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Feb 08
Known Issue: Dialing into Skype for Business/Teams conference IDs Microsoft is aware users in the China region are experiencing issues dialing into Skype for Business/Teams conference IDs at this time.We have been carefully evaluating reports of these issues, however our data, as well as our partners in the region, point to the problem being external of systems under our control. The issue is likely with local mobile and telephony carriers.We continue to monitor and engage with our partners.To help us with this investigation, we ask you provide us additional… More … MC203397 Like | Dislike
Feb 07
Updated Feature: Meet the new pen toolbox We’re updating your pen toolbox for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to make it easier to work with the drawing options.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to Office 365 Insiders customers in mid-February 2020.The roll-out will be completed by mid-March. More … MC203206 Like | Dislike
Feb 07
Updated Feature: Threat Protection Status Report An updated Threat Protection Status Report will soon be available to customers who have either Office 365 ATP or Exchange Online Protection.We are gradually rolling this out in mid-February 2020.The rollout will be complete by mid-March.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 60590. More … MC203362 Like | Dislike
Feb 07
Basic Authentication Retirement for legacy protocols in Exchange Online Major Update: Announcement started Act By: Oct 13 Updated February 7, 2020: Changed the Action by Date to accurately reflect October 13, 2020. 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… More … MC191153 Like | Dislike
Feb 07
New Feature: New reports for Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection We are introducing two new reports for organizations with Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP).We are gradually rolling this out in mid-February 2020.The rollout will be complete by mid-March.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 60486. More … MC203355 Like | Dislike
Feb 07
New Feature: Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) updates to enhance email authenticity Updated 1/28/2020: To provide an optimal experience we are updating the roll out time frame for this feature. We apologize for any inconvenience. We are rolling out updates to Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) that enhance the authenticity of OME email.We will roll out these features in early January 2020.The roll-out will be complete the first of April (previously February).This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 59001. More … MC196886 Like | Dislike
Feb 06
New Feature: Improving the sign in experience for Microsoft Teams We are providing admins with greater control over the sign in experience for Microsoft Teams.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 59526. More … MC203292 Like | Dislike
Feb 06
Updated Feature: New Service health status: ‘False Positive’ We’re extending the Microsoft 365 admin center capabilities to enable tenant administrators to track the outcome of false positive communications in Service health.This change will be rolled out on February 13, 2020. More … MC203289 Like | Dislike
Feb 05
New Feature: New features coming to the Office 365 app launcher and Office.com Updated February 5, 2020: Updated roll-out timeframe. We are modifying how your users access Office.com apps.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to targeted release customers in mid-January 2020.The rollout will be complete by the end of February 2020 (previously early February).This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 59667. More … MC198313 Like | Dislike
Feb 05
Updated Feature: Microsoft 365 usage reports adds administrator roles Beginning in early March 2020, Microsoft 365 usage reports will add two roles: Teams Communications Administrator and Teams Service Administrator. The rollout will be complete by mid-March.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 60861. More … MC203112 Like | Dislike
Feb 04
Updating classic SharePoint team site home pages to the modern template Major Update: Announcement started With this update, classic SharePoint team site home pages that have not been customized will be automatically updated to a modern home page template.We’ll begin gradually rolling this out to Targeted Release customers in early March 2020.The rollout will be complete by the end of May.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 60405. More … MC202661 Like | Dislike
Feb 04
New Feature: Discover Office files in Outlook for Android Updated February 4, 2020: Roll-out timeline has been updated. We are adding additional intelligent technology to the Search experience in Outlook for Android with the Discover capability, powered by Microsoft Graph.We will roll out Discover for Outlook for Android by the end of February (previously January) to Office 365 Monthly Channel customers.Discover in Outlook for iOS is already available to production customers (MC185652).This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 58733. More … MC198819 Like | Dislike
Feb 03
2020 release wave 1 plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform now available! On January 27, 2020, we published the 2020 release wave 1 plans for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, a compilation of new capabilities that will be released between April and September 2020. The new features and enhancements demonstrate our continued investment to power digital transformation for our customers and partners. More … MC202948 Like | Dislike
Feb 03
Be aware and prepared – web sites you use may not work in Chrome 80. Act By: Feb 17 Chrome is changing the way websites and cookies work by default. In preparation for this change, Microsoft has updated the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform suite of products. This is a courtesy notification that web sites you use, if run in Chrome, may not work as expected once Chrome 80 releases on February 17, 2020, and should be tested to confirm if any updates are required. Issues you may encounter if your apps aren’t prepared: Authentication in your applications may fail or loop Line of… More … MC202944 Like | Dislike
Feb 03
Microsoft 365 admin center defaulting to new experience The new Microsoft 365 admin center experience was originally announced in MC175807, March 2019. Starting February 27, 2020, we are defaulting to the new admin center experience when you open https://admin.microsoft.com. More … MC202930 Like | Dislike
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