Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Protect files on remote/mapped network devices

Protect sensitive content on files stored on remote network shares or mapped network drives with the same protection behavior as a file on a mounted hard drive.

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Microsoft Teams: Automatic lowering of a user’s Raised Hand after speaking

To reduce the number of stale raised hands in meetings, we will now suggest users to lower their raised hand after we detect they spoke in the meeting. They will be able to choose to keep their hand raised. If the user doesn’t take any action on the suggestion notification, we’ll automatically lower their hand. This should ensure smoother meeting facilitation for organizers and presenters.

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Microsoft Teams: Expanded view for profile card available in Teams

The expanded view of the profile card is now available in Teams. On the profile card expanded view you can see richer persona info, such as contact data and LinkedIn info. It also gives you easy access to view organization chart information without having to leave the context, meaning, you no longer no longer have to go to 1:1 chat in order to see organization chart information.

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Important Information about your Microsoft Power Platform admin center service

Starting in January 2023, administrators will be able to restrict environment creation for Developer environments through Power Platform admin center. Previously, the only way to restrict environment creation was through PowerShell.

For more information on this feature, please refer to this documentation.

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Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance support for adaptive policy scopes (public preview)

Coming soon to public preview for Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance, we’re introducing support for adaptive policy scopes.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 98186

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Viva Connections Toolbox displaying store apps

In the current Viva Connections environment: for users to acquire more Cards to their Dashboard, they need use the “Add an app” under Settings and Dashboard Edit Page, but it does not include Viva Connections Apps provided by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). This is a major blocker of ISVs acquisition engine. We need to provide better entry points for users to discover and add ISV Cards.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100249

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting Toolbar Usability Improvements

The updated Microsoft Teams meeting toolbar makes navigating meetings and discovering new features and capabilities easier than ever, including the ability to seamlessly switch between views and menu options.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 102065

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Announcing Public preview of permanent deletion of users in Power Platform

We are pleased to announce that you can now delete and remove users with a disabled status in Power Platform. The rollout of this feature preview has already begun and is expected to be available globally by the end of December 2022.

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Microsoft Outlook: Teams Chat from Outlook meetings

This feature provides an easy Teams chat experience from Outlook in the context of a meeting for participants to send a quick message or review the chat.

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Microsoft Viva: Automatic Topic Relationships available in GCC

The ability for AI to suggest relationships between topics will be available for customers in our Government Clouds. These suggested related topics appear on the topic card, page and answers.  This is already available for standard worldwide customers.

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