Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Retirement of legacy DLP reporting cmdlets

As announced in November 2022 (MC455898), we’ve recently retired the Reports page from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Beginning in early February, we’re retiring legacy Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention reporting cmdlets. 

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New Experiences coming to Viva Engage

Next month, new experiences will be available within Viva Engage for Microsoft Viva customers.

Admins will see new capabilities and service plans in the Admin Center and new experiences in the Viva Engage app in Microsoft Teams, and on Yammer.com. For an overview of these experiences, check out this blog.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: Simulation mode for automatically applied retention labels (U.S. government clouds)

Records Management admins will be able to simulate the results of an auto-apply retention label policy. This feature allows admins to test the policy before deploying it in production. It will work with the Sensitive Information Type (SIT) and KQL properties policy types.

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Microsoft Viva: Engage Premium Analytics

New advanced personal, community, and leader analytics to better understand engagement, reach, insights, and sentiment in communities and storyline posts in Viva Engage.

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Sentiment Analysis in Viva Engage Premium Analytics

Audience Analytics, part of Viva Engage premium, will enable users identified as leaders have access sentiment analysis features powered by Azure Cognitive Services (ACS).

Sentiment in your audience uses ACS sentiment analysis to understand the aggregate sentiment across all public posts and comments on storyline and in communities written by members of the leader’s defined audience.

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Microsoft Teams: Video Filters in Teams Meetings

Video Filters are a new feature in Microsoft Teams meetings that will allow participants to augment their video stream with visual effects, such as frames and styles. These filters are built on the Teams Platform infrastructure and provided by Microsoft first- and third-party partners as apps and displayed as a collection of filters. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86811

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SharePoint: External File Request in SharePoint Document Library

With File Request feature in SharePoint Document Library, users have an easy and secure way to request and obtain files from anyone. Users can choose a folder in SharePoint Document Library where others can upload files using a link that is shared with them. Users you request files from can only upload files; they can’t see the content of the folder, edit, delete, or download files, or even see who else has uploaded files.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 103625

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Known Issue: Admins may not be able to update certain Teams devices to the latest available firmware

We are temporarily pausing updates (previously announced via Message center) to the latest available firmware for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android devices, Phones, Displays, and Panels from Teams admin center.

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New Viva Engage Admin experiences releasing next month

Next month, new admin experiences will be available within the Viva Engage Teams app for Microsoft Viva customers.

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Get ready for Answers in Microsoft Viva

Answers is a conversational experience for asking questions and connecting people to answers, and appears as a tab in Viva Engage. Learn more in the announcement blog (Announcing Answers in Microsoft Viva), or view the Microsoft Mechanics segment (YouTube).

Note: Customer tenants will need to be in Native Mode (Yammer Native Mode: step-by-step guide) and require Yammer topics being migrated to Viva Topics (Viva Topics experience in Yammer).

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