Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yongjun Xie

Krishna Kumar Parthasarathy

Hao Zhang

David Alexander Blyth

Mashuri R Libman

Anatoly Victor Koretsky

Lucy Chao

Maithili Dandige

Madhuri Tondepu

Shanshan Qu

Liphi Gao

Rui Chen

Nithya Ramkumar

Michael Wilde

Shan Qu

JiYe Gao

Lucy L Chao

Variety of approaches to provide an automatic group creation based on an organization hierarchy are described. A hosted service initiates operation(s) to automatically create a group upon detecting a new organization hierarchy or a utilization of a feature of a hosted service by an existing organization hierarchy. Next, group members are determined based on the organization hierarchy. The group is created that includes the group members to coordinate services within the hosted service based on the organization hierarchy. Furthermore, an attribute of the created group is defined. A resource is also generated for the created group. The resource includes a notebook, a work space, a collaboration site, and/or a planner. The created group is deployed to coordinate the services. The resource is managed through the services.

Automatic group creation based on organization hierarchy

Variety of approaches to provide an automatic group creation based or an organization hierarchy as described. A hosted service initiates operation(s) to automatically create a group upon detecting a new organization hierarchy or a utilization of a feature of a hosted service by an existing organization hierarchy. Next, group members are determined based on the organization hierarchy. The group is created that includes the group members to coordinate services within the hosted service based on the organization hierarchy. Furthermore, an attribute of the created group is defined. A resource is also generated for the created group. The resource includes a notebook, a work space, a collaboration site, and/or a planner. The created group is deployed to coordinate the services. The resource is managed through the services.

Automated hashtag suggestions are provided to categorize a communication. A communication application initiates operations to categorize a communication in response to a detected input to categorize the communication with a hashtag. A hashtag source is queried for suggested hashtag(s). The suggested hashtag(s) is received from the hashtag source and stored in a hashtag cache. The suggested hashtag(s) is also presented upon retrieval of the suggested hashtag(s) from the hashtag cache.

Providing automated hashtag suggestions to categorize communication

A set of compliance policy updates are received. The compliance policy updates are sent to workloads for application. A status of the application of the compliance policies to the workloads is received from the workloads and output.

Communicating status regarding application of compliance policy updates

A notification is received at a workload that indicates that a compliance policy update is available for the workload at a compliance policy management system. A synchronization manager on the workload pulls the compliance policy update from the compliance policy management system and deploys it to the workload.

Synchronized distribution of compliance policy updates

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