In a rapid change of Office 365, Microsoft sends to Tenant Admin’s the news about what is changing and what is coming in Office 365.

 

This is the 206th email that Microsoft has sent to Tenant Admin’s Newsletter with Office 365 changes.

 

This Weekly digest is intended to reach the Administrators of Office 365 within the latest changes that are happening to Office 365.

 

Below is an example that can be applied to your tenant, because these emails are based on the services that you have in your Tenant and subscription.

 

 
 

Message center announcements,
February 22-28, 2021

NUNO ÁRIAS SILVA

Major updates

 

Update for Core eDiscovery and Advanced eDiscovery legal holds, and Information Governance and Records Management re

 

MC241868 | February 26 – We are enhancing Core eDiscovery, Advanced eDiscovery legal holds, Information Governance and Records Management retention policies by:Improving scalability and performance to reduce the number of hold distribution errors and to support growing number of tenants onboarding to service.Locking a pending hold or pending policy from updates (e.g. cancelling, deleting, editing), resulting in more reliable and predictable service.

 

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(Updated) Introducing Designer in Word

 

MC223444 | February 25 – Updated February 25, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. We’re introducing Designer in Word for the web, a feature which offers formatting consistency and style variety for every document.Key points Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 63455 Timing:Targeted release: CompleteStandard release: begin in late February (previously early February) and complete in early May (previously mid-March) Roll-out: tenant level Control type: user control Action: review and assess

 

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New Video only Meeting stage experience

 

MC241581 | February 25 – We strive to ensure that we are providing notification of changes proactively and we apologize that we did not make our commitment with this change.A recent change has enabled a new Video only Meeting stage. With this new meeting layout experience, video-only participants will fill the meeting layout even if they aren’t dominant speakers.

 

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Reminder: Microsoft 365 apps and services ending support on IE11 after August 17, 2021

 

MC241353 | February 24 – As communicated in MC220490 (August ’20), Microsoft 365 apps and services will be focusing their efforts on modern browser support over the coming year. As a result, Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer support Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) after August 17, 2021; after this date, Microsoft 365 apps and services will be unable to connect, or have a degraded feature experience, when accessed on IE11. For a full list of Microsoft apps with intentions to end support on IE11, please see this…

 

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(Updated) Transition from the Sent and received email report to the Mailflow status summary.

 

MC236025 | February 23 – Updated February 23, 2021: We have updated the content below with additional details for clarity. Thank you for your patience. We are retiring the Sent and received email report and recommend using the Mailflow status summary report moving forward.The PowerShell cmdlet associated with the Sent and received email report which is Get-MailTrafficReport (Get-MailTrafficReport (ExchangePowerShell) | Microsoft Docs) will be retired as well.

 

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(Updated) Top Senders and recipient report to be retired

 

Act by: March 6

 

MC237975 | February 23 – Updated February 23, 2021: We have updated the content below with additional details for clarity. Thank you for your patience. We will be retiring the feature the Top Senders and recipient report from Microsoft defender for office 365 beginning March 6, 2021. Instead we recommend the utilization of the Threat protection status report (View email security reports in the Security & Compliance Center – Office 365 | Microsoft Docs), which is where we will continue to invest.The PowerShell…

 

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(Updated) Introducing an enhanced Teams Calling experience

 

MC229945 | February 23 – Updated February 23, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. We are simplifying the calling experience in the Teams desktop app (Windows and Mac) by providing a streamlined view that combines contacts, voicemail, and calling history.

 

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(Updated) Block Download Permissions for Teams Meeting Recordings on OneDrive

 

MC230505 | February 22 – Updated February 22, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. As part of the New Stream experience, new Teams meeting recordings will be stored in your OneDrive for Business and SharePoint. Based on customer feedback we are enhancing the feature so that these recordings are not downloadable by those with view-only permissions, and that those permissions be set by default.The New Stream experience was originally communicated in MC222640 (Standard) and…

 

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Additional updates

 

OneDrive for Business announce 250GB upload capability

 

MC241870 | February 26 – Previously, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint online customers had an upload limit for 100GB per file. And customers have been asking for increased upload limits.Now, customers can upload files up to 250GB across OneDrive for Business and Sharepoint online. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70558.

 

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Microsoft Teams: PowerShell support for team templates

 

MC241862 | February 26 – Admins will be able to use PowerShell to obtain a list of team templates available in the tenant, to view details of team templates, and to create/edit/delete team templates. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70698.

 

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(Updated) Introducing macOS native notifications in Teams

 

MC222156 | February 26 – Updated February 26, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. With this update, your users will be able to choose their preferred means of Teams notifications delivery, either via the Teams built-in notification system or via their native OS notification system. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 66743. When this will happen MacOS 10.14 and greater native notifications: early March (previously mid-December) through late March (previously mid-January)

 

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(Updated) Known issue: Certain notification settings may not take effect

 

MC230715 | February 26 – Updated February 26, 2021: We have updated this message to ensure it is visible. No changes have been made to the content below. Thank you for your patience. Known Issue: Certain notification settings may not take effectWe are currently working to repair the ‘All activity’ preset for teams and channel notification settings, and the ‘All new posts’ notification setting for shown and pinned channels, available in global notification settings.

