Pin External Resources to Viva Topics Topic Pages

Topics contributors of Viva Topics will now be able to pin external resources to their topic pages. Previously, contributors could only link to sites and pages within SharePoint. The Viva Topics product team is aware that relevant topic content often lives outside of SharePoint and wants to bridge the gap between that knowledge and their Viva Topics.  

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Microsoft Purview: Exact Data Match support for eDiscovery and Insider Risk Management

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery search queries and Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management policy configuration will now support Exact Data Match (EDM) classification capabilities. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93286 and 93287

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eDiscovery (Premium) Records Management – Discover the document version that has been shared (preview)

This update was previously communicated in November 2021 (MC295570) but experienced unforeseen delays during rollout. We truly appreciate your patience as we’ve worked diligently to resolve these issues. We are now ready at last to announce an updated timeline for rollout of these features.

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SharePoint: Video collections page

SharePoint video collections pages make it easy to gather and display all of the videos from a SharePoint site collection in one place.  This feature is particularly helpful schools, universities and other organizations that tend to share videos in Teams channels. With this feature you will be able to create a tab in your Teams channel that links directly to a specific collection of videos.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Restrict copying sensitive files to Bluetooth on endpoints (U.S. Government clouds)

Microsoft Endpoint DLP provides customers the ability to create and enforce DLP policies that regulate the sharing of sensitive data to Bluetooth devices using the same DLP policy creation and management solution they currently use to support DLP across Microsoft’s fully unified DLP offering with the experience their users are already familiar with.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Improved classification accuracy (U.S. Government clouds)

Availability of high/medium/low confidence levels to fine tune the match condition for any Sensitive Info Type in your Endpoint data loss prevention policies.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data loss prevention – Customizable DLP policy violation justification (U.S. Government clouds)

You can customize and replace the out-of-the-box justifications with your organization’s own text to better define the type and scope override.

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Microsoft Teams: View Together Mode for everyone for GCC-High and DOD

Meeting organizer and presenters will be able to start Together Mode in the meeting for all the participants.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Advanced classification scanning and protection (U.S. Government clouds)

Advanced classification scanning and protection allows the Microsoft 365 cloud-based data classification service to scan items, classify them, and return the results to the endpoint device. This enables admins to include more advanced classification techniques, such as exact data match, into data loss prevention policies. Admins will also have the flexibility to set a per-device bandwidth limit for a 24-hour period to regulate bandwidth usage.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/endpoint-dlp-using?view=o365-worldwide#advanced-classification-scanning-and-protection

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Recipient Block using Tenant Allow/Block List Senders

,Today the Tenant Allow Block List is used to prevent users from receiving email from select senders. However, users are still able to send emails to that same address or domain. With this new feature, the Tenant Allow Block List will be extended to prevent users from sending emails to addresses and domains that are added to the Allow/Block list.

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