Microsoft Forms: Convert Word/Pdf quiz into Microsoft Forms

This feature allows you to convert your existing word/pdf quizzes directly into Microsoft Forms, making it much quicker to get started using Forms in your classroom. After import, you can still edit the Quiz as needed before distributing it.

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Microsoft Teams: Start a Teams Chat with Distribution Groups, Mail-enabled Security Groups, and O365 Groups

You will now be able to start a Teams Chat with Distribution Groups, Mail-enabled Security Groups, and O365 Groups. This feature will respect the limits on members in a group chat, currently set to 250 members.

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Microsoft Teams: Adobe PDF experience

Tenant admins can set Adobe Acrobat as the default app in Teams admin center to view and edit PDF files in the Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Automatically allow Spoofing and Impersonation related messages directly using Admin Submissions

Today security administrators can use the Submissions page in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal to submit email messages, URLs, and attachments to Microsoft for scanning. We are enhancing this capability with an option to automatically allow Spoofing and Impersonation related emails from senders/infrastructure that were classified as legitimate by the admin, despite being initially blocked by the system. This will help mitigate false positives while the system continues to learn.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/admin-submission?view=o365-worldwide#submit-a-questionable-email-to-microsoft

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SharePoint: Updated Site Logo Management

With this update, we’re centralizing the management of your site logo. To update or manage your site logo, you will now exclusively visit the Header panel under the ‘Change the Look’ settings.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93231

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Preset Security Policies

We are making enhancements to Microsoft Defender for Office 365 preset security policies. It will provide a way to apply the policy to the entire organization and be able to optionally configure a list of custom users and custom domains to protect against impersonation attacks.

Impersonation protection applies to Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 and Plan 2 & Microsoft 365 Defender

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Microsoft Stream: On-demand caption and transcript generation for supported languages

If you have edit permission to a video stored in SharePoint/OneDrive, this feature will allow you to generate closed captions and transcripts for the language spoken in the video. This feature expands from just English (US) to also support the following languages/locales: English (Canada), English (India), English (United Kingdom), English (Australia), English (New Zealand), Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Cantonese), German (Germany), Portuguese (Brazil), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Netherlands), Dutch (Belgium), French (France), French (Canada), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico), Japanese (Japan), Hindi (India), Italian (Italy), Korean (Korea), Swedish (Sweden), Polish (Poland), Arabic (United Arab Emirates), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Finnish (Finland), Norwegian (Norway), Russia (Russia).

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Announcing option to automatically turn on Microsoft Purview Information Protection auto-labeling policy

Admins will now have the capability to configure their auto-labeling policies to be automatically turned on for you if there aren’t any changes to the policy within a set number of days from completion of the simulation. This option is available in the auto-labeling policy setup within the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, as part of the default auto-labeling policy setup, and via cmdlet.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93330

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Microsoft Secure Score is adding new improvement actions for Defender for Endpoint and Vulnerability Management

We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture.

This update will include these new Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management recommendations as Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions:

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Capture voice recordings with live speech-to-text in Office Mobile on iOS and Android

Recording your thoughts and jotting down notes using your voice on your mobile device is becoming increasingly important to stay productive, wherever you are. Whatever the motivation, Voice capture on Office Mobile App for iOS and Android device offers a powerful solution.

When this will happen:

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