Changes to Cloud App Catalog and Risk score calculation

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps are making some changes to the Cloud App Catalog as part of improving the scoring of Apps.

1) As part of the changes, the following non-relevant/redundant indicators are being removed from the catalog:

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Exchange Online Protection: Bulk Filter (BCL) Improvements

Exchange Online Protection (EOP) assigns a bulk complaint level (BCL) to inbound messages from bulk mailers. A higher BCL indicates a bulk message is less likely to be wanted by the user.

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Microsoft Forms: Instant Poll in Teams meeting

Microsoft Forms will add a new question type – Instant Poll to Polls app in Teams meeting. This feature will help meeting presenters quickly launch a binary poll to collect audience responses on the question without any beforehand preparation.

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Microsoft Forms: Support Image in Polls for Teams meeting

You can now add images to questions in polls from the Polls app in Teams. Images from a local file can be used to increase engagement and better explain your questions to attendees.

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Microsoft Forms: Multiple-question Poll in Teams meeting

Microsoft Forms will support multiple question in 1 poll for Polls app in Teams meeting. This feature will help meeting presenters ask multiple questions in 1 poll with single ‘Launch’, to improve the meeting efficiency and better engage with attendees.

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OneNote: Notebook viewer in 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 or other advanced functionality will be directed to the standalone OneNote mobile app.

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Microsoft Teams: Federated group calling

Easily start a group Teams call with federated colleagues outside your organization, including video and screensharing, all over an internet connection without any PSTN usage charges.

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SharePoint: Adding an app to Teams

As a SharePoint Administrator or Global Administrator in Microsoft 365, you can manage apps that can be used across SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Viva Connections. Some apps can be added to Teams, you can add them on the Apps site.

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Microsoft Purview | Data loss prevention: Support for complex conditions (U.S. government clouds)

With this update, you will be able to create complex conditions while configuring your Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies. You will be able to create conditions with AND/OR combinations with the ability to create groups to achieve condition combinations like A AND (B OR C).

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OneDrive: Sharing experiences – simplifying link settings

We’re improving Link settings by providing more helpful tooltips, definitions and clearer language to help you understand which link type and permissions best suit your needs prior to sharing a file or folder with your coworkers.

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