Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – List usability enhancements

Various UX and workflow enhancements including the ability to mark an eDiscovery (Premium) case as favorite, user filter/group/sort/search persistence on various list pages (such as cases list), and quickly access common collection operations (such as edit collection query, rerun estimate, and commit collection).

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Support for adaptive policy scopes

Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to define user scopes for policies based on criteria such as geography, group, or other Azure Active Directory attributes. With adaptive policy scopes, policies are automatically updated to include users that match defined risk criteria rather than requiring admins to repeatedly update static lists of users to include in the policy scope. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC and FINRA obligations), such as inappropriate sharing of sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language and sharing of adult content. Communication Compliance enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance and organizational requirements. 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 ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Stream: Video and audio embed code for use on internal web sites

With this feature users can get an embed code for an audio or video file that is uploaded to or stored in SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, or Yammer. The embed code renders the audio or video source file in a player and can be used on intranets or internal websites. Note: If the user is logged into the internal site or intranet where the embedded player is featured, but is not logged into M365, then they will be asked to login to M365 to view the content. If the user does not have permission to view the content, then a modal will surface in place of the video which will allow the user to request access to the audio or video file.

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Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) List usability enhancements (U.S government clouds)

Various UX and workflow enhancements including the ability to mark an eDiscovery (Premium) case as favorite, user filter/group/sort/search persistence on various list pages (such as cases list), and quickly access common collection operations (such as edit collection query, rerun estimate, and commit collection).

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Microsoft Teams: Teams calendar – Muti window experience for scheduling form for Government

Currently, it is not possible to work on a file, chat, look into activity while managing time on teams’ calendar. The reason for this is all these are in different apps located in the left app tray. Users have to switch back and forth between these apps to multi-task in calendar and there are times the data/context gets lost while switching between these apps. We have heard this feedback and as a first step towards solving this, scheduling form can now be popped out as a separate window. This scheduling form new window can be seen while creating a new meeting An existing meeting can also be now popped out by clicking on the icon on scheduling form. Our tech wizards have also made some improvements to calendar in this version which makes it faster to load now. In our next versions, we also plan to pop out the complete calendar app as a new window.

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection Maintain label and protection when creating PDF files from Office apps (U.S. government clouds)

Labels and protection applied on Office documents will be persisted to the output file when converting to PDF in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on PC.

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Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): Retirement of classic case format

We’re retiring the “classic” case format option from the eDiscovery (Premium) case creation page starting November 1, 2022. Instead we recommend the utilization of the eDiscovery (Premium) “new” case format, which features improved performance and additional capabilities, and where we will continue to invest our development resources.  

How this will affect your organization:

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Microsoft Teams Outgoing Screen Share Support for Firefox Browser

Microsoft Teams Meetings on the Firefox browser will now support outgoing screen sharing capabilities.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 99384.

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Quick Access Teams and Sharepoint Document Libraries in win32 backstage

Currently, users experience some frustration when using Office products because of all different routes that they must use to access all their content. The Quick Access feature will allow users to access shared libraries from both their SharePoint and Teams locations. When the user opens files from shared libraries, these libraries will show up in the form of a list which will encourage users to save and open files to these libraries with ease. This helps deliver a more consistent, coherent storage location experience across M365 apps. This new backstage experience won’t show up in Teams, SharePoint, or OneDrive but does include storage locations from OneDrive and Teams (sites/channels) which are stored on SharePoint.

When this will happen:

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Major Update to Stream Mobile App

We plan to release a completely rebuilt Stream mobile app for iOS and Android. The rebuilt app will give your users seamless access to Stream (Classic) and Stream (on SharePoint) videos as well as Teams meeting recordings. The app also includes a design refresh, a personalized home feed, and a rich video viewing experience.

If your users currently have the Stream mobile app installed on phones or tablets and they have automatic updates turned on, then they will automatically receive the app update when it becomes available to them. Users who have the Stream mobile app who have automatic updates turned off will receive the updated version when they explicitly update the app from the respective app/play store.

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