Microsoft Copilot academy in Viva Learning

Microsoft Viva Learning is launching Microsoft Copilot academy for tenants with a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. The Copilot academy provides structured educational content in Viva Learning to help users learn about, discover, and use Copilot for Microsoft 365 quickly and effectively. The academy will be available to users who meet two criteria and will be enabled by default. Admins can disable the academy. The rollout will begin early April 2024 and expect to complete by early April 2024. No action is needed to prepare for this rollout.

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Copilot in Forms

Microsoft Forms has a new feature called Copilot that allows users to create forms and customize themes quickly and easily. Copilot generates a form based on the user’s natural language description, and users can refine it as needed. It can save time and effort, improve quality and accuracy, and enhance engagement and insights. To use Copilot in Forms, users need a Microsoft 365 account and access to Microsoft Forms. The feature will be rolled out from late February 2024 to early March 2024.

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Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance – Enhanced investigation and remediation experience

Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance is introducing enhancements to investigation and remediation workflows to facilitate better-informed actions on policy matches. Enhancements include bulk policy exports, interactive how-to demos, and banners displaying the keywords/conditions flagged in a policy match. These enhancements will be available to designated Communication Compliance admins and investigators with the appropriate role-based access control permissions. The rollout will begin in late March 2024 and is expected to complete by early April 2024.

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Microsoft Clipchamp: Remove pauses and silences in your videos

Microsoft Clipchamp is introducing a new smart AI-powered feature called Silence Removal that automatically finds and deletes unwanted silences and pauses longer than 3 seconds in video and audio. The feature is currently free to use in preview and will be available as part of a premium subscription after the preview. The rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required. Users can remove all pauses at once with a single click or review each pause and decide which to remove. The feature will begin rolling out in late March 2024 and is expected to complete by mid-July 2024.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Drive Microsoft Teams adoption with organizational messages

Microsoft Teams users can now receive organizational messages to drive adoption of Teams features. The feature will be rolled out from late March 2024 to mid-April 2024. Admins can configure a templatized organizational message in the Adoption Score Meetings category in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The feature will recommend users to use interactive features during Teams meetings. No admin action is required for the rollout.

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Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced privacy control: Limiting PII data access in Activity Explorer

Endpoint Data Loss Prevention will restrict PII data access in Activity Explorer to users with the role of Data Classification Content Viewer. This will roll out in mid-April 2024 and will affect existing roles. No admin action is required, but users should be notified and relevant documentation updated.

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Microsoft Teams: Blind Transfers, call forwards and AA/CQ supported during outages

Microsoft Teams will soon support blind transfers, call forwards, and calls from Auto attendant and Call queue while in survivability mode during an outage. This feature will be available worldwide by late April 2024 and will not require any changes or admin action. Learn more at the provided link.

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Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance: Reduce detect-to-investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour for Viva Engage

Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance will release a feature that reduces detection-to-investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour for Microsoft Viva Engage private messages and community conversations. This feature will help organizations detect policy violations and ensure user-level privacy. No action is needed from users to prepare for this rollout. The feature will be available for public preview from mid-March 2024 and for general availability from late April 2024. Access to the Communication Compliance solution is available in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

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Microsoft Viva Insights delegate access for leaders

Microsoft Viva Insights now allows leaders to delegate access to their organization insights to other individuals in their company. Delegated access will allow designated delegates to view organization insights and make data-driven decisions. This feature will be available for public preview in early April 2024 and for general availability worldwide in mid-April 2024. No action is needed to enable this feature, and leaders can use this capability at their discretion.

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SharePoint Premium: Enable/disable Unstructured, Structured, and Prebuilt Document Processing

SharePoint Premium users can now enable/disable Unstructured, Structured, and Prebuilt Document Processing individually. Admins can turn off each service on the Microsoft Syntex admin page, and models of the turned-off service cannot be created or run. The rollout will occur automatically by mid-March 2024, and no admin action is required.

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