Microsoft Viva: New landing experience for Viva Connections desktop

Help people in your organization manage their daily flow of work using a customized landing experience in Teams that displays the most important tasks, tools, news, and resources in one central place. The new landing experience offers expanded navigational tools between Viva apps and acts as the home base for Viva experiences in Teams.
More info: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2208247

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Information protection – New capability to scope labels independently on files and emails

Admins can use this capability to scope labels separately for Outlook email clients and for Word, Excel, PowerPoint clients.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium): Review set usability enhancements (GA)

We’re rolling out several usability enhancements to Review sets for the eDiscovery (Premium) solution in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 99945.

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Microsoft Teams Detailed Call History Feature Update

Users will now get a more comprehensive view into whether calls were transferred or forwarded in Microsoft Teams’ call history.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98455

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Microsoft Stream: Upload and Manage Files in the Stream Web App

You can upload a new a video directly from the Stream Web app. If you have permissions, you can move the video file to a new location or make a copy. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100061

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Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Multiple public preview features rolling out to general availability

New features, currently in public preview, are coming soon to general availability for the Communication Compliance solution in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88872, 93195

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Microsoft Purview Audit: General availability of New Search functionality

Currently available in public preview (MC391072), we’re introducing new search functionality for Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard) and Audit (Premium).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93236.

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Dynamics 365 Unified Interface – Grid columns shrink when selecting a row

On Monday, September 19, 2022, we received user reports that, following a recent service update, grids column width decreases when selecting a record.

Our investigation identified that the impact for this issue began Monday, September 19, 2022, 2:20 AM (1:20 AM UTC) , and determined that it was caused by an upgrade to a third-party component used by grids. This component has a different behavior for column sizing, causing your grid to not fill the available space on your page.

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Reminder: Microsoft Office default change – Blocking VBA macros in files from the internet

VBA macros are a common way for malicious actors to gain access to deploy malware and ransomware. As a reminder (MC322553 in Feb 2022, MC393185 in June 2022), to help improve security, we are changing the behavior of Office applications to now block macros in files from the internet. Learn more in this blog post.

This change only affects Office on devices running Windows and only affects the following applications: Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word.

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