 

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Microsoft Teams: manage template access using template policies

 

MC241754 | February 26 – With this update, you can create policies to manage templates that your end users can access when they create a new team while they are using either Teams desktop (Windows/Mac) or Teams on the web. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70701.

 

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First delete dialog alert for OneDrive files

 

MC241752 | February 26 – With this update, we show your end users a warning message the first time that they delete file(s) from the OneDrive sync client (Windows and Mac). The warning advises that their file will be deleted from OneDrive everywhere and teaches the user about the OneDrive recycle bin where they can restore their file if necessary. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70702.

 

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Microsoft Forms – Increased form limits

 

MC241750 | February 26 – Microsoft Forms currently limits forms/quizzes to 200 per user/group and provides a bonus 200 specific for polls. We are increasing these limits to 400 forms/quizzes per user/group; the bonus poll quota will also increase to 400.

 

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(Updated) Add a shared calendar to a Teams channel

 

MC231108 | February 25 – Updated February 25, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. With this feature, users can add the Channel calendar app to a Teams channel when using the Teams desktop app.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 68910 and 68911.

 

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(Updated) Introducing intelligent file recommendations for Planner

 

MC227303 | February 25 – Updated February 25, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. This new Planner feature allows users to quickly add attachments to their tasks from an intelligently curated list of relevant files. The recommendations are based on the task and the user. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 66364.

 

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Announcing OneDrive for Business location picker support for security groups and distribution lists

 

MC241352 | February 24 – Data loss prevention (DLP) for OneDrive for Business will soon support user accounts and groups as part of the policy scoping location picker. This feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70708

 

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Add up to 25 task labels and colors in Planner and Tasks in Teams

 

MC241349 | February 24 – With this update, end users can choose up to 25 colored labels per task in Planner and Tasks in Teams. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 66193.

 

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(Updated) Microsoft Teams introduces meeting recap in the calendar event details tab

 

MC233470 | February 23 – Updated February 23, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. The new meeting recap feature in Teams helps meeting attendees and those unable to attend a meeting stay up-to-date by providing the meeting recording, transcript, and chat all in one place. These are automatically shared in the Chat tab and viewable in the Details tab.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68729

 

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(Updated) SharePoint page authoring – new first run experience

 

MC232126 | February 23 – Updated February 23, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. We are introducing a first-run, optional interactive experience, to guide new users through the basics of creating their first SharePoint page or news post. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70667.

 

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(Updated) SharePoint web part toolbox updates

 

MC236114 | February 23 – Updated February 23, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. We are updating the web part toolbox to make it easier for page authors to find and use web parts on their pages and news posts. We have added categories, a toggle to switch between a grid view and list view, web part descriptions in list view, and a section for the user’s most frequently used web parts.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70668.

 

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(Updated) Large gallery view and Together Mode for web meetings in Edge and Chrome browsers

 

MC236329 | February 23 – Updated February 23, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. This new Teams feature allows users to change layout to Together mode or Largegallery during a meeting conducted in Edge or Chrome browsers.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70573

 

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(Updated) Add Microsoft Teams to your SharePoint team site

 

MC227312 | February 23 – Updated February 23, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. SharePoint group owners can already quickly add Microsoft Teams to a SharePoint team site in order to enhance communication and content collaboration. We’re now making it easier to integrate SharePoint content whenever a group owner adds Microsoft Teams to an existing SharePoint team site. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 46990.

 

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(Updated) Introducing text predictions in Outlook for iOS

 

MC229558 | February 23 – Updated February 23, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Text predictions help Microsoft 365 users write more efficiently by using intelligent technology to suggest text during composition. This feature is available for Outlook on the web (MC225214, October 2020) and will soon be available for Outlook for Windows (MC229381, December 2020).We are now extending support for text predictions to Outlook for iOS for customers in the United States and Canada,…

 

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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: use an iPad to present in a live event

 

MC228362 | February 23 – Updated February 23, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Live event presenters will soon be able to use an iPad to make a presentation.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68846.

 

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Adding additional field to Reported Issues that associates reported issues to active incidents or advisories.

 

MC241171 | February 22 – We are adding a new column for the ‘Reported issues’ view in the Service Health page. We will be adding an ‘Issues’ column that will link recently reported issues from the Report an Issue feature to an Incident or Advisory if applicable.

 

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Organization Email Addresses

 

MC241165 | February 22 – You may have noticed emails being delivered to more people in your organization. We recently started sending important emails to the email address for your organization’s contact. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

 

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More news and more information here – https://office365weekly.blog/2021/03/01/office-365-weekly-digest-2021-08/

 

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