Microsoft 365 admin center: New Activations Graph API Set Releasing for User Detail, Activation, and User Counts in Usage Reports

We are updating Activations in Microsoft 365 admin center usage reports, adding a new graph API set for users to get user detail, activation, and user counts.

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Microsoft Edge: In-browser JSON viewer

Improvements to how JSON files are displayed in the browser, which includes a color-coded tree view with line numbers and the ability to collapse and expand the data.  This functionality will trigger automatically when the browser navigates to a JSON file on the web or the user opens a local one.  Additional features and enhancements will roll out as available.  For more information and to provide feedback visit

More info: https://aka.ms/discuss-json-viewer

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The Room Remote feature for desktop

The Room Remote feature enables touchless meetings by allowing users to control a nearby shared meeting room device from their Desktop/PC with Teams client.

This feature was first launched on Mobile and will now be available on your Desktop device formfactor. 

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Cross-tenant synchronization (preview)

Cross-tenant synchronization lets you automate creating user accounts across tenants in your organization. Users created by the synchronization process continue to authenticate in the same way they do on their primary tenant and each application can assign conditional access policies as appropriate. So now, users across your organization can access applications regardless of the tenant where they are hosted, including Microsoft applications like Teams and SharePoint, as well as non-Microsoft applications like ServiceNow, Adobe, and hundreds more SaaS apps.

Behind the scenes and transparent to the user, the sync process leverages the robust Azure AD B2B functionality and is fully integrated with Azure AD’s security and governance capabilities such as conditional access, cross-tenant access settings, and entitlement management.  

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Updated Files On-Demand Settings on Windows

We have an update to the OneDrive sync app advanced settings for Files On-Demand on Windows. Previously, a toggle was shown to allow users to opt out of Files On-Demand. After this change, users who have Files On-Demand enabled will no longer see that toggle. Instead, users will see two buttons: Download files as you open them and Download all files now.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 101520

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – New built-in trainable and global classifiers (U.S. Government clouds)

This update includes new classifiers for use in Communication Compliance policies, including Corporate sabotage, Gifts & entertainment, Money laundering, Regulatory collusion, Stock manipulation, and Unauthorized disclosure. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect business conduct and 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, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Outlook: Mandatory labeling pre-compose for iOS

Outlook mobile will introduce a new MDM setting to allow admins to enable a mandatory request for email labeling before the user starts composing the message for Outlook mobile.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enhanced Source Code classifier

The enhanced Source Code trainable classifier includes support for partial/embedded code in Office files, support for 23+ programming languages and 30+ extensions, and high accuracy and low noise with as low as 20 lines of code. This classifier can be used by auto-labeling and data loss prevention policies to detect source code across the digital estate.

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Microsoft Viva: Increased Language Availability for Viva Goals

Viva Goals will support a total of 37 languages.

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Outlook: MIP sensitivity label support S/MIME

Outlook on the web will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) sign and encryption as sensitivity label outcome. Customer admins could use set-label advanced setting to define the label to have S/MIME sign or encryption or both, and emails with those labels applied will enforce S/MIME sign and encrypt accordingly.

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