Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management: Support for Microsoft Teams call data records

Microsoft Teams call data records (CDR) are system-generated messages that contain metadata for meetings and calls – for example, who joined and when they joined. Previously, this type of content was not managed by retention policies for Teams (user chats, standard channels, shared channels, and private channel user messages).

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Microsoft Teams Paging on Video Gallery

When you are in gallery view, and there are more videos than what can be shown at once on the meeting stage (the maximum number can vary depending on your device configuration, internet bandwidth and whether content is being shared), navigation controls will appear to see additional videos of the attendees. You can use these controls to view more video participants.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86480.

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Microsoft 365 Support Integration with ServiceNow Virtual Agent

The Microsoft 365 support integration app for ServiceNow can now work with ServiceNow Virtual Agent. This will bring Microsoft self-help services to end-users requesting support through the ServiceNow Virtual Agent chat experience.

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Retirement of Distribution List(DL) to Unified Group(UG) in EAC and PowerShell

We will be retiring the ability to convert a Distribution List (DL) to a Unified Group (UG) from Exchange Admin center (EAC) and PowerShell.

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Update to Defender for Cloud Apps IP Addresses

Defender for Cloud Apps is updating its IP addresses related to ‘App connectors’ and ‘Third-party DLP integration’.

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SharePoint admin center: Streamlining management of site information across Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups

SharePoint is updating the site detail panel to include Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups information.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100053

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Automatic migration of legacy Office 365 Message Encryption to Microsoft Purview Message Encryption

Microsoft Purview Message Encryption will replace and retire the legacy Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) in the Exchange admin center. If you don’t do anything, Microsoft will process all mail flow rules that currently applies OME protection to Microsoft Purview Message Encryption protection. With this change, recipients will receive a much more customizable notification mail. 

Starting April 1, 2023, admins will no longer be able to make configuration changes to apply or remove Office 365 Message Encryption protection in mail flow rules. Deployment will begin to automatically apply Microsoft Purview Message encryption in mail flow rules. The deployment will be completed by July 1, 2023. 

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Planner’s task assignment e-mail notification design update

Microsoft Planner sends out an email notification to users when a new task is assigned to them. We are releasing few changes to the email template to improve the visual design and make the task deep links more relevant to the user.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to stop honoring ReportJunkEmailEnabled in OwaMailboxPolicy

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (Exchange Online Protection) will stop honoring ReportJunkEmailEnabled property in OwaMailboxPolicy. Instead, we recommend the utilization of User reported settings page in Microsoft Defender portal, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Extend sensitivity labels to meetings

Extend sensitivity labels to Outlook appointments, invites, and Teams online meetings.

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