Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Exact Data Match updated UI wizard

We’re rolling out a new Exact Data Match (EDM) UI wizard experience to provide a more simplified and automated way to configure EDM sensitive information types (SITs) in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88895.

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Sensitivity labels now apply to modified documents (WXP on PC and Mac)

Currently available in public preview (MC393822), default labeling policies can be applied to any supported document that a user edits, not just a new document. This update applies to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents on PC and Mac platforms.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93209.

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Convert Word/Pdf form or quiz to Microsoft Forms

This feature allows you convert you existing forms or quizzes into Microsoft Forms, making it much quicker to get started. After import, you can still edit as needed before collecting responses.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93411

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Microsoft Information Protection: Maintain label and protection when creating PDF files from VBA in Office apps

This feature is for VBA developers who use Office fixed format export functions to create PDFs from documents with sensitivity labels and encryption. By default, all PDFs created using Office’s fixed format export functions will automatically inherit the source document’s label or encryption. Some VBA add-ins may need to be updated to avoid issues when post-processing an encrypted PDF.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93406

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Microsoft Teams user request configuration to external systems (URL redirect)

Microsoft Teams apps help facilitate collaboration and enhance team productivity. Some organizations choose to control which apps their users can use, blocking apps from use until IT has reviewed and approved them. For these organizations, the recent app discovery update (MC350372) enables users to indicate which blocked apps they want to use, allowing IT to focus their attention on the apps their users want. As always, IT retains control over which apps their users can use.

We heard from some IT organizations that they have existing processes to manage how users should request access to apps, and they want to use these same processes for approving Teams apps as well. In response, we are adding optional organizational settings to enable Teams admins to customize the experience for their users to request access to apps that are blocked from use. These settings include:

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Viva Topics expands language support to French, German and Spanish

Viva Topics is expanding language support to French, German and Spanish in Q3CY2022, this will enable customers operating in content more than English benefit from Viva Topics and empower users to share more knowledge across org! Main capabilities include:

  1. AI to process content written in not only English but also in French, German, and Spanish and extract topics from those content,
  2. Human to curate topics in French, German and Spanish to enrich topics content and improve topics quality
  3. Users to be able to view topics in align with users’ preferred language and switch language to view all content from topic page.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Actions from the email entity page

We are adding the ability to take actions from the email entity page. You can take email remediation actions, create submissions, tenant level block actions (block sender/domain/file/URLs), investigative actions from email entity page.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93295

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Outlook Cross Profile Calendar Sync for Android Managed Devices

Cross Profile Calendar Sync for Outlook enables users with Android Work Profile configured to see a complete view of all account calendars in one place – making it easier for work profile users to manage their schedule from a mobile device.

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 92463

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IPv6 by default for SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online will begin enabling IPv6 by default for all SharePoint tenant URLs endpoints. The scope of this change includes all URLs under *.sharepoint.com including <tenant>.sharepoint.com and <tenant>-my.sharepoint.com.

When this will happen:

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Suggested Replies in Teams Desktop

Updated August 5, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Suggested Replies present users with an option of three responses to choose from for selected messages and is now available to your users in Teams Desktop.

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