Live Copy/Paste Support for Loop Components in Microsoft Whiteboard

The ability to copy/paste live Loop components from other Microsoft 365 apps (such as Teams) is coming soon to Whiteboard for the web, Whiteboard app in Teams, and Whiteboard for Windows.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98161

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Announcing the retirement of ‘Getting Started’ in the Expanded View of the Power BI Service

The Power BI Service’s expanded view gives you the option to view “Getting Started” content at the end of your Home Page. From the “Getting Started” section, you can utilize information on how to get started using Power BI, tips and tricks on how to create/utilize reports and dashboards, etc.

Getting started

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Health dashboard moving to admin center homepage

A new Dashboard page was added to the Health section of the Microsoft 365 admin center in July 2022. Based on feedback from users, it is being moved out of the Health section to become an optional view on the admin center homepage. You can switch from the traditional dashboard view to the health view by clicking the on the top right hand of the homepage.

The original service health page remains in the Health section with no changes.  

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Email notifications for “Issues in your environment that require action”

In December 2021, a new section was added to the service health page in the Microsoft 365 admin center, featuring “Issues in your environment that require action.” These types of issues are not caused by Microsoft services being unhealthy, but by something specific to your organization that require an admin to take action.

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Improved Upload experience and retirement of the ‘Get Data’ page in Power BI

We will be retiring the ‘Get Data’ page in Power BI as well as the ability to connect to files from personal OneDrive accounts. Going forward, users can utilize a new streamlined Upload experience and we recommend connecting to files using OneDrive for Business or SharePoint for uploading local files.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Teams: Hardware Occupancy Sensor Integration

With supported occupancy sensor hardware, a notification banner is displayed on the Teams panel if the room is occupied when it is available or if the room is not occupied when it is reserved. The room will also be auto checked in when the sensor detects occupancy if check in is enabled.

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Microsoft Teams: In-meeting notification improvement for Teams Rooms on Windows

This update delivers improvements to in-meeting notifications on Teams Rooms on Windows and aligns them with Desktop’s framework. All critical notifications that require a user action will be shown on console.

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Introducing OneNote viewer in Teams mobile apps

We are excited to announce the OneNote viewer feature within Teams mobile apps.

Through this new feature, users will be able to open and view OneNote notebooks right within their Teams mobile apps. Users interested in editing the content will be directed to the standalone OneNote mobile app. The experience will be available as part of the Teams mobile apps on Android and iOS (including iPads) starting with English language users, followed by international languages.

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Introducing Threat Explorer V3 by Microsoft Defender for Office 365

We are happy to share that Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is rolling out the Threat Explorer-Version 3. Threat Explorer has been an integral part of security operations workflow allowing users to explore the email data and take remediation actions on threats. And we strive to make the security operations experience better for the users by enhancing the filtering, navigation and data visualization experiences.

With this new version, we are improving the filtering experience by adding four new filtering conditions. The existing “Advanced Filters” functionality has been made available with the new filter, thereby reducing the complexity in applying multiple filter conditions and providing users an easy to navigate and rich filtering experience. 

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium): New case creation wizard

We’re introducing a new case creation wizard for eDiscovery (Premium) in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 101523.

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