Microsoft Viva: Exclude content from topic discovery based off applied sensitivity labels

Use Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) sensitivity labels to control which files should not be included in topic discovery.

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Microsoft Teams: Automated webinar invite

When webinars are setup and
scheduled, the webinar invite is now automatically added to the attendee’s
calendar.

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Microsoft Search: Personal query history

As you start typing in the search box, you will see suggested searches and results based on your previous activity in Microsoft 365 and based on content that’s trending in your organization. Personal query history will show the queries you have previously used. These personal query suggestions are served from your personal search history.

Personal query suggestions are a quick way to get back to results you’ve found before. You just need to remember the beginning of a query, after you’ve typed just a few characters the query is suggested for you.

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Microsoft Teams: Power Automate actions for meetings, teams, channels, and chat

New Power Automate actions: “Create a Teams meeting”, “Send message to a channel”, “get @mention token”, “Create a team”, “Add users to a team”; New Power Automate triggers: “User leaves a team.”

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Microsoft Teams: IP Based audio/video support for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

IP based audio and video devices can be selected as sources in Teams Rooms making device installation and deployment easier, by avoiding long USB cable runs and use of USB extenders.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Physical badging Connector for Government clouds

You can set up a connector in the Microsoft 365 compliance center to import physical badging data, such as employee’s raw physical access events or any physical access alarms generated by your organization’s badging system. This information can be used by the Microsoft 365 insider risk management solution to generate risk indicators that can help you identify possible malicious activity or data theft inside your organization.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/import-physical-badging-data?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft Edge v.92: Automatic HTTPS

Starting with Microsoft Edge version 92, users will have the option to upgrade navigations from HTTP to HTTPS on domains likely to support this more secure protocol. This support can also be configured to attempt delivery over HTTPS for all domains. More secure connections help protect customers from man-in-the-middle attacks

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Microsoft Search: Template search in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps (WXP)

Enabling users to find any template, directly from Search – powered my ML.

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Microsoft Teams: Reporting and scheduling APIs for meetings (Preview)

Scheduling and reporting APIs will be available for integration into 3rd party applications.

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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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