Audit – Manage Audit permissions from Purview Compliance Portal

To search or export the audit log, administrators or members of investigation teams must be assigned to at least one of the View-Only Audit Logs or Audit Logs roles. Previously, these roles had to be assigned using the Exchange Admin Center. With this feature, administrators can now assign audit-related role groups directly from the Microsoft Purview Compliance portal.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 177888

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – New cmdlet for hold removal

We are launching a new cmdlet to enable removal of orphaned and legacy eDiscovery holds. Today, customers often contact Microsoft support to remove legacy and orphaned eDiscovery holds from mailbox and SPO sites. This cmdlet will help users self-serve to remove eDiscovery holds and is available only in Security & Compliance PowerShell.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 174597, 174604

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Announcing the general availability of the new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of the new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac including education customers. We’re also beginning to roll out new Teams to public preview for our Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and government cloud customers (GCC and GCC-High).

This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap Id: 122540

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Syntex OCR for image-only multi-page PDF and TIFF

With this update, multi-page image-only PDF and TIFF files in the libraries you have configured for Syntex OCR will also have text extracted.  This extracted text will be available to Microsoft Purview scenarios and to end user search powered scenarios. For multi-page PDF and TIFF documents, OCR is charged on a per page basis.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124940

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Dictation Support Coming to the New Outlook

Dictation lets you use speech-to-text to author messages in Outlook with a microphone and reliable internet connection. It’s a quick and easy way to draft emails, send replies, and capture the tone you’re going for.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 171199

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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: Public preview of SharePoint site selection enhancement

Coming soon, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out public preview of SharePoint site selection enhancement.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 169880

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Microsoft Power Platform – Copilot and generative AI features announcement

We are announcing that copilots and generative AI features for Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Dynamics 365 will be available in all environments in the Europe region starting on Tuesday, October 31, 2023.

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Require Background Blur (Teams Premium)

We are introducing granular controls to the existing Organizational Defined Background capability which is part of Teams Premium now. With the granular controls, admins will be able to show only custom backgrounds, require background blur, or preset an organizational background.

Organizational defined backgrounds – provides catalog of org backgrounds for user to choose from

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Out-of-box Controlled-content meeting template (Premium)

We are launching an out-of-the box template for meetings with external participants. The controlled content access template has preset defaults for meeting options to provide tight controls over lobby bypass, who can present, allowing chat across meeting lifecycle/in-meeting, and who can record.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 91286

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Outlook on the Web: Meeting Participants Time-Zone Notification

To facilitate efficient scheduling and awareness of global time zones, Outlook will help meeting organizers find overlapping times across global time zones. This will help enable seamless collaboration among team members dispersed across global locales.

We initially rolled this feature out in September and based on your feedback we are making additional enhancements that we want to make you aware of. 

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