Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections 1st party apps for Desktop and Mobile available in GCC

Viva Connections desktop and mobile experiences are now available in GCC.

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Configure labels independently on files and emails

Admins can scope labels to apply to email or files independently. Configure label policy in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to be applicable to emails only, files only, or both.

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Microsoft Teams: Support PSTN dial-in, dial-out, and call-me attendees in meetings to join Breakout Rooms

Enabling dial-in, dial-out and call-me PSTN participants to join breakout rooms and come back to the main room when breakout rooms end.

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Microsoft Graph: Cloud Site List Management Graph APIs

New Graph APIs that allow admins in organizations to create, manage, and publish their site lists for Internet Explorer mode in the cloud.

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Alert/sms retirement update

We are retiring the ability to trigger Alerts/SMS content messages through the Defender for Cloud Apps portal. Instead, we recommend the utilization of Microsoft Power Automate, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Teams zero-install link unfurling

With zero-install link unfurling, any time an app link is shared in Teams, it can be anonymously unfurled to showcase its value and skills right in the flow of conversation to show upfront user value. Your users can use this information and choose to install and use the app right in the flow of conversation.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98723

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New Teams Powered Encoder events

Create highly-polished events, featuring live streams, screen overlays, and more. The new RTMP-In encoder for Teams Live Events will also allow your Teams Live Events to have all the features and external encoder support that Microsoft Stream offered for Teams Live Events. In addition, we will support public events, in addition to organization-wide events 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84960

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Retirement of Legacy Microsoft Defender Online Alerts

Based on customer feedback and tendency to surface false positives in investigations, Microsoft 365 Defender is retiring a number of default alert policies. These legacy alerts are past their intended usage.

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support up to 500 EDM evaluations

Organizations will be able to configure policies for solutions where EDM is supported, such as Data Loss Prevention, with Min and Max unique instance counts up to 500, aligning instance count supported with other Sensitive Information Types, such as U.S. Social Security Number (SSN). Note that there is no change for the support of the value Any, which remains an option for Max instance count.

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Announcement of automatic deletion of inactive Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environments

The Microsoft Power Platform is introducing a cleanup mechanism that will automatically remove inactive Dataverse for Teams environments from your tenant. Dataverse for Teams environments will be first disabled after being inactive for 90 days, the environment will then be deleted after 30 days of being disabled if no action is taken by the administrators. A disabled or deleted Dataverse for Teams environment will not affect any other Microsoft Teams assets (teams, channels, SharePoint sites, Teams-connected sites…etc.) and applies only to Dataverse integrations.

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