Microsoft Teams: Support of Live Caption for Teams on VDI for Azure Virtual Desktop

Teams
users on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be able to use live
captions. Live captions display the text version of the audio during the call.

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Microsoft Viva: Improvements for Topic Management

This update will empower Knowledge Managers, providing additional metadata for sorting and filtering through the list of topics, including additional quality and usage columns, and segmentation to help manage topics at scale.

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Microsoft Graph: Taxonomy service Graph APIs

New Graph APIs that allow developers to work directly with Managed Metadata Services, which provides a common taxonomy for tagging and classifying content across Microsoft 365.
More info: https://resources.techcommunity.microsoft.com/graph-apis-documentation/

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Microsoft Viva: Support for types of topics

Support for categories or types of topics, such as projects, products or organizations.

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Yammer: Send live event calendar invites

Send a calendar event to all community members without leaving the event page in Yammer.

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Microsoft Search: Back to school with Microsoft Search in Bing

New back to school features in Microsoft Search in Bing for EDU add capabilities to help students and educators discover classes, assignments, and more. Powered by Microsoft Search and integrated with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Search in Bing EDU features are designed to help students and educators make the most of their time.
More info: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/education-blog/a-new-way-to-search-at-school-with-microsoft-search-in-bing/ba-p/2472822

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Microsoft Cloud App Security: MFA step-up auth

This feature enables enforcing of conditional access policies during a user session. For example, if a user attempts to download a sensitive document to an unmanaged device, they can be prompted to satisfy an MFA challenge.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-app-security/release-notes

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Microsoft Information Protection: Configure external sharing for sensitivity labels in Teams and SharePoint sites

With this update, you can set controls on external sharing while configuring a Team or site protection policy. For example you can set a very restrictive one for a Team or site labeled ‘confidential’—restricting sharing with people outside the organization or set a very relaxed one for a Team or site labeled ‘general’—allowing anyone with a link to access without requiring sign-in.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitivity-labels-teams-groups-sites

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Microsoft Edge v.93: Policies to bypass ClickOnce and DirectInvoke prompts

Starting with Microsoft Edge version 93, we have updated our policies to enable bypassing ClickOnce and DirectInvoke confirmation before opening specified file types from specified domains. To bypass prompts, you will need to: Enable AutoOpenFileTypes policy and list the specific file types that ClickOnce and DirectInvoke should be disabled for and Enable the AutoOpenAllowedForURLs policy and set the list of specific domains that should bypass prompting.

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Microsoft Edge v.92: Protocol launch support for PWA

Developers can create a more engaging native-like experience if we allow Progressive Web Apps (PWA) to be registered as handlers for URL protocols.

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