Monday, August 10, 2020

New to office.com/setup 365 in June—updates to Microsoft Cloud App Security, PowerPoint, Outlook, and more

This month, we’re announcing updates to Office.com/setup Cloud App Security and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Conditional Access policies that help you improve your organization’s security posture, updates to Office.com/setup Teams and Yammer that help you meet compliance obligations, updates to PowerPoint Designer that help you build visually impactful presentations, and updates to Outlook that help keep you in your workflow.

Here’s a look at what’s new in June.

Secure your organization

New capabilities help you protect your company’s data, monitor access, and improve your security posture.

Discover Shadow IT with Cloud App SecurityDiscover the apps and services that are running on top of your IaaS and PaaS subscriptions, whether they are running on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform. Gain visibility into those apps and services, including which users are accessing them, transactions, IP addresses, and how much traffic is being transmitted. To get started, click the Discovered resources tab in the Cloud App Security portal or start a free trial today.

Screenshot of discovered resources in the Cloud App Security dashboard.

Manage how company resources are accessed—This month, we announced the availability of Azure AD Conditional Access policies for Office.com/setup 365 Business, designed for small and medium-sized business subscribers. These policies help you maintain control over your Office 365 environment and how your company resources are accessed. For example, you can define a conditional access policy that evaluates sign-in connections from mobile devices to Exchange Online and requires employees to use Outlook for iOS or Android to successfully access their work email and calendar. Office.com/setup 365 Business customers can enable Conditional Access policies via Azure AD.

Screenshot of cloud apps in the Azure Active Directory admin center.

Improve your organization’s identity security with tailored recommendationsIdentity Secure Score, now generally available, helps you discover opportunities to improve your organization’s identity security. Recommendations are coupled with the guidance and workflows necessary to help security administrators implement the recommendations. Navigate to Identity Secure Score in the Azure portal to get started.

Screenshot of Identity Secure Score in Microsoft Azure.

Tackle tough compliance obligations with powerful new capabilities

New features in Office.com/setup 365 help you meet compliance requirements.

Avoid conflicts of interest with information barriers in Teams—You can now limit the disclosure of information by restricting communications between groups of users in Teams with information barriers. This is particularly helpful for organizations that need to adhere to ethical wall requirements and other related industry standards and regulations, such as preventing the sales department from talking with research teams. Check out the documentation on how to define policies for information barriers to getting started today.

Meet data residency requirements with Yammer—Yammer now offers local data residency to help organizations in the EU meet data residency requirements. This feature is available to all new Office.com/setup 365 customers associated with a tenant in the EU. In the coming months, Yammer content will also show up in eDiscovery searches, bringing advanced security and compliance capabilities to Yammer groups connected to Office 365 Groups.

Address data residency needs with Office.com/setup 365 Multi-Geo Capabilities—Starting this month, the minimum seat requirement for Multi-Geo Capabilities in Office 365 will be reduced from 2,500 seats to 500 seats. This licensing update brings Multi-Geo Capabilities to a wider range of organizations looking to address their regional, industry-specific, or organizational data residency requirements.

Other updates

  • The Office.com/setup To-Do app is now available in the Mac app store—download to get started.
  • Now you can give collaborators a “thumbs up” in Office.com/setup Whiteboard to show you like others’ content. This feature will be available in Office.com/setup Whiteboard for Windows 10 and iOS in the next few weeks.
  • Excel now pulls Nasdaq and Refinitiv data, including current financial information for the full range of U.S. exchange-listed equities—like stocks on the Nasdaq Stock Market—right into the Excel Stocks Data Type.
  • Azure AD now supports a maximum password length of 256 characters, which can help you improve the security of your organization by making your passwords harder to hack.

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