Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Ability to exclude bulk emails

Communication Compliance policies will filter out bulk emails such as newsletters to help customers triage policy matches more efficiently. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) Collections and Review – Query builder enhancements

Updates to eDiscovery (Premium) query builder experience to add functionality including NOT/OR conditions, grouping, and alignment between Collections and Review query building experiences. This enhancement will help build complex queries from scratch, validate them, and help to ensure correct content is being returned with the query inputs.

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Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): New role for review set tag management

We are introducing a new role called “Manage review set tags” which will allow the user to have granular permission on creating/editing/deleting of review set tags in eDiscovery (Premium) cases.

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Power Platform admin center – Planned maintenance impacting support case creation

We have maintenance planned for the Power Platform admin center and Lifecycle Services, which will impact the creation of support cases during the maintenance window, as we perform infrastructure changes.

Maintenance window start: 8 October 2022, 15:00 UTC

Maintenance window end: 8 October 2022, 23:00 UTC

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Microsoft Excel Online: Support for the Furigana (Phonetics) Feature

We’re happy to announce support for the furigana phonetics feature in Excel Online. We’ve now added support for the feature in Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Hong-Kong locales. Users are now able to view furigana in Excel Online.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: User-defined permissions support domain name restrictions

Coming soon to public preview and general availability, we’re updating the options for custom permissions, also referred to as user-defined permissions, to support domain name restrictions.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98131.

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Creation of Contact Groups in Calls App

Creation of Contact groups are now available in the right rail pane of the Calls App. Users can now create new groups, and edit the membership of existing groups via the Calls app.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100152

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Microsoft Teams: Viva Connections for your Frontline Teams members

Frontline employees with an F license will have an out of box Viva Connections experience tailored to their frontline needs. This experience includes a dashboard with relevant frontline cards such as Tasks, Shifts, Approvals, and Top news.

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Microsoft Teams: Browser screen pop for incoming PSTN calls

Admins can enable policy so that on acceptance of a PSTN call, an automatic browser launch can happen alongside Teams, displaying relevant information (CRM data, case data, etc.) to the user.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Categorization of user-reported messages

An updated “Submissions” experience will categorize user-reported messages into individual tabs for Phish, Spam (Junk) etc., based on the user’s report.

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