cloud region in Mexico. The Advanced Data Residency add-on (“ADR”) will be available in Mexico and provide eligible customers with committed data residency in the Mexico local cloud region, prioritized tenant migration services, and expanded coverage of Microsoft 365 workloads and Customer Data.

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Microsoft Teams: Extended Real-time telemetry retention for up to 7 days (Premium)

To facilitate meeting quality troubleshooting
for admins in Teams admin center, real-time telemetry available during the
meeting will be retained for an extended period of time (up to 7 days after
meeting is ended) for users with Premium licenses. This will help admins
identify and fix quality issues using granular telemetry after the meeting is
over for up to 7 days.

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