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Sep 21
Updated Feature: Zero-hour auto purge: move phish and spam to Quarantine We are updating Zero-hour auto purge (ZAP) to move post-delivery identified phish and spam messages to Quarantine to better align the ZAP action to the mail flow action defined in the Anti-spam policy.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to customers in early October.The roll out will be complete worldwide by the end of November.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 55432. More … MC191186 Like | Dislike
Sep 21
Updated Feature: Enhancements to Office 365 Quarantine Notifications and Alerts We’re updating Office 365 Quarantine notifications and downloads from email.We’ll begin rolling this feature out worldwide in mid-October 2019.The roll out will be completed by the end of October 2019.This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 55102. More … MC191185 Like | Dislike
Sep 20
New Feature: Voicemail settings in Teams desktop Client End users with voicemail enabled will be able see and update voicemail settings in the Teams client.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to customers in late September.The roll out will be complete worldwide by the end of September.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 54235. More … MC191176 Like | Dislike
Sep 20
New Feature: Music on hold for PSTN calls We’ll soon begin rolling out Music on hold in Microsoft Phone System for external telephone calls.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to customers in early October.The roll out will be complete worldwide by the end of October.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 50796. It is an update to MC179476 from May 10, 2019. In order to ensure a good experience, we have adjusted the rollout timeframe. More … MC191173 Like | Dislike
Sep 20
New Feature: New Teams reports, PSTN blocked users and PSTN usage We will soon be rolling out reports that show PSTN usage as well as users who are blocked from making PSTN calls.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to customers September27, 2019.The roll out will be complete worldwide by October 11, 2019.This update does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC. More … MC191172 Like | Dislike
Sep 20
Basic Authentication Retirement for legacy protocols in Exchange Online Major Update: Announcement started Act By: Oct 31 Beginning October 13, 2020, we will retire Basic Authentication for EWS, EAS, IMAP, POP and RPS to access Exchange Online. Note: this change does not impact SMTP AUTH. There are several actions that you and/or your users can take to avoid service disruptions on client applications, and we describe them below. If no action is taken, client applications using Basic Authentication for EWS will be retired on October 13, 2020. Any application using OAuth 2.0 to connect to these protocols, will… More … MC191153 Like | Dislike
Sep 19
New Feature: Outlook on the web: Manual sensitivity labeling for email We’re introducing the ability to manually apply sensitivity labeling for email messages in Outlook on the web.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to Targeted Release customers in late September 2019.The roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of October.This update does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 49441and Roadmap ID 44921. More … MC191074 Like | Dislike
Sep 19
New Feature: Sharing Reports for SharePoint Online SharePoint Online (SPO) site owners can see all the items in their site that have been shared with any user via the new Office 365 Sharing Reports for SPO feature.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to production customers in late September.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to other environments in early October.The roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of November. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 27034 More … MC190852 Like | Dislike
Sep 18
Office 2013 Client Connectivity to Office 365 Services Major Update: Announcement started Act By: Oct 13 As previously announced via blog and MC175274 (March, 2019), Office 2013 clients’ connections to commercial Office 365 services will not be supported after October 13, 2020. After this date, ongoing investments in the Office 365 cloud services – including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business – will proceed based on post-Office 2013 requirements. We recommend that organizations with Office 2013 clients consider migrating to Office 365 ProPlus.Support for Office 2016 and… More … MC190854 Like | Dislike
Sep 18
New Feature: Use Flow to approve hub-site joins We’re introducing Use Flow in Office 365 to approve hub site joins in SharePoint Online.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to targeted release customers the first of October.The roll out will be complete worldwide by the end of November 2019.This update does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC.This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 30552. More … MC190936 Like | Dislike
Sep 17
New Feature: Additional expansion of control over connected experiences in Office Microsoft protects and respects the privacy of your Office data, whether that data is an email, a Word document, or similar user content. This protection of your Office data extends to the rich productivity and collaboration experiences enabled by connecting apps to Microsoft’s cloud.As announced in MC176396 (March 2019) and MC186221 (July 2019), updates to Office apps for iOS are rolling out in mid-October.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 49779 and Roadmap ID 52278. More … MC190706 Like | Dislike
Sep 17
New Feature: Pinned Channels in Teams Pinned Channels is a new Microsoft Teams feature.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 55369We’ll be gradually rolling this out in September, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of October. More … MC190856 Like | Dislike
Sep 17
Configuration Change for Whiteboard Major Update: Announcement started Act By: Oct 10 If you do not use Whiteboard on Surface Hub you can disregard this notice.As communicated in MC188851 (August, 2019) easy share for Whiteboard on Surface Hub would be enabled by default when it rolls out. There was a configuration issue with this feature that has now been resolved. More … MC190301 Like | Dislike
Sep 17
Upload Center is being replaced by the in-app Files Needing Attention experience Major Update: Announcement started We will be retiring the Upload Center from Office beginning mid-October 2019. More … MC190284 Like | Dislike
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