Introducing the Simplified Left Navigation Feature in Teams Admin Center

Teams Admin Center is now equipped with a new feature to simplify the navigation process for IT administrators. The new Simplified Left Navigation feature allows administrators to pin their preferred menu options to the navigation panel, reducing clutter and streamlining the process of finding the information they need. With the click of a button, administrators can easily add or remove menu items from their pinned list, and then view their customized navigation by clicking the “Show Pinned” button.

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New Message Recall in Exchange Online rolling out now

The new Message Recall feature in Exchange Online is starting to roll out now and should be available to all Exchange Online tenants worldwide by mid-March. The new feature is more than twice as effective at successfully recalling messages than the classic Outlook for Windows Message Recall feature, and offers a single aggregated recall status report for each recall. Learn more here.

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Outlook: Labeling email from attachments’ label

Outlook desktop will match the highest sensitivity label from attachments on email. Admins can configure this to either use the cmdlet set-labelpolicy advanced setting or use the Compliance portal to configure the label policy, communicated in MC510786 (February ’23). Customers will see automatically or recommendations that emails get the higher label from attachments’ label.

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Configure sensitivity labels to be applicable to files or emails only

We’re introducing a new capability to enable admins to scope sensitivity labels independently on files and emails.

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Take Action on Meeting Category Insights in the Viva Insights app in Teams and on the web

Categories in Outlook and Teams allow users to easily tag and label calendar events. Users can get insights on the time they spend per meeting category in the Viva Insights app in Teams. Using meeting category insights, they can see how their meeting time is distributed (percentage breakdown), how that has changed (meeting trends), and details about each of their meetings contributing to their categories (meeting details). An upcoming update to this feature will allow users to take actions on these meetings to align their time spent in meetings with their goals. These actions include viewing/editing meeting invites, cancelling, declining, and categorizing/recategorizing.

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Microsoft Teams: Join Meetings from Calendar View on Apple CarPlay

Users will soon be able to view upcoming meetings and join meetings via the new meetings view on Apple CarPlay with Teams after connecting iPhone to vehicles that support Apple CarPlay.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: New Visio Usage ReportsMicrosoft 365 admin center: New Visio Usage Reports

A new product usage report will be made available within Microsoft 365 admin center usage reports to help Admins understand how Microsoft Visio is used within their organization by daily active users and active users by platform.

The report can be viewed for trends over the last 7/30/90/180 days, includes a per-user view, and contains the user’s last active date and license information.

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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention: Detecting password protected PDF files in DLP for Exchange

Data Loss Prevention policy in Microsoft Purview supports detecting Exchange email attachments which are password protected using the condition called “Attachment is password protected”. Currently this condition supports detecting password protected Office and zip file types. We are now extending this support to PDF files. With this, any PDF file encrypted through a password will be flagged as password protected and DLP will protect this file.

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Microsoft Viva: Topic Discovery Analytics to Show Sites Processed

This update will provide transparency on topic discovery through analytics, by showing the Sites processed counts in Microsoft Admin center.

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Outlook for Mac updates will be released weekly to the Current Channel

Outlook for Mac will soon transition from a monthly update cycle to a weekly update cycle. By providing faster updates, we will be able to provide you with new features and product updates more quickly.

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