Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Priva Privacy Management – Multicloud environments

Microsoft Priva Privacy Risk Management extends its overexposure policies into data contained in Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3. Organizations can create privacy policies that specify which data sources, databases, or storage buckets are in scope and Priva will automatically notify data asset owners when matches are detected.

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Copilot in Microsoft Teams chat and channels to summarize content over a specified period of time

You can now ask Copilot in chat and channels to respond to questions regarding a conversation in a specific time period, for example: last month.

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Microsoft Forms: Add or remove people from the response notification emails

Now form owners can add or remove people from the response notification emails. Currently only the form owner or the group alias is notified when someone responds to a form.

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Microsoft Stream: Changes to version history for Stream videos

Stream (on SharePoint) video files tend to be large and consume considerable space against your OneDrive and SharePoint storage quotas. Currently, when you make changes to video metadata, such as adjustments to the video title, description, transcript, chapters, interactivity, thumbnails, or media settings, those changes trigger a new version (that includes both the video and metadata) to be created and stored in the version history for that file. Each of these versions consumes storage that counts towards your storage quota. To reduce the storage footprint driven by small changes, we are adjusting how Stream (on SharePoint) handles versions.

Soon we will release an update to Stream version history. Once released, any changes made to the metadata of Stream files will no longer trigger an entirely new version in the file’s version history. Instead, it will update the metadata of the most current version of the video in version history. If you edit the video itself, then a new version that includes both the video and metadata will be created and stored in the version history.

Note: The update to Stream version history applies to Stream videos stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. SharePoint is also introducing new version history limits and controls that help tenant and site admins or document library owners reduce the storage footprint driven by low value file versions. These new version history limits and controls will only apply to Stream videos if changes to the video are made from within a SharePoint document library without opening the video in Stream (e.g. a file name change from within a SharePoint doc library). See Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 145802 for more information on version history limits and controls.

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Microsoft Viva: Settings page for Viva Engage Communities

Viva Engage Communities Settings are migrating from a modal to a page. Feature-level settings to configure and activate community features will continue to be released on this settings page, allowing for more customization in communities.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: The new Microsoft Purview Portal entering GA

The new Microsoft Purview portal has a streamlined design and unified experience that helps you discover and access data security, risk, and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it lives across your data estate. This means you can now extend protection across multiple data estates. Additionally, you can also access new features such as global search, new settings experience, and recommendations. 

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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel – Copilot works on any selection

Copilot will enable the edit box on any worksheet regardless of selection. Copilot will reason over the nearest table or data range to the customer’s selected grid area on the same worksheet.

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Outlook: Scheduling Assistant Updates

We are updating the scheduling assistant view to help users have better readability. Some of these changes are in alignment to customer the feedback. These changes will also improve the grid lines, availability view, adding combined availability bar and much more. These updates will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced incident communication with DLP email templates

You can now elevate your DLP incident management with the power of customizable email templates designed to send email messages to your stakeholders when an event is generated for DLP Policy match. With dynamic variables and tokens at your disposal, you can effortlessly create and maintain email templates, ensuring consistency and efficiency in your communications, along with a documented audit trail. You can use these email templates to inform end users about incidents, their severity, or the analyst’s recommendations; stay on top of remediation efforts by sending follow-up notifications to end users with due dates; keep analysts informed about incident updates and assignments; trigger escalation notifications to managers or other custom targets; notify approvers of pending items with ease; and many more scenarios like these.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies

The first release of Priority cleanup enables admins to create a recurring exception to delete items under a broader retention policy and/or legal hold. Creating a Priority cleanup will require a separate security role, multiple approvers, and will have a complete audit trail. For example, you could reduce storage space by deleting meeting recordings, even when the OneDrive location has a longer retention policy. The feature also helps with scenarios such as data spillage cleanup and processing right to be forgotten requests.

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