Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights web app in GCC-H

A new web interface for the Viva Insights app will be discoverable via the web and the Microsoft 365 app launcher. This will offer an additional way to access the personal productivity and wellbeing experiences in the Viva Insights app in Teams.

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Microsoft Intune: Windows Driver and Firmware Management

The ability to scan for, approve, deploy, and monitor driver and firmware updates.

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Microsoft Intune: Device Scope

Slicing of Endpoint analytics reports to a subset of devices based on scope tags.

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Microsoft Teams: Manage Attendee Audio Permissions for DoD

Meeting organizers and presenters can now manage the audio capabilities of meeting attendees. Before the meeting, organizers can enable or disable the ability for attendees to use their mic (i.e. share audio), and during the meeting both the organizer and meeting presenters can modify attendee speaking capabilities.

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Microsoft Intune: Anomaly detection

Anomaly Detection is an early warning mechanism that IT Admins can rely on to learn about user experience impacting issues before it reaches through other channels.

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Microsoft Teams: Invite Parents via SMS for Communication

Parent Connection allows teachers to communicate with the guardians of a student. To enable parent-teacher communication, admins can now choose either email or SMS as their preferred Parent Connection invitation channel. Sending messages in an SMS-heavy market makes it easier to connect with Parents while keeping teachers’ experience simple. These messages sent to parents and guardians will be in plain text, without HTML, formatting, or styles applied. For more details, please visit: https://review.learn.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/edu-parents-app?branch=danismith-parent-app-sms-details#set-a-preferred-invitation-channel

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Microsoft 365 app: [Android] Shared Device Mode for Front Line Workers (via OneAuth)

Frontline workers such as retail associates, flight crew members, and field service workers often use a shared mobile device to do their work. That becomes problematic when they start sharing passwords or pin numbers to access customer and business data on the shared device. Shared device mode allows you to configure an Android device so that it can be easily shared by multiple employees. Employees can sign in and access customer information quickly. When they’re finished with their shift or task, they can sign out of the device and it will be immediately ready for the next employee to use. Shared device mode also provides Microsoft identity backed management of the device.

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Microsoft Intune: Security policies and settings for devices enrolled with Microsoft Defender

Expand coverage & provide additional capabilities to provide a single unified pane of glass for managing the security settings of any device with Microsoft Defender.

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Microsoft Viva: Insights web app in DoD

A new web interface for the Viva Insights app will be discoverable via the web and the Microsoft 365 app launcher. This will offer an additional way to access the personal productivity and wellbeing experiences in the Viva Insights app in Teams. 

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Support for Customer Key (U.S. Government clouds)

Given the sensitivity of Audit log data, many organizations want to add additional layers of protection, including encryption. Customer Managed Key (CMK) allows Organizations to use their own keys giving them control over their encryption. With this update, admins will have the ability to encrypt their Audit log data using CMK.

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