Mike Rosoft

Sensitive meetings to be excluded from Viva Insights metrics [MC876291]

End-users of Outlook have the ability to set a meeting to have a ‘Private’ or ‘Confidential’ sensitivity level in order to protect the information of a meeting they consider sensitive. To ensure that these meetings cannot be analyzed, Viva Insights would remove these meetings from metric computation.

Mike Rosoft 29 August 2024Admin impact, Feature update, Stay informed, User impactNo Comments

OneDrive for Business

Microsoft OneDrive: Find files faster with the improved search experience in OneDrive for the web [MC875179]

Improved search experience for finding files stored in your OneDrive, shared folders, and document libraries.

Mike Rosoft 28 August 2024Feature update, Stay informed, User impactNo Comments

Azure Information Protection OneDrive for Business

Microsoft OneDrive Mobile: View PDFs with sensitivity labels [MC875189]

OneDrive users will be able to open PDF files protected with sensitivity labels from Microsoft Purview Information Protection and read them using OneDrive mobile apps in read-only mode. Only authorized users will be able to access these PDF files.

Mike Rosoft 28 August 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft Teams

CAPTCHA Verification for Anonymous Meeting Participants [MC875061]

Microsoft Teams tenants will soon be able to enable verification for anonymous meeting participants via CAPTCHA. This release of CAPTCHA Verification for Anonymous Meeting Participants will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Desktop, Mobile and Web and will provide additional security against malicious bot and third-party app joins.

Mike Rosoft 28 August 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impactNo Comments

Power Platform

Power Platform admin center – Information about the new AI prompts feature setting [MC874914]

Admins can now control AI prompts availability in Power Platform and Copilot Studio for a given environment through PPAC.

Mike Rosoft 27 August 2024Stay informedNo Comments

Power Platform

Power Platform – Mask sensitive data with column-level security public preview announcement [MC874936]

Previously, you could only secure a sensitive column, which allowed only highly privileged users with access to the secured column to see the data in plain text. This new feature allows you to secure sensitive data by masking it, preventing unauthorized users from being able to view it.

Mike Rosoft 27 August 2024New feature, Stay informedNo Comments

Microsoft 365 apps

Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel [MC874672]

If your Microsoft 365 Apps clients are configured to automatically update from the Office Content Delivery Network (CDN), then no action is required.

Mike Rosoft 27 August 2024Feature update, Stay informedNo Comments

Power BI

Microsoft Fabric: New tenant settings for short-lived user-delegated SAS tokens (Preview) [MC873746]

Coming soon for Microsoft Fabric: Two new settings in the Fabric Admin portal that are designed to enhance security and flexibility for applications interacting with Microsoft OneLake.

Mike Rosoft 27 August 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Required approval for Viva Amplify [MC873749]

Like Lists and libraries, Viva Amplify campaigns can contain sensitive information, such as marketing campaign budgets or human resources initiatives. The Required approval feature brings compliance, accountability, and workflows to Lightweight Approvals in Viva Amplify.

Mike Rosoft 27 August 2024Admin impact, Feature update, Stay informed, User impactNo Comments

Exchange Online Microsoft 365 for the web

Microsoft Outlook for the web: Third-party cookie block causes users to sign in again on Chrome and Edge [MC871011]

Microsoft Outlook for the web is undergoing an authentication platform migration to a public client authentication model using MSAL (Microsoft Authentication Library). The change to client-side authentication will be subject to Google's third-party cookie block that may be active in Chrome and Edge.

Mike Rosoft 23 August 2024Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impactNo Comments