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Microsoft 365 compliance center: “Watch-the-watchers” audit trail for Insider Risk Management

Audit and review activities of IRM Analyst, IRM Investigator, and IRM Admin roles within the Microsoft 365 Insider Risk Management solution. The audit trail will be available for a new role (IRM Auditor) to maintain integrity of an independent audit control.

ID: 68921    Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Integrated CART Captioning in Meetings

Users will now be able to view captions coming from a CART provider (real-time captioning) within the Microsoft Teams meeting window. Meeting organizers and participants will be able to ask their captioning providers to stream captions to Microsoft Teams.

ID: 70588    Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

SharePoint: Company-Branded Auto News Digest

For SharePoint news users, we are launching an update to the Auto-News Digest feature. Now users will receive a company branded Auto-News Digest.

ID: 70606 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Azure Active Directory: Authenticator Code Match for MFA

Admins will be able to turn on code match for MFA notifications in Authenticator and apply the behavior by user/group.

ID: 70617    Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Potential Nation State Activity Alerts

Nation state threats are defined as cyber threat activity that originates in a particular country with the apparent intent of furthering national interests. These attacks represent some of the most advanced and persistent threat activity Microsoft tracks. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center follows these threats, builds comprehensive profiles of the activity, and works closely with all Microsoft security teams to implement detections and mitigations to protect our customers. We’re adding an alert to the security portal to alert customers when suspected nation-state activity is detected in the tenant.

ID: 70624    Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Outlook: on the web – New location for Outlook modules

We are changing the way you access Mail, Calendar, People, To Do, and other Outlook experiences. We are adding a way to easily access additional Microsoft 365 applications that are available to you.

ID: 70628   Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: New file sharing experience

Streamline sharing with Microsoft Teams. You can now create a shareable link for any file stored in Teams and directly set the appropriate permissions. Additionally, you can also set permissions for files stored in SharePoint or OneDrive while composing a private chat or starting a channel conversation.

ID: 70629    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: 25K person teams

Support for up to 25,000 members per individual team.

ID: 68723   Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Threat and vulnerability management for Windows 8.1

Threat and vulnerability management capabilities, both software vulnerability assessment for the OS and applications, as well as secure configuration assessment will now support Windows 8.1 devices. Customers will be able to see Security recommendations, Software inventory, and weaknesses.

ID: 70690   Tags: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: February CY2021

Launched

Yammer: Updated conversations webpart for SharePoint

We are updating the Yammer Conversations web part for SharePoint that contains the new Yammer experience. SharePoint Sites that use the Yammer Conversations web part will start displaying the new Yammer Conversations web part experience.

ID: 63530  Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Threat and vulnerability management for macOS

Software vulnerability assessment are available for macOS. The same familiar insights are available as for Windows devices in the recommendations, software inventory, weaknesses, and other dashboards.

ID: 70691   Tags: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: February CY2021

Canceled