Connected experience controls for Whiteboard

Microsoft Whiteboard is now integrated with the Microsoft Office Cloud Policy Service (OCPS) . OCPS allows you to control policies that apply to Office products.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93184.

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Enablement of combined security information registration for Azure Active Directory

In April 2020, the combined security information registration experience for registering both multifactor authentication (MFA) and self-service password reset (SSPR) was released for you to opt in. Upcoming, we will be making the new combined security information registration experience the default for all tenants.

Note: This change will not impact you if your tenant was created after August 15th, 2020, or your tenant is located in the China region.

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Loop components in Teams Chat

Loop components: Previously announced Fluid live components (MC270177 July ’21) are now called Loop components and have a new icon.

Loop components in Teams chat offer a new way to ideate, create, and make decisions together. Send a component — like a table, task list, or paragraph — where everyone in your chat can edit inline and see changes as they’re made.

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MarkAsRead Volume Drop

To improve the data quality of MarkAsRead we made some changes to how reads are counted. Previously, reads were counted multiple times and with this change reads are counted when an item’s status changes from Unread to Read. This change was rolled out late last year and we apologize for not communicating about it sooner. 

When this will happen:

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Retiring Hold statistics in Microsoft 365 Compliance Center Core eDiscovery and Advanced eDiscovery

We’ll be retiring the Hold statistics functionality from Core eDiscovery and Advanced eDiscovery, due to variability in the consistency of items count and size estimated from the statistics. This variability creates significant challenges for organizations who depend on consistent and repeatable results for eDiscovery legal hold workflows. Instead, we recommend the utilization of search and collection workflows within eDiscovery to get statistics on items on hold, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.

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Presenter modes move and resize options

Presenter modes on Video Based Screen Sharing (VBSS) (Screen or Window sharing) in Meetings enables immersive presentations on Teams meetings merging video and content on the stage. This new feature will allow presenters to decide how they will be shown with respect to the content.

  • In Standout mode, they will be able to choose to appear on the left or right and adjust the overlayed video feed size to customize for each type of presentation!
  • Flexible arrangement and customization of their location on Reporter and Side-by-side modes will also allow for the content size to change according to the presenter’s video size.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Collections and processing enhancements (GA)

Currently available in public preview (as announced in MC334208), this new feature will enhance the Advanced eDiscovery Collections and Processing experience with three core updates, including updates to embedded items handling, a new collection setting to include partially indexed items, and additional document metadata for SharePoint content. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88881

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Microsoft Information Protection: Feedback Loop for Content explorer and DLP alerts

We’re introducing a compliant feedback mechanism to enable admins to report false positives for sensitive information types (SITs) and trainable classifiers detected and reported in Content explorer and DLP Alerts (non-legacy alerts). This Feedback Loop will improve the overall accuracy of SITs and trainable classifiers as it enables Microsoft to make systematic improvements in the product to reduce future false positives.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93210.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Mail latency report

We are making some enhancements to the existing Mail latency report in Defender for Office 365. The chart and filter options will be updated for more clarity.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/view-reports-for-mdo?view=o365-worldwide#mail-latency-report

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Microsoft Teams: RTMP Streaming Support for GCC-High and DoD

Enables support for your users to stream their Teams meetings to large audiences through Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), including endpoints outside your organization.

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