Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Maintain label and protection when creating PDF files from VBA in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (U.S. Government clouds)

This feature is for VBA developers who use Office fixed format export functions to create PDFs from documents with sensitivity labels and encryption. By default, all PDFs created using Office’s fixed format export functions will automatically inherit the source document’s label or encryption. Some VBA add-ins may need to be updated to avoid issues when post-processing an encrypted PDF.

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Microsoft Viva: Sharing praise with others

With updates coming in January, users with Viva Insights subscriptions who send praise will have the ability to share a copy of the praise with others. Shared recipients will be notified via Teams and can see praise details in the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams.

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SharePoint: External File Request in SharePoint Document Library

,With the file request feature in SharePoint Document Library, you can choose a folder where others can upload files using a link that you send them. People 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.

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Planner: Task Email Notifications for GCC-High

Task Email Notifications for GCC-High aims at bringing two primary categories of email notifications to the Planner customers in GCC-High. 1. Assignment email Notifications and 2. Due date digest email notifications.

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OneNote: Meeting Notes in OneNote

Every Teams meeting now comes with a collaborative OneNote canvas. Create notes from the Teams calendar or during a meeting. You can easily recall your notes and manage your tasks directly from OneNote.

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Microsoft Intune: Microsoft Tunnel Mobile Application Management

A light weight VPN solution for for secure access to premises resources from iOS and Android mobile devices that does not require device enrollment.

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Microsoft Teams Support for Co-organizer to Manage Breakout Rooms

The Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms feature enables co-organizers to create, manage and move between Breakout Rooms like meeting organizers. We will be updating this feature for co-organizers to have the ability to:

  • Create rooms
  • Configure room settings, including appointing additional Breakout Room managers
  • Assign participants
  • Add/Remove rooms
  • Open/Close rooms
  • Send announcements
  • Rename/Delete rooms

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OneDrive: Sharing Experience – Sensitivity Labels inside the Sharing Dialog

We apologize that we did not communicate ahead of time for this feature release.

Sensitivity labels are used to classify and protect your organization’s data. These labels are completely customizable, and admins can apply a label to a specific file based on the organization needs. We’ve now added sensitivity labels inside the Sharing dialog, to provide you the ability to see what labels have been applied to your files prior to sharing them. 

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Important Information about your Microsoft Power Automate service

Starting on January 10, 2023, support for the “Submit as a template” button will no longer be available. This functionality enables users to submit flow templates as candidates for Power Automate’s public template gallery. As a result, users will no longer be able to submit their flows as templates using the “Submit as template” button.

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Communication Compliance: Prioritize analysis of policy-driven alerts with Azure Cognitive Services (public preview)

Coming soon to public preview, Communication Compliance will support Azure Cognitive Services text analysis, helping customers’ compliance managers prioritize and investigate alerts related to violations of their organizations’ defined regulatory requirements. Using Azure Cognitive Services, this update helps investigation of potential regulatory incidents by providing customers more context. Only messages that have already triggered an alert in an existing Communication Compliance policy will be analyzed. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88918.

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