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Microsoft is rolling out a new feature in Purview compliance portal. Users can now use retention policies, retention tags, and journal rules under the Data Lifecycle Management solution.

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Microsoft Teams: Honor Tenant admin control settings for Microsoft Bookings SMS functionality in the Bookings app in Teams

Tenant admin settings in Bookings admin page in Microsoft Teams Admin center to enable/disable SMS functionality in all Bookings calendars in the tenant.

ID: 92851 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) for macOS (U.S. Government clouds)

Endpoint DLP for macOS extends the activity monitoring and protection capabilities of DLP to sensitive items that are on macOS devices. Once the Mac devices are onboarded into device management, the information about what users are doing with sensitive items is made visible in Activity explorer and you can enforce protective actions on those items via DLP policies.

ID: 93277 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: October CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management – Classic EAC features migrating to Microsoft Purview compliance portal

Information governance features currently available in the Classic Exchange admin center (Classic EAC) – including Retention policies, Retention tags, and Journal rules – are moving to the Microsoft Purview compliance portal and will be available as part of the Data Lifecycle Management solution.

ID: 93284 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: August CY2022

Universal Print: Support for Azure Virtual Desktops

Universal Print enables employees using Windows 11 through Azure Virtual Desktop to print to organization printers without the need for print servers. The printers that people set up persist from session to session and only for their sessions.

ID: 93401 Tags: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Universal Print: Information to help troubleshoot print failures

Universal Print wants to eliminate most print failures automatically. For failures that cannot be eliminated completely, we want to make it more informative for admins to troubleshoot the issue. As a first step, the printer’s jobs page will be enhanced by adding more information about the job like size of the print payload, document name, time taken at each step, error code for failed jobs with links to corresponding help page.

ID: 93402 Tags: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Universal Print: Secure release with QR code on Microsoft Office mobile app

Secure release prevents waste from unnecessary printing and maintains user privacy by holding their jobs until they show-up at the printer. Universal Print will allow secure release to be configured for any printer. Users can retrieve their print jobs by scanning a QR Code and using the Microsoft Office mobile app. Users need to be authenticated with their work or school account. QR code-based release will work with both Universal Print ready printers and printers using the Universal Print connector. We may add more secure release options in the future.

ID: 93403 Tags: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Universal Print: GCC High cloud support

Universal Print with all existing features will be available to the GCC High cloud.

ID: 93404 Tags: Universal Print – GCC High Release: March CY2023

Universal Print: Additional reporting data

We are creating new downloadable reports, including raw usage data so organizations can import data into their existing analytics solutions. We are also creating a live dashboard with tenant-wide, printer-specific, and user-specific information.

ID: 93405 Tags: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Forms: Convert Word/Pdf form or quiz to Microsoft Forms survey

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

ID: 93411 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Recommendations to send praise in Viva Insights

Praise recommendations coming in the Viva Insights app in Teams will surface pre-populated suggestions to send praise based on signals such as collaboration activity.

ID: 93421 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Project: People view in Project for the Web

Visualize and balance your team’s workload in your project through the People view.

ID: 93422 Tags: Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2022

SharePoint: New site templates for team sites

We are introducing 3 new SharePoint team site templates dedicated to helping you create sites for your IT helpdesk, crisis communication team, and new employee onboarding team.

ID: 93423 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: August CY2022

OneDrive: Bulk Automated Rename

When OneDrive can’t sync a file or folder because its name contains invalid characters, OneDrive can sometimes rename it for you. During automatic renaming, OneDrive replaces each invalid character with an underscore.

ID: 93425 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention – Deep link to Content Viewer from DLP alert (U.S. Government clouds)

This feature allows admins to easily open Content Viewer and view the content of the document that has triggered a DLP alert. Admins can pass the event ID and the creation time of the DLP rule match alert to the deep link to open and view the related document in the Content Viewer.

ID: 93426 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: December CY2022

SharePoint: Admin center- updates for site creation settings

With this update you will have more control over whether users can create sites in your organization.

ID: 93427 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Restrict copying sensitive files to remote desktop (RDP) sessions (U.S. Government clouds)

With this update, you will be able to create Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies to regulate the sharing of sensitive data over an RDP session. DLP controls for RDP include support for deploying DLP policies in Audit mode, Block with Override mode, and Block mode.

ID: 93428 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Edge: Office in sidebar

Quickly and easily access Microsoft Office documents and apps. Administrators can control the Microsoft Office menu in the Microsoft Edge sidebar by using the MicrosoftOfficeMenuEnabled policy.

ID: 94720 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Edge: Outlook in sidebar

Quickly and easily access Outlook Mail and Calendar. Administrators can control the Outlook menu in the Microsoft Edge sidebar by using the OutlookHubMenuEnable policy.

ID: 94733 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Companion Device Experience Enhancement – Optimize Video Gallery for in-room participants

When joining a meeting in a Microsoft Teams Rooms with a personal laptop running Microsoft Teams, the video galleries on both the Teams Room and laptops will be optimized to display only remote attendees.  (Proximity Join with Microsoft Teams Rooms is required).

ID: 96212 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Rolling Out

Microsoft Viva: Topics in Yammer – Preview

Display topic highlights and access topic cards in Yammer conversations.

ID: 72184 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

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