Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights web app in Government Community Cloud (GCC)

A new web interface for the Viva Insights app will be discoverable via the web, and the Microsoft 365 app launcher on Office.com. This will offer an additional way to access the personal productivity and wellbeing experiences currently in the Viva Insights app in Teams, and will include a link to the MyAnalytics dashboard for users who want to reflect on insights related to their work habits.

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: AIP Scanner admin experience moving to Microsoft Purview compliance portal

The AIP Scanner admin configuration is currently managed through the Azure portal. The admin configuration will be moved to the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Existing users of the Scanner will see their configurations in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal with no additional steps.

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Retiring Support for iOS 13 and MacOS 10.14

We will be retiring support for iOS 13 and MacOS 10.14 on the To Do iOS and Mac apps respectively. We recommend upgrading to version 14 and above for iOS and 10.15 and above for MacOS to continue using the To Do application on your device. If automatic upgrades are not set up on your device, then instructions to upgrade can be found here for iOS and here for MacOS.

When this will happen:

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Update to sharing e-mails

We are updating the e-mails that are sent when users that share SharePoint sites to match the behavior of our other sharing e-mails. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98197

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Office apps can now audit protection properties applied to a document through sensitivity labels

Added the missing audit fields related to the protection status of a document and how the protection was changed due to a specific event. That would include the following fields: protectionEventType, documentEncrypted, documentEncryptedBefore, protectionType, protectionTypeBefore, protectionTemplateId, protectionTemplateIdBefore, protectionOwner and protectionOwnerBefore

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: General availability of Credential SITs

Currently available in public preview (MC402123), we’re adding new Sensitive Information Types (SITs) to allow your organization to detect credential patterns (such as access keys, tokens, general passwords), as either individual patterns for specific detection or a bundle of all credential patterns for holistic detection.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88941.

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Insert Links/URL support for Microsoft Whiteboard

The ability to insert links with rich preview is coming soon to Whiteboard web, Teams and Windows App.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98080

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Insert Online Videos for Microsoft Whiteboard

The ability to insert & embed online Videos (YouTube, Stream, Flip, Vimeo, TED and Slideshare) is coming soon to Whiteboard web, Teams and Windows App.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98084

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Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Performance improvement for Microsoft Teams DLP policies

We’re rolling out an update for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to improve the performance of DLP policies to block sensitive information from being shared via Teams chat and channel messages. 

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Microsoft Outlook: Support pop-up messages in Outlook that warn, justify, or block emails being sent with sensitivity labels

Outlook desktop native sensitivity labeling will support oversharing pop-up dialogue as AIP plug-in to warn, justify or block email being sent. Admin could use the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to define the oversharing pop-up DLP rules(Roadmap 100157) to group of users. If users has the configured DLP rule trigger when they click send, a warn/justify/block pop up message will show up to make sure customer could comply admin’s security double check requirements. As the first stage, Outlook desktop will only support these Pop-up message for DLP rule regarding sending emails to external with specific email and attachment labels. More DLP condition support will come later.

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