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

,When you choose a sensitivity label configured for user-defined permissions, they can now use domain names to restrict file access to specific individuals, or to all individuals from that domain. For example, you can specify “someone@example.com” or “@example.com” and permissions will be restricted based on those parameters.

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams: Updated companion mode for Android users

For a better hybrid meeting experience, Teams users on their Android phone can use a single tap to join a meeting on both their device and Microsoft Teams Room. Audio on their device will be automatically turned off to ensure echo doesn’t happen. Furthermore, the landing experience on Android will be optimized for engagement activities to make it easier to raise hand or react, chat, see all participants, and more.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: URL and attachment allow & block via submissions for government clouds

In government clouds, we honor the data residency commitments aligned with these environments. As a result, submissions are not sent to Microsoft. Admins can still create allow or block rules in the tenant allow/block list for emails via admin email submission. With this change, customers in our government cloud environments will be able to create allow and block entries for URLs and attachments in the Tenant allow block list via admin URL and email attachment submission. The data submitted via the submissions experience will not leave the customer tenant just as is standard for admin email submissions.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant blocks via admin submission

Security teams can now block sender email addresses, domains, URLs and email attachments while making admin submission for email, URL and file attachment respectively.
More info: https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcommunity.microsoft.com%2Ft5%2Fmicrosoft-defender-for-office%2Fintroducing-tenant-blocks-via-admin-submissions%2Fba-p%2F3604792&data=05%7C01%7Cv-begzaiem%40microsoft.com%7C3308930689f74

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Automatic management of allow expiration for Tenant allow block list

Allows in the tenant allow block list typically expire after 30 days, meaning legitimate email can continue to be blocked. With this change, Microsoft will automatically extend or remove allow rules based on an assessment of the particular entity.

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Microsoft Defender for Identity: User activity timeline in Microsoft 365 Defender

Using the activity timeline from the Microsoft Defender for Identity portal as inspiration, this release will provide a dedicated tab on the user page in Microsoft 365 Defender that contains a full user activity timeline, detailing all activities and alerts from relevant workloads, associate dot that identity.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams Platform Apps in Instant Meetings

All the familiar functionalities of meeting apps – tabs, bots, in-meeting dialogue, and meeting stage – will be supported in Teams Instant Meetings that are started from the Calendar. Users of your apps will enjoy the same familiar app experience as seen in Teams Meetings, in their instant meetings.

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Microsoft Teams: Background Blur and Effects for VMware

Microsoft Teams users on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for VMware will be able to blur their background in a video meeting or call, or replace it entirely with the images provided.

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Microsoft Teams: Viewing 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.

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Microsoft Teams: Background Blur and Effects for Citrix

Microsoft Teams users on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for Citrix will be able to blur their background in a video meeting or call, or replace it entirely with the images provided.

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