Microsoft Teams zero-install link unfurling

With zero-install link unfurling, any time an app link is shared in Teams, it can be anonymously unfurled to showcase its value and skills right in the flow of conversation to show upfront user value. Your users can use this information and choose to install and use the app right in the flow of conversation.

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New Teams Powered Encoder events

Create highly-polished events, featuring live streams, screen overlays, and more. The new RTMP-In encoder for Teams Live Events will also allow your Teams Live Events to have all the features and external encoder support that Microsoft Stream offered for Teams Live Events. In addition, we will support public events, in addition to organization-wide events 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84960

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Retirement of Legacy Microsoft Defender Online Alerts

Based on customer feedback and tendency to surface false positives in investigations, Microsoft 365 Defender is retiring a number of default alert policies. These legacy alerts are past their intended usage.

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support up to 500 EDM evaluations

Organizations will be able to configure policies for solutions where EDM is supported, such as Data Loss Prevention, with Min and Max unique instance counts up to 500, aligning instance count supported with other Sensitive Information Types, such as U.S. Social Security Number (SSN). Note that there is no change for the support of the value Any, which remains an option for Max instance count.

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Announcement of automatic deletion of inactive Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environments

The Microsoft Power Platform is introducing a cleanup mechanism that will automatically remove inactive Dataverse for Teams environments from your tenant. Dataverse for Teams environments will be first disabled after being inactive for 90 days, the environment will then be deleted after 30 days of being disabled if no action is taken by the administrators. A disabled or deleted Dataverse for Teams environment will not affect any other Microsoft Teams assets (teams, channels, SharePoint sites, Teams-connected sites…etc.) and applies only to Dataverse integrations.

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Important information about your Microsoft Power Apps service

As part of a service update designed to improve security within Microsoft Power Apps, we will upgrade jQuery from 2.1.1 to version 3.6.0 next week.

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Planner Due Date Digest Email design update

Microsoft Planner sends out a daily Due Date Digest email to users who have tasks that are assigned to them and are either overdue, due today, or due in the next 7 days. 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 Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): New role for review set tag management

We are introducing a new role in Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium) for review set tag management.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100498.

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Microsoft Graph to Support HTTP/2 as of September 2023

Beginning September 15, 2023, the Microsoft Graph service (graph.microsoft.com) will enable HTTP version 2 (HTTP/2) in addition to HTTP/1.1. for API requests. 

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New home experience for Viva Connections desktop

A new desktop experience is being released for Viva Connections that’s easier and faster to set up and optimizes content to deliver a modern employee experience. The new Viva Connections desktop design serves as a new home experience option that centers essential job tasks, personalized content, easy access to other Viva experiences, and better aligns with the mobile experience.

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