Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Standard) to eDiscovery (Premium) case upgrade tool (preview)

Coming soon to public preview, we are releasing a tool to allow eDiscovery administrators to upgrade their existing eDiscovery (Standard) case to eDiscovery (Premium) to unify cases into a single platform.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109542.

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Creation of Default Notes tab in new standard channels in Teams

As communicated in MC496248 (January ’23) Microsoft Teams users will soon get a “Notes” tab, powered by OneNote, added by default on the tabs bar across the top on creation of new standard channels for note-taking capabilities. Earlier this capability was powered by Wiki, which is set to retire from Teams based on the announcement published in Feb.

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Microsoft Teams: Together Mode Usability Improvements in Teams Meetings

We are bringing new usability improvements to Together Mode in Microsoft Teams. Participants in Together Mode will have name labels attached to their videos. Name labels will also support status icons that indicate microphone, active speaker, spotlight or pin within the meeting. Additionally, your own video in the gallery will now be removed while Together Mode is active to avoid duplication of the self-preview. Lastly, Together Mode will display raised hands and reactions within the view.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122127

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Microsoft Syntex Image Tagger

Syntex Image Tagger uses AI to automatically tag images that reside on SharePoint libraries with descriptive keywords. These keywords are stored in a managed metadata column on the item, making the images easier to search, sort, filter, and manage.

Syntex Image Tagger is available on a pay-as-you-go basis and is not included in the Syntex seat license. Learn More

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium): Review Set – Advanced filters

We are excited to introduce several usability enhancements for filtering items in review sets within the eDiscovery (Premium) solution in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124796.

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Viva Engage iOS and Android apps: Navigation Updates

We are updating the Viva Engage mobile app’s navigation to make it easier for users to jump to their profile, catch up on their inbox and notifications, access their Bookmarks, and view and adjust Settings.

When this will happen: 

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Microsoft Teams: New Channels Experience

A new channels experience in Microsoft Teams has been built with an intuitive design that allows teams to focus and stay on tasks, bring everyone up to speed, and actively engage in real-time. The following features will be rolling out:

  • The compose box and recent posts will appear at the top of the page. It’ll now be much easier to start a new post, keep up with the latest conversations and participate – giving users the confidence that they’ve not missed anything.  
  • Every post is now a true conversation that users can focus on. Users can navigate to a conversation view that makes the discussion more engaging and synchronous, just like a chat. Users can also pop out the post, keep an eye on the discussion, while continuing to work on other topics. 
  • A streamlined information pane will include all the important contextual information like channel’s members and pinned posts so new team members can quickly on-board and for all members to find the information they need, right in the channel.
  • Pin posts to make it easy for everyone to know what’s important in the channel and quickly reference it. 
  • Simplified badging is making it easier for users to understand when there are new unread activities in teams. In addition, the simplified design helps users focus on the specific channels which requires the most attention, like channels in which the user was @mentioned. 

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New functionality coming to Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager

We’re introducing new functionality to Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager to enable integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Additionally, we’re rolling out connectors for Salesforce and Zoom to enable increased visibility across your data estate.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 102404and 124884

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Priority Account User tags filtering in the URL protection report

We are adding a new filter to the URL protection report that will allow security admins to easily filter for Users who are in the Priority Account tag of their organization.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124852

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Webinar Email feature updates -customize content and time to send reminders

Emails for Webinars are critical to engage with registrants and often organizers feel the need to customize the content. To enable this, we are rolling out two features. 

  1. The content of the emails (i.e. all webinar related attendee emails) can be edited by the event organizers. This is reserved for Teams Premium licensed organizers. 
  2. Time to send reminder emails can be configured by the event organizers. This is reserved for Teams Premium licensed organizers. 

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