Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Limitless Tenant Allow/Block List

Today, customers can only create 500 block and 500 allow entries in sender, URL and file category in Tenant allow/block list. Going ahead, customers with MDO P2 or E5 security can create any number of allows and blocks in Tenant allow/block list for sender, URL and file category. Spoof in Tenant allow/block list will remain unaffected by this change and all SKUs will have 1024 entries for both allows and blocks.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams Platform Apps in One-on-One VOIP Calls

All the familiar functionalities of meeting apps – tabs, bots, in-meeting dialogue, and meeting stage – will be supported in Teams VOIP Calls. Users of your apps will enjoy the same familiar app experience as seen in Teams Meetings, in their Teams VOIP Calls.

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Microsoft Teams: Unread Toggle on Activity Feed

Unread Toggle will help the user review only unread items on the activity feed easily and efficiently.

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Microsoft Teams: Firefox Meeting Support for Outgoing Screen Sharing

Extend outgoing screen sharing capabilities for Teams Meetings from the Firefox browser.

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Microsoft 365 Defender: Tenant Blocks via Admin Submission

We are excited to announce that in Microsoft 365 Defender, you can now block suspicious entities when submitting emails, URLs, or attachments for Microsoft to review.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98920

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Microsoft Secure Score is adding new improvement actions for impersonation protection and SharePoint Online

We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of your organization’s security posture.

This update will include these new recommendations as Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions:

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Microsoft Teams: Music on Hold for Call Transfer

Microsoft Teams users can now play music to callers on hold when a call transfer is initiated. This feature ensures that music can be played to caller on hold when call transfer is initiated, feature applies to 1-1 VoIP and PSTN calls. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98431

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Announcing Azure AD dynamic membership type group in Dataverse group teams

Dataverse group teams has been enhanced to support the Azure AD Dynamic membership group. This new functionality allows you to leverage your Dynamic membership groups to manage the Dataverse group teams’ members using Azure AD group membership rule.

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Microsoft Teams: Group Chat Invitations From Unmanaged Users

When using external access for Microsoft Teams, users receiving a group chat invitation from an unmanaged Teams user will be prompted with the option to acknowledge or leave the group chat.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95051

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View the Full Chat conversation thread after clicking on search message results

When users search for a chat message in Teams and click on a message result, they are taken to a view that contains only the selected message, rather than the entire chat thread. This fix will now land the users on the full chat thread once the message search result is clicked, thereby providing full context of the conversation around the message result.

The feature will be rolling out for Teams Desktop and Web clients and is applicable to message results on the SERP page and the contextual search surfaces.

